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Contents:

• ECUADOR: A HIDDEN GEM FOR GAY TRAVELERS
• GAY LIFE ECUADOR
• GAY ECUADOR TRAVEL GUI
• FEATURE-GAYS ECUADOR RAPED AND BEATEN REHAB CLICS TO "CURE" THEM
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS ECUADOR
• IS ECUADOR GAY IENDLY? - ECUADOR FOM
• THE BEST GUAYAQUIL GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS GUAYAQUIL
• GAY TOURISM ECUADOR, WHAT TO VIS?

ECUADOR: A HIDDEN GEM FOR GAY TRAVELERS

Until 1997, gay life Ecuador was difficult and beg openly gay public uld lead to issu wh the police.

GAY LIFE ECUADOR

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.

GAY ECUADOR TRAVEL GUI

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.

Two large annual LGBTQ+ events Quo are the Quo Gay Pri Ftival (Orgullo) and the Quo Gay Film Ftival (El Lugar S Lim).

MEXICO CITY (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Last year was the adlit at least a for gay and transgenr people Ecuador, mpaigners have said, cg a possible backlash agast new laws enshrg LGBT+ were 16 murrs or vlent aths volvg LGBT+ people the South Amerin untry 2019, acrdg to a report released by the Ecuadorian LGBT+ rights group Silueta X group said was the hight number sce began keepg track 2010 and most of the victims were transgenr women. Murrs of LGBT+ people also rose 1998 after homosexualy was crimalized, Rodriguez the study, rearchers monored media reports of LGBT+ aths, as well as plats lodged wh Silueta X rights expert Javier Corral said the rise killgs may signal a backlash.

FEATURE-GAYS ECUADOR RAPED AND BEATEN REHAB CLICS TO "CURE" THEM

Homophobic and transphobic arguments crease equency and maybe even tensy, ” said Corral, profsor of polil science at Amherst College the Uned Stat. Meanwhile, Mexi’s Natnal Observatory for Hate Crim Agast LGBT People rerd 57 murrs of gay or transgenr people last year.

However, remas unknown or the back burner for most gay men, who feel safer wh more tradnal travel choic like gay cis or events different ci of the Uned Stat and Europe. Juan Maldonado, a dual-cizen of USA and Ecuador, and a proud rint of Wilton Manors (Florida’s “gay Mec”), is termed to change this by promotg his home untry as a fabulo statn for gay travelers that is both safe and unplited.

Asi om s LGBTQ rights rerd, Ecuador is simply an unplited choice for North Amerin gay travelers for several reasons. For the reasons, and the fantastic year-round weather Quo and other ci on The Ans, Ecuador has been regnized for many years as a top statn for retirement, and boasts a growg number of gay expats om North Ameri.

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As an avid traveler himself, Maldonado acknowledg that male gay travelers’ preferenc and expectatns are unique and don’t necsarily f nned travel packag that are available for the general LGBTQ market. Lastly, the term ‘all-gay’ don’t apply only to our travelers, but our bi-natnal team which clus gay tour guis and ncierge staff, drivers, and gay-owned or gay-iendly acmodatn and service provirs. After a uple years of rearch and behd-the-scen work, Maldonado and his bt iend Ecuador lnched Ecuador Gay Travel 2019.

IS ECUADOR GAY IENDLY? - ECUADOR FOM

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The pany offers premium travel experienc to and om Quo, the Galapagos Islands and Fort Lrdale, wh all-clive tours and erari signed for and by gay men. Ecuador Gay Travel is a proud Member of the IGLTA (Internatnal Gay and Lbian Travel Associatn), the GFLGLCC (Greater Fort Lrdale Gay and Lbian Chamber of Commerce) and the Ecuador LGBT Chamber of Commerce.

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.

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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.

Most of the gay plac are or near the districts of Marisl and Colon Quo new town.

GAY TOURISM ECUADOR, WHAT TO VIS?

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. It is time to end the tolerable excln of gay and transgenr people om the full protectn of the UN system.

A trag program lled ‘Right to Equaly and Prohibn of Discrimatn Agast LGBTI People’ was implemented on Gay Pri Day 2013 as a rult of a meetg between thori and LGBTI anizatns.

The battle agast prejudice and crime and homophobia is an sential effort pecially Lato untri where the ‘machismo’ attu is eply embedd. Not surprisg 21st century South Ameri, Ecuador is spl s attu toward gays: very nservative olr generatns stuck tradnal homophobia and the more progrsive thkg, nfint and liberal md lennial younger cizens wh awarens of larger world chang. Anti-discrimatn laws on grounds of sexual orientatn were troduced Ecuador 1998 so beme safe (not crimal) to have parti, publitn and paras public, wh very ltle gay-bashg.

The biggt gay party Ecuador is the annual Kika whe party on the beach the town of Salas. In their report on gay Ecuador, travel wrers (and spo) Stefan and Sebastien terviewed a lol gay man () who suggted the town of Montaña as a appealg place to be. In their well rearched report, ‘Sexual Morny Amazonia’ () Manuela Lavas Picq and Josi Tikuna scribe a viable homo world far om the typil LGBT scene USA and Europe, yet not so different.

“Gay pris are mon Amazonia. In 2012, Mans (Brazil) celebrated s sixteenth gay pri event. Iquos (Pe) has been celebratg gay pris sce 2005 and elects the Miss Amazonia Gay.

Tabatga and Manpurú held over six gay pris; Itaquatiara, R Preto da Eva, and Printe Figueiredo town each held multiple celebratns.

The town has had a gay soccer gay team sce 2002. “In 2011, Benjam Constant held s first Gay Pri, wh transvt dancg to the gay anthem ‘I Will Survive’ sexy glterg outfs.

Tikuna women are known to fend homo-affective relatnship as nsistent wh clan l of exogamy. They fend homo-affective ti as strengtheng the le of natns, as belongg to Tikuna anctraly.

Our anctors experienced people livg homo-affective liv but never terpreted as somethg malic, is relign that me to terfere wh our culture tryg to evangelize , argug wh the need to know God.

In this sense morn Ecuador seems somewhat siar to morn Europe wh s old tradns, homophobia-cum-progrsive laws, plac for play, public Pri events and beach ci–and has furry lamas. Text 'GAYTRAVEL' to 1-800-GAY-TRAVEL (1-800-429-8728).

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