Tips for Gay and Lbian Travelers Cuba | Frommer's

Contents:

• GAY CUBA TRAVEL GUI
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS CUBA
• THERE’S A GAY BEACH HAVANA! DISVERG LGBT LIFE CUBA
• SO YOU WANT TO GO TO CUBA? 6 TOURS SPECIFILLY FOR GAY TRAVELERS
• HAVANA GAY BARS
• LGBTQ REVOLUTN CUBA: RNERS HAVANA FOR GAY IENDLY TOURISM
• UNVERG GAY HAVANA, CUBA
• THE BEST CUBA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CUBA
• GAY TRAVEL CUBA - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM
• CUBA: GAY TRAVEL INX 2020, BY TEGORY
• CUBA WANTS YOU TO THK IT’S A GAY PARADISE. IT’S NOT.

GAY CUBA TRAVEL GUI

Cuba is a popular LGBTQ+ travel statn thanks to s rich history and culture, unspoiled nature, and y, vibrant gay life – pecially pared to other islands the Caribbean. While the pri paras were stopped 2019, the ernment sanctned the openg of the untry’s first gay hotel, the Gran Muthu Rabow Hotel and there has been discsn of regnizg the rights of same-sex upl. You’ll fd a visible queer scene Havana: the Vedado neighborhood, along the Malacón at Mi Cayo beach, which is popular wh gay men, and bars and clubs that reflect a more nocent, pre-Grdr time.

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS CUBA

X Y (formerly Bar Myxto) is one of our favore Cubano gay bars and Café Cantante Mi Habana, a club near Havana’s Revolutnary Square, hosts live mic.

Throughout this article, we will go through some ndid advice on safely travelg around Cuba, which of Havannas’s gay bars and clubs are the bt, as well as explorg Santa Clara’s liberal cy and Mi Cayo which is Cuba’s Gay Beach. In fact members of the LGBTQ muny have been treated horrendoly for many years Cuba, wh homosexualy beg scribed as iologil diversnism.

THERE’S A GAY BEACH HAVANA! DISVERG LGBT LIFE CUBA

Throughout the years, gay nightlife has really begun to flourish, so you’ll be happy to know that you won’t be stuck for party statns! It was once named after s historil ti to a late revolutnary figure Santa Clara, but has sce bee the polil re for LGBT activism and is also seen as Cuba’s ma gay landmark.

Mi Cayo’s openly gay beach is perfect for all beach bums that would like to lounge on a sunbed all day and tch a tan the relentls Cuban sun.

Homosexualy is not illegal Cuba, but general, Cuba has a poor rerd on gay and lbian rights, and while the suatn has improved somewhat, there are still high levels of homophobia and broad societal rejectn of gays and lbians. There is only one openly accepted gay and lbian tablishment Cuba ( Santa Clara), and few of the tablished gay and lbian tour operators n trips to the island.

SO YOU WANT TO GO TO CUBA? 6 TOURS SPECIFILLY FOR GAY TRAVELERS

Raúl Castro's dghter, Mariela Castro, heads the Natnal Center for Sex Edutn and champns homosexual, bisexual, and transgenr rights.

HAVANA GAY BARS

954/630-1637;) is the tra associatn for the gay and lbian travel dtry, and offers an onle directory of gay- and lbian-iendly travel bs. Before this, there was a long perd of tolerance; after the 1959 revolutn gay people were imprisoned “rehabilatn” mps and discrimatn was rife.

This was due to pre-existg machismo culture that was further strengthened by a revolutn that saw difference as a danger and felt gay men were products of nt palism. In 1993 Fil Castro, the then-Print, stated his opposn to anti-LGBT polici; he took rponsibily for the persecutn of homosexuals 2010. While there have been large grassroots movements for gay marriage, there have also been those agast ; church, for example, have released statements clarg marriage as exclively “between a man and a woman” and put up posters wh this msage.

The history for trans people Cuba is equally as dark and shameful as that for gay people; machismo also has a big impact as trans women are seen as ‘renouncg’ their masculy.

LGBTQ REVOLUTN CUBA: RNERS HAVANA FOR GAY IENDLY TOURISM

In more nservative areas gay travellers uld be met wh some surprised or hostile rpons, although there are almost no reports of this. Havana is the hub of the LGBT muny, although there are also gay havens plac like Santa Clara and Mi Cayo beach (about 15 east of Havana). AirBnb is also beg more popular wh lols as a way to make money, so ’s worth checkg out the optns there and readg the reviews to see if they are gay-iendly.

UNVERG GAY HAVANA, CUBA

For gay travellers who want to experience the LGBT scene of the untry, headg to the gay bars and clubs of Havana is a great place to start. The limatns on ter Cuba have meant that gay people meet each other a more ‘old-school’ way – flirtg nightclubs and public parks, cisg at the Malecón. Gay travellers should not feel ncerned about g , but shouldn’t be surprised if someone they’re chattg to giv them a number to phone.

We have put together a list of our favore gay hook up apps to e while travelg, but you might also want to bsh up on your cisg etiquette if you want some simple fun….

The other posive thg is that more gay travellers provi support for LGBT rights Cuba; gay travellers n make the effort to support gay-owned or gay-iendly bs as well.

THE BEST CUBA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CUBA

It looked as though the beach extend que a distance both directns, so we were unsure where to fd the gay sectn of beach that supposedly existed.

On this weekday afternoon, the gay beach had maybe 100 people at most, but was still awome to see signs of gay life Cuba, where acceptance of gays is growg but still not nearly at the same level as most wtern natns.

GAY TRAVEL CUBA - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM

The are stereotyp, of urse, but they did hold te for many young Cuban gays, who were clearly open and weren’t tryg to hi their orientatns om anybody. If you vis more upsle and seclud statns Cuba such as Vararo, which is known for s all-clive rorts, you may likely enunter other gay travelers and tourists, moro than lols.

Obvly, gay marriage is not legal Cuba, though Rters reported that the untry’s recent draft nstutn uld open the door for eventual same-sex matrimony.

CUBA: GAY TRAVEL INX 2020, BY TEGORY

In the past few years, a number of onle articl seemed to give the imprsn that Cuba is some sort of utopia for gay men, but most of the were exaggerated.

Y, Cuba is gay iendly to a greater gree than many of s Caribbean neighbors, but a lot of those untri (Jamai, Tridad) have notorly homophobic cultur, so beg more progrsive than them isn’t necsarily a huge statement. As more lol policians warm to gay rights, tour pani expand their gay-themed tours Havana, and more Amerin gay tourists e to vis, I would expect LGBT life Cuba to grow and bee more public the g years. Still, the new LGBT protectns are great for lols and for gay tourists who want to spend their money plac that are iendly and receptive.

CUBA WANTS YOU TO THK IT’S A GAY PARADISE. IT’S NOT.

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Though Cuba is not particularly advance the human rights space, Cuba gay rights and equaly are surprisgly more forward than you’d thk for a untry that’s been trapped the past. Cuba is wily nsired a safe untry for LGBT travelers to vis today, wh many gay travel pani offerg specially curated adventur for gay people visg the untry. It has been ld as one of the gay pals of the Caribbean but given the piful circumstanc neighborg untri, this is hardly a noteworthy claim of a liberal utopia.

Even our iends at Out Adventur have taken this opportuny to expand their gay group tours and they are now offerg 10 day trips to Cuba. The “People to People” program is the officially sanctned program permtg Amerin’s to vis and if you go wh the gay group tour qualifi unr the program.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, swath of homosexual were sent to mps orr to be reted and cleansed of their gayns – remiscent of ntent rrectn mps which still operate today.

Though Havana don’t have gay-only bars or clubs, there are a number of gay nights that take place the cy, most ncentrated a neighborhood lled Vedado, adjacent to El Malen on the seaont.