Gays in puerto rico
Our insider’s guide to the best of LGBTQ+ Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico’s poorly defined relationship with the Together States (is it the last remaining colony in the world? discuss!) has distracted from the island nation’s many virtues, virtues that are especially appealing for LGBTQ2S+ travellers. The culture, the landscape, the food, the history, the fun-loving locals (who name themselves Boricuas), the party scene—mwah!
Of the Caribbean islands, Puerto Rico, which has a population of about 3.2 million residents (and it hosts almost as many visitors each year), is easily the most welcoming to LGBTQ2S+ travellers. Gay nightlife and homosexual culture are openly renowned, and same-sex couples can be seen walking around holding hands not just in the capital, San Juan, but also in less urban areas. When same-sex marriage was legalized in 2015 in the U.S., that Supreme Court decision applied to Puerto Rico, too.
Despite the Combined States’ furnishings—the U.S. dollar as currency, U.S. Postal Service mailboxes, the ease of getting around in English (though Spanish is dominant), Americans not needing a passport to visit—Puerto Rico is most definitely a Latin American destination. Gorgeous Sp
Before Bad Bunny: Eight trailblazing queer icons from Puerto Rico
Since the dawn of the 2020s, Puerto Rico’s Bad Bunny has captured the attention of the global queer world by donning drag in a music video, honoring a murdered trans woman on “The Tonight Show,” locking lips with his male backup dancer at MTV's Video Music Awards and, most recently,kissing Gael García Bernal in the recent movie “Cassandro.”
No less than Ricky Martin has called Bad Bunny, Puerto Rico’s latest hijofavorito, “an legend for the Latin gay community.” But the trap musician — who has described his views on sexuality as fluid but has previously self-identified as heterosexual — is just the latest in a long line of lgbtq+ icons to hail from Puerto Rico, a pantheon including activists, an competitor, an astrologer, the highest-seated judge in the ground — and, of course, Martin himself.
Ricky Martin
Before Poor Bunny even took his first breath, Ricky Martin was well on his way to becoming Puerto Rico’s biggest musical export of all time. Born Enrique Martín Morales in 1971 in San Juan, Martin rose to fame as a member of the rotating-member boy band Menudo from 1984 to 1989. As Martin’s fame as a solo art
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