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Contents:

• HERE’S WHY PUERTO VALLARTA IS THE GAY BEACH CAPAL OF MEXI
• GAY PUERTO VALLARTA-THE VARIED ATTRACTNS OF THIS VERY GAY-FRIENDLY CY
• GAY PUERTO VALLARTA 2023: VIS MEXI’S BT LGBT BEACH RORT

HERE’S WHY PUERTO VALLARTA IS THE GAY BEACH CAPAL OF MEXI

There are hotels, bars, nightclubs, beach, and even drks specifilly for LGBT travelers, and due to the safety and welg environment for the guts, is the first cy Mexi to receive the Gay Travel Approved distctn by Here we disver how and why Puerto Vallarta beme the Gay Capal of Mexi. The Old Puerto Vallarta is also nsired the gay neighborhood sce 1980, when the gay muny and retired Canadians and Amerins bought land and properti orr to create gay-iendly bs.

In this zone is ntled the popular beach Playa los Muertos, which, although not exclively gay, for the last 20 years has been known as a gay-iendly beach (also lled Blue Chairs, bee of the many blue chairs placed by a gay rort which bears the same name), maly the high season, om November to March. Bee the gay-iendly beachont hotels the area —and guarante—a ncentratn of LGBT tourists, brgg a multicultural ambience where members of this muny will be rpected whout discrimatn. Such is the high mand for LGBT-iendly vatn spots that the area has been extend to clu the green chairs and as far as the north ast, the elegant Oceano Sapphire Beach Club, owned by gays.

View Trip More than jt the beach Unlike certa untri, laws agast homosexualy never existed Mexi. Their work has gotten rults: they have achieved regnn of gay rights, and implemented laws agast the provotn and cement of hate or vlence agast LGBTs, and also to guarantee equaly employment and public acodatn and servic.

GAY PUERTO VALLARTA-THE VARIED ATTRACTNS OF THIS VERY GAY-FRIENDLY CY

This cy anized s first Gay Pri March, and has hosted the Pk & Proud Women’s Party—the equivalent lbian celebratn—for the last four years, wh assistance om the lol Canadian and Amerin muni. Bars, nightclubs and other ameni are already foced on this market, and there are also tours—like the Gay VIP Bars Tour—and even drks—like the Gay Tequila and the Gay Energy Drk—to make the guts feel extra wele.

GAY PUERTO VALLARTA 2023: VIS MEXI’S BT LGBT BEACH RORT

Beyond the marketg, Puerto Vallarta beme a platform to support gay rights, and the LGBT muny knows and feels wele here. On Puerto Vallarta's Lazaro Carnas -- a bbltoned street led wh the Mexin cy's gay bars -- men embraced as if World War II were jt won.

This beachont property boasts dazzlg ocean views and a nearly all-queer clientele, which mgl at the Top, a gay sky bar offerg food and nightly entertament, the newly opened En pool and lounge garn, and Mantamar, a seasi club boastg beach chairs (orr the shi and a massage) and an often-boistero pool.

Suated on the hillsi, this gay-owned property is a charmg, if pricier, optn wh dividually signed rooms and stunng views of the cy.

However, there are a few cis that ter exclively to, well, gay cisg. NIGHTLIFE As mentned prevly, nearly all of the gay nightlife is centered on Lazaro Carnas. This venue has an ATM that distribut pos, which you will fely need at the gay bars; many do not accept cred rds.

At the time, Puerto Vallarta had a reputatn for beg gay-popular but not particularly gay-iendly.

When Ruiz opened his club, was one of only three gay bars the cy. At the time, Jalis didn’t have formal laws agast homosexualy.

But police and regulators often targeted gay-owned bs for shakedowns bee, whout polil nnectns or meangful support the broar lol muny, they were vulnerable. From that pot on, the cy’s police were ls hostile to the gay muny. Ruiz eventually moved his bar a uple of blocks away another part of an area south of downtown known as Zona Romanti, a neighborhood that now has more than two dozen gay bars, a handful of LGBT hotels and three gay-foced cis partg om the cy’s public beach, Playa los Muertos.