No city in the United States calls home to our community better than San Francisco. If you're in the mood to play tourist, then a trip to Fisherman's Wharf, Nob Hill and Alcatraz Island must be on your itinerary. Feel like soaking up the aura of the gay mecca for which the City by the Bay is known, then walk the streets of Castro or the Mission District.

No other destination sports such a spectacular meeting of land and sea, of nature and the urbane. Surrounded by ocean and bay, crinkled into hill after hill, the city can sit under a downy layer of fog one moment and then sparkles in the clear Northern California sunlight the next.

Yet, the true beauty of this city lies in its uninhibited embrace of its role in gay American life, a pride enabling any gay or lesbian traveler to feel free to be anywhere within its limits.