Queerty is taking you to the core of the small town’s enchantment on pink tourism. Middle America has plenty of homophobic problems.
But it also has plenty of gays. Lo and behold – Saugatuck, a small beach town on the shore of Lake Michigan with a population of under 1,000 residents.
And yet it attracts nearly 2 million yearly visitors. Although the gays seem to migrate to the corners of the map, this getaway in Michigan has welcomed LGBTQ+ tourists for over 100 years.
Its origin story is similar to Provincetown’s, propelled to liberal values by the influx of artists.Naturally, the gays followed, if not were already there.