Arizona Seeks Gay Cash

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/01/012906arizona.htm

Phoenix, Tempe and other Arizona communities are reportedly preparing to launch ad campaigns designed at attracting LGBT tourism.

City tourism officials are preparing to sit down with the Greater Phoenix Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce to map out a strategy, the Arizona Republic reports.

The chamber already offers an 89-page guide for gay visitors.

Tempe has already launched its gay marketing campaign. The strategy began three years ago when the Tempe Convention & Visitors Bureau began to research the gay market.

[Ally McLesbian]

1. Arizona ruined this transgender woman

Sure, Tucson may be LGBT friendly, but the State of Arizona decreed that the only place I belonged to was a mental hospital, simply because I had the guts to hate W.

It didn't release me until my pro-W parents in California agreed to take me in, and take away my identity and revert me to my birth gender against my will.

I will never forgive this state, and I will never spend my tourist dollars there.

[politicaholic]

2. Passing a gay marriage bill would help...

oops, Arizona is too republican for that...but damn they love the LBGT money.

Short sighted, tranparent, and typical. The Republican platform.

[mitchtv]

4. they expect to pass an anyi gay amendment

this year. We'll see what they do,shit can it or remain a flyover state

[Ayesha]

3. LGBT friendly, my ass

My partner and I have considered moving to AZ, but we want kids and they don't have second-parent adoption. Any state without it is no friend to gay families.