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Contents:

• “SHOTS, SHOTS, SHOTS!” GAY TIJUANA
• TIJUANA GAY GUI AND HOTELS
• THE BEST TIJUANA GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS TIJUANA
• TIJUANA’S GAY MEN’S CHOS HARNSG THE POWER OF MIC TO MAKE LGBT MUNY MORE VISIBLE
• GAY BARS, RTURANTS, BATHS & HANG OUTS? - TIJUANA FOM
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS TIJUANA
• GAY TIJUANA
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

“SHOTS, SHOTS, SHOTS!” GAY TIJUANA

Woven to gay Tijuana, on the razor’s edge of the red-light district to the north, is a wars of that threat and others, and an entrenched sire to fet them.

As the rabowre would suggt, there are plenty of gay bars Tijuana. The cy do, however, have a rich history of gay male mobilizatn, chronicled a 2019 dissertatn by social scientist Jse Anguiano of Wtern Michigan Universy.

TIJUANA GAY GUI AND HOTELS

The movement began the 1970s; Plaza Santa Cecilia, today a vibrant gay statn, served as one of the earlit meetg s for the cy’s gay male liberatn groups.

THE BEST TIJUANA GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS TIJUANA

Anguiano wr about Tijuana’s first official Pri march 1995, after a hateful rponse to an unofficial march over a earlier: In 1983, spectators hurled eggs and sults om the siwalks at a group of 30 gay men marchg for their rights.

TIJUANA’S GAY MEN’S CHOS HARNSG THE POWER OF MIC TO MAKE LGBT MUNY MORE VISIBLE

But wh metro San Diego and s flourishg queer life ls than a half-hour to the north—the Hillcrt neighborhood, which is the cy's thrivg gay district, is home to two lbian bars—Tijuana n still feel like ’s laggg behd. The scene today reflects gay Tijuana’s male-centric history.

On the other si of the plaza, Avenida Revolución, the gay artery of downtown, puls to life wh electro beats om the dance floors of Premier Men’s Club and Rubiks.

GAY BARS, RTURANTS, BATHS & HANG OUTS? - TIJUANA FOM

Any gay bars that they might vis were centered around cis men. ” In the years sce, she’s noticed margal progrs, as the neighborhood embrac new spac that are “more iendly for trans, gay, lbian and queer people. Hundreds are expected to participate this year's Marcha Orgullo, or gay pri para, Tijuana.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS TIJUANA

Tijuana’s first gay rights march drew surprised star and ocsnal applse 1995 when a crowd of about 100 people held signs and waved multi-lored banners while marchg down Avenida Revolucn. More than a quarter century later, a very different scene is expected to play out on June 25, as thoands of Tijuana rints prepare to attend the cy’s 27th Marcha Orgullo, or gay pri para.

This month’s Marcha Orgullo is expected to draw some 25, 000 people — 10, 000 participants and 15, 000 spectators, said Lorenzo Herrera, a longtime gay rights activist and para anizer.

TIJUANA — The chords and not om the Tijuana Gay Men’s Chos spilled out om the basement of the red brick Casa la Cultura and to the still night. But not on this block, where the 11-member vol group belted out harmoni as part of their Wednday night vol technique of only two active gay men’s chos all of Mexi, the group aims to create a safe space for the artistic velopment of Tijuana’s gay and transgenr muny.

GAY TIJUANA

” Chos director Edgar Gheno leads rehearsal of the Tijuana Gay Men’s Chos (Coro Gay Tijuana) at the Casa la Cultura on Aug.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

Most of the untry’s 32 stat regnize gay marriage, cludg Baja California, and the natn’s top urt has led that trans people have a legal right to change their genr inty on official the chang have been slow to e to the northern Mexin state of Baja California, where the Catholic relign is domant and the right-leang Natnal Actn Party, or PAN, has mataed some grip on the polil landspe.

Mara l Pilar Ávila Olmeda drew the ire of the gay muny by vetog .