Looking for a Group Travel Destination

Hi yall, my 5 person friend group is looking to take a group trip together. We have no particular destination in mind and I was hoping to get some advice. We’re all based in the US midwest and are open to international travel or travel within the US.

Some Specific Location Needs/Wants:

1. Trans/LGBT+ friendly. We’re a queer friend group, so safety is very important to us. This is the most important factor in our destination choice.

2. We’re all 24, so somewhere with young ppl around is preferred

3. We would prefer to go to a city and/or a beach.

4. We would prefer a lower cost destination

5. We will likely be going in either the end of
   December/early January or during summer break. 3 of us are in grad school and 1 of us is a teacher.

6. 1 of us has a nut allergy, so somewhere where peanuts and tree nuts aren’t super common in food.

other than the above, we’re open to anything!!! i will put out that 2 of us have traveled internationally before, so were not all total novices lol