Gay Bogota Gui 2023 - gay bars, clubs, snas & more - Travel Gay

Contents:

• GAY BOGOTÁ TRAVEL: COLOMBIA’S GAY-FRIENDLY CAPITAL
• THE 10 BEST COLOMBIA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS COLOMBIA
• GAY BOGOTA
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• GAY MELL
• COLOMBIAN VILLAGE OFFERS HOPE FOR DIGENO GAY MEN
• WHY COLOMBIA IS THE BT SOUTH AMERI FOR GAY TRAVEL?

GAY BOGOTÁ TRAVEL: COLOMBIA’S GAY-FRIENDLY CAPITAL

The two ma ci, Bogota and Mell, each have a large gay neighborhood—pecially Chapero Bogota where you n fd the megaclub Theatron, the largt LGBTQ+ club Lat Ameri. There is a small gay scene Cartagena wh bars like Le Pet, La Plancha and Roma Club.

The LGBTQ scene here clus bars like Bar Chiqua, Don Aquellos and the Viva gay club. As wh most untri the world, there will always exist an element of homophobia, particularly ral muni around the ast. Bogota is the untry’s #1 LGBTQ statn wh one of the largt gay clubs the world—Theatron on Saturday nights.

We are gay uple Stefan and Sebastien om London, who left our liv London 2014 to travel the world. We wre about the different gay scen each statn we vis our gay travel blog lled Nomadic Boys. Our send journal about our trip to one of the gay-iendlit untri Southern Ameri is about Colombia’s pal cy, Bogotá.

THE 10 BEST COLOMBIA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS COLOMBIA

After our first days Cartagena and before our fal Colombian statn Mellín, we would like to show you Bogotá’s highlights our Gay Bogotá Travel Journal.

Although first looked like they were makg fun of , they were actually geekg out about our gay kiss.

GAY BOGOTA

Gay-iendly Hotel: Hotel Estelar Parque la 93Gay-iendly Rtrants: Santa Fe Rtrante, La Puerta Falsa, Masa 70.

Before we are gog to tell you more about Colombia’s nightlife, we explored the gay neighborhood Chapero wh the rabow cy sign, the rabow and trans crosswalk and var shops and bars together wh our tour gui.

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

At night, we ma a gay night cy tour wh the handsome crew om The Queer Sut Colombia and the lovely lol Drag Queen Móni DiWhisky.

GAY MELL

The tour brought around the cy to five gay bars and clubs endg wh Halloween night as Theatron, the biggt LGBTQ+ and gay club South Ameri. Gay Bars at Gay neighborhood Chapero we vised: Theatron, Anónimos Bar GayDon’t fet to brg: Good mood, ID or passport, tip for the crew. 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.

COLOMBIAN VILLAGE OFFERS HOPE FOR DIGENO GAY MEN

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. 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.

WHY COLOMBIA IS THE BT SOUTH AMERI FOR GAY TRAVEL?

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. 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.

Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex Colombians have been granted momento protectns over the past two s. It igned natnal ntroversy, however, as evangelil and nservative sectors claimed that the Mistry of Edutn was promotg homosexualy and doctratg a “genr iology” among schoolchildren. The Barranquilla Carnival has a Gay Guacherna, a night para that brgs together the entire cy wh s LGBT populatn.

Wh a pal cy that’s known as the next gay pal of Lat Ameri thanks to s btlg bars, clubs, shoppg statns and betiful gay neighborhoods like Chapero, Colombia is quickly beg a favored travel statn among LGBTQ+ travelers. The untry’s reputatn as gay-iendly arguably om a strong tradn and culture of service and hospaly.

LGBTQ+ scen are poppg up all over the cy, pecially Chapero, the headquarters of the Bogotá Pri Ft and the home of Mala Muerte Queer Bar and Theatron nightclub (the largt gay-themed club night Lat Ameri), two of Bogotá’s most famo gay tradnal bars and meetg spots that have bee stutns for the cy’s LGBTQ+ scene.

Outsi of Poblado, there are a handful of gay hangouts dotted around the cy, particularly Lrel. Neighbours e out to take photos and impromptu show has unique signifince the streets of El Carmen Bolívar, reprentg the remarkable rurgence of a muny once btally victimised by homophobic armed nearly 30 years, the town and surroundg regn of Mont María were famo for vlence perpetrated agast LGBTQ+ dividuals, targeted at one time or another over the untry’s long civil war by rightwg paraari, leftwg guerrillas, ernment soldiers and the the 1990s, paraari formed rponse to leftist activism and surgency throughout Colombia. While such btaly was wispread Colombia, El Carmen Bolívar and the surroundg regn of Mont María, was ma particularly public – cludg wh forced boxg match between gay men and transgenr vlence was rampant and meted out as a punishment.

“They said they were gog to kill them for beg gay, that they were gog to kill them for not beg part of mastream society.

Dpe ongog secury om dg traffickg groups like the Clan l Golfo, LGBTQ+ people El Carmen Bolívar say they feel more secure now than ever, a gay 46-year-old, says he has experienced a huge change over the years.