Is Panama Safe for Gay Men? Crime Data and Our Honest Take
The most honest thing we can tell you about anti-gay violence in Panama is that no government agency is actually counting it — the U.S. State Department dropped the category entirely in its most recent report. Here’s what Panama’s own LGBTQ+ organization is tracking instead, what the legal backdrop looks like in practice as of this year, and how we’re weighing it against our own zero-friction twelve days there.