Altihay is Fuerteventura's LGBTI+ association and has been working on the island since 2002. Its office is a ground-floor local on Calle Goya in Puerto del Rosario, and it is the closest thing the island has to a queer community centre.
Most of what happens there is practical. Rapid HIV testing, sexual health and sexological counselling, information on PrEP and other STI prevention, and free condoms and lubricant. Trans people can get accompanied through the healthcare system, which on an island this size matters more than it would in a city. Separate groups meet for young people and for LGBTIQ+ families.
The cultural side runs alongside it. There is a lending library of LGBTIQ+ books, a poetry competition, and an annual queer film showcase now in its twenty-fourth year. The association also works with the Puerto del Rosario town hall on anti-discrimination projects across the island.
Fuerteventura has no gay bar and no gay sauna. If you want to know what is actually going on in the local queer community, this is where to ask.
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