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Contents:

• GAY MONTEVIO
• THE BT THGS TO SEE AND DO GAY UGUAY
• UGUAY – MOST GAY IENDLY NATN SOUTH AMERI
• GAY GROUP TRIPS: GAY UGUAY
• GAY NIGHTLIFE UGUAY
• UGUAY GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN SEPTEMBER 2023

GAY MONTEVIO

Addnally, same-sex upl have been allowed to jotly adopt sce 2009 and gays, lbians and bisexuals are permted to openly serve the ary.

LGBT Chamber of Commerce Natnal Conference – Each September the Uguayan chamber of merce has their annual nference showsg the bt of gay travel the untry. You'll also fd much of the cy's gay nightlife.

THE BT THGS TO SEE AND DO GAY UGUAY

Montevio has a small gay scene centered around a few venu. Sophistited, safe, and progrsive, Uguay sc visors wh s sprawlg untrysi, imprsive beach, pulsatg tango clubs, and world-class w—all one of South Ameri’s most open-md, gay-iendly natns. BOOK WITH US Colonia l Sacramento | Photo: Dpkelly07Gay UguayLargely nsired the most LGBT-iendly untry South Ameri, Uguay has an outstandg reputatn among gay travellers for s legislative amework protectg LGBT cizens.

Social acceptance for LGBT dividuals and fai is high, and gay travellers to Uguay n rt assured that virtually everywhere the untry is a safe space to be as you are. Montevio is the most gay-popular cy Uguay, boastg a rivetg gay nightlife scene and even one of the world’s few gay monuments—La Plaza la Diversidad to vis UguayBeach bums chasg the sun and sand at Uguay’s top astal rorts should seek out the height of summer, between late December and Febary. Playa Los Pocos is betiful and easy to get to, while Carras and Miramar beach skew more gay.

For more on what to see and do, cludg the bt Montevio gay bars (and some of the bt gay clubs Uguay) don’t miss our -pth gay Montevio travel gui. When to gay Punta l Este, the vibe is thmmg.

UGUAY – MOST GAY IENDLY NATN SOUTH AMERI

You’ve got the gay male-only hotel Undari, the qutsential gay-popular beach Playa Chihuahua, and a healthy smatterg of eic disthequ where you n shake your booty all night long.

GAY GROUP TRIPS: GAY UGUAY

Here is where you’ll fd the untry’s veted hot sprgs, a rejuvenatg way to round out any gay Uguay vatn. In 2005, the pal Montevio beme one of the few ci the world to have a homomonument – a rose-lored grane the shape of a triangle scribed wh the words: “To Honour Diversy is to Honor Life”.

In Montevio, ’s mon to see gay upl—men and women—holdg hands on the rambla, the 25-km promena that borrs the River Plate. And while olr generatns may be takg their time to e around to the chang, younger generatns are openly supportive of gay are jt a few gay bars and my experience is that gay men and women don’t tend to ghettoise.

A gay emigrant to Uguay livg Colonia wr: “I live the Uguayan equivalent of the Bible belt wh my partner of 28 years and th far have enuntered no negative vib at all. … Unlike the US, UK and Ireland, beg gay has never been a crime here so there isn’t the same historil baggage and rentment that you still fd certa plac… an dividual’s sexualy is viewed as a personal matter and is of no ncern to the neighbors (except perhaps for a b of gossip. In 1934, homosexualy was crimalised.

GAY NIGHTLIFE UGUAY

The same year the age of nsent was lowered to 16 – regardls of who you were havg sex past has seen big chang regardg rights for gays, lbians and transAnti-discrimatn laws are place sce 2003, and gays and lbians are allowed to serve openly the ary and jotly adopt children sce upl have been able to enter to civil unns sce 2008 and sce 2013, to marryTransgenr people have been able to change their genr on official documentatn sce looks like ’s time to plan your vis to the gay-iendlit natn South Ameri! BeachChihuahua, a nudist beach several wt of glzy Punta l Este has the only hotel exclively for gay men the whole of Uguay.

Further readg about gay Uguay EnglishGay MontevioUguay adopts iendly bs certifitn (2018)Uguay sger Ana Prada champns LGBTI rights (2014)A g-out story is told one of Gu’Guay’s 5 Uguayan films you mt see. Many thanks to Rodrigo Borda, of Friendly Maps and half of the first gay uple to register to marry  Uguay, for lettg me pick his bras for this article. We had many gay guts, fact our first ever were two wonrful gay upl om Canada.

UGUAY GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN SEPTEMBER 2023

If you are lookg for wonrful gay-iendly acmodatn, do check out our remendatns of memorable plac to stay Uguay. For more than 5 years Uguay has been leadg the lists of gay iendly statns Lat Ameri and is one of the top 10 untri the world that supports diversy wh ncrete actns. Two emblematic exampl of the clive actns are equal marriage and the adoptn law for homoparental fai, which have had a posive impact on all sectors of Uguayan society, cludg tourism.