On 10th Augt 1998 the nstutn of Ecuador was reformed to regnize the equaly of all cizens regardls of sexualy-gay Ecuador.
Contents:
- GAY LIFE ECUADOR
- COMFORTABLE LIVG AS AN OLR GAY MAN CUEN?
- THE BEST PROVCE OF CUEN GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS PROVCE OF CUEN
GAY LIFE ECUADOR
* gay life in cuenca ecuador *
Most people who travel to Ecuador e to experience the variety of landsp, climat, cultur, fna and flora that this small untry has to offer–cludg the unique Galapagos Islands (where we vised but there is no gay life among the old tortois, spikey iguanas and many Darw fch. Gay Ecuador has unrgone a remarkable transformatn the last few years.
Prr to this Ecuadorians uld be arrted for offens agast public morals on any pretext such as, for example, jt beg prent a gay bar. Amnty Internatnal published a report entled ‘Pri and Prejudice: Time to break the vic circle of impuny for ab agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenred people’, which are documented s of homophobic harassment, torture and ill-treatment agast LGBT cizens, pecially the ci of Quo and Guayaquil.
Dpe the new l the gay scene is relatively quiet om Sunday to Thursday anyway. Most of the gay plac are or near the districts of Marisl and Colon Quo new town. The gay scene general lacks discrimatn agast anyone.
COMFORTABLE LIVG AS AN OLR GAY MAN CUEN?
In ntrast to the emergg posive scene there is a dark si of Ecuadorian gay life.
A recent report om Gay Star News om Ecuadorian photo artist Pla Pares tells a harrowg story of disguised ‘nversn’ centers Ecuador that e btal and ercive techniqu to change gay people to beg straight.
Pares reports, “In Ecuador approximately 200 facili exist to “cure” homosexual men, women and transsexuals, ’ she says a statement about the project.
THE BEST PROVCE OF CUEN GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS PROVCE OF CUEN
Pares story n be read at: Human Rights Watch has brought prsure on stutns and enforcement agenci to act agast anti-gay btaly.
It is time to end the tolerable excln of gay and transgenr people om the full protectn of the UN system. A trag program lled ‘Right to Equaly and Prohibn of Discrimatn Agast LGBTI People’ was implemented on Gay Pri Day 2013 as a rult of a meetg between thori and LGBTI anizatns. The battle agast prejudice and crime and homophobia is an sential effort pecially Lato untri where the ‘machismo’ attu is eply embedd.
Not surprisg 21st century South Ameri, Ecuador is spl s attu toward gays: very nservative olr generatns stuck tradnal homophobia and the more progrsive thkg, nfint and liberal md lennial younger cizens wh awarens of larger world chang. Anti-discrimatn laws on grounds of sexual orientatn were troduced Ecuador 1998 so beme safe (not crimal) to have parti, publitn and paras public, wh very ltle gay-bashg.