Most gays in San Juan live in the Condado and Ocean Park areas, the more modern districts east of Old San Juan. Thus, the beaches here tend to be more gay-popular and gay-friendly. The most predominately gay beach in Puerto Rico is the stretch of

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Most gays in San Juan live in the Condado and Ocean Park areas, the more modern districts east of Old San Juan. Thus, the beaches here tend to be more gay-popular and gay-friendly. The most predominately gay beach in Puerto Rico is the stretch of sand fronting the gay Atlantic Beach Hotel at the end of Calle Vendig in high-rise filled Condado. You'll be surprised at just how open LGBT life in San Juan can be when you see smooching lesbians, chatty twinks, the odd hustler, and tourists in bikinis packing the beach here, especially during winter high season. Another gay-popular beach area is around the point east of Condado in the upscale residential low-rise Ocean Park area, where the somewhat gayish beach there is located roughly between the ends of Calle Taft and Calle Santa Ana streets—a better option if you want to feel more like a local and less touristy. The beaches have been cleaned up in recent years—of both trash in the sand and seedy characters—but are openly cruisy at night, which can be risky.

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