Gay Portugal | LGBTQ+ Travel Gui, Portugal Gay Rights & Safety Tips

Contents:

• TOP 7 BT GAY BARS & CLUBS PORTUGAL
• GAY PORTUGAL | EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW
• MOVG TO LGBT LISBON? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• MOVG TO LGBT PORTO? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

TOP 7 BT GAY BARS & CLUBS PORTUGAL

Current statSce Apr 7, 2010Legal In Portugal, blood donatns have l regardg sexual behavur but they are the same for homosexual and heterosexual people. Equal age of nsent Portugal is The age of nsent Portugal is 14 years of age for both homosexual and heterosexual sex.

GAY PORTUGAL | EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW

1982 Same-sex sexual activy crimalized aga, only years after the end of the opprsive and homophobic fascist dictatorship.

MOVG TO LGBT LISBON? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

In the 18th century, wrer William Beckford ped England after allegatns that he was gay and moved to Stra, Greater Lisbon. While the cy boasts fewer bars and activi for LGBT people than the pal, the muny has built a home for self wh inic plac such as the drag club Invict and the gay fe Pri Coffee. From luxury to affordable rtrants, amazg hotels and gay nightclubs, and the bt beach the untry, the Algarve is the perfect LGBT getaway, havg retreats and hotels tered to LGBT people and found by LGBT people.

MOVG TO LGBT PORTO? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

While more mon other untri, Portugal has been fallg ls behd recent years wh new gay gyms, as well as gyms for the whole LGBT muny. For centuri Europe, snas were a place where gay men uld e together as a muny, outsi the dangers of the real world.

Although there are no “official” signated gay beach, there are a few nudist beach Portugal that are particularly popular wh the whole of the LGBT+ muny, such as Praia do Me (Simbra) and Praia da Bela Vista (between Costa da Capari and Fonte da Telha). Lisbon Pri is also known as Arraial Lisboa Pri and is anized by ILGA, the largt anizatn fightg for gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people Portugal, partnership wh the municipaly of Lisbon.

Arraial Lisboa Pri is the largt LGBTI event Portugal and sce 1997 has been brgg visibily to the lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and tersex muny. A gay urban rort, the Late Birds is loted a rtored 18th-century buildg, wh a lounge, large rooms, a garn, and a swimmg pool.

Several European natns require transgenr people to unrgo medil procr such as surgery and sterilizatn, be diagnosed wh a mental disorr, and get divorced if married to have their sired genr legally regnized by law mak Portugal only the sixth European natn to allow a change of genr whout medil or state terventn, acrdg to ILGA-Europe, a work of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) follows Malta, Norway, Denmark, Ireland and who are transgenr do not intify wh the genr they were born as, while tersex people have ambiguo genalia that are not nsired typilly male or female.

Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) rights Portugal improved substantially the 2000s and 2010s and are now among the bt the world. After a long perd of opprsn durg the Estado Novo, Portugue society has bee creasgly acceptg of homosexualy, [1] which was crimalized 1982, [2] eight years after the Carnatn Revolutn. The untry, while still fluenced by Roman Catholicism, has progrsively bee more acceptg of same-sex relatnships and homosexualy.

The 2019 Eurobarometer opn survey showed that 74% of the Portugue populatn supported same-sex marriage and that around 80% believed lbian, gay and bisexual people should enjoy the same rights as heterosexuals. Lisbon, Porto and Faro have visible LGBT scen, wh several gay bars, nightclubs and other venu, as well as their annual pri paras.

The untry hosts several LGBT events each year and you n fd many gay-iendly bars, nightclubs and beach all over the untry. The most anised gay scene Portugal is s pal cy Lisbon, particularly the lively Bairro Alto and Príncipe Real districts, and the nearby town of Casis. Queer Lisboa is an Internatnal Film Ftival dited exclively to screeng gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and transsexual themed films.

Lisbon Gay Pri is officially known as ‘Arraial Lisboa Pri’, this event actually tak place over two different days June.

Durg the week leadg up to the ma day, Lisbon Gay Pri also throws parti, special exhibns and events throughout the cy. Beach 19 which is also known as ‘Praia Bela Vista’, is the largt nudist beach Europe and nsired the bt gay beach Portugal.

Throughout history, there has always been a strong prejudice agast homosexuals, pecially upl of two men, who were more recurrently talked about and judged. For sea voyag, only men sailed the ravels, as homosexualy always existed, there was the possibily of gay men beg on trips on boats and, eventually, gettg volved wh other sailors.

In this se, the on who suffered the most were gay men, who were tried wh the ath penalty, sce sodomy was nsired hery. However, there were s of young people who, knowg they were homosexuals, started their sex life wh other men before beg forced to marry a woman.

However, Egas Moniz, a physician and nrosurgeon, one of his published works fed homosexualy as a mental illns and was regnised as such until the 1980s. The police arranged meetgs wh alleged homosexuals, pretendg to be part of the muny, to fd a reason to arrt the man they were talkg to. Although General Galvão Melo had stated that the revolutn was not ma for homosexuals, 1982 homosexualy was crimalised.

At this time, HIV emerged Portugal, which was known at the time as a disease that only attacked homosexuals, jtifyg several episos of homophobia.