Jul
8
Gay Vallarta News
July 8, 2008 | Tags: Gossip, Gay, Bars, Restaurants | 3 Comments
Vallarta Restaurant News
Que Raro (How strange) and this from Seth, former chef at Coconuts who will be opening soon
inside Manana:
“Hello all. I just wanted to let you know that we will not be opening
on July 8th - this coming Tuesday. We are now shooting for July 15th.
There have been some snags in the kitchen installation but it appears
they have been resolved. Just as soon as I know, I will confirm the
opening night and the Grand Opening party which will be shortly after
the first night of service. Thanks. Seth Ps - the name of the
restaurant is “Que Raro” at Club Manana featuring Regional American
Comfort Food. And we are opening now from 12 noon to 7:00 pm Tuesday
through Sunday for soups, salads and sandwiches. Hope to see you
soon.”
Some sad news….Mesa61 owner Bill (sorry I am not sure of the last name) passed away last week after an extended illness. Rumor is his partner/s will continue operating as they have been for some time now due to his illness. I hope this recently opened restaurant continues as it has great potential and the people watching from those windows down front is perfect.
Plans to open a gourmet restaurant inside the Abbey Hotel fell through last week.\
Bar and Club News
New owners of the old Bench and Bar on Olas Altas, will (wisely) open in mid July as, “The Palm”. Good idea. Now, for the four hundredth time, can we just get Ida Slapter back on her stool there? My life hasn’t been the same since she left. What about all those great drag artists that used to set up camp for a few nights from NYC and Toronto like Sofonda Cox (fabulous!)? We need this! A real cabaret joint.
More Kim Kuzma. The Kinsey Sicks. Hell, lets do theatre there too. Maybe Mama Dolores could finally get a real show there now that her sidewalk gig is up. That’d be a hoot! I guess she and partner Keran are very busy now redecorating the hacienda as we saw them hauling pots and plants down L. Cardenas a few days back.
Paco Paco’s renovated Ranch on the upper level was drawing huge crowds last week. There’s a spot, and I ain’t sayin’ where, that you can stand and well, you can kinda see right down into the new dressing room for the strippers. Hurry before Benito boards it up! Upper Terrace getting a facelift too.
Nov
3
Vallarta Gay Community Collects Donations for Tabasco Flood Victims
November 3, 2007 | Tags: Gay, News, Events | Leave a Comment
The gay community in Vallarta is organizing a collection of basic necessities for fellow Mexicans affected by the disastrous flooding in Tabasco State. As you may have heard, 80% of the state is under water. The residents are in dire need of food, medicines and other basics:
- Non-perishable items such as canned tuna or other meats, canned vegetables
- Rice, beans, sugar
- Ultra-pasteurized milk – non refrigerated type
- Baby formula
- Basic medicines including antibiotics, anti-diarrhea medicines, aspirin, skin creams (skin infections are common in flooding situations), etc.
- Cash donations are not recommended for this effort, but the banks all have accounts set up to accept donations if you prefer to donate cash.
Please bring your donation to:
Hotel Mercurio
Calle Francisca Rodríguez #168
Colonia Emiliano Zapata
(click here to see location on map)
Questions? Call Hotel Mercurio at 222-4793. Anyone on staff will be able to assist you.
No later than MONDAY NOVEMBER 5, at 3 PM. The residents of Tabasco need help TODAY!
They will deliver the collected items to the local Red Cross (Cruz Roja) in the name of the local PV Gay Business Community and Supporters, on Monday afternoon.
This effort will be communicated to the local media, and we will ask reporters to publish a short article listing the businesses who donated to this important project. This will be an opportunity for our local Gay businesses to do something worthwhile to help people outside of our community who are in serious need NOW, while gaining some positive local media exposure for Gay businesses and the Gay community of Puerto Vallarta.
Apr
26
Casa Cupula plans condo-hotel for gay men, lesbians and friends
April 26, 2007 | Tags: Gay, Hotels, Condos | Leave a Comment
I thought this press release was interesting so I thought I’d share it with you:
PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico–You don’t have to be an heiress with the last name Hilton to have your own private residence in a five-star hotel. Condo-hotels have become a very popular way to buy a home in many of the top mainstream hotel resorts.
Casa Cupula, named one of the “Top 5 Most Luxurious Gay Guesthouses in North America” by the editors of Out & About, announces The Private Residences at Casa Cupula. Billed as the world’s first condo-hotel for gay men, lesbians and friends, The Residences combines the best of two worlds: the luxurious services of the award-winning Casa Cupula with the pride of ownership and potential return of a real estate investment in gay-friendly Puerto Vallarta.
Building on Casa Cupula’s successful growth, it was a natural progression for us,” stated Don Pickens, Principal of Milagro Properties LLC. “We have many guests who have purchased homes and condos here after staying with us, but they told us they regretted having to trade off Casa Cupula’s ambience and services because they wanted to buy real estate. Now we can offer the best of both worlds.”
The Residences are available in both full and fractional ownership. A fractional interest offers fully deeded ownership in perpetuity (unlike a timeshare) in four-week periods. Buyers can then keep their capital investment to a minimum but still own a luxury home of the highest quality. Community amenities include roof-top terrace with an infinity pool, use of an SUV, 24/7 security and a gym and spa, plus all of Casa Cupula’s luxuries.
No more cookie-cutter designs — each unit will be uniquely designed by some of Mexico’s most celebrated designers. Fully furnished and equipped, they include home theaters with LCD TVs and music speakers in the baths and on the terraces, dual-headed showers, in-suite laundry, air conditioning, amazing views, built-in Jacuzzis and more. Some units also include individual dipping pools and private roof-top terraces.
Also: See the full press release, locate Casa Cupula on the map.
Mar
16
Mexico’s first gay civil unions
March 16, 2007 | Tags: Gay, Politics | Leave a Comment
The first gay civil unions in Mexico took place today under a new law which took effect in the Federal District only today. The law confers on gay couples, similar rights to married couples in the certain areas such as inheritance rights but not in others such as adoption.
With the huge gay community in Puerto Vallarta, it would sure be great to see the Jalisco state government following this lead and bring this here too.
Read the story: BBC News: Mexico City embraces gay unions.
Feb
26
Playa de los Muertos Attitude
February 26, 2007 | Tags: Gay, Photos | Leave a Comment
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It’s a new feature on Puerto Vallarta Satellite. Photo of the week. So I start with this photo I took last year at the Ritmo Beach Café (aka Green Chairs) at Playa de los Muertos.
If you’ve got a photo you’d like to add for photo of the week, please send me a link to the photo on Flickr (preferably) or, if you don’t have a Flickr account and don’t want to set one up, then email me the photo for consideration.
Cheers, Doug.
Feb
17
There’s an interesting discussion about gay asylum seekers from Mexico on the Media Matters website (you can also watch the Fox News clip there). The rather obnoxious right-wing commentator Bill O’Reilly of Fox News is commenting on a recent appeal court decision which allowed a gay asylum seeker a refugee claim based on his claim of persecution because of his sexuality.
I know gay Mexicans who have made it to Canada with refugee claims on this basis.
Unfortunately, in the vein of Fox News, the discussion is basically one-sided, with O’Reilly being countered only very weakly by Fox News anchor Megyn Kelley rather than someone with knowledge of the issue who could argue with O’Reilly.
I’ll make a case against a couple of his claims and I invite readers to add their own voices.
O’REILLY praises the original immigration panel judge’s decision, subsequently overturned by the 9th Circuit, which, according to the Los Angeles Times, stated that the asylum seeker, Soto Vega, “could return to Mexico since ‘it would not be obvious that he was homosexual unless he made it obvious himself.’ ” O’Reilly asserted: “I think the immigration court made the right decision, basically saying, ‘Look, you could be anybody. Just go back there and don’t wear a dress… and you’ll be OK.’ ”
==> This is clearly coming from a man who was no idea of what it is to be gay and who would have have us all repressing our identities and our lives. It’s not about not wearing a dress, it’s about being able to have and live with a partner, being able to have places to go out to and being able to be ourselves. I doubt Soto Vega was wearing a dress when he was assaulted by a Mexican police officer for being gay.
O’REILLY: If you go to any of the resort areas, Cancún or Acapulco, as I mentioned, Puerto Vallarta, any of them — come on, it’s gay parade time. Don’t tell me they’re being persecuted. There’s gay bars; there’s gay restaurants; there’s gay everything.
==> It does seem that a gay Mexican who was being persecuted in their life could leave and go to a place like Puerto Vallarta where if there’s persecution at least there would also be a community to support you. But O’Reilly is again speaking from a place of ignorance. He’s not Mexican. Neither am I but I do know how much more difficult it is for a Mexican than an American to pick up and move to another place. So much of the culture depends on support from family networks. There’s no guarantee of survival for a single gay man picking up and moving to Puerto Vallarta if he doesn’t have the right skills to survive in the city alone. At least in the US, he could probably make enough money to support himself.
O’REILLY states that that ”he could get beat up here” (the US) too, i.e. that anti-gay discrimination exists in the US too.
==> This is kind of a bizarre spurious argument. Things are bad here too so he shouldn’t be admitted. O’Reilly seems to says that unless you’re from from Iran, where “you’ll get beheaded”, you should just put up and suffer with an occasional beating.
What do you think?
Jan
12
Vallarta Makes Top Ten Gay & Lesbian 2007 Destinations List
January 12, 2007 | Tags: Gay | Leave a Comment
Well, duh! We all knew that already. But you might be surprised by the rest of the destinations that the Rainbow Network includes in their top ten. Especially the fact that Vallarta is the only North American destination on the list. Well then…I guess that makes it the #1 gay and lesbian travel destination in North America!
Straight to the source: Rainbow Network Top Destinations for 2007.
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