The rainbow will shine in Puerto Vallarta from May 16 to 29 with the fourth edition of Vallarta Pride 2016 under the slogan “We are one family.” The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transgender, Transvestite, Intersex and Queer (LGBTTIQ) festival expects to receive 15,000 attendees this year from various states in Mexico as well as Canada...Read More

This May, Puerto Vallarta will celebrate its 4th annual Vallarta Gay Pride event. It’s estimated that the event brought 18,000 tourists to the area in 2015 and expected to increase this year. Vallarta Pride is an opportunity for the city to demonstrate its friendliness, community of inclusion, and world-class tourism industry to the LGBT community....Read More

For the fourth consecutive year, Puerto Vallarta will be the proud home of Vallarta PRIDE 2016, scheduled to take place from May 16 – 30, 2016. Under the slogan “We are One family,” the festival’s most important LGBTTIQ pride of the region, will be hold a variety of events, including art, culture, concerts, entertainment, movies,...Read More

Gather your masks and friends and get ready for Mardi Gras 2016 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. On February 9, 2016 the annual Carnival Parade celebrating Mardi Gras will begin in the hotel zone and proceed through the world-famous Malecon and to the Los Muertos Pier. Incredible floats, colorful costumes, towering stilt walkers, street performers and...Read More

Pope Francis traveled to Uganda’s holiest shrine on Saturday, paying tribute to 19th century Christian martyrs killed for their faith, including for protecting young boys in the royal court from abuse by the king. Francis, on the second leg of his first African tour, said Mass for tens of thousands of people huddled on muddy...Read More

A lively parade of transvestites wearing flowers and ribbons on their heads partied through the streets of an indigenous Mexican town in the weekend of their 40th annual “muxe” festival. The muxes, also known as a third gender, are mostly gay men of ethnic Zapotec descent, who are widely respected in the southern town of...Read More

On December 16, 17 and 18, at 7 PM, the Puerto Vallarta Gay Men’s Chorus lights up the holidays with its very first concert, “Festival of Lights”! Wait a minute! Isn’t this the Chorus’s fourth annual holiday concert? Yes, it is. But we recently changed our name! We now proudly call ourselves the Puerto Vallarta...Read More

Plunging headlong into the issues of the day, Pope Francis opened his visit to the United States with a strong call Wednesday for action to combat climate change, calling it a problem that “can no longer be left to a future generation.” President Barack Obama, in turn, hailed the pontiff as a moral force who...Read More

‘La Santa’ club in Puerto Vallarta was sanctioned for removing two gay clients that had kissed and embraced in the club on July 19, 2014. A bouncer at the bar allegedly asked the couple to leave the bar because displays of affection were only allowed by heterosexual couples. The couple refused to leave the bar...Read More

Back in September, Mexican Bishop José María de la Torre Martín waded into controversy with statements he made comparing homosexual marriages with bestiality. “If they allow gay marriage tomorrow, soon they will be letting a man marry his dog, and their puppies will get their inheritance,” the controversial bishop from the state of Aguascalientes said...Read More

Get ready to put on your “sequins and diamonds” or just your “sandals and denim” as the Puerto Vallarta Men’s Chorus presents its Vallarta Pride Festival Concert Series “Sequins & Diamonds” at Act II Stages on Monday, May 18, at 7:00 P.M. and twice on the evening of Friday, May 22 at 7:00 P.M. and...Read More

The third gay pride festival in Puerto Vallarta, Vallarta Pride, will be held from May 17 to 25 May, 2015 and its Organizing Committee is proud to announce the confirmation of the first events honoring the LGBT community of Puerto Vallarta. To commemorate the lesbian community of Puerto Vallarta, an exclusive party for women –...Read More

The annual Mardi Gras Parade comes back to Puerto Vallarta’s streets on Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 8 p.m with a parade beginning at the Hotel Zone’s Sheraton Hotel and heading south on the Malecón and ending at Olas Altas in Old Town. Last year’s event brought 20,000 cheering residents and tourists from all walks...Read More

The Romantic Zone has more restaurants and cafes than any other zone in Puerto Vallarta. Here you will find “Restaurant Row” along Basilio Badillo that seemingly spreads around the block and continues down Olas Altas, probably the most famous streets in the Romantic Zone. The Romantic Zone begins that the Isla Cuale and southward to...Read More

Los Muertos Beach – or Playa de los Muertos – may not sound like the most promising place for a day by the sand, but for an authentic and truly lively Puerto Vallarta beach experience, it can’t be beat. Los Muertos Beach is the most active beach along Banderas Bay offering Parasailing, Stand Up Paddle...Read More