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A Queer Guide To Panama City
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This gay travel guide is your passport to exploring Panama City through a queer lens, discovering its LGBTQ+ friendly spaces, events, and experiences that will make your visit truly unforgettable.
Panama City has develop more tolerant of Gay life over the last 10 years, and is now a place that same-sex couples will like visiting. It’s not necessarily a place where you will see couples holding hands in public nor is same-sex marriage legal, but this hasn’t stopped a strong queer society of locals and foreigners to be out and proud! There is now a huge yearly lgbtq+ fest parade that takes place in Casco Viejo, lots of gay-friendly establishments, and overall so many distinct experiences to have in Panama.
Does Panama City have a male lover neighborhood?
Via Argentina is the unofficial “gayborhood” in Panama City. It’s not super gay, but is the most funky neighborhood in Panama City so you find a little bit of everything here. The main avenue of Via Argentina has several cafés, bakeries, small bars, and a park to store a visitor entertained, so it can be a great option for peopl
Panama's Supreme Court rules against same-sex marriages
In its ruling, the court said that 'no matter how many changes happen in reality,' gay marriages lack 'conventional and constitutional recognition.'
Panama's Supreme Court has ruled that same-sex marriage is not a human right and the land therefore does not include to recognize such unions, according to a decision published Wednesday, March 1.
The court had been considering the issue since 2016, following several appeals from same-sex couples claiming the Central American country's family code was unconstitutional as it only recognizes marriages between a man and a woman.
"There is a reality, and it is that, until now, the right to equal marriage is no more than an aspiration, even though a legitimate one for the groups involved, and it does not collapse into the category of a human right or a fundamental right," said the court, in the ruling dated February 16.
The same-sex couples who filed the suit were attempting to have marriages that took place in other countries be legally established in Panama.
The court, however, said, "no matter how many changes happen in reality," for now lgbtq+ marriage "lacks conventional and
The Right to Protest
Las vidas e identidades queer en Panamá
Por Iván Chanis Barahona
Panamá, país donde vivo y dirijo Fundación Iguales, una organización que promueve derechos de personas LGBTQ+, se destaca dentro de las Américas por haber quedado al final de la fila en el respeto a la dignidad de personas queer. Las personas LGBTQ+ (la OEA utiliza LGBTIQ+, pero hemos optado por estandarizar LGBTQ+ en todos los artículos en la edición Queer de ReVista) somos invisibilizadas y tenemos que protegernos más a la hora de protestar y reclamar derechos en comparación del resto de la población. En un país donde el matrimonio civil de parejas del mismo sexo no es permitido, lo que nos separa de una clara tendencia en América Latina en el reconocimiento de este derecho humano. Todo esto dentro de un momento coyuntural de cambio social donde la sociedad civil organizada ha logrado avances en la opinión pública lo que muestra un panorama esperanzador en el fortalecimiento de la democracia.
Las democracias en Latinoamérica, como en todo el mundo, experimentan profundas crisis provocadas por la falta de representación de grupos sociales históricamente marginados que piden respues
If you have not yet been to Panama it is an absolute must. We only spent ten days in Panama and were pleasantly surprised to find gay owned hotels (like this luxury boutique in Bocas Del Toro) and a great queer scene in the Panama City itself.
We met up with Roberto Broce in Panama City to spot our more about ‘gay Panama’ and find out if Panama is male lover friendly.
Who is Roberto? ‘Hi! My name’s Roberto Broce, I’m 26 years antique and I work as a marketing analyst for the Innovation Centre of a foundation here in Panama called Ciudad del Saber. I’ve been travelling for 10 years living in almost every continent around the world, partaking in several social causes in places like China and Australia. I appreciate kitesurfing, astronomy, and adventure travelling. !”
Based on our discussion, we have set together the below mini gay travel guide to Panama
Is Panama Gay Friendly?
It depends a lot on where you go and whether the people you are around were raised in an urban or a rural environment, their age, whether they were raised in a religious home, etc.
Let’s take a straight 30 something year old male raised in one of the suburbs of a sat
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