THE BEST Guayaquil Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023) - Tripadvisor

Contents:

• GAY QUO QUO CY GUI
• GAY LIFE ECUADOR
• GAY ECUADOR TRAVEL GUI
• THE BEST GUAYAQUIL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GUAYAQUIL
• GAY TOURISM ECUADOR, WHAT TO VIS?

GAY QUO QUO CY GUI

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.

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.

GAY LIFE ECUADOR

Two large annual LGBTQ+ events Quo are the Quo Gay Pri Ftival (Orgullo) and the Quo Gay Film Ftival (El Lugar S Lim). It was way out ahead on gay rights as one of the first untri the world to prohib discrimatn based on sexual orientatn s Constutn, and one of the few natns to have banned nversn therapy. The gay scene Quo is not huge, but is spired.

The Marisl district fondly referred to as the Pk Zone is the centre of gay life. The gay-iendly 3-star Hotel NASS Sol De Quo is a great budget optn. 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 TRAVEL GUI

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.

THE BEST GUAYAQUIL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GUAYAQUIL

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. 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. Pares story n be read at: Human Rights Watch has brought prsure on stutns and enforcement agenci to act agast anti-gay btaly.

GAY TOURISM ECUADOR, WHAT TO VIS?

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. The biggt gay party Ecuador is the annual Kika whe party on the beach the town of Salas.