Denver Ranks for Best Cities for LGBTQ Pre-Wedding Festivities

Denver has a lot of things going for it. It’s near the mountains which means beautiful scenery, has a ton of breweries, it was ranked one of the best cities for singles, and has one of the cutest downtowns.

But, did you also know that Denver was recently ranked one of the best cities for LGBTQ+ bachelorette and bachelor parties? The Black Tux released a list of what they call “(Surprisingly) Great Cities for LGBTQ+ Bachelor/ette Parties,” and Denver made the list at number ten.

The Black Tux says to determine the cities, they assessed the 50 largest U.S. metropolitan areas based on eight key factors. The average nightly Airbnb rate for an entire Airbnb for five people, inbound flight availabilty, bars per 100k people, cost of a drink, same-sex households per 100k households, sexual orientation/gender identity hate crimes per 100k people, HRC’s municipal equality index, and city non-discrimation ordinance.

They then rated each of those factors on a 5-point scale to come up with an overall score. Denver had an overall city score of 35.9, not too shabby!

Here is how Denver stacked up with the scores:

• Average nightly Airbnb: 3.5
• Presence of same-sex households: 1.2
• City non-discrimination ordinance: 5.0
• HRC municipal equality index: 5.0
• Number of bars per 100k: 2.0
• Inbound flight availability: 2.8
• Cost of a drink: 2.4
• LGBTQ hate crimes: 4.6

If Denver residents don’t love their city enough, this just gives us another reason to celebrate why Denver is so great and love the city we live in!