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The Thinkers' Guide to Staying in Buenos Aires: Gay Accommodation
February 20, 2007 at 3:23 PM | 1 Comment
Travel writer Matt Chesterton may know more about the Buenos Aires hotel scene than anyone else on the planet, our words not his. When he isn't hiding from his creditors he is out and about in BA. For the next two weeks he will be busting myths and spouting off about the BA hotel scene. For starters, he has told us that La Cabaña is not the best steakhouse in Argentina, and rather, a national embarrassment, the kind of place that in previous epochs of "our" history would have been firebombed--reserved for Steakhouse Suckers, his words, not ours. This is exactly the kind of unadulterated sentiment you can expect to find here in the next couple of weeks--plus he is hilarious. If you wish to use this time to ask him a burning question you have about BA hotels, shoot it our way, and we will hand deliver it to him. Enjoy.
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Over the last two years [Buenos Aires] has become well known for its liberal attitude to gay life so that it has become the destination of choice for gay tourists to South America. Buenos Aires now has many gay discos, bars, hotels, saunas, movie theaters, and possibly the best-looking men you will see anywhere... In February 2005 Buenos Aires was host to a conference by the International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association IGLTA. In September 2007 the International Gay & Lesbian Football Association will hold the Football (soccer) World Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
From the Guide to Gay Buenos Aires.
There's a new cliche in town. Having been saddled for decades with the godawful 'Paris of South America' tag, Buenos Aires, within the space of two years or so, has jumped out of the closet and announced itself as the 'Gay Capital of Latin America'.
There's a lot of truth behind the hype. BA's gay scene has been steadily growing since the return of democracy in 1983 (gays, like everyone else who refused to stand to attention when the jackboots marched past, were persecuted during the military dictatorship) and the recent surge in tourism has made the 'pink peso' stronger than ever. The laissez-faire attitude of the locals towards sexual preference helps, and can be summed up in two words: 'Who cares?'. This is still a macho culture, however, which means gay men and trannies are far more visible than lesbians.
