Explore our gay travel gui to Ecuador featurg LGBTQ+ safety tips, gay rights , top ci & attractns, where to stay and more!
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GAY LIFE ECUADOR
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Until 1997, gay life Ecuador was difficult and beg openly gay public uld lead to issu wh the police. But 1997, the nstutn was changed to troduce some of the most progrsive gay-iendly legislatn the world. While the laws of Ecuador are firmly support of gay rights, public displays of same-sex affectn are very rare the untry and LGBTQ+ travelers are advised to e discretn when public plac, pecially outsi of major ci where people may not have adapted to the new laws as quickly.
ECUADOR: A HIDDEN GEM FOR GAY TRAVELERS
On 10th Augt 1998 the nstutn of Ecuador was reformed to regnize the equaly of all cizens regardls of sexualy-gay Ecuador. * ecuador gay life *
Although the law stat that everyone has the same rights Ecuador, this don’t mean that homophobia is gone, pecially ral areas. Ecuador don’t have any gay hotels but there are gay-iendly optns.
In Quo, the “zona Rosa” is the gay-iendly part of the cy. Two large annual LGBTQ+ events Quo are the Quo Gay Pri Ftival (Orgullo) and the Quo Gay Film Ftival (El Lugar S Lim). 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.