Fodor's Gay Guide to the USA, 2nd Edition: The Most Comprehensive Guide for Gay and Lesbian Travelers (Paperback)

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From Publishers Weekly

For gay adults, one practical problem is traveling?not every locale is tolerant. In Fodor's Gay Guide to the USA: The Only Comprehensive Guide for Gay and Lesbian Travelers, Andrew Collins covers 40 destinations including such top tourist locales as New York City, Washington, D.C. and Nashville and places that have an established gay culture, such as Fire Island, South Beach, Provincetown and Rehoboth Beach. Through maps and listings of hotels, restaurants, and "scenes" (clubs and bars complete with descriptions of the crowd you might find, "young, white, guppie, often stuck-up, gym boys" or, perhaps, "some stand-and-model, more urban than preppy, plenty of disco bunnies") and general information, Collins gives readers a good idea of the city and its accommodations (May, Fodor's, $19.50 ISBN 0-679-02909-5).
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description

"Savvy and stylish." -- Travel & Leisure

"Quite simply, if it's out there, it's in here." -- Harry Taylor, publisher, Out magazine

Completely Revised Second Edition with Dozens of Maps & New Destinations

The first edition of Fodor's Gay Guide to the USA garnered raves for its witty, candid coverage. Now award-winning travel writer Andrew Collins has completely revised and updated the guide, adding many more lesbian- and gay-friendly destinations. Collins highlights mainstream attractions and places where lesbians and gay men will feel most at home: romantic restaurants, hip guest houses, and gay neighborhoods, cafés, and clubs. 67 easy-to-read maps will keep you headed in the right direction.

The Gay Guide That Has It All

Albuquerque
Aspen
Atlanta
Austin
Baltimore
Boston
Charleston
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Columbus
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
Eureka Springs
Fire Island
Fort Lauderdale
Houston
Kansas City
Key West
Laguna Beach
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Madison
Memphis
Miami Beach
Milwaukee
Minneapolis/St. Paul
Nashville
New Hope
New Orleans
New
York City
Ogunquit
Orlando
Palm Springs
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland
Provincetown
Rehoboth Beach
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
Santa Fe
Saugatuck
Savannah
Seattle
Sedona
Tampa
Taos
Tucson
Washington, DC

A syndicated columnist for more than a dozen lesbian and gay newspapers and a man in perpetual motion, Andrew Collins knows gay travel like no one else in the world.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 600 pages
• Publisher: Fodor's; 2nd edition (March 31, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679033742
• ISBN-13: 978-0679033745
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,219,200 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The listings are right but misnamed ., August 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Fodor's Gay Guide to the USA: The Most Comprehensive Guide for Gay and Lesbian Travelers (1st ed) (Paperback)

Just looking over my hometowns review I found them correct in substance but wrong in form. Cleveland has a neighborhood called "WEST PARK" that the book names WEST EDGE>. While not devastating to the overall value of the text it would leave a visitor here asking for a place that residents wouldn't recognize. I'm not sure if the other cities reviewed suffer from similar mistakes. Going to Orlando 8/24 and San Francisco 9/3 so I'll note any discrepancies.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Author of the new gay almanac Rainbow Handbook Hawai`i, March 19, 1999

By	[e-mail] (Kona, Hawai`i) - See all my reviews

I think Andrew Collins did a good job of summarizing the scene in each city listed. It's obviously the most thorough first-hand accounts of the nation's gay cities on the market.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensable, December 30, 2004

By	Jerry "Jerry" (Pacific Northwest) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fodor's Gay Guide to the USA, 3rd Edition: Plus Toronto and Montreal (Fodor's Gold Guides) (Paperback)

The Spartacus and Damron guides have their place on any travel bookshelf but this book has something that they do not...namely, very detailed, firsthand descriptions of the venues listed. The authors descriptions of the West Coast cities (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Vancouver) are pretty much spot on. For example, when in Vancouver I noticed how young all the clubgoers were and when reading the entry on that city I saw that this was not just my own perception but reality. He describes the scene in Portland, perhaps the most underrated city on the West Coast as "scruffy" but not in a perjorative sense, but rather endearingly. Each city chapter is logically broken down into nightlife, eats, sights, etc. Aside from being a cutie (based on his back cover photo) the author is always funny and perceptive in his comments. This is one of those books that I pull off my bookshelf fairly regularly and it's tragic that it is currently out of print with no new edition in sight. Early editions aren't too hard to come by but good luck tracking down the last (3rd edition) which I recommend without reservations!