About me: I just moved to Brussels and I'm amazed by the city; I lived in front of Cinquantenaire for 6 months and this week I moved to De Brouckere, and even though I fucking love my new neighborhood, it's true that I don't feel like I could do the same stuff that I used to do within the European Quarters. I'm an athletic Latino guy with a beard and people always assume that I'm heterosexual, therefore I've never experienced any kind of issue, but for instance, at Cinquantenaire I always felt 100% comfortable with kissing my boyfriend in the street, holding hands, etc, which by the way, I have never seen any same-sex couple in Brussels doing that, besides us, which surprises me a lot, but that's another story. However, now at De Brouckere, I wouldn't feel comfortable at all doing any of those things, since there are much more people, different backgrounds, different viewpoints, etc, which is basically the reason why I really like the city center, but when it comes to "sexuality", it could certainly have a downside.

What have been your experiences so far, and where exactly? And what about partying? I have never been to a club yet, and I'm not sure how's the scene here. I understand that if I go to a techno club like Fuse, it's 100% okay to kiss your gay partner and kinda play/joke with him, but what about other clubs? What about bars? For instance, we wanna go to a shisha place, but would it be too crazy to go to a shisha place, full of dudes smoking shisha, and then just kiss my boyfriend or play with him? Hah, I guess so? I have no idea, since most of my friends are heterosexual and I think I act the same when I date a girl or a guy; I'm the same person and I've never had any issue back in my country, but I don't know if that's applicable to Brussels.

In this regard, I ask all these questions because I come from another continent/culture, and I'm still learning about how things work in Brussels, but something that still surprises me is that, even though you can see obviously "queer people" in the streets once in a while because of how they dress, you never see them DOING "queer" things, like kissing another person, touching another person, or being somehow "loud", which definitely happens in my culture, but well, now that I think deeper, I think I haven't seen heterosexual people being loud either, since the Belgian culture is more private, hah; that's a good point.

But well, I just wanna understand better how Brussels work, the do's and don't, and read some of your experiences. Merci!