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Contents:
- TORREMOLOS: WHERE SPA'S GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT BEGAN
- GAY TORREMOLOS
- 9 FABULOLY GAY-FRIENDLY & GAY HOTELS IN TORREMOLOS TO TRY ON YOUR NEXT GAYTN!
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
- IS TORREMOLOS A GAY RORT?
TORREMOLOS: WHERE SPA'S GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT BEGAN
Torremolos has long had a vibrant gay scene and has always been one of the most openly gay-iendly towns Spa. Even durg the years of dictatorship, the town flourished as a statn for the liberally md and the animated gay scene thrived at a time when Fran owned on blatantly non-Catholic activi. * torremolinos gay history *
(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
The one-time gay Brish Mec has morphed to a global LGBT statn * torremolinos gay history *
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.
9 FABULOLY GAY-FRIENDLY & GAY HOTELS IN TORREMOLOS TO TRY ON YOUR NEXT GAYTN!
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Gill Douglas, owner of the gay bar Boomerang, swapped Stland for Torremolos two s ago.
Torremolos gay Scene. Torremolos has long had a vibrant gay scene and has always been one of the most openly gay-iendly towns Spa.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
The bt gay bars & dance clubs, gay-rated hotels, gay snas, cise clubs and gay beach Torremolos, Spa. Reviews, maps & disunts * torremolinos gay history *
Even durg the years of dictatorship, the town flourished as a statn for the liberally md and the animated gay scene thrived at a time when Fran owned on blatantly non-Catholic activi.
IS TORREMOLOS A GAY RORT?
Lookg for a gay holiday Torremolos? You will be spoilt for choice wh the bt gay hotels Torremolos for you to try out on your next vatn. * torremolinos gay history *
Today, the gay scene is even more flourishg than before and is fast beg the most popular choice for GLBT tourists to spend their summer vatns. Of all the towns on the Costa l Sol, Torremolos is the most famo for s variety of gay bars and clubs. There are also gay hotels, travel agents, hairdrsers, cloth boutiqu and even a gay sna.