Gay salvador

Salvador is a very ‘out’ city as befits the seat of the pioneering and influential Grupo Queer da Bahia, the oldest gay organisation in Brazil. Indeed, in 2008 a transvestite club dancer became a city councillor with the largest number of votes for any candidate.

Afro-Brazilian culture

It is also the de facto capital of Brazilian music with a percussion band in every corner and a harmony club in every square. Its culture is unusual based on a mixture of African and Christian beliefs. Its beaches are warmer and much safer to swim in than Rio’s, while the majority Afro-Brazilian population is an attraction in itself for ebony and ivory fans.

Top Festivals

The big event in town is the Carnival. It takes place over six days in the streets with a drunken, bacchanalian fervour that sweeps along in its stride gay men, heterosexuals and everyone in-between. Salvador’s Same-sex attracted pride in September is equally popular, drawing crowds of 800,000 of all persuasions.

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Although it’s still unknown to many travelers, Salvador is considered Brazil’s most gay-friendly metropolis. It doesn’t have the glitter of Rio de Janeiro or the size of São Paulo, but for years this northern city has burnished a reputation for having an easygoing attitude about lgbtq+ people. Salvador is house to the country’s oldest gay rights and human rights organization in Brazil, the Grupo Gay da Bahia. Salvador's Gay Event Parade, one of the largest in Brazil with around 800,000 participants, takes place in September.

It's said that gay people feel comfortable to be open about their sexuality in this city, so activities take place all around town. One of the more active male lover quarters is the Barra neighborhood, with a number of gay bars and clubs. Gay saunas here are also well frequented.

For the Hell & Heaven party, an annual drawn-out weekend of electronic sway music each November. This past year people came from all over the world to Club Med Trancoso and Arraial Eco Park, in Porto Seguro, just down the coast south of Salvador, for one of Brazil's biggest annual gay ev

For Dutch gays who’ve had it with once again Gran Canaria or Ibiza, a visit to the exciting Brazilian town Salvador might offer new and stimulating vistas. Salvador, capital of Bahia, in Northeast Brazil at the Atlantic coast.

With its tropical sea climate, the mercury on the coldest day of the last 300 years indicated 21 C. In summer, December – February, temperatures can rise to some 35 C. But the seawinds bring in an ever welcome cooling breeze. For centuries Salvador was the transfer harbour of the Brazilian slave trade. These days the city calls itself proudly the black city of Brazil.

A lack of women in the former Portuguese colony made for a mix of black, pale and indian races, creating a particularly beautiful people. Wandering the Salvador streets, your eyes are continuously drawn to beautiful men and women. Stunning combinations of deep dark skin with light blue or bright green eyes. Charming heads, lots of half-naked, muscular bodies, moving with more supple grace than the average European.

With over three million inhabitants, Salvador ranks as Brazil’s third major city and has grown in the last fifty years at lightning speed. This recent growth has me

Gay El Salvador. We had never heard anything about being LGBTQ+ in this part of the earth. What we found out was very surprising…

We recently took a 9 date organised tour called ‘Guatemala and Beyond’ which took us from Antigua in Guatemala, through Honduras, El Salvador and finished in Nicaragua.

We spent 4 nights in El Salvador and were lucky enough to meet a local same-sex attracted couple called Pascal and Joaquin who run a successful (and beautiful) hotel called Los Almendros De San Lorenzo in Suchitoto.

Given we had such a brief visit to El Salvador, we wanted to speak with them as locals, to understand what it’s like for lgbtq+ travellers in El Salvador and is it safe

Pascal and Joaquin have been together for 35 years and have been running Los Almendros for 13. They got married 3 years ago in France as same ടex marriage is not legal in El Salvador.

Pascal is originally from France and Joaquin from El Salvador. Joaquin was also the Spokesperson for El Salvador in Europe.

We found Joaquin and Pascal by typing ‘gay El Salvador’ into google and then ‘gay Suchitoto’. The results showed their hotel being listed on Spartacus and when

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