Tips for Gay and Lbian Travelers Cuba | Frommer's

Contents:

• CUBACUPID, UNA APLICIóN PARA NOCER GAYS EN CUBA
• GAY CUBA
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS CUBA
• HAVANA GAY BARS
• IN HAVANA, GAY BARS HOLD THEIR OWN AGAST THE INTER

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Earlier this year, Grdr’s founr and chief executive, Joel Simkhai, vised Havana and hosted a Grdr-sponsored party at one of Havana’s gay clubs.

Around the rner there is a gay club that has drag shows every night of the week, and was mon to see groups of gay guys stg on bench together or same-sex upl kissg or holdg hands. Cubans une for a day agast homophobia. Before bookg, I read her reviews that she was very gay-iendly, allowg her guts to brg someone home.

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS CUBA

I was faiar wh Cuba’s reprsn toward gays and lbians the past, but I also knew that a lot of progrs has been ma the past , so I wasn’t sred to e the app on the island.

Seeg openly gay people public gave me a sense of nfince that, at least Havana, I wouldn’t be targeted for beg gay.

A r prepar to participate the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia Cuba. The weekend before I left Cuba, there was a large march celebratg the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia Havana spearhead by Mariela Castro, Raúl Castro’s dghter. Durg the early days of the Cuban revolutn, there was an aggrsive persecutn of gays and lbians.

HAVANA GAY BARS

Many who were spected of beg homosexuals were sent to work mps the untrysi and were banned om teachg posns bee they weren’t nsired good role mols. She also anized the first gay pri para 2008 and now heads Cuba’s Natnal Center for Sexual Edutn. “She has changed a lot of people’s mds about gay people; we owe her a lot, ” Javier tells me.

IN HAVANA, GAY BARS HOLD THEIR OWN AGAST THE INTER

It’s mon to see guys huggg each other around the Malecón and certa parks near La Rampa, the gay area Vedado where new gay bars have popped up the last few years.