Gay-friendly, they're happy to help you get around with tips on local festivals, art exhibits, concerts and sports events. The Wayfaring Buckeye Hostel (2407 Indiana Ave) won't set you back as much, at $25-50 for dorm beds or private rooms. Good Downtown general-public hotel options include the Courtyard Marriott Downtown (35 W Spring St), serving hot buffet breakfasts, and the Red Roof Inn (111 E Nationwide Blvd 61), with budget-conscious rates.įor more luxurious indulgences at city center, try the Sheraton Columbus Capitol Square (75 E State 614 -365-4500) near the Capitol Building, The Westin Columbus (310 High 614 228-3800), once the 19th-century classic Great Southern Hotel, or the newer Hyatt Regency Columbus (350 N High 61). The Neil Avenue (1237 Neil) has closed, and is looking for new owners. Local B&Bs include the Harrison House (313 W 5th 800 827-4203), with 4 unique rooms and breakfast. See our listings tab for map locations and website links to gay Columbus area businesses. Network Columbus is a chamber of commerce for LGBT-owned and allied companies and professionals.
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They also organize Pride Columbus, with a mid-June Saturday parade down High Street, a festival in Goodale Park, plus other events during the first half of June. Stonewall Columbus is the LGBT community center, with services, films, theater, social activities and advocacy programs.
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Experience Columbus has general dining, arts and entertainment info online, with an LGBT section.Ĭolumbus Gay Bars does a good job keeping up with the LGBT scene also with an archive of old/ now closed bars of years past.įor general news and listings see the Columbus Dispatch. For alternative coverage check Columbus Alive! and Columbus Underground.ĬAPA, the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts, operates a number of theaters around town, presenting a variety of stage entertainments. Look around town for OutLook monthly magazine with news, events and local listings. The Arena District has developed into a mainstream nightlife area downtown, home to bars, clubs, restaurants, cinemas, the Express Live! music concert venue, and Nationwide Arena, with concerts and sports events. A good time to visit is the first Saturday of the month, when 40 galleries spotlight new and established artists. Old traditions, such as the farmers market, mix with the more recent art galleries and boutique shops. In recent years, gays have spread out across the city, and with many settling in the Short North neighborhood. It still has a sizable gay population, and lots of gay-friendly cafes and bars. Its architectural treasures were threatened by the wrecking ball in the 1960s, but were saved with the help of outraged locals. The oldest gay neighborhood has narrow brick paved streets shaded by vast spreading elms and lined by graceful houses that are more than a century old. Find schedule information at the COTA website. A ticket vending machine is open 24 hours a day at their central office at 33 North High St, taking cash or credit cards. Fares are $2 per trip, or buy a day pass for $4.50 a week for $25.
Within the city, there's a useful bus running along Main Street between German Village and the Short North. If traveling beyond downtown, you’ll need a car to get around. The Central Ohio Transit Authority ( COTA) public bus service can take you almost anywhere in the city. A cab from the airport to downtown is the easiest way into town but there are also shuttles, buses and limo services. John Glenn Columbus International Airport is six miles east of Columbus. Small wonder Columbus has the third highest per-capita population of gays and lesbians in the United States. With 60,000 students, this small city within the larger one has helped encourage a certain tolerant live-and-let-live ambience here, and in surrounding areas. The city is also home to Ohio State University. But this classic American city surprises with its modern attitudes, and the city has been rated as one of the best places in the country for gays and lesbians to live.ĭiversity has a long history in Columbus, composed as it is, of many ethnic neighborhoods. Skyscrapers rising from flat fertile fields recall the cover of a sixth-grade civics textbook. See the CDC and City of Columbus websites for details and updates. There are restrictions on the entry of certain travelers into the United States in an effort to help slow the spread of COVID-19. Emergency measures in the wake of Covid-19: