Yukon, Canada Offers Year-Round Gay Adventure
San Francisco to Atlanta and Philadelphia to West Hollywood. But few moved me as much as the crosswalks bearing rainbow and trans pride colors poking out from beneath the slush in tiny Whitehorse, Yukon.
Whitehorse, a town of less than 30,000 people, is the traditional territory of the Kwanlin Dun First Nation and Ta’an Kwäch’än Council.
Located a two-hour flight north of Vancouver, it was brimming with queer pride and LGBTQ-owned businesses. A rainbow crosswalk in Whitehorse Air Canada has direct flights to Whitehorse from Vancouver, but there’s also a friendly throwback local airline, Air North (they actually serve free meals!).
Air North connects the provincial capital to Vancouver, Victoria, Yellowknife, Edmonton, Calgary, and (seasonally) to Toronto and Ottawa.Yukon itself has a bit of an image problem with many travelers, who confuse it as being part of Alaska.
