Gay Virgin Islands?

St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands
Ships in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands

St. Thomas is among the most-frequent Caribbean cruise stops. Long-popular for shopping, gorgeous beaches, and its proximity to tiny St. John’s snorkeling diving, the U.S. island-territory undoubtedly has a substantial gay population, even if they’re transient. Alas, gay options on the island seem to be few.

For cruise passengers, that’s not a big deal, although it can be fun to visit a gay watering hole or beach during a shore day. And some cruise passengers using Puerto Rico as a beginning/ending spot might be keen to fly back to St. Thomas for a few days…in which case there is a B&B,  The Caribbean Countess, gay-owned since 1989.

Traveler Rick Smith recently spent a week on the island, and here’s his report:

“Just got back from St. Thomas…and after checking the web for gay friends bars or places ended up finding that they had all closed.  Talked to a few people at the resort we stayed at for a week, Marriott Frenchman’s Reef, and they said that there are a lot of gays on the island but they tend to all get together mostly by word of mouth.  If you can find a gay person at a local resort they are more than happy to direct you in the right direction…  The “locals” tend to be a bit more uptight but if you can find others that are from the main land and they seem to be much more approachable when you ask them outright about gay friendly spots.”

Nearby St. Croix is a more-gay port; we’ll look more closely at it in the future.

Posting by Randall Shirley

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