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Bon Jovi “The Circle Tour“ in Buenos Aires

Bon Jovi “The Circle Tour“

October, 3 5PM at River Plate Stadium

Buenos Aires: Latin America Comes Out

With a stroke of her presidential pen, Cristina de Kirchner, gay Argentines’ newest Evita, catapulted Argentina to the forefront of progressive American nations—just one more reason to put Buenos Aires on your must-visit list.

With its sexy national dance, world-renowned wine, beef, leather and gorgeous porteños, Buenos Aires has become a crucial stop for savvy LGBT travelers. Add to that the first legal same-sex marriages in Latin America, and get ready to tango to this hemisphere’s new “it” destination. Once rich (in the early 1900s, the country was ranked among the top 10 most powerful nations on Earth), Argentina has slipped behind many other developing nations. Still, Buenos Aires boasts an architect’s dreamscape of European-style building, some of which are being lovingly refurbished, as well as several up-and-coming LGBT-popular neighborhoods with names seemingly tailor-made for gay travelers, like the following three in Palermo: Hollywood, Soho and Queens.

read the full article on Frontiers web by Ed Salvato