THE BEST San Salvador Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023)

Contents:

• GAY EL SALVADOR: LGBTQ TRAVEL GUI
• INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS EL SALVADOR
• 'UNFIVABLE' DIRECTOR: 'IF THE GANG KNOWS YOU'RE GAY, THEY KILL YOU'
• THE BEST SAN SALVADOR GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SAN SALVADOR
• GAY IMMIGRATN: WHAT IS LIKE TO BE GAY EL SALVADOR? REPORT TO THE U.N. TAILS THE HORRORS

GAY EL SALVADOR: LGBTQ TRAVEL GUI

We spent 4 nights El Salvador and were lucky enough to meet a lol gay uple lled Pasl and Joaqu who n a succsful (and betiful) hotel lled Los Almendros De San Lorenzo Suchoto. Given we had such a brief vis to El Salvador, we wanted to speak wh them as lols, to unrstand what ’s like for gay travellers El Salvador and is safe. The prison director showed him an isolatn cell, where ne former gang members—om each of the untry’s three ma anized crime groups, MS-13, and two factns of Barr 18—had been moved after g out as gay.

” In this particular prison, San Francis Gotera, the east of the Central Amerin untry, gang culture was not the only source of vilent homophobia. The state had effectively ced ntrol of daily life si Gotera to church lears, who preach that homosexualy is a s as grave as vlence. “But the tth is that they are already nmned: they’ve left the gang; they’ve lived wh former members of other gangs; and they’ve lived openly as gay people, ” she says.

INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR

The homosexual is the same, ” says a pastor one terview laid over a scene of him preachg to rapturo crowds the prison urtyard. While this lg reprented a much need first step toward acuntabily for anti-trans vlence El Salvador, hate crim agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people there and neighborg Honduras and Guatemala have ntued.

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Gay: A synonym for homosexual many parts of the world; this report, ed specifilly to refer to the sexual orientatn of a man whose primary sexual and romantic attractn is toward other men. Homophobia: Fear of, ntempt of, or discrimatn agast homosexuals or homosexualy, ually based on negative stereotyp of homosexualy. LGBT: Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr; an clive term for groups and inti sometim also grouped as “sexual and genr mori.

LGBTI/LGBTQ/LGBTIQ/LGBTQI: Umbrella terms ed to refer clively to those who are lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr along wh those who are queer and/or tersex.

'UNFIVABLE' DIRECTOR: 'IF THE GANG KNOWS YOU'RE GAY, THEY KILL YOU'

In the terim, issue regulatns clarifyg that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people, whose safety nnot be assured Mexi, are among the vulnerable groups exempted om . Human Rights Watch sought to terview people om across the LGBT spectm, but the majory of people we terviewed were eher trans people or gay men.

First, we tentnally sought out s of vlence, and many parts of the world, trans women and gay men may be at hight risk of beg targeted by perpetrators of vlence for vlatg genr norms. In Augt 2017, the first regnized “ravan” of transgenr and gay asylum seekers om Central Ameri arrived the Uned Stat, pg vlence their untri of orig. Cz Torr, then-director of sexual diversy the Secretariat of Social Incln, told Human Rights Watch that church were the source of a vol mpaign agast so-lled genr iology, a tch-all term that relig fundamentalists and others e to refer to a supposed gay and femist-led movement to subvert tradnal fai and social valu.

[95] Relentls vlence, and threat of vlence, e many trans people, and some s lbian, gay, and bisexual people, to live on the n. Mar L., the gay man San Miguel who was threatened by police for standg the street wh his partner, said that on another ocsn, soldiers threatened him bee he was wearg an earrg. One danger that fac many Salvadorans gang-ntrolled neighborhoods, but that has particular salience wh regard to trans people and some lbian, gay and bisexual people, is forced recment.

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I filed a plat, but the police rid me, llg me a prostute, a gay, sayg that I was a slut om the streets and that they weren’t gog to help me. Congrsmember Sandra Moran, who ma history 2015 as the first openly lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr person elected to Congrs, attempted to troduce such a law 2017 (Iniative 5395).

[208] Morán only served one term, but 2019 Guatemala’s first openly gay male Congrsmember, Aldo Dávila, followed her footsteps Congrs. Dávila filed a plat wh ngrsnal learship March 2020 after other legislators shouted homophobic sults at him the ngrsnal chamber.

GAY IMMIGRATN: WHAT IS LIKE TO BE GAY EL SALVADOR? REPORT TO THE U.N. TAILS THE HORRORS

”[212] Brandon Scedo, a gay activist Huehuetenango partment who self-scrib as havg an androgyno appearance, wh long hair and earrgs, said:. Darw N., a 22-year-old gay man om a small town Jalapa who provis rmal support for many other young gay people, told Human Rights Watch:. [217] Geraldo R., a 23-year-old gay man Jalapa, said that when he was 17, his parents sent him to a two-week church-based nversn therapy mp.

Mar Anton H., the gay activist Huehuetenango, scribed the isolatn of trans women the nservative municipaly of 50, 000 people which he was raised:. And Sabo C., Maya Quiché activists workg wh the digeno LGBT anizatn Kajib Kawoq, said that homophobia ntemporary digeno muni was part a legacy of Spanish lonialism and the imposn of Catholicism on Mayan muni, and that church were a signifint source of anti-LGBT discrimatn. [232] Human Rights Watch terviewed several LGBT people Jalapa and Guastatoya who scribed stanc of vlence agast other LGBT people they knew that appeared to be hate crim, cludg the murrs of at least two trans people Jalapa and an 18-year-old gay man Guastatoya 2018.

In Huehuetenango, several terviewe spoke of the unsolved murr of José Díaz, an 18-year-old gay man killed by stong on March 25, 2019. Basil A., a 24-year-old gay man, was adopted at six months old and grew up a ral area near the central Guatemalan town of Cobán. Basil realized that he was gay at around age 15 and began makg nnectns on social media wh other LGBT people, some Guatemala, most Mexi.