Candid shots of Mexi Cy’s real gay unrground | Huck

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• AT MEXI’S GAY WBOY NVENTNS, MEN NNECT WH EACH OTHER — AND THEIR UNTRY’S GGED PAST
• MEXI'S MOST FAMO GAY SNDAL SPOTLIGHTED A CENTURY LATER, NETFLIX MOVIE
• GAY MEXI
• AT MEXI’S GAY WBOY NVENTNS, MEN NNECT WH EACH OTHER — AND THEIR UNTRY’S GGED PAST
• CANDID SHOTS OF MEXI CY’S REAL GAY UNRGROUND

AT MEXI’S GAY WBOY NVENTNS, MEN NNECT WH EACH OTHER — AND THEIR UNTRY’S GGED PAST

Groups of people, most of them gay men, many of them naked, amble down the beach toward a soarg rocky climb a wdg stairse, over the ragged cliff and down to a hidn ve known as Playa l Amor, or beach of love. ”ImageFor s, this former fishg village turned hippie hangout has been an oasis for the queer muny, which is drawn to s goln beach, untercultural vibe and a practice of nudism that embrac bodi of all different as s populary has grown, attractg creasg numbers of gay and straight visors, the town is startg to transform: Foreigners are snatchg up land, hotels are multiplyg, fluencers are flockg to the beach and many rints and visors now fear that what once ma Zipole magil uld be lost for good. Jerr, who is gay.

In Febary, Zipole elected the first openly gay person to head the town tolerant attus are rare outsi of big ci Mexi, where nservative Catholic valu persist.

Dpe gay marriage beg legalized more than half the untry, homophobic and transphobic vlence is mon.

MEXI'S MOST FAMO GAY SNDAL SPOTLIGHTED A CENTURY LATER, NETFLIX MOVIE

Between 2016 and 2020, some 440 lbian, gay and transgenr people were killed across the untry, acrdg to Letra Ese, an advocy group Mexi Mont Bernal, 33, grew up a few hours om Zipole a nservative muny where machismo and homophobia were entrenched. When he was about 9, the town prit performed what he lled “practilly an exorcism” to force the homosexualy out of him.

Populatn has surged: gay bars and hotels have multiplied, rabow flags are, as acceptg as many lols are, some feel that Zipole’s inty as a laid-back town that wel anyone om Mexin fai to Canadian retire is beg erod, that is transformg to a gay party Ángel Ziga Aragón, a lol rint who is gay himself and go by “La Chavelona, ” has watched the lol enomy boom, not jt bee of gay tourism but om a surge tourism generally. “It’s the life cycle of every tourist statn, ” said Elyel Aquo Ménz, who ns a gay travel agency.

GAY MEXI

”But others fear that Zipole uld go the way of many Mexin beach towns that have bee thrivg rorts, like the popular gay statn of Puerto Vallarta or, more recently, Tulum.

AT MEXI’S GAY WBOY NVENTNS, MEN NNECT WH EACH OTHER — AND THEIR UNTRY’S GGED PAST

“When I’ve seen other gay scen, ’s been very stereotypil, ” he said. ”The body posivy Zipole is partly what mak the nudist beach special to many, gay or straight: For Mr. “The bodi were very athletic and very mascule, ” she said of the people she saw on the beach her first few months relled gog to a nudist party that was almost exclively gay men.

”For some gay men, the open sexualy of Playa l Amor is part of s power. As his wife, Amada (Mabel Cana), begs to grow spic of his whereabouts, Ignac begs to velop a fatal attractn to a man named Evaristo Rivas (Eiano Zura), whom he troduc to his clanste club of homosexual film’s tle — s origal Spanish is "El Baile los 41" — refers to the night of Nov. But a sndal ensued when ial reports placed a 42nd man attendance, and the story spread that was la Torre, the print’s son--law, markg the first time homosexualy was openly discsed the Mexin media.

CANDID SHOTS OF MEXI CY’S REAL GAY UNRGROUND

"What would have happened if Ignac was not disvered as a gay man? He would have been one of the important Mexin figur om our history, but he was taken away om that bee he was gay.

NetflixAs someone who is nsistently the procs of “re-tg myself” — a value he and his wife, Diana Vázquez, would like to pass on to their young children — Herrera unrstands the potential ntroversy surroundg his cisn to play a gay character. Although this realy remas for the most part ignored by the thori, the so–lled “good vibe guys”— or “chavos buena onda, ” as they are sometim referred to — work jt outsi the cy’s fad gay ghetto, the Zona work zone is watched by surveillance meras and regular police patrols, yet the prostutn ntu to operate out the open.

”The "good vibe guys" agreed that most of their ctomers are gay, although many s, the men have not e out of the closet.