Budapest’s LGBT community has seen significant improvements in their social status since the fall of Communism in 1990, and is now one of the more advanced countries in this respect. Currently, homosexuality is both socially and legally accepted, and a law was even passed in 2006 that allows same-sex couples to register as such. In addition, a Gay Pride festival with a parade and several after-parties has been held since 1997. This has made it easier for many people to finally come out of the closet in recent years, and dozens of gay bars, clubs and gay saunas have been established.

Budapestis regarded as the “City of Spas” because of the large number of Turkish baths there, including Király, Rudas, Rácz, Széchenyi and the Gellért baths. All of them are very popular and worth a visit, although it should be noted that they are not specifically gay-friendly. If you want to go to a “family” sauna, go to the city’s two gay saunas: Magnum ( Csepreghy utca 2, District 8 ) and Sauna 69 (Angyal utca 2, District 9), which has a nice interior and attentive service. Besides saunas, steam rooms and Jacuzzis, there are also dark rooms, glory holes, bars, etc. Both hold weekly or monthly parties with different shows included.

If you are interested in sports, Budapest also offers a wide range. You can visit this site, which offers a variety of sports, from swimming to badminton or squash, in a gay-friendly environment: http://www.atlaszsport.hu/drupal/en

During the day, you can choose whether to go to one of the saunas of Budapest, play sports or do sightseeing (don’t miss out onBudaCastle, the Parliament, or Opera or Heroes� Square). And at night, you can go out for a quiet dinner in one of the nice restaurants in the city and afterwards for a drink in one of the bars.

There are many gay-friendly bars throughout the city and you can easily start the evening in one of them. Some of the most popular are LeCafe M Bar (Nagysándor József utca 3, District 5), MyLord Cafe (Belgrád rakpart 3-4, District 5) or Why Not Cafe & Bar (Belgrád rakpart 3, District 5). After that, head to a nightclub, such as Alibi (Üllői ut 45-47, District 9), Action Bar (Magyar utca 42. District 5), Capella (Belgrád rkp. 23, District 5) CoxX (Dohány utca 38, District 7) or Alterego Bar & Club (Dessewffy utca 33, District 6). Capella was very popular a few years ago, thanks to the queen mother of all drag queens, Lady Dömper, who used to perform here regularly. Alterego now enjoys a privileged position, thanks to its location in the center of town and the festivals organized here by Domper Lady.

If you’re looking for a good lesbian scene, girls often gather in the Underground Club (Teréz körút 30, District 6) or Vis Major Café (Szent Istvan körút 2, District 13) and then go to different parties such as milkSHakE – Club Fire 22 (Tűzoltó utca 22, District 9), which is held on the last Saturday of each month.

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Like many other scenarios of our culture, men have always had a privileged place in various sports categories. Perhaps because of the origin of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, where men were always the dominant gender in all the competitions. Of course, women today have also a significant presence in all branches of sport, as a result of the twentieth century advances in terms of rights and equality for all individuals.

Today, women play sports, which was once considered only for men, such as football, basketball, boxing, wrestling, among many others. Even though this is already common in our culture, there are always conflicting comments or rejection about women�s sports. Thus, the struggle for equal rights, for people of different genders is still present, even in sports, against ignorance, discrimination and lack of mind-openness by the dominant gender.

Throughout this struggle of genres, EuroGames are presented as an important alternative for the LGBT community. If you�ve never heard of the EuroGames, they are the European sport competitions for gays and lesbians. This important event, besides being a high-quality choice for sports fans in different disciplines, also aims to combat discrimination based on sexual preference and encourage the integration of all genres during sports events.

So EuroGames seeks to give a new option for those LGBT athletes who have been marginalized because of their sexual preferences, make them feel pleased and even and even encourage them to “come out” during a sports celebration that enriches fraternal and enthusiastic relations. The Eurogames are open to all who want to participate, regardless of gender, age, race or sexual preference. In recent editions of EuroGames, athletes from Europe and the world have participated. This year, this important event will be held in the beautiful city of Budapest, from June 27^th  to the 1^st of  July , another reason to visit this important city during the summer.

Budapest is a city full of traditions and yet modern, with beautiful architecture that will captivate you as you walk its streets and avenues. If you are looking for some excitement during the trip, the nightlife in Budapest will guarantee it. Restaurants, bars and gay-friendly clubs await you just steps from the Mystic River Danube. Museums, galleries, boutiques refined and beautiful green areas, make Budapest one of the best places to unwind and enjoy your vacations.

The EuroGames also await you, do not hesitate and come to Budapest this summer. For more information about the EuroGames, visit the following website: http://www.eurogamesbudapest.hu/

Alexa Ray

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Finding the secrets to excite your partner is more than an adventure. It’s about the tastes and types of stimulation that excite us, finding out what we like best as well as what are partners like, that results in both curiosity and a number of experiments. When referring to stimulation, this could be something far from merely sexual or simply that we educate ourselves about precisely what is sexually stimulating. The media generally sells something too corporate and too artificial to be truly erotic. Tight, short dresses, high heels, uncovered skin, tight paints for men, shirts that reveal lots of skin and modern hair cuts all predispose us to think that sexy or erotic is a perfect combination of clothing, measurements and style. However, what is erotic and stimulating doesn’t have any particular characteristics. And if we are exploring the world of sexuality and stimulation, we are in for a surprise.

Without a doubt, Budapest is one of the sexiest cities in the world. The Hungarian women are famous for being among the most beautiful in the world. With style and sex appeal, the Hungarians don’t need to be afraid to gracefully show their natural beauty. Likewise, Hungarian men in Budapest maintain a modern and sleek style, which is most appropriate for a city that is increasingly becoming more cosmopolitan and modern.

Certainly, you don’t need to be a movie star to excite your partner and enjoy a regular and healthy sex life. It doesn’t matter what color, weight, measurement or sexual preference you have if you try to get to know your lover better and enjoy the intimate moments you share during a sexual encounter. A dinner of his or her favorite dishes, fruits and wine of high quality are the classic first step to an intense night. In Budapest, one can find many restaurants where you can good food and drinks at reasonable prices. If you are more daring, Budapest has a number of things to offer: gay discos, bars and clubs for swingers as well as respected strip tease clubs where you and your partner can wildly engage in your wildest secret fantasies. If you want something kinkier, there are also stores selling a variety of erotica in the Hungarian capital. Don’t be reluctant to inquire about your most secret fetishes.

Museums, open-air concerts, galleries, green spaces and traditional as well as modern architecture offer the perfect setting for a walk together and a conversation to stimulate both the intellect and the senses. Discover all of this with your partner amidst the beauty of the Danube in spring. Budapest may allow you to uncover fresh, new passions, stimulating your senses and your spirits along the city’s streets, plazas and lovely parks.

Alexa Ray

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The effects of electronic music are probably different than those of other musical genres. Although the rhythm is repetitive, songs random and a constant mix of rhythm, voice and interpretation electronic music reaches the senses deeper than any other musical genre. Furthermore, the constant drug use at festivals, raves and underground parties leads to a more intense experience that opens our imagination, desire and body at parties come close to rituals in certain moments, one could call them technological. The inicial interest in electronic muisic derived from the experimentation with several effects and devices that generated frequencies for over 50 years. Eletronic music entered our daily life as an established music genre with many different forms and possibilities to dance and listen to with technology that continues to advance and new possibilities to create effects through computers.

Maybe it was the psychodelic master Timothy Leary who with his talks about LSD and its effect on the body who it itself represents an electronic machinery claimed that drug use will broaden the limits of our minds and with these new bodies through which we carry electronic impulses we reach new levels of imagination and reality which meant a possible evolution through the stimulants of LSD.

Leary caused such inspiration in the German community creator of thel Krautrock, amongst whom the electro’s fathers, Kraftwerk, it would be essential for us to understand that experience of mental and sensory expansion had to be done with effects and electronic devices: synthesizers.

Kraftwerk’s career till today needn’t be mentioned now, but it is to understand that resolution of the electronic effect in the sound has been changing with the different tools and devices that are used today, both for electronic music generation as in its reproduction. This way, electronic music festivals are pilgrimage events, of a subculture that without even realizing, is already a great part of the system. So much that there is already very few it can be offered and which it could re-assimilate as a chance or aspect towards the mainstream side. The festival corporation is present all around as we know, and it is not but from this corporation that one can better understand the music today and conglomeration it causes, as well as its reactions. Our links with PCs are today so close that thinking of moving away from electronic music and its possibilities is crazy. We are closer and closer of a future which, as Blade Runner said, implies an electronic Hill and artificial life, perhaps music is our insertion path in a future which is already happening, against our wills, and from our senses.

To live electronic music, come to Budapest and be part of this festival that is the best event of the year. For further info, visit this page: http://www.bonuszfesztival.hu/2011/

Alexa Ray

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There is a before and after Cicciolina, both in pornography and in Italian politics. But first we should ask what strange twist of fate causes women born in Hungary to be some of the most beautiful on the planet. It�s no joke. Hungarian women have a very particular grace and beauty that has made them perhaps the most desirable women in the world. Some of the most attractive porn actresses working today come from this country.

But to tell this story, we must go back in time. The history of pornography in Hungary dates from the period after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Until then, both production and distribution of pornography was illegal in communist Hungary. However the laws were changed with the arrival of “democracy” and these more permissive laws soon allowed this country to come to the forefront of the industry. Foreign directors were quick to take advantage of Hungary’s permissive laws, its low production costs and its large numbers of attractive actresses. 

However, the history of La Cicciolina dates from long before the Wall fell, and although her story is mainly connected to Italian culture and government, it is worth noting that she is from Budapest. In the 60�s she worked as a model in Hungary, and it wasn’t until the early 70�s that she began to develop her career in Italy. In the 80�s she starred in her first hardcore film and her fame grew even more. After this, she entered politics and, in 1987, was elected to the Italian parliament with more than twenty thousand votes. Her prime aims were to combat the nuclear threat and world hunger.

Among the most memorable moments of her time in parliament was the occasion she offered to have sex with Saddam Hussein in exchange for him releasing prisoners during the Gulf War. After failing to be elected again in 1991, she became one of the founders of the Partito dell�Amore, along with the porn actress, Moana Pozzi. Her further attempts to take an active part in politics failed, as did her offer to Osama bin Laden to have sex with him in exchange for an end to violence in the Middle East.

Although the successes of Cicciolina’s political career may have been negligible, her presence in the Italian parliament undoubtedly had an impact on European society. The fact that she found enough support to be able to crossover from the “underground” world of porn to the international political arena opened many people’s eyes to the true market size of pornography and its deep integration in contemporary culture. In pornography’s revelatory power of display, in its rawness, and in its blatant use of sexual intercourse as a means of production and capital, it explodes all society’s ideals, whether moral, political or religious about what sex means in our culture. La Cicciolina represented the impulse of downtrodden women everywhere to take control for themselves and wield some of the power in an industry, religion and world ruled by men.

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The pleasures of wine are told from remote times. This pleasant drink has accompanied the whole world during millenniums and it�s a true traditional in a large part of the tables in the Western world. The relation of wine with culture are diverse and deep, as is its symbology that goes from the religious rituals to pagan and profane ones. It is, undoubtedly, the drink that blesses churches and turns into Christ�s blood, with the sacred elixir that encourages intoxication, poetical deliriums and sexual romance. And there�s nothing more exciting that wine to increase the temperatures at the time of making love. Many of the well-known poets have sung odes to wine and its delicacies, the chaos that it provokes, its magical power and the inspiration that it produces.

Charles Baudelaire, father of modern poetry without a shadow of a doubt, is one of the main poets that made of wine a constant subject and from which many lessons can be learned. In his poetry, wine is a powerful narcotic that not only becomes the inciter of lust and passions, the blood of the lamb that spills and drinks to reach those �Artificial Paradises� that he talked about so much and he provoked with his harmonious and melancholic writings, but at the same time, in the voluptuous condition that, in the intoxication from wine, you can reach states of illumination and sacred pronunciation. That�s how wine provokes visions, brilliant ideas, even miraculous, and it�s the drink where dark and secret poetry reside.

That�s how the ancestral ceremonies to Baccus are a type of calling to the invocation of the unseen. The stupor that wine generates makes of the body a tame machinery for the gathering of imagination and dreams. And effectively, dreaming under the influences of wine becomes an experience that is blurred and filled with images of many colours. At the same time, wine incites lust and sexual desire in men and women, and is therefore the nocturnal drink that best favours romance. Imagine what it must be like to have some wine in Budapest and in the International Wine Festival. Certainly, a favourable moment for romance and to meet beautiful people who are open to adventure. This international festival takes place every year where thousands of exhibitors from around the world participate, as well as music, meetings and, above all, the animated participation of thousands of people searching for the perfect wine, the sweetest aroma that the mind can manage, romance and, who knows, maybe love too. For more information and the timetables of events of this festival on each day, visit this webpage:  http://www.aborfesztival.hu/

Alexa Ray

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If we went back and made a history of heavy metal, we�d have to use many sources. The line, as it�s been said before, starts at some point with Blue Cheer, MC5, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath. However, a generation that followed these would mark the genre deeply and it would turn it into a style, a way of life. That�s how, in England, the NWOBHM appeared in the sixties: New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. Among the greats in this genre are emblematic bands like Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Budgie, Diamond Head, Motorhead, Saxon and, of course, Judas Priest. Despite the adverse critics of the typical rejection of Heavy Metal and its different sides, it�s improbable to know which would be the state of music in general if it wasn�t for heavy metal.

With a mix of convincing hard rock, sonic and volatile guitars, and like in all good rock bands with a touch of blues, Judas Priest became one of the riskiest bands of the genre, as well as solid and styled. It�s, probably, with Iron Maiden and Motorhead, the most emblematic band of that time. Dressed in leather and spikes, the entries of Rob Halford, the singer, on an immense Harley Davidson on stage warming up the crowd are memorable, while he made them vibrate with their dirty, sexual, alcoholic and heavy hard rock. They took their name from a classic Bob Dylan song: �The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest�. Among their more important albums we can find “Sad Wings of Destiny”, “Hell Bent for Leather”, “Screaming for Vengeance” and “Painkiller”. The career of Judas Priest is marked by the different changes of personnel, a trial for having been, allegedly, responsible of two suicides in the 80s, and what up until now some of the harder members of metal cannot get out of their head: Rob Halford coming out of the closet and publically admitting his homosexuality. After forty years of touring and excesses, this great band bids farewell to the stages with their Epitaph Tour, a tour that�s already going all around the world.

Judas Priest will be playing in the Rock-Metal Main Stage of the Sziget Festival in Budapest on the 11th of August at around 9.30pm. If you�re a fan of good metal, get there early and go and see the great Helloween, who will be on stage at 7.30pm warming up the crowd for Judas Priest. In case you didn�t know, Helloween is one of the most important German heavy metal bands. With great albums like �Keeper of the Seven Keys� and the fabulous live �I Want Out�, these Germans have the respect of the world for being among the best that came out of Germany in the 80s regarding heavy rock. For more information on Judas Priest and their Epitaph Tour visit http://judaspriest.com/

Alexa Ray

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With a fascinating history, Budapest is undoubtedly the one and only queen of the Danube. Since Roman times, this beautiful city was renown for its numerous thermal baths. Also, the famous Aquincum museum, is found in Roman ruins which are over one thousand years old. Among these, there�s an amphitheater as well as other archeological wonders. The Danube in itself is already a marvel in itself, and there are cruises that take you from its top to the very bottom.

Anyway, if what you�re looking for isn�t just romance but a bit of action instead, there�s a wide variety of gay saunas in the city where great massages, some eroticism and freedom combine, so you can have an intense time while you�re visiting museums and historical sites. One of the most popular ones is Magnum. With well-equiped facilities with over 550 sq metres, you can find saunas, steam rooms, private cabins, glory holes, video rooms, gym, solarium, bar, food, massage rooms and dark rooms so you can have “more privacy”. Whatever you can imagine, it�s there. Also, this popular place organizes different events in its facilities. Having been Budapest�s first gay sauna, every Friday they have naked parties from 10pm and, on Saturdays, parties from 8pm with live shows. Unmissable and unpredictable.

Along the same lines, another very interesting sauna is Sauna 69. In its, obviously, Western style, in 69 you�ll be able to meet cute guys who go to relax there for a while taking a break from work or there everyday lives. It has a jacuzzi, steam rooms, private rooms and glory holes. Also, if your thing is swimming and being naked, Palatinus is also a very good option. It�s open from May 1st until August 22nd, in Margit Szeget. There�s a nudist terrace full of gorgeous guys waiting for you. Of course, each of these options are at your wallet�s disposal, and what suits you best. The truth is that one week to explore these options would be good for you. It might be the necessary time that you need to go for a steamy walk in the most daring saunas.

And while we�re on the subject of Spring and Summer, a well-recommended beach for gays is the Lake Omszki Beach. This is north of Budapest and you don�t have to pay to be on the shores of this lake. It is mostly frequented by naturists who come to enjoy these waters on the hottest days. Exactly, nudism everywhere and, above all, plenty of gay visitors, so that�s another meeting point that you can�t miss. At the lake, as well as having a splendid bath, you can also do waterskiing and go on boats. For more information on gay activities in Budapest, you can visit this webpage: http://www.budapest-gayguide.com/

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Look, I never forget Budapest, not only for all the Hungarian porn actress I�ve seen in my life or for the times I�ve gone to the medicinal baths throughout the city, it’s none of these things; neither is the architecture or the Danube, nothing: it is about the fact that Budapest can be so free and ultra gay, if you search well you will find so many fetish and atmosphere chances.

To go out, I recommend you to do it after 11pm, as bars are not so full before this time, and what you want is to arrive and succeed. I recommend you the Action Bar if you are there on Friday night, it’s got strip-shows and live sex, and if, after a while, you want to dance, there is no better idea than going to the Alterego club. Knowing its name, imagine the rest: the most beautiful and fashion boy, transvestites of all ages, dance, hmmm…

On Saturdays, if you want to go out at night again, I recommend you the Coxx Club. It is full of latex and glamour, that is to say, we are soldiers and they are dolls, latex and black glasses. Before that, of course, take a look to my favourite shop: Black Dream. Specialized in bondage on a minor or major scale, they have penis extenders and> machines to brush it against your partner’s one, how beautiful! Suckers and anal masturbations with electric objects, I’m so exited!

If after so much hustle and bustle you feel like relaxing your body a little bit in some “spa”, you must visit the Magnum in the eighth district. Get massages from the boys at a low cost: as I love the bears, there I am in paradise.

SISTER RAY

There is no city with limits, so rent apartments in Budapest and let yourself go by your party instinct. The best thing of the Hungarian capital city is that, despite being a little bit conservative, if you remain for the necessary time you will find the darkest pleasures, so nothing else, just trust.

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