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Contents:

• THE BEST ESTONIA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ESTONIA
• GAY NIGHTLIFE
• GAY ESTONIA TRAVEL GUI
• GAY LIFE ESTONIA 2012
• THE BEST TALLN GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS TALLN
• CLUB 69TALLNMENUHOTELSBARS & CLUBSCISE CLUBSSNASCY GUIGAY MAPCLUB 69
• GAY SPORT BAR ESTONIA
• GAY BAR TALLN
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• THE OLST GAY BAR TALLN - X-BAAR
• ALBANIA GAY TRAVEL
• GAY UNED KGDOM
• TALLN GAY BARS & CLUBS

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Gay Estonia. X-Bar Home X-Bar Tatari tänav 1, Kklna lnaosa, Talln Facebook X-Bar is the olst gay bar the Baltics.

Journalist Dan Allen lifts the ver om the gay scene Estonia. Not only do he fall love wh the Baltics, but also be fascated wh the ntrastg inti of the three Baltic starts his journey of the Baltics Talln, what he refers to as the most gay-iendly cy the Baltics - "Estonia is the most overtly gay welg of the three Baltic untri, havg even passed (though not yet fully implemented) a civil partnership law. " While Talln's gay scene is still pretty small-sle, Dan pots out two mastream LGBT hotspots attractg crowds Talln - X-Baar and a sna Club 69.

Wisns has long been a forenner LGBTQ+ advocy, ever sce was the first state to pass anti-discrimatn legislatn for the LGBTQ muny 1982, givg the tle of "the first gay rights state. "Here are five stori that scratch the surface of the Fox Ci' LGBTQ muny and Lambda Lounge: Appleton's first gay barThroughout the late 20th century, gay people primarily found muny through the bar scene, often seen as a safe space for LGBTQ people to socialize.

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Appleton's first gay bar, the Lambda Lounge, opened downtown 1977 by partners Pl DeB and Gene DeB, Pl's sister, said the two bought the bar om Claire Kempky who ran Doris' Super Bar, a bs wh a reputatn as a hangout spot for gay people. That reputatn, she said, enuraged her brother to open a gay bar after Kempky's closed. Matchbook vers for The Lambda Lounge that read "The Gayt Spot Town.

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" The bar opened 1977 and was Appleton's first gay the bar wasn't openly advertised as a gay bar for the safety of s patrons, people knew of through word of mouth and natnal gay bar guis, such as the Damron Gui.

Rearcher for the Universy of Wisns-Green Bay's "Our Voic: LGBTQ+ Stori of Northeastern Wisns" Dennis Jab said bar patrons often experienced backlash om Appleton rints who believed homosexualy was wrong and didn't like havg a gay bar patrons were safe to be themselv si the bar, Jabs said people knew to not enter or leave the bar alone as they faced vlence om straight people and many fights took place outsi the bar. "The early [gay] bars were rough, " Jabs said. "But the gay populatn Appleton stood their ground and fought back.

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"Ultimately, the bar closed down amid petn om 1101 Wt, a gay dance club, that opened down the road soon after.

However, the Lambda Lounge's prence Appleton paved the way for other LGBTQ bars, such as The ReMixx Neenah, Rasls Appleton and the now-closed Pivot A Neenah LGBTQ club is creatg a growg love for drag shows the Fox CiMore: Rasls has long been a gay refuge AppletonBook clubs allow gay people to fd munyBook clubs have often been a place for people wh shared inti to fd muny while discsg lerature pertag to their liv and provi a safe space for gays and lbians to socialize, Appleton Public Library llectns ordator Michael Nz and Lawrence Universy Profsor Dick Wslow found a book club named the Lavenr Salon 15 years, the group met each Sunday members' hom wh potluck meals and discsns on books and club was exclive to gay people, so members — whether they were openly gay or not — were able to be themselv and safely meet other people the LGBTQ muny. "For some, was their first time knowgly meetg other people who were gay and lbian so beg a safe space was really important, " Nz told The Post-Crcent. Participatn the club grew om seven members to over 60 at a time, brgg people om Marette and Sheboygan for the weekly stunts' fight for gay-straight alliance clubDurg the turn of the century, stunts Madison and Milwkee high schools started creatg gay-straight allianc, or GSA clubs, to provi supportive environments for LGBTQ word about the clubs grew, a number of stunts at Neenah High School 2001, cludg Nick Ross — a current Appleton School Board member — wanted to create an official club for LGBTQ stunts to discs experienc and issu they were gog of the stunts were already LGBTQ support groups at the school and the muny, but Ross said was important for them to create an official group to give visibily to LGBTQ stunts and let other stunts know there was a safe space the school to discs their, when the stunts applied for club regnn, Neenah High School Prcipal Mark Duerwaechter nied them, sayg a GSA has polil goals and would go agast district policy, acrdg to Post-Crcent archiv.

"It was extremely terrifyg and sry for all the reasons of beg out public as LGBTQ, but also super excg bee we put ourselv out there and ma thgs happen, " Ross Neenah stunts' ph for a GSA and the attentn gathered the Fox Ci spired other stunts to create the club their own schools and a year later all three Appleton high schools had a High School Gay Straight Alliance club om an Oct. "In the last 15 years wh the cy of Appleton, we were dog some pretty active support of LGBTQ folks bee we were tired of seeg teens harmed and havg hate crim our parks, " Flor, who also prevly served as Appleton's diversy ordator, told The first time Appleton got volved LGBTQ issu was 2012 when the cy passed domtic partnership protectn for gay cy employe and their a time when same-sex marriage wasn't legal, domtic partnership benefs allowed cy employe and their partners the same benefs as spo, such as health surance and sick next time the cy got volved LGBTQ issu was Augt 2013 when the cy passed fair hog based on genr inty and exprsn, beg the third cy the state to ban hog discrimatn for transgenr people. Establishg a “Gay Life Estonia” is beg an achievable realy through tn, tolerance and ernment support.

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Estonia is a small untry wh hope the air and the streets that reachg a level of gay tolerance and prence will not take a more and not through bloodshed and social upheaval. Send, 2006 only 21% of the populatn were willg to accept gay marriage; by 2009 the approval rate was up to 32%. Third, Gay Pri Paras have been anized sce 2004 wh much ls opposn than the other Baltic untri, Latvia and Lhuania.

In November 2011, the pal cy of Talln and other major ci, the law school at Talln Universy of Technology anized an outdoor media mpaign lled “Difference Enrich, ” tend to te agast homophobia. It is open for rmatn regardg lol gay life, to sponsor events and as a safe meetg place wh a lounge, a puter wh WiFi ter accs, a library and a kchen.

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Acrdg to the Gay Gui to Talln says that several gay activist groups have been formed Talln sce 1990 but did not name them. Here n be found a Gay Map onle for lols and visors. The age of nsent is 14 years and was equalized for both homosexual and heterosexual sex 2001.

Key speakers at the event clud Riho Rahuoja, the Deputy Secretary General for Social Policy at the Mistry of Social Affairs; Christian Vke, the Chief Specialist the Mistry’s Genr Equaly Department; Kari Käsper, Project Manager of the “Diversy Enrich” mpaign om the Estonian Human Rights Centre; Hanna Kannelmäe om the Estonian Gay Youth NGO and the Brish Ambassador to Estonia Peter Carter.

The exhib prised photographs of and by lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people taken at var Pri events throughout Europe, cludg photographs of gay Estonians. It is hard to precisely fe what mak Estonia different om neighborg homophobic untri, cludg Poland.

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“Dpe beg viewed as the most liberal and tolerant of the Baltic pals, Talln, like Riga Latvia and Vilni Lhuania, still has a long way to go to tch up wh neighborg Sndavian untri and Wtern Europe when to homosexualy. While homophobia is not as entrenched the media Estonia as is ‘uber-Catholic’ Lhuania and Poland, is still very much entrenched the public psyche. After all, homosexualy apparently didn’t exist unr Stal… so they believed.

Some rearchers have observed that after pennce om the Soviets, gays Estonia still had to unter cultural factors like dividualism, a strong preference for privacy, and distst of the ernment which imped polil actn and muny anizatn.

In June 2006, the Dutch Ambassador to Estonia Hans Glbz asked to be transferred to the Dutch nsulate Montreal, Canada after untg homophobic and racial verbal abe aimed agast his partner, an Ao-Cuban dancer named Raúl García Lao, by racists and bigots Talln. Talln Pri ordator Lisette Kamp said that Baltic people are generally very tolerant of sexual mori: “It’s not fair to say they aren’t gay-iendly, they are. The objectors are a small mory who are really radilly agast gay issu, and they have a very loud voice.

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She went on to say, “though gay tourists g to Talln may feel a marked difference Estonia terms of the untry’s openns toward gays, travelers generally have ltle to fear terms of gay-bashg.

Nohels, discretn is a good fense and one still employed by most of Talln’s gay-oriented nightclubs, the number of which ntu to grow, and there is no doubt that Talln outsh both Riga and Vilni (perhaps both bed) when to gay nightlife. To renfirm their bigotry, July 2011, the Estonian Council of Church (Evangelil Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Orthodox church and a number of Free Church) sent an open msage to the Mistry of Jtice rponse to the Chancellor’s statement about registerg unmarried partnerships: “The Council of Church do not tolerate homosexualy, ” claimg that tradnal hetero marriage is a guarantee of stabily for Estonian people and Estonian State.

The followg rmatn om the Internatnal Encyclopedia of Sexualy (2004) regardg homosexualy Estonia, wrten by Ela Haav-Mannila, PhD (Department of Soclogy, P. “Regardg same-sex activy, male homosexualy was not punishable the pennt Estonian Republic before World War II.

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Durg the Soviet occupatn, male homosexual behavr—specifilly anal terurse between men—was forbidn everywhere the Soviet Unn. Gay men who had no public sex or polil problems, were ually not persecuted. Up to the mid-1980s, there was an unofficial gay bar Talln and there was at least one cisg area both Talln and Tartu.

“A cisive year for Estonian homosexuals was 1990, when the Internatnal Scientific Conference on Sexual Mori and Society Twentieth Century Europe took place Talln, the first of this kd Eastern Europe. Also, durg 1990, the first advertisements for gay and lbian acquatanc were published pennt newspapers.

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The first gay/lbian anizatn Estonia was the Estonian Lbian Unn, found 1990, followed two years later by the Estonian Gay League. Today Estonia exprs an ambivalence toward homosexualy. “In Estonia 2000, 50% of surveyed men and 63% of women agreed wh the statement “Homosexualy among adults is a private affair of the people ncerned wh which officials the law should no way terfere; 29% of men and 25% of women found hard to say what their posn was.

Regardg the more recent and ntroversial issue of gay marriage, younger people are more liberal than olr people. “One should notice that the majory of the populatn has a favorable attu toward homosexual behavr between adults; is seen as a private affair wh which officials and the state should not terfere. Gay Marriage Estonia.

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Estonia and Homosexualy: Between (ltle) Tolerance and Incln.

“The public bate about homosexual-marriage was re-igned aga Europe a few days ago when Iceland’s openly lbian Prime Mister Johanna Sigurdardottir beme the first head of any ernment to enter to a gay marriage. “Last week, Estonia´s Prime Mister referred to the gay marriage issue his own untry when he was asked about his opn.

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“After this PM statement, Estonian Free Prs ntacted the Estonian Gay Youth associatn for their view on this matter. The law Estonia do not forbid same sex relatns, however the view of Madle Saluveer, member of the Estonian Gay Youth associatn, do not give any guarante as well. Estonia beg a tolerant untry to me reads exactly: “we do not ban your homosexual relatns, we let you be (pecially if you’re very quiet and don’t requt more than you’re given)“, whereas givg LGBT people the guarante of havg a legally regnized fay would make Estonia an clive and acceptg, open-md European untry”.