Blog posts in category Gay

The Summer Evolution Festival 2023 summer party was supposed to be a celebration of joy, imagination, and the queer community. Under the theme “Queer Circus Cabaret,” guests arrived in creative costumes that reflected the community’s colorful diversity. But what began as a lively celebration turned into a heated political discussion due to an ill-considered costume choice—and taught us an important lesson about tolerance, sensitivity, and the power of symbols.

He spent years trying to be what other people expected. Then he chose a different way to live. This is a story about identity, the LGBTQ+ community, and finding a place to belong. Read his story here.

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.

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.