“Now this is the winter outfit I’ve been waiting to wear all season,” said my new friend Richard as he strutted onto the pool deck of Miami Beach’s Surfcomber Hotel. He wore short shorts and a naked torso, accessorized by a pearly white smile. “I have friends who go skiing every year, and I say ‘No thank you!’ My way of celebrating winter is to get as far away from it as I possibly can.” And so every year, he and a group of friends from Chicago trade their winter coats for… well, as little as possible.
With an average temperature of 76°, Miami has been officially inviting the gay community and its friends to celebrate winter under the hot Florida sun for nineteen years. Yet from its inception, the goals of the aptly named Winter Party have extended beyond a good time…
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Photos by Juan Saco Mironoff
