TORREMOLINOS & MALAGA - OCT. 2022 — Gay Men On the Go

Contents:

• TORREMOLOS: THE GAY PAL OF THE COSTA L SOL
• TORREMOLOS: WHERE SPA'S GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT BEGAN
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS TORREMOLOS
• GAY TORREMOLOS · HOTELS
• GAY PRIDE TORREMOLINOS 2022
• TORREMOLOS GAY MAP
• GAY TORREMOLOS
• THE 5 BEST TORREMOLOS GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS TORREMOLOS

TORREMOLOS: THE GAY PAL OF THE COSTA L SOL

Like the rabow flags flutterg proudly over many of the rort’s bars and beach, the one-time gay Brish Mec has morphed to a global LGBT statn, wh visors shg currenci of every hue to take advantage of great ro exchange rat.

Wh gay attractns far more low-key neighbourg Malaga and Marbella, the thk pk philosophy Torremolos has created a rosy future for expat trars and, recent tim, ’s gone way beyond sterlg and ros. The groundswell of Brs and ‘Eurogays’ flockg to the holiday statn that ref to stand still have been joed by trans-Atlantic tourists. Virtually unknown to gay Amerins five years ago, the longevy of the rort’s gay scene is attractg more ternatnal LGBT visors, much of that thanks to a liberate move to ph gay bs ventur Torremolos.

TORREMOLOS: WHERE SPA'S GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT BEGAN

“The gay scene is graed to the muny.

He add: “The gay muny is very open. I don’t want to ll my bar a ‘gay bar’ and exclu anyone.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS TORREMOLOS

The rort’s gay stat was pneered by Toni’s bar, tablished 1962 durg Fran’s regime and still open today.

At that time, gays elsewhere Spa were beg imprisoned, and even executed. Today the rort proudly flnts s officially-signated gay beach.

GAY TORREMOLOS · HOTELS

Off the beach, the gay social scene centr on the La Nogalera plex the heart of the town, where gay bars s cheek by jowl wh fay rtrants and hetero hnts, a symbol of the town’s liberal attu. Beyond the packed nightclubs and visible renovatns, the town has been workg hard to draw ternatnal bs people to s gay scene.

GAY PRIDE TORREMOLINOS 2022

In 2010, Torremolos buted s now annual Expo Gay, which brought more than 15, 000 visors and 180 exhibors to the town over three days. Last year, the rort hosted s first Internatnal Day of Transvtism durg the now inic Gay Pri celebratns.

The gay pal of the ast is termed to hold on to s tle and keep reventg self. TORREMOLINOS: FAMOUS GAY DESTINATION!

It’s famo for s world famo gay muny and nightlife. Torremolos lls self the gay pal of Spa.

TORREMOLOS GAY MAP

If not the pal, is one of the gay pals! The central pot of the gay muny torremolos is the La Nogalera area, where we stayed. It’s very easy, you n see gay flags on the beach the distance.

Torremolos is the gay pal of the Costa l Sol both durg the day and at night, a place where you n enjoy the bt views. (Image cred: Kev Hellon/Alamy)Once a poor fishg town, Torremolos beme an unlikely LGBTQ+ haven the midst of a fascist walkway outsi Mariqua Copas, a hole--the-wall bar Torremolos' ma "gaybourhood", La Nogalera, glowed blue. As I sipped a beer on my first night town, I surveyed the scene: pestrians holdg shoppg bags had stopped to chat; a man and woman sat entwed on a bench; and gay lols clked cktail glass.

But, as I was about to learn, not only did the untry's first gay-iendly bar open here back 1962, was also where Spa's gay rights movement began – rather vlently. Dpe the fact that homosexualy was still nsired a crime unr Fran's regime, 1962, a Brish gay uple opened Tony's Bar on the narrow L-shaped alleyway Pasaje Begoña. "Although Tony's nnot be fed as a 'gay bar' as we unrstand today, was a place where the owners were gay and allowed the clientele eedom, " said Je M Pérez, the print of Pasaje Begoña Associatn, which was found 2018 wh the aim of "reverg the memory of this emblematic place and rcug this fotten chapter the history of Spa".

GAY TORREMOLOS

Tony's was an stant smash and over the next few years, spired a slew of other tablishments terg to the gay muny. In 1971, Fran's ernment began crackg down on Torremolos' flourishg gay scene, which was centred around Pasaje Begoña. What beme known as the Great Raid did not mean the end of the town's gay bars, but did differ om New York Cy's Stonewall Rts, explaed Pérez.

Torremolos' Pasaje Begoña was home to Spa's first gay-iendly bar (Cred: M Ramírez/Alamy)Today, those pneers would likely be thrilled to know that this 68, 000-person muny is home to dozens of thrivg queer bars, clubs and bs. Gill Douglas, owner of the gay bar Boomerang, swapped Stland for Torremolos two s ago. Durg the dictatorship, Torremolos was home to the first gay and lbian bars and clubs Spa, somethg totally forbidn at the time.

THE 5 BEST TORREMOLOS GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS TORREMOLOS

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4, 5 or 6 nights – 4* Hotel selected gay-iendly Torremolos. Torremolos gay Scene. Torremolos has long had a vibrant gay scene and has always been one of the most openly gay-iendly towns Spa.