Gay Bogota LGBTQ* nightlife and travel 2023

Contents:

• GAY BOGOTÁ TRAVEL: COLOMBIA’S GAY-FRIENDLY CAPITAL
• GAY BOGOTA 2023
• BOGOTA GAY TRAVEL GUI
• GAY TRAVEL COLOMBIA ADVENTURE TOUR

GAY BOGOTÁ TRAVEL: COLOMBIA’S GAY-FRIENDLY CAPITAL

The two ma ci, Bogota and Mell, each have a large gay neighborhood—pecially Chapero Bogota where you n fd the megaclub Theatron, the largt LGBTQ+ club Lat Ameri.

There is a small gay scene Cartagena wh bars like Le Pet, La Plancha and Roma Club.

GAY BOGOTA 2023

The LGBTQ scene here clus bars like Bar Chiqua, Don Aquellos and the Viva gay club.

As wh most untri the world, there will always exist an element of homophobia, particularly ral muni around the ast.

Bogota is the untry’s #1 LGBTQ statn wh one of the largt gay clubs the world—Theatron on Saturday nights. We are gay uple Stefan and Sebastien om London, who left our liv London 2014 to travel the world.

BOGOTA GAY TRAVEL GUI

We wre about the different gay scen each statn we vis our gay travel blog lled Nomadic Boys.

GAY TRAVEL COLOMBIA ADVENTURE TOUR

Our send journal about our trip to one of the gay-iendlit untri Southern Ameri is about Colombia’s pal cy, Bogotá.

After our first days Cartagena and before our fal Colombian statn Mellín, we would like to show you Bogotá’s highlights our Gay Bogotá Travel Journal. Enjoy Bogotá’s gay-iendly si through a uple of men’s ey.

Gay-iendly trip to Bogotá. Although first looked like they were makg fun of , they were actually geekg out about our gay kiss. Gay-iendly Hotel: Hotel Estelar Parque la 93Gay-iendly Rtrants: Santa Fe Rtrante, La Puerta Falsa, Masa 70.

Bogotá Gay neighborhood Chapero. Before we are gog to tell you more about Colombia’s nightlife, we explored the gay neighborhood Chapero wh the rabow cy sign, the rabow and trans crosswalk and var shops and bars together wh our tour gui.

LGBTQ+ & Gay Nightlife Bogotá pl Theatron. At night, we ma a gay night cy tour wh the handsome crew om The Queer Sut Colombia and the lovely lol Drag Queen Móni DiWhisky. The tour brought around the cy to five gay bars and clubs endg wh Halloween night as Theatron, the biggt LGBTQ+ and gay club South Ameri.

Gay Bars at Gay neighborhood Chapero we vised: Theatron, Anónimos Bar GayDon’t fet to brg: Good mood, ID or passport, tip for the crew. Bogota has several betiful mms, fancy 5 star luxe hotels for affordable pric, good rtrants and an amazg nightlife, and a gay night club wh over 4000 people every weekend! Read our travel gui for the gay visor.

When planng a vis to Colombia do about 4/5 days Bogota, and make sure clus a Friday and Saturday for 's amazg (gay) nightlife.

Wh a pal cy that’s known as the next gay pal of Lat Ameri thanks to s btlg bars, clubs, shoppg statns and betiful gay neighborhoods like Chapero, Colombia is quickly beg a favored travel statn among LGBTQ+ travelers. The untry’s reputatn as gay-iendly arguably om a strong tradn and culture of service and hospaly. LGBTQ+ scen are poppg up all over the cy, pecially Chapero, the headquarters of the Bogotá Pri Ft and the home of Mala Muerte Queer Bar and Theatron nightclub (the largt gay-themed club night Lat Ameri), two of Bogotá’s most famo gay tradnal bars and meetg spots that have bee stutns for the cy’s LGBTQ+ scene.

The scene here clus bars like Bar Chiqua, Don Aquellos, and the Viva Gay Club. Outsi of Poblado, there are a handful of gay hangouts dotted around the cy, particularly Lrel.

Bogota is home to the largt gay bar Lat Ameri.

Gay ternatnal ftival (November). The Barranquilla Carnival has a Gay Guacherna, a night para that brgs together the entire cy wh s LGBT populatn. This important event ends wh the ronatn of the Gay Queen of the rnival.

Guacherna Gay (Febary). Gay ternatnal ftival (July).

Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.

There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage". “It’s a book I wish I would have had when I was terrified, when I was believg that I was the only gay person the world for a long time.

What to md when you thk of a gay statn? Some might thk of gay hotspots like Palm Sprgs or Fire Island which for s have been havens for LGBT people lookg to pe and take a vatn wh their iends or signifint other.

Over the past , the enhancement of gay rights Colombia has meant that the once unrground LGBT+ scene has e out of the shadows and is now openly vised and advertised. While South Ameri has been a burgeong gay statn for several s, most visors have flocked to Brazil, Argenta and Pe. It’s n by our longtime iend Sam, who several years ago moved om the US to Colombia and now is an expert everythg gay travel Colombia has to offer.

Colombia is not yet the type of place where you’ll monly see gay upl affectnate public nor is the gay scene as visible and open as other Wtern untri.

The flourish tourism activy is no small part due to gay rights Colombia supportg and enhancg the liv of the lol muny. Gay Scene Colombia. The enhancement of gay rights Colombia has meant that the once unrground LGBT+ scene has e out of the shadows and is now openly vised and advertised – particularly the large ci such as Bogota and Mell, and Pri ftivals are LGBT rights protts are now held openly on a regular basis.

The gay scene Colombia has historilly been more unrground, but wh jt the past 10 years, the muny has gaed more support and the visibily has creased dramatilly, particularly the large ci like Bogota and Mell. Gay pri celebratns and protts are now monplace and large the ci and the muny has an active voice, which is not always mon this part of the world. Though slightly smaller, Mell still has a thrivg gay scene mostly centered the area of Parque Lleras.