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City Tourism Office: NYC Is Fabulous For Gays!

2009_03_gaypil.jpg Citing the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, city officials are hoping to make NYC's gay history and culture a compelling reason for gay tourists to visit the Big Apple: Today they launched a new $1.9 million marketing campaign, "Rainbow Pilgrimage," hoping to make visiting NYC seem like a "a ‘rite of passage’ for the gay and lesbian traveler," according to City Room. The city's tourism marketing website now has a gay section, nycgo.com/gay which offers suggestions on things to do and a list of gay landmarks. University of Illinois at Chicago professor of history and gender and women's studies John D'Emilio remarked to CityRoom, "Forty-plus years ago, a newspaper like The New York Times had front-page articles alerting the city to the growing problem of ‘overt homosexuality.' Within living memory, something has been turned around. People who were seen as an unwelcome presence are now encouraged to arrive." Here's a Stonewall riots podcast from the Bowery Boys.

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By Jen Chung in on April 7, 2009 6:19 PM

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  • felixthecat2

    I saw Christine Quin at the Tourism Office Press Release and she looks worst in person than in her pictures. She is fugly.

  • jonnknoxx

    Yah, NYC needs more homos in the same way that we need more starbucks.

  • hotstepper

    *gasp* there are homosexuals here?!

  • breakthings

    $1.9 million, seriosly?

  • Past Taliban

    How about opening the city once a year to sufferers of IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome)so thay can come AND CRAP on everything?

  • MrManhattan

    It's been done. We called it "The Reagan Administration".

  • Bwahahahaha!! Well played.

  • longacre

    Perfect timing with Fleet Week just a few weeks away.

  • JanetG

    or at least stop by on the way to the state which is going to allow you to get married

  • ugh

    Win!

  • Where have all theze officials been for yearz!? In a Dam cave?? The cities been having Cranking activites for Ages. They do this now?

  • rcltrh

    Yeah big deal. I'm here. I'm queer. Where's my toaster oven?

  • NannyState

    Nobody does gay like T.O.

  • David

    The city had to do this. We were getting out-gayed by less gay cities like Toronto, Sydney, and London.

  • ugh

    Of course the Transgendered and Bi-folk are going to be all perturbed when they find out they weren't lumped in the the gays and lesbians..

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