![]() And according to a New York Times article published in 2005, an increase in the number of global gay vacation spots coupled with the island’s meteoric real estate prices was to blame for Key West’s increasingly heterogeneous crowd - with a heavy emphasis on the hetero. In 2012, a devastating issue of The Advocate dropped Key West from the magazine’s list of America’s Top 25 Gayest Cities. Accordingly, we’ve updated our previous coverage of Key West’s gayest week to include a few events new to this year’s celebration. ![]() From fetish parties to universally inclusive church services, this year’s Pride has been carefully curated to offer participants both a respite from the outside world and a reminder that we’re not going anywhere - while things may look dark on the other side of US 1, down here we’re still parading down a rainbow crosswalk-covered street. This year, it seems our little island is right on schedule to deliver the wildest, fiercest, buffest Pride Week yet. But every June, Key West fluffs its feathers even more than usual for Pride Week, when we reach peak peacock status and bare it all (and we mean all) in our full technicolor majesty. From the pastel-hued conch houses lining the narrow one-way streets to the neon green iguanas perched in the banyan trees to the drag darlings glittering outside Aqua and 801 Bourbon every night of the week, the island is a shining prism year-round. Nyou visit, Key West is a perennial explosion of color.
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