Tips for Gay and Lbian Travelers Argenta | Frommer's

Contents:

• GAY ARGENTA TRAVEL GUI
• THE PERPLEXG NARRATIVE ABOUT BEG GAY LAT AMERI
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS ARGENTA
• IN MACHO ARGENTA, A NEW BEAN FOR GAY TOURISTS
• ENJOY THE BT OF GAY ARGENTA: OM VIBRANT TOWNS TO THE MOST AMAZG NATNAL PARKS
• A NEIGHBORHOOD GUI TO GAY BUENOS AIR
• ARGENTA GAY TRAVEL
• WHAT IS THE COST OF GAY SURROGACY ARGENTA 2023?
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• GAY BUENOS AIR · CY GUI

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Below we've piled a list of four of the most LGBTIQ+ iendly ci South Ameri, statns where gay, queer and trans travelers will fd thrivg muni and plenty to explore. Argenta is socially liberal pared to most of s neighbors – was the first untry South Ameri to legalize gay marriage July 2010, and the lg also clud full adoptn rights. Each November, the cy hosts a large Pri ftival that attracts over 100, 000 people, and the ernment also vts and supports the LGBTIQ+ muny – an ternatnal gay bs and LGBT tourism nference lled Network360 tak place every Augt along wh the BADiversa week, which clus a variety of ftivals, events and ncerts.

The pal cy, Bogotá, is an excellent statn for LGBTIQ+ travelers who will fd a welg scene the Chapero neighborhood, home to gay hangouts like the bar/rtrants El Recreo Adán and Estación Cafe. The ma highlight of Bogotá's gay scene is the mega-club Theatron, the largt LGBTQ club South Ameri. Gay rights Uguay have long been rpected: homosexualy was crimalized 1934; anti-discrimatn laws have been place sce 2003; adoptn laws were enacted 2009, and gay marriage was legalized early 2013.

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In jt a few s, Chile has quickly evolved to havg major gay events and a strong queer culture, and December 2021 passg marriage equaly laws a landsli vote. As a sign of solidary wh s LGBTIQ+ muny, the Palac la Moneda (the formal office of the print) central Santiago lights up wh rabow lors on May 17 for the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia (IDAHO). Santiago’s gay scene is large and maly ngregated to one area lled Bellavista, which harbors a mix of bars, clubs and rtrants.

The eclectic dér rembl somethg om an LSD trip or Alice Wonrland, and the tablishment's self-proclaimed theme is “Pevian Transvte Kchen” – what the webse explas is a "tribute to the apocryphal Pevian miracle-worker followed by immigrants, prisoners, homosexuals, transsexuals and transvt, where margalized rage is weled and transformed to balm for tolerance and rpect.

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Near to Santiago, you'll fd one of the largt gay clubs the whole of South Ameri, Il Divo, loted the nearby rort town of Viña l Mar.

The LGBTQ-foced Pri Tours Chile do package trips for gay travelers to Santiago, which clu we tastg at the bt bogas. At 26 years old, the Pevian gay man was arrted by police officers while headg home shortly after midnight. Sebastián Urtia Lutz, a gay man, was attacked 2012 by a group of men while leavg a party a gay neighborhood Santiago.

On the other hand, Venezuela tops the list when to the lack of rights for same-sex upl or members of the LGBT group, says Omar Enrnacn, a polil scientist at New York’s Bard College and thor of Out the Periphery: Lat Ameri’s Gay Rights Revolutn. The suatn “dismiss this ia that the farther to the left you are the more likely you are to be pro-gay, ” Enrnacn says. A 2015 report prepared by Venezuelan LGBT associatns for the Uned Natns said members of the muny “nstantly live suatns of discrimatn, ” and that lack of protectn for LGBT cizens “mak them fensels cizens an atmosphere of alarmg growth of homophobia and transphobia.

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“If you look at relign as a variable, what you fd is that the more Catholic the untry, the more likely they are to be acceptg of homosexualy and vice versa, ” Enrnacn says. “The more Prottant they are, the ls likely they are (to be) acceptg, and the ls likely they are to have an active gay rights legislatn. The Catholic and evangelil church have siar views on homosexualy, although there are notable differenc.

While both oppose homosexualy, “the Catholic clergy tends to be ls opposed to anti-discrimatn statut than the evangelil clergy, ” explas Corral. “Sometim, the Catholic clergy has e out favor of civil unns while still opposg gay marriage.

Crissthian Manuel Olivera Fuent, who works for MHOL, the Homosexual Movement of Lima, says some evangelil prits Pe have e out strongly the past few months preachg that homosexualy is a disease that n be cured. Though much has recently changed, Argenta remas a very tradnal, Catholic society that is fairly closed-md about homosexualy. Buenos Air, however, is a more liberal exceptn to this le, where gays and lbians are part of the fabric of cy life.

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Gay and lbian travelers will fd numero clubs, rtrants, and even tango salons terg to them. Buenos Air has bee a major gay-tourism mec sce the po crisis, outshg R Janeiro populary for this market. Gay maps are now produced by the Buenos Air Tourism Office for distributn wh standard travel rmatn.

In 2003, Buenos Air enacted a Civil Unns law for gay and lbian upl -- the first major Lat Amerin cy to do so -- and this law may eventually be ma natnal. Still, throughout Argenta, while there are visible venu and efforts, for the most part many gays and lbians rema fairly closeted.

800/448-8550 or 954/776-2626;) is the tra associatn for the gay and lbian travel dtry, and offers an onle directory of gay- and lbian-iendly travel bs.

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Many agenci offer tours and travel erari specifilly for gay and lbian travelers.

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800/631-6277;) charters entire rorts and ships for exclive lbian vatns and offers smaller group experienc for both gay and lbian travelers.

They also n the lol gay gui publitn La Ronda and started Argenta's first gay travel magaze, Pri Travel, 2005. 11/4184-8290;) handl upsle gay tourism wh Buenos Air and other parts of Argenta.

800/929-2268;) have provid gay and lbian travelers wh objective, timely, and tstworthy verage of gay-owned and gay-iendly lodgg, dg, sightseeg, nightlife, and shoppg tablishments every important statn worldwi.

WHAT IS THE COST OF GAY SURROGACY ARGENTA 2023?

800/792-2760;) is a gay travel magaze published by LPI Media, the owners of the U.

Spartac Internatnal Gay Gui (Bno Gmünr Verlag;) and Odysss (Odysss Enterpris Ltd. ) are good, annual English-language guibooks foced on gay men, wh some rmatn for lbians.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

You n get them om most gay and lbian bookstor, or orr them om Gvanni's Room bookstore, 1145 Pe St., Philalphia, PA 19107 (tel. Wh Buenos Air, the gay monthly magaze Imper is available at central newspaper ksks.

The Axel Hotel, a Spanish import that opened November, has e to symbolize Buenos Air’s creasgly aggrsive effort to urt gay dollars and ros.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

That Buenos Air would be chosen for such a marketg experiment is a rult of a marked change over the past several years the acceptance of gay men and lbians Argente society. This cy of three ln people has e a long way om the years of ary dictatorship, when beg openly gay uld lead to jail. Five years ago this was the first major Lat Amerin cy to legalize same-sex unns, and this summer was host to a World Cup for gay soccer players, a first the regn.

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”The three iends were among a mixed crowd of homosexuals and heterosexuals who lghed as Kyra and Sharon, drag queens om Barcelona, Spa, poked fun at Argenta’s print-elect, Crista Fernánz Kirchner, and sang a Marilyn Monroe-spired “Happy Birthday to You” to a male gut. In other parts of the world, like the Castro district San Francis, gay people have stggled recently to mata a cultural prence the face of gentrifitn.

Buenos Air has no tradnal gay neighborhood, but acceptance of gay people has slowly grown. In 1992 Print Carlos Menem signed a cree promisg equal legal protectn for gay men and women. “When people are eatg out of garbage ns really don’t matter if you are gay or not, ” said Osvaldo Bazán, a journalist and the thor of “History of Homosexualy Argenta From the Conqut of Ameri to the 21st Century.

” The valued currency ma Buenos Air a relative barga for Wtern tourists, cludg many who are gay and like the cy’s European sophistitn.