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.
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.
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. * 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).
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.
GAY ECUADOR TRAVEL GUI
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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.