Gay & Lesbian Travel: Vancouver

In Vancouver, one of the world's most stunning cities, you can kayak in English Bay in the morning before skiing down Grouse Mountain later that afternoon - indeed, few cities offer better access to the great outdoors.

The city's glimmering, postmodern city center anchors a peninsula jutting into the rippling Strait of Georgia, its shoreline sculpted by bays and inlets. It's for all these reasons that Vancouver - which is also in a country that has legalized same-sex marriage - has emerged as one of the most wonderful gay destinations in the world.