Be ready to buy your girlfriend a new outfit and take a million pictures of her with an artisanal cocktail before heading back to your love nest of a room. Walk outside your door and you’re in a courtyard featuring American Beech Restaurant, Black Llama Bar, and Alex Vinash boutique. A boutique hotel featuring 14 rooms with meticulously fabulous designs, this is the place to stay if you are always the coolest lez in the room. Vibe: Romantic, serene, idyllic, casual luxuryĪmerican Beech, gay-owned by designer Alex Vinash, is what your Instagram aesthetic dreams are made of. It can be tempting to never leave the Sound View with all the swimming, cocktails, food, and live music– but don’t forget to explore Greenport! The property includes acres of beautiful beach, a piano bar, The Halyard Restaurant, Jack’s Shack Poolside Bar and Cafe, and Low Tide Beach Bar. While not all businesses on this list are queer-owned by any means, they are all queer-friendly.ĥ8775 County Road 48, Greenport, NY 11944ĭreamy, picturesque, and beachy-chic, the newly renovated Sound View Inn is the place to stay if you love waking up to the beautiful Long Island Sound, dining at sunset, and falling asleep to the sounds of the waterfront. While you drive around this fabulous land, peep all the rainbow flags a-flyin’ on businesses, farms, restaurants, wineries, and homes.
Like, not pseudo queer– there are lots of living, breathing, ~practicing~ gay people here. It’s is luxurious without pretension, quaint without being uncultured, chic without the hypebeasts, but it’s also QUEER. NOFO is laid back and welcoming, and is the perfect place to ease back into social settings post quarantine life. I have a degree in gay fabulous North Fork as I reside here in a chic little stark-white beach bungalow, and I feel like the luckiest person in the world to wake up each morning to the lull of the water, the leaves in the breeze, and the magic in the air. Greenport, the North Fork’s largest and most popular town, is a year-round destination that never goes out of style, showing off her beaches in the summer, farms in the fall, romantic getaways in the winter, flowers in the spring, and wine, wine, wine all year long. Usually the “North Fork” refers collectively to the towns between Riverhead and Orient. The North Fork is a 30-mile long peninsula in the northeast part of Suffolk County, New York. Enter: wine country, AKA The North Fork of Long Island, AKA NOFO, AKA paradise. While you’re redoing your Tinder profile and scrolling through ’s calendar for upcoming gay events, you might find yourself craving a more luxurious, slow entrance back into the world. Now that the country is opening up, vaccines are available, and there’s light at the end of the tunnel, many of us are contemplating how we feel easing back into social lives. Long Island’s North Fork is just 90 miles from New York City, but it feels like a different world. Picturesque sunsets, laid back beaches, endless vineyards, farm-to-table dinners, chic shops, iconic views, and rich history.