Panama City

LGBT Travel Guide

Why you should go to Panama City !

Panama City is new on the gay radar of happening cosmopolitan areas, and the urban offering includes plenty of activities from visiting colonial ruins to ritzy skyscraper malls. Once considered off the beaten path and known only for its canal, Panama City is a rapidly expanding tourism destination, accompanied by matching infrastructure and skyline growth. The city also offers easy access to exploring the rest of Panama's more natural attractions whether the broad beaches of the Pacific Riviera, palm-fringed Caribbean islands or misty volcano peaks.

The LGBT community is fairly accepted but continues to fight for wider institutional integration and the rights to marriage. Although there is no gay district, there are a handful of LGBT clubs, and discrimination is rarely an issue when out at night on the town.

Not yet famous on the international LGBT scene, Panama is riding the rainbow tide like most progressive countries in Latin America. It has shown itself to be widely accepting of sexual preference. There are only a handful of businesses catering to the LGBT crowd, however, Panama has long been a melting pot so people of all persuasions can be found out mingling at the city's hottest nightclubs and bars.

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