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• UNVERG GAY HAVANA, CUBA
• LGBTQ REVOLUTN CUBA: RNERS HAVANA FOR GAY IENDLY TOURISM
• GAY HAVANA - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM
• THE BEST HAVANA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS HAVANA
• CUBA'S FIRST GAY HOTEL REOPENS AS HUMAN RIGHTS TERRATE
• IN HAVANA, GAY BARS HOLD THEIR OWN AGAST THE INTER
• GAY LIFE HAVANA - HAVANA FOM
• GAYCUBA
• THE 10 BEST AMSTERDAM GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS AMSTERDAM

UNVERG GAY HAVANA, CUBA

Throughout this article, we will go through some ndid advice on safely travelg around Cuba, which of Havannas’s gay bars and clubs are the bt, as well as explorg Santa Clara’s liberal cy and Mi Cayo which is Cuba’s Gay Beach. It was once named after s historil ti to a late revolutnary figure Santa Clara, but has sce bee the polil re for LGBT activism and is also seen as Cuba’s ma gay landmark.

Mi Cayo’s openly gay beach is perfect for all beach bums that would like to lounge on a sunbed all day and tch a tan the relentls Cuban sun.

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. 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.

LGBTQ REVOLUTN CUBA: RNERS HAVANA FOR GAY IENDLY TOURISM

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.

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.

GAY HAVANA - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM

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.

But I don’t meet wh Javier aga, bee I had already ma plans to go out wh another Cuban guy I had met at a gay-iendly beach earlier that week. So begs Enzo Hernanz, young Cuban artist, the tertg dialogue he had wh the CubaUnique team about the LGTBI muny Cuba, about his own experienc as a gay Cuban and about his favore plac and spots for LGBT tourism Havana. This 28-year-old tells about his experience as a gay man and queer today's Cuba, and about the guarante and challeng of beg part of the Cuban LGBTI muny.

For Enzzo is very important that si, and also outsi of Cuba, is known that there is an LGBTI muny on the island that, although do not have much promence, do have an creasg prence and impact Cuban cultural and social life, and is also motivatg the arrival of gay tourism to Cuba. Although this young Cuban feels that his experience is part of the cuban gay muny, don't feel different to that of any other untry, regniz that on the island has had the possibily of growg as an dividual, whout s sexual preference havg major implitns:.

THE BEST HAVANA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS HAVANA

Th, all the iends of this muny who are enuraged to vis Cuba will be able to travel safe and nfint that Cuba is a gay iendly tourism statn where you n enjoy and disver untls charms. This feature film, which received the Goya for the bt Spanish-speakg foreign film 1995, which criciz the prejudic agast the gay muny Cuba, had a notable fluence on the change of mentaly that occurred later.

CUBA'S FIRST GAY HOTEL REOPENS AS HUMAN RIGHTS TERRATE

Unr the work of activist and sexologist Mariela Castro, dghter of Raúl Castro, she has sponsored var events for the acceptance of the rights of LGBTI people, such as the Cuban Days agast Homophobia and Transphobia. This center also nven every May 17th a Conga agast homophobia and transphobia, a Creole versn of the gay pri march that is celebrated other untri. The ma stage of the nga agast Cuban homophobia is La Rampa, Vedado, and is the most anticipated of the LGBT parti Havana, a spectacle of lors and joy where Cuban gay pri overflows.

Very recently, the Mistry of Public Health joed the official celebratn of the Day agast Homophobia, placg a huge gay pri flag on the central faça of s headquarters buildg, Enzzo tells , who regniz that there has been an important (and visible) change the Cuban stutnal mentaly recent years.

IN HAVANA, GAY BARS HOLD THEIR OWN AGAST THE INTER

In the light of day, is a te marvel to venture to the charms of the historic center of Old Havana, among a multu of f and gay-iendly rtrants such as El l Frente, Jama or MasHabana. Although 2 Cuban hotels have recently been gurated wh an open gay iendly philosophy: Gran Muthu Rabow Hotel, a 5-star rort loted Cayo Guillermo, and gurated as the first LGBT hotel Cuba, will leave you breathls wh s proposal of special moments and excg LGBT events. For Enzzo, the pal is where there is greater eedom for the gay tourism Cuba and a more varied offer of gay-iendly rtrants, bars and f:?

“If the night stretch out and you want to go clubbg wh a group of iends or are simply lookg to land on a dance floor, a few streets away you will fd the Kg Bar, one of the bt gay bars Havana. I believe that, although some sential steps have been taken to dream of a untry ee of homophobia and transphobia, there is still work to be done and paths to be followed, by everyone. While guts enjoyed the five-star service by the pool or a walk along the priste sands, Cuba has not always been so welg to the gay muny.

GAY LIFE HAVANA - HAVANA FOM

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The hotel is part of a strategy by the thori to attract ep-pocketed gay touristsA jot venture between Muthu Hotels and Gavta, Cuba's ary-n tourism pany, the Rabow Hotel was placed on a US ernment list of sanctned enti Cuba even before was gurated 2019. Amid such harsh treatment, some Cuban gay rights' activists say the Rabow Hotel is an attempt by the state to mask s poor human rights rerd. We chat ont of the Hotel Telegrafo, due to be unveiled soon as Cuba's send LGBTQ hotel as the state doubl down on s pursu of the gay tourist dollar.

GAYCUBA

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Cuba has seen a huge drop tourism bee of the panmicIn 2015, symbolic same-sex weddgs were held at Havana's ernment-sanctned gay pri march. Cuba is a popular LGBTQ+ travel statn thanks to s rich history and culture, unspoiled nature, and y, vibrant gay life – pecially pared to other islands the Caribbean. While the pri paras were stopped 2019, the ernment sanctned the openg of the untry’s first gay hotel, the Gran Muthu Rabow Hotel and there has been discsn of regnizg the rights of same-sex upl.

You’ll fd a visible queer scene Havana: the Vedado neighborhood, along the Malacón at Mi Cayo beach, which is popular wh gay men, and bars and clubs that reflect a more nocent, pre-Grdr time. X Y (formerly Bar Myxto) is one of our favore Cubano gay bars and Café Cantante Mi Habana, a club near Havana’s Revolutnary Square, hosts live mic. “On top of that, I had to put up wh beg sulted and reviled for beg gay, ” he stead he took to leadg a double life, pretendg to his fay that he was still gog to school.

THE 10 BEST AMSTERDAM GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS AMSTERDAM

They seek out foreigners, chargg them between 20 and 50 nvertible pgueros have e out as homosexual, while others sist they are the stori of Triana and Bermuz show, poverty is one of the factors drivg young men as well as women to bee sex young man who gave his name as Ro said that ially, he beme a pguero bee he need the money, but he has rried on so that he n afford to take girliends out. ” Friedman-Rudovsky for The New York TimIt’s what ci the Uned Stat and Europe, pre-ter, once lled “cisg grounds” — areas that have for the most part bee quat artifacts of the gay past, replaced by hookup apps like Grdr, Jack’d and Scff.

That began to change 2008, when, after a gay rights speech by Mariela Castro Espín, the dghter of Print Raúl Castro, the pal staged s first gay pri para, which has ntued annually, ls as a shirtls spectacle and more as a prott. ) Apple ers addnally, once their iPhone is unlocked, mt pay middlemen to stall apps, wh several gay Cubans sayg they were eher too poor or too embarrassed to requt an stallatn of Grdr or s Simkhai, 39, Grdr’s founr and chief executive, has touted the app’s reach natns stgglg technologilly. “I didn’t fight through five years of slow velopment the gay muny to end up spendg two or three CUCs an hour maybe meetg a virtual person, ” Mr.

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I anized three different tours (Valle Viñal Vtage Day Trip, Mi Cayo Beach Experience, and Colonial Havana Walkg Experience) wh GayCuba and had them help plan some of our dg and nightlife activi. Wrten May 4, 2019This rponse is the subjective opn of the management reprentative and not of Tripadvisor 2018 • CouplWe spent about 6 days Cuba and were thrilled wh GayCuba.

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