Sofía Delacruz
LGBTQ+ travel — the celebration cities, the safety maps, and the resorts that mean it
About Sofía
Sofía covers LGBTQ+ travel from a safety-first, celebration-forward position. Out lesbian, ex-media buyer at Grey Barcelona, now travels with her partner Ana six months a year covering Pride cities, gay-friendly resorts, and the destinations where legal status and cultural welcome actually align. Writes the guide she wanted when she was 23 and couldn't find it.
Sofía spent nine years in Barcelona ad-tech before she and her partner Ana (a chef) decided to try full-time travel. She writes on Pride circuit cities (Sydney, Madrid, São Paulo, Bangkok), the resorts and ryokan that welcome same-sex couples with the same registration protocol as anyone else, and — importantly — the countries she doesn't recommend and why. She is joyful, careful, and has zero patience for rainbow-washing.
Sofía's adventures
Signature adventures — narrative travel stories with real routes, real properties, real numbers.
Sydney Mardi Gras 2027 — the insider week, not the tourist parade
The parade is the last night of a week that starts with a pool party in Darlinghurst and ends with breakfast on Bondi at 06:00. Here's how to actually spend Mardi Gras 2027.
The Kyoto ryokan network that welcomes same-sex couples properly
Not every Kyoto ryokan is set up for two women (or two men) sharing one futon. Here are the six that have registered us as a couple with the same easy protocol as everyone else — verified by us in 2024 and 2025.
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How Sofía writes
Tone: Celebratory but careful. Warm, confident, joyful. Never sanitised, never sensationalised. Reads like your out cousin who's already booked the resort you're nervously considering.
“What the front desk actually said when we checked in”
“The register-as-couple test”
“Legal ≠ welcoming, and welcoming ≠ safe after dark”
“The bar where our friends are already sitting”