Gay couples have no problems living together as a gay couple, at least not around here ion punta cana.
i had here at my place twice lesbian couples as next door neighbours for a good year each,
they been respected/greeted etc by the people in lil town the same as everybody else.
much less "behind the back talk" than it would be in a very small town in Germany or the USA.
and as for beeing a Cathlic country,
well,
most part of the countless Sankies and Sankiettes go both ways,
they simply forget their cathlic "school" when it comes to their "job".
and within the average population to be gay, is far not that rare to see as some may assume.
the DR's Administration under the stu and useless influence of the cathlic church may be decades or a 100 years behind the first world on the matter, the DR's public sure isn't.
Mike