Havanna gay bars
LGBTQ+ Nightlife: Six Gay-Friendly Venues to Visit in Havana
This legendary El Vedado bar hosts LGBTQ+-themed parties regularly. Every Wednesday, they host glam for “PaZillo Pride” events. Each one celebrates a different subgroup of Cuba’s gender non-conforming community – from ladies-only online dating events to drag queen parties.
No matter when you go, you will run into a welcoming and trendy atmosphere. The meal menu is relatively basic and limited to burgers and common appetizers that will help you prolong the night.
Meanwhile, the drinks menu is constantly changing as they come up with modern signature blends. Still, their specialty remains creamy, rum-infused blends with unorthodox fruit juices – from tropical berries to coconut milk or guava extract.
This is a boisterous, dance-oriented place, so hope for the music to include the years’ Billboard hits, and to gravitate strongly towards salsa, reggaeton, and other tropical rhythms. The dress code is flexible, but comfy shoes are recommended.
One last pro tip: The door fee for any of their parties dou
Regina Cano
HAVANA TIMES — A friend was telling me that more gay* parties being held in Havana today than before.
Are people more tolerant now? Is there more money to be made organizing these parties? Or are people who attend these parties making more money and able to go more often?
My friend is right about the change that the lives of queer people have experienced in Cuba. Today, “everything is ok” at the institutional level.
The fact of the matter is that, before we arrived at this “official pardon”, before gays could freely action about the city without being harassed, we heard stories that were cute much “horror films” (as they say here).
There were violent and even physical reactions to the sight of a homosexual walking down the street. Not all homosexuals were simply minding their own business, but the beatings were not, and are not, any kind of acceptable response. Many homosexual men and women also suffered police repression.
In the Cuban capital, there have always existed “public” homosexual rendezvous places, generally for men (we haven’t heard of any such spot
Miramar is one of the most exclusive areas of Havana, Miramar, is full of beautiful colonial houses, now home to embassies, cultural centers and foreign companies. The ponds of the Emiliano Zapata Park (Avenida 5- Malecon) are worth a visit. The little boats on the River Almendares are also a pretty sight. Palm trees line the avenues and there are a nice number of cafes, bars and restaurants around the Marina Hemingway. Try Sakura, Don Alfredo or Don Cangrejo Restaurant.
Try the Bodeguita del Medio or the Floridita, where Hemingway used to swig his Mojitos and Daiquiris. This historic quarter is also home to several important museums, such as the Museo de Autos Antiguos (if you fancy antique cars), Casa del Arabe, La Casa de Africa, La Casa de Asia, Museo de la Ciudad, and the fortresses El Morro and La Real Fuerza, where you will observe an emblem of Havana, the weather vane on La Giraldilla tower. This is the head tourist area of the city.?Centro Havana, located in the northern central part of the capital is home to many hotels, bars, nightclubs and restaurants. Another feature of Ce
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“Which direction should we walk?”
My friend and I had arrived at Mi Cayito beach in Cuba, a stretch of shoreline 15 miles east of Havana, in search of gay Cuba travel experiences. It looked as though the beach extended quite a distance in both directions, so we were unsure where to locate the gay section of beach that supposedly existed. The Internet hadn&#;t been much help in that regard.
Just then, a college-age guy with a sassy demeanor sauntered past with a female friend. We were evidently on the right track. “Follow him!”
Our hope that the dude would lead us to the gay beach were realized when, after five minutes of walking west, we spotted the rainbow flag.
Visiting Mi Cayito, The Gay Cuba Beach
On this weekday afternoon, the same-sex attracted beach had maybe people at most, but it was still awesome to see signs of queer life in Cuba, where acceptance is growing but still not nearly at the same level as in most western nations.
As of this writing, Cuba still has no official gay bars (just the occasional gay nigh