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May 18th. 2012
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May 18th. Full revision of Tokyo done.
May 16th. New event added to Madrid - La Leche
May 16th. 10 more photos added to Tokyo photo gallery.
May 16th. 5 more photos added to Prague photo gallery.
May 15th. Oops! Couldn't update anything. We had an 8 hour power outage, followed by a further 6 hours without internet.
May 14th. BirminghamUpdated again. Can't keep up with the place; no less than 4 new gay bars & clubs already this year.
May 14th. Full revision of Shanghai done.
May 8th, 9th, 10th. In-depth revision of Madrid
May 7th. New - All Gay Events in Spain
May 6th. Out Bar, new bar in Benidorm
May 5th. Madrid Events page created.
May 5th. Barcelona Events page updated.
April. All of the world fully revised.
March. Full revision of every Spanish city guide done.
2012 Worldwide Gay Event Calendars...
Calendar by Date
Calendar by Country
Calendar by Event Type
 
Europe
Gay Belgium Belgium Brussels, Antwerp
Gay Czech Republic Czech Republic Prague
Gay Denmark Denmark Copenhagen
Gay France France Paris
Gay Germany Germany Berlin, Munich, Cologne
Gay Gibraltar Gibraltar Gibraltar
Gay UK Great Britain London, Brighton, Manchester, Bournemouth, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Swansea
Gay Greece Greece Mykonos
Gay Holland Holland Amsterdam
Gay Hungary Hungary Budapest
Gay Ireland Ireland Dublin
Gay Israel Israel Tel Aviv
Gay Italy Italy Rome, Versilia
Gay Portugal Portugal Lisbon
Gay Spain Spain Madrid, Barcelona, Sitges, Ibiza, Gran Canaria, Torremolinos, Benidorm, All other cities in Spain
Gay Switzerland Switzerland Zurich
Gay Turkey Turkey Istanbul
Americas
Gay Canada Canada Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver
Gay USA USA San Francisco, Fort Lauderdale, Key West, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles
Gay Mexico Mexico Puerto Vallarta
Gay Argentina Argentina Buenos Aires
Australasia
Gay Australia Australia Sydney, Melbourne
Asia
Gay China China Shanghai
Gay Japan Japan Tokyo
Africa
Gay South Africa South Africa Cape Town
 
Sun, Sea, Sand & Sexy Spanish Studs -.SPAIN.
Bitter Queen
If only I made enough from doing this to visit all the towns I list, I'd be a very happy camper. But the simple truth is, I don't, not even close! So the way this works is, I spend countless hours scouring the net, so that you don't have to. I cross reference every place I list until I am certain it is there. That's trickier than it sounds because many web sites list some places but not others and the really tricky part is knowing when they last updated their listing. The bar could be long gone since they last updated it. Its all well and easy if the place has a web site, but many, especially bars, don't. I've come to know reliable and unreliable sources. Sadly, the unreliable ones heavily outweigh the reliable ones, but as I mentioned above, I spend my time figuring it all out so that you don't have to.

When I first started doing this, a web master of another tourist guide said to me that if advertisers account for 5% of my income, I'll be doing very well. But being new to the game, I knew better. There were enough gay businesses in my town alone to easily surpass that figure. Obviously, he didn't know what he was talking about.
More fool me! How right he was. It took me no time to discover even the places I frequent have one reason or another why they don't want to advertise...and those were businesses where I frequently spent more in a night than they'd pay for a year's publicity! So disillusioned and turning into a Bitter Queen, but realizing I was likely to make more enemies than friends out of this new venture, I decided not to even bother trying to get advertisers and opted for a different route. That one being commissions on hotel bookings and the (all hail) Google stuff you see everywhere, which I'm happy to say amount to enough for me to stick with this.

In view of the above, I'd like to mention that I do list everyone, whether I like them or not, because this guide is not for them, its for you and I really don't see the sense in trying my hardest to make an accurate guide, then not list someone/somewhere just because I don't like it or more correctly, them (and there are a few). They also get what everyone else gets, an accurate discription of the place, not my opinion of it (even if I really would like to give it!).
Having said I list everyone, this is a gay guide and although I am a friendly-gay, I'm not running a 'gay-friendly' guide. A place has to be mostly frequented by gay folk to be listed. Just being gay owned or even super-gay-pink-dollar-friendly doesn't hack it. If the majority of its clients ain't gay, it don't get a stab at your pink dollar/pound/euro/yen/scarf/whatever.

Ok, now you know what to do, don't you? Yes, you got it, go book a hotel from me and help me make enough money to check that hotel out for myself. I need a vacation! 
Gaz

 
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