Tel Aviv Named City of the Year 2011 By GayCities Members

Tel Aviv’s ranks as the best gay city of 2011 on LGBT travel website gaycities.com

GayCities reports:

Over the past several weeks, GayCities asked members and visitors to vote for the ideal locations in eight different categories—plus the overall best city in the world. You pulled your levers (well, clicked your mouses) and the people have spoken.

Let’s look at the boards:

*When it came to the crème de la crème, the big winner in the Best City of GayCities 2011, in a somewhat surprising turn of events, was…

Tel Aviv!

It received the most votes by GayCities readers in the “City of the Year” category. And it wasn’t a close call: The Mediterranean metropolis took the category with a whopping 43% of the vote, barreling over its nearest competitor, New York City, which only scored 14%. Hmm, did residents of Tel Aviv pool their online resources to push the Israeli oasis over the top? We may never know.

Read the full article via GAYCITIES

Here are some of the results:

Best Nightlife City
New York City

Best Pride City
San Francisco

Best Resort Town
Provincetown

Best Food City
Paris

Best Dressed City
New York City

Best Sand & Sun City
Sydney

Best Settle Down City
Seattle

Best Up & Coming City
Buffalo

Best City of 2011
Tel Aviv

For all the voting results, visit the Best of GayCities leaderboard.