The LGBTQ+ Travel Safety Inx ranks the world’s most dangero untri for gay travelers 2021.
Contents:
- WHAT PROVCETOWN’S GAY COMMUNY CAN TEACH US ABOUT CONTAG COVID
- HOW A GAY COMMUNY HELPED THE CDC SPOT A COVID OUTBREAK — AND LEARN MORE ABOUT DELTA
- I SPENT $5,200 TO GO ON AN ALL-GAY CISE — AND SPENT THE ENTIRE 10 DAYS ISOLATN WHEN I TTED POSIVE FOR COVID
- TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021
- GAY TRAVEL TOURS & TRIPS
- GAY BARS WERE H HARD BY COVID, BUT MOST HAVE MA IT BACK AHEAD OF PRI WEEKEND
- 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
WHAT PROVCETOWN’S GAY COMMUNY CAN TEACH US ABOUT CONTAG COVID
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What Provcetown’s Gay Communy Can Teach Us About Contag Covid.
HOW A GAY COMMUNY HELPED THE CDC SPOT A COVID OUTBREAK — AND LEARN MORE ABOUT DELTA
I was so exced for the all-gay cise on the Royal Atlantis I spent over $5k on, but after boardg, I tted posive for COVID and was isolated. * a gay vacation town got hit with covid *
In that sense, the succs story of this outbreak is how well was documented and reported by the muny of people, large part gay men, who’d been Provcetown at the time. Disclosg tails about your health, rg for one another your muny, and advotg for your own healthre has been tegral to gay culture sce the HIV/AIDS panmic began the 1980s.
I SPENT $5,200 TO GO ON AN ALL-GAY CISE — AND SPENT THE ENTIRE 10 DAYS ISOLATN WHEN I TTED POSIVE FOR COVID
* a gay vacation town got hit with covid *
He thks there’s somethg special about the town’s legacy gay culture, too. Daskalakis isn’t surprised at all this group of gay men stepped up. “Gay and other men who have sex wh men’s relatnship wh public health has been tempered by fire to a new kd of tst, ” he says.
The speed of the vtigatn — and the exceptnal participatn om the mostly gay men volved the outbreak — helped the CDC learn new rmatn about the lta variant. As they do every year, thoands of gay men arrived for the holiday this ltle artist muny on the tip of Cape Cod to rent ttag, go to the beach and drag shows and rtrants, and crowd to nightclubs to dance. He started thkg to himself, he says, that given that vaccatn rat were really high among the gay muny and Provcetown, "the odds don't really add up.
"The norms of the gay muny say: Share your medil history, share your risks wh other people so that they n be rponsible and take re of themselv as well, " he says. On lls wh public health officials, Donnelly says he and LeVassr tried to expla, not jt their spreadsheet and analysis, but the ntext of what Provcetown is like durg the annual gay pilgrimage weeks. "Even for — even for gay men who have been the gay nightlife scene for years and years, 's not the easit thg the world to go to a meetg wh 10 CDC epimlogy experts and expla the trici of Circu Week vers Bear Week and jt how many hundreds of people they n squeeze to those spac wh terrible mic, " Donnelly lghs.
TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021
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Gay men's relatnship to public health has been "tempered by fire bee of HIV, " the CDC's Daskalakis says. Dave Benbow booked an all-gay cise the Mederranean for $5, 200 and was so exced to go.
This as-told-to say is based on a nversatn wh Dave Benbow, a 61-year-old om LA who booked a trip on a 10-day Mederranean all-gay cise leavg om Rome at the end of Augt and tted posive for COVID the first day on board. I get to be wh my people: the full spectm of gay men, and no screamg kids. This one was gog to be the biggt ever all-gay cise around Europe: 4, 000 gay men would be on board.
On an all-gay cise, the top ck is absolutely packed; that's where the parti happen!
GAY TRAVEL TOURS & TRIPS
But gay travelers face the add plexy of navigatg a myriad of LGBTQ+ laws around the world. And although there have been some improvements over recent years, more than 70 untri still have homophobic laws, acrdg to Equalx.
Sce the Fergsons’ study on the most dangero plac for gay travelers 2019, several laws have changed—some for the better (Sudan), and some for the worse (Hungary, Poland).
A new report tails the most dangero—and saft—plac for gay. The journalists have noticed the Covid-19 panmic negatively affect gay rights around the world.
GAY BARS WERE H HARD BY COVID, BUT MOST HAVE MA IT BACK AHEAD OF PRI WEEKEND
“Of the ‘least safe’ untri on our list, the top 49 still have prison sentenc as punishment for beg gay, ” says Fergson. Other stat have ma illegal to exhib advocy for homosexualy schools. The wi variatn gay rights pendg on the state you’re certaly ntributed to the Uned Stat’ low rankg of saft untri.
See the entire world rankgs and important safety tips Lekki-Ikoyi bridge Nigeria—the most dangero place for gay. “It was ranked so poorly largely due to the extreme penalti for simply beg gay, which clu up to 14 years prison and the ath penalty stat unr Sharia law. This Middle Eastern kgdom is another on our list which n implement the ath penalty for nsensual homosexualy unr their terpretatn of Sharia law, ” says Fergson.
Unfortunately, imposed punishment for homosexualy is severe and the existence of gay people Malaysia was nied by their tourism mister as recently as March 2019, ” says Fergson. “Unr state terpretatn of Sharia law, homosexualy Malaysia rults up to 20 years prison, whippg, and f.
5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
“The punishments for homosexualy Malawi have earned this Ain untry as the number four worst untry for LGBTQ+ travelers, ” says Fergson. Pro-LGBTQ+ anizatns are banned by the ernment Malawi and general public sentiment regards homosexualy as off-lims.
Only 3% of Malawians said their cy is a good place for gay and lbian people when asked by the Gallup World Poll.