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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.
City Tourism Office: NYC Is Fabulous For Gays!
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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..
The city had to do this. We were getting out-gayed by less gay cities like Toronto, Sydney, and London.
Nobody does gay like T.O.
Yeah big deal. I'm here. I'm queer. Where's my toaster oven?
Where have all theze officials been for yearz!? In a Dam cave?? The cities been having Cranking activites for Ages. They do this now?
or at least stop by on the way to the state which is going to allow you to get married
Win!
Perfect timing with Fleet Week just a few weeks away.
How about opening the city once a year to sufferers of IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome)so thay can come AND CRAP on everything?
It's been done. We called it "The Reagan Administration".
Bwahahahaha!! Well played.
$1.9 million, seriosly?
*gasp* there are homosexuals here?!
Yah, NYC needs more homos in the same way that we need more starbucks.
I saw Christine Quin at the Tourism Office Press Release and she looks worst in person than in her pictures. She is fugly.