But gay Fort Lauderdale wasn’t ready for its day in the sun just yet. This opened all of Fort Lauderdale to the more discreet homos. What America didn’t know was that during those same decades, Fort Lauderdale was becoming a resort town for a different type of boys-the kind of boys who made out with each other while Connie sang.īy the late ‘80s, the locals had had enough of the hundreds of thousands of hard-partying college kids and drove them out of town. I even spent my spring break ’85 in “Fort La Dee Dah” with my fraternity brothers. It started a spring break boom for Fort Lauderdale that lasted three decades. Immediately, all of America knew that Fort Lauderdale was the place to go for spring break. In 1960, Connie Francis sang “Where the Boys Are”, the title song to her movie about spring-breakers in Fort Lauderdale. Will Stone shares one of his favourite places with you: Fort Lauderdale. With a vaccine on the way we can start thinking of traveling again.
