Tel Aviv declared world's best gay travel destination In a world-wide survey hosted GayCities.com and American Airlines, 43 percent of voters cast their ballot in favor of the White City, pushing it ahead of other proud towns including New York, Toronto and London. Participants at the annual Tel Aviv Gay Pride Parade sporting Israeli and Swedish flags, June 10, 2011. Photo by Moti Kimche Text size Comments (34) Print Page Send to friend Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share this story is byHaaretz related tagsIsrael travel Israel culture Tel Aviv gay rights in Israel Israel gay pride 2012 gay Jews Israel gay pride Israel's LGBT community has a reason to be proud: It has officially been proclaimed the best gay travel destination of 2011. In a world-wide survey conducted by GayCities.com and American Airlines, 43 percent of voters cast their ballot in favor of the White City, followed by New York City with 14 per cent, Toronto with 7 per cent, Sao Paulo with 6 per cent, Madrid and London with 5 per cent each and New Orleans and Mexico City with 4 per cent each. The crowning title of Best City was just one of the categories included in the competition of gay travel destinations. New York scored top votes for Best Night Life, San Francisco took Best Pride, Paris won Best Food and Seattle got Best Settle Down City. The smaller city of Buffalo took in quite a few votes itself, and was declared Best Up and Coming City. Tel Aviv has always been known as a gay-friendly place, but it upped its presence around the world this year with a number of different activities, including its Tel Aviv Gay Vibe campaign, organized in coordination with the municipality's Ministry of Tourism. About 5,000 gay tourists were recorded as visiting Tel Aviv last June for the annual Gay Pride Parade 25 percent more than in 2010. Now that it's been voted best city, Tel Aviv can probably expect even more foreign visitors this June. This information is from last year.. but nothing has changed.. If you freeze in europe check it out .. The weather their now is 25 c
Always hilarious that the biggest supporters of Israel (the Right, especially Religious Right).....blissfully ignore the fact that Israel is "gay-friendly" and the IDF has gays who serve openly. I guess being "Rapture-ready" is more important than their "family values", huh?
