experience maine

We don’t have San Francisco. We don’t have Key West. We don’t even have Provincetown. So what do we have in Maine to appeal to GLBT visitors or prospective residents?

Plenty.

Let’s start with character. Or might we say, characters? We have Stephen King and Angus King. We have George Mitchell and George H.W. Bush (sometimes). We had E.B. White and Edna St. Vincent Milay and Andrew Wyeth. We even have the Humble Farmer.

We have blue cities and red towns and purple cities. We have Democrats and we have Republicans. We have Green Party members and we have, significantly, more registered Independents than just about any other state.

Maine is definitely a live and let live kind of place. We really don’t care what you do here, as long as you don’t do it in the road and scare the horses.

So if you’re gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered, relax. You’ll be welcome here. What’s more, you and whomever you choose to travel with will be able to find just about anything you want to see or do, from community theater to canoe racing. Stunning scenery? Got it. Urban sophistication? Check. Restorative environments? Lots.

Once you’re here, you can do whatever you like, well, as long as it’s legal. If you’re into the outdoors, in spring and summer you can go fresh or salt water fishing, kayaking and canoeing, sailing, white-water rafting, swimming and sunbathing at lake or shore, golfing, hiking and biking. In winter, there are places to ski, snowboard, drive a dog sled, skate and ice fish.

Like to eat? Maine hosts some of the best restaurants in the United States. And don’t stop with just lobster and seafood. (But don’t leave them out either.) Try fresh produce from our farmers’ markets in the summer. Pick your own blueberries and apples in the fall or take in a maple sugar farm.

And there are probably more Maine calendars of events than even a Type A gay can handle. If you plan your time wisely, though, you can hit the highlights.

In the coming weeks and months, watch as this site grows into a portal of information about visiting, living and working in Maine. We're currently hard at work researching and cultivating all the great things our state has to offer the GLBT community.

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We're a group of men and women who share a love for the state of Maine. Some of us grew up here. Some of us are transplants. No matter how we got here, we believe Maine has much to offer the GLBT community. And so we've developed GayMaine.org.