Blog posts in category Gay

With the first flowering of gay tourism on Gran Canaria in the 1980s, Maspalomas experienced another building boom, having already been developed for the masses from the early 1970s. It became a gay holiday paradise.

To begin with, here in the mountains we are far away from the sleeping dinosaur. Out here it is enchantingly beautiful. It is warm, but not too hot. Most of the time, a gentle wind blows from the mountains into the eco-resort ‘Eco Tara’. The light is constantly changing, playing with perception.

The sand told me a song - The Talent Show

It’s August, I think 2009, and I’ve gone to the beach with my girlfriend – as I’ve been doing more and more in the summer months since we started dating. For the last 2 years we’ve been in a fairly traditional relationship – shaped by fairly traditional family images. But something in both of us pulls us out of this traditionalism.

Holy Thursday, 06th of April 2023 – It was my second SNP. That’s the professional abbreviation for Schlagernacktparty. If you’ve never been, it sounds a bit obscure, maybe a bit dorky. Free body culture in a big group – a thousand naked men, some naked queers and naked women drinking alcohol, swaying, singing and dancing mostly in a good mood in Schwuz. German Schlager to the bone.

The world is moving forwards and identities like gay and lesbian are being challenged by the young generation, by the academic world, by people’s experiences. Many of our clients had a history with women and don’t necessarily identify with the word gay. Neither does the younger generation that is more fluid and skeptic about static identities and wants to include trans and non-binary people.