Fodor's Gay Guide to the USA, 2nd Edition: The Most Comprehensive Guide for Gay and Lesbian Travelers

Whether you're headed for a circuit party or on a business trip, Fodor's Gay Guide to the USA is the ultimate source for what's where and what's gay. Written by gay-travel expert Andrew Collins, this completely updated and expanded edition covers more than 150 destinations throughout the U.S. and Canada--double the number in the last edition! Hot new destinations include the Hamptons, NY; Santa Barbara, CA; Telluride, CO; Asheville, NC; Park City, UT; Galveston, TX; Providence, RI; the San Juan Islands, WA; and the Canadian cities of Toronto, Quebec, Montreal, Vancouver and Victoria.
Each destination includes a lively overview, The Lay of the Land (a rundown of cool neighborhoods and intriguing attractions); Eats (from full-service restaurants to all-night diners to bohemian coffeehouses); Scenes (where to party, both for women and men); Sleeps (from luxury hotels to affordable B&Bs to clothing-optional resorts); and The Little Black Book (a directory of tourism offices, community centers, newspapers, bookstores, gyms, etc.). Throughout the book more than 50 helpful maps pinpoint restaurants and bars in major cities.

Fodor's Gay Guide to the USA is the best of its type." - San Diego Union-Tribune

Andrew Collins was born in 1969 outside Philadelphia, grew up in Connecticut, and graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, in 1991. That same year he joined Fodor's staff and over the next two years edited or co-edited more than a dozen travel guides. In 1994 he conceived of and developed Fodor's Gay Guide to the USA, the first edition which published in 1996. He's worked as an editor or writer on more than 100 travel books and Collins writes a syndicated weekly travel column called "Out of Town," which appears on several Web sites, as well as in gay and lesbian newspapers nationwide. Presently he divides his time between New Mexico, Connecticut, and New Hampshire, and logs more than 40,000 miles annually driving across North America.