Asuncion - Post Report Question and Answers
Is this a good city for LGBT expatriates? Why or why not?
Paraguay's government is very vocal in condemning LGBT as a "foreign ideology," but on a day to day basis people are very friendly if you don't force them to acknowledge that you have that identity. People are pretty conflict averse and don't like raising uncomfortable topics, so if you don't raise it, they won't either. - Jun 2025
Recognition for LGBT is growing but there is still strong bias in the local community at large. - Aug 2022
Generally no. It seems members of the LGBT community are starting to be accepted here but it is a very religious country. That being said I know some Paraguayans who are out and are happy here. - Jun 2019
There are LGBT here and there are LGBT locals, but I have heard they have a struggle. I haven't heard of any issues from expats and I haven't seen any discrimination. - Aug 2018
Paraguay can lean pretty conservative, but I hear there are options. - Jun 2018
Paraguay is a fairly conservative and Catholic society, so tolerance for LGBT is less than ideal, with some high-level government officials occasionally making anti-LGBT comments. But I haven't heard of blatant prejudice or expats feeling ostracized. - Apr 2015
Paraguay is a conservative country, however, there is an active LGBT community here. - Aug 2014
I know of several gay expats who have lived here. I would not say any of them loved it but I think that it was more because singles have a hard time here than that they were gay. However that being said, this is a very LATIN, Catholic community and there will be some issues. - Jul 2013
Probably okay, but not like Sao Paulo, Bogota, or Buenos Aires. The Paraguayan government doesn't recognize same-sex domestic partners. - Aug 2011
i have not seen or heard of anything overtly against gays. I am sure it's no DuPont Circle or Berlin Love parade, and it's not like being in Iran (where they put you in a burlap bag and throw you over the side of a mountain. True story, I know because I read it on the internet.) It's somewhere in the middle. - Jun 2011
I don't know about the gay situation here -- Argentina is just to the south and is very open and friendly to gay/lesbian community. But Paraguay is more traditionally Latino -- but there doesn't seem to be such anti-gay sentiment as I've seen in other Latin American countries. - Feb 2011
Yes. There are many openly-gay people and none ever seem to have any problems at all. - Apr 2010
