Bourbon & Belonging’s weekend festival combines Kentucky’s rich bourbon roots and LGBTQ+ culture. From Oct. 3-5, Louisville, Lexington, Northern Kentucky and Paducah will take part in their own celebrations with local distilleries, drag queens and hotels unique to each part of Kentucky.

The celebration is a partnership initiated by Queer Kentucky, a nonprofit newsroom that supports LGBTQ+ Kentuckians.

“Kentucky has such a great queer scene,” said Queer Kentucky executive director Missy Spears. “But you would never know it if you didn't live here. If you see something on Kentucky…it is never about anything positive in the state or how beautiful our state is. So we were just trying to show off some of that.”

Local businesses and distilleries organized the festivities in each city, so the

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