The City Beautiful - GLADTrips on Orlando, Florida

Orlando, Florida, The City Beautiful, as it is known to inhabitants, is justly famous for theme parks drawing visitors from all over the world. Yet Orlando is rich with additional cultural offerings that make it a wonderful base for your stays in Florida, be they weekends or sabbatical years. Best of all, Orlando is a gay-friendly, gay-positive metropolis where you can relax and totally be yourself.

One sign of Orlando’s openness to our people is the city’s annual Come Out With Pride weekend, held in mid-October. The parade route goes around Lake Eola Park, adjacent areas are dedicated to exhibit stalls and in the nearby Walt Disney Amphitheater, GLBT-appropriate entertainment is staged the weekend long. Then too, several of the world’s most prestigious GLBT film festivals are held yearly in Orlando and environs.