Travel Destinations: Is it 'gay' or just fun?

Someone recently asked on the DN travel forum:
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I'm looking for a warm, sunny vacation spot... Puerto Vallarta is great but the water is not, so if anyone has any suggestions as to where to go for a good gay time and nice weather and great water - let me know!!!

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Try looking through the past few weeks of threads on the DudesNudes travel forum or look at previous entries in the blog.
Also there are Yahoo groups for gay travel. Homo-A-Go-Go has lots of info; basically it's one guy sending a daily gay travel report and news), but it has a lot of great info (search the past ones at the group's home page).http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Homo-A-Go- Go/

Your destination depends on when, how long and how farm and how much you can spend.Hawaii (Honolulu for starters, and the outer islands for dessert)Palm Springs (CA) or Phoenix (Arizona) -- a lot warmer than Calgary but not near the ocean, Florida (Ft Lauderdale)Cancun (not too gay - but some great snorkelling and visiting Mayan ruins)Caribbean Islands Gran Canaria (Playa del Ingles - Maspalomas) - fairly warm in Dec - Jan (but water is not very warm). Brazil ArgentinaEven if it's winter, try an indoor gay vacation (Montreal, Vancouver (too close to home, eh?) or New York / Toronto could work for that, San Francisco, New Orleans in North America, or winter fares to Europe are cheap enough -- Paris, Berlin or Barcelona, Prague or Budapest. I got a cheap flight to Frankfurt on United/Lufthansa for March and am flying from there on cheaper air carrier to Gran Canaria.

Someone else made an important comment during the discussion:
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I'm curious. What is a gay travel destination? I usually find a destination that has activities in which I want to partake. I can usually find a gay club or nude beach or something in the area.
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I completely forgot about Sydney (and the rest of Australia)... how could I have left The Land of Oz out of the list!

I agree -- to a certain extent - with person's comment about what is a 'gay travel destination."

Some of the best 'gay' vacations I 've had have been far away from gay urban or so-called gay resort areas. However, I think the notion of gay travel implies there being a large(r) number or proportion of male (and LGBT) couples and singles gathered in one place. The social element is paramount for some gays -- go figure (LOL).

It also has something to do with the diversity-friendly ambiance, the number of gay-oriented venues (bars, clubs, accommodations, unbridled cruising spots), and the destination's 'queer fashionable' or gay-trendy status. I love it best when there is a travel destination where you can get to all those things/places just mentioned (or reasonably close), but you can also be close to nature - both for outdoor recreation and nudism/naturist activities.