Eucalipto 20, Mexico City

About Eucalipto 20

Housed in a 1903 mansion in Santa María la Ribera that once served as the headquarters of the Frente Homosexual de Acción Revolucionaria — the group that took to Mexico City's streets in 1978 in what's considered the country's first public gay rights march — this multi-use space pulls double duty as gallery, cabaret stage, workshop room, and informal community hub. Founders Salvador Irys, Fernando Osorno, and Salvador Peña built it during the pandemic as a continuation of their earlier Hazme el Milagrito project, often credited as CDMX's first dedicated LGBTQ+ art gallery. What's on any given week is genuinely unpredictable: figure-drawing sessions with live nude models, poetry open mics, LGBTQ+ film nights with sourdough pizza Thursday through Saturday from 2pm, political forums on health policy and trans rights, plus rotating exhibitions of disidente artists you won't see at the Zona MACO booths. Santa María la Ribera itself is having a slow renaissance — the Kiosco Morisco is two blocks away — and Eucalipto 20 is the most interesting LGBTQ+ reason to make the trip.