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Gay Asbury Park Guide


Explore Gay Asbury park, a city that has undergone a gay renaissance over the past decade. Discover wonderful queer beaches, new luxury hotels and wonderful gay pool parties just a fleeting ride from Modern York. The Jersey boys await.

Enjoying cocktails at the Empress Hotel gay pool party in Asbury Park.

Gay Asbury Park is a 1.6-square-mile city located along the Jersey Shore. The city has been attracting an increasing number of LGBT homeowners and beachgoers since the ‘50s, when Unused Yorkers started purchasing and restoring Victorian homes, leading to the city’s rejuvenation.

Over the past decade, Asbury Park’s LGBT scene has undergone something of another renaissance. The town’s faded Victorian houses have been brought back to being and LGBT visitors are flocking to its wonderful lgbtq+ beaches.

Just 60 miles south of Unused York City, (a two-hour train travel from Penn Station) Asbury Park’s comes to life at the start of the Summer with visitors from the New York metro area and beyond,looking to escape the city heat.

By mid Summer the mile-long boardwalk of Asbury Park is bustling  with activity. Celebration parades, festivals and fireworks a

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Asbury Park says leave the city, join the community

There is something about the gay world that encourages a certain amount of feisty back-biting that really should have been left in high school. If you’re looking for a temporary reprieve, look no further than the beach resort town of Asbury Park, New Jersey. There you’ll find a homosexual community that strives to embody the full sense of community. And don’t worry—it’s also super gay.

Asbury Park sits along the Atlantic coast, just 55 miles from New York City. Though it was once known as the “Duchess of the Jersey Shore,” girlfriend fell on some hard times. Prior to 2000, Asbury Park was looking pretty tragic, heavy on the tragic. But no longer. She is getting work done, and a full-on renaissance is underway. Gays and lesbians are moving in, sprucing up the place, and remaking it in their image.

There are so many LGBT-owned-and-operated businesses, the place can seem love one big rainbow flag. In fact, the first gay couple to unite in New Jersey chose Asbury Park for their ceremony. Due to the temperament of its residents, there are few places in the United States that feel as supportive. That, along with the current resto

Asbury Park’s long male lover history as a New Jersey beach destination

If your vision of the Jersey Shore is shaped by your experiences watching the 2010s MTV reality series of the alike name—with its continual cycle of gym, tan, laundry (simply known as “GTL”)—then you’re in for a surprise. 

Nestled on the Atlantic Coast about a 75-minute drive south of New York Municipality, Asbury Park, NJ, is a breezy seaside city that has offered visitors a respite from the heat and congestion for more than 100 years. The community bids a mix of early 1900s Beaux Arts style buildings, mid-century Americana, 1970s and ’80s rock—and a queer people that’s been here for more than a century. 

“I don’t think there was a time when we weren’t here,” says Kathy Kelly, who leads queer-themed historic tours of the city.

Founded in the late 1800s, Asbury Park reached its heyday in the 1920s, when several of its historic buildings, including the now-iconic Paramount Theatre, Convention Hall and the Asbury Park Grand Arcade(all at 1300 Ocean Ave. N.) were built along its beach-hugging boardwalk. The city was abode to several lgbtq+ and lesbian bars and tearooms starting in the 1920s and ’30s, acting as