"Don't go there", my sister warned. "They're overrun with gays now."
When I visited my brother in Hollywood, FL a few years ago, we also talked about going to the beaches around South Beach.
"I wouldn't go," said my brother. "It's a gay hangout." I later got a similar warning when I asked about Key West. Politically, both of them are more liberal than I so their opinions are not a "conservative" thing.
It seems as if Florida has already become a popular place for gays. Fortunately, the state also has miles and miles of beaches so there should be enough room for everybody.
The question becomes: how much in tourism money are various locations *losing* from straights and their families who are warned to avoid the "gay beaches"? As appealing as gay dollars may be to some business, they may be silently losing just as much from the rest of us.
I visit the Keys fairly frequently. I'm not a big fan of Key West for other reasons, but it's not that bad, certainly nothing like Castro Street. You have a few stores that obviously cater to a gay clientele, and a few very odd looking people on the street, but mostly it's a hard-drinking, touristy kind of place. And some of the historical monuments are well worth visiting.