New 2018 rankgs om the ILGA-Europe shows Europe's bt untri for LGBTQ rights and polici a eful Rabow map of Europe's gay-iendly social polici and laws
Contents:
- WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
- EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
Equalx is a llaborative knowledge base for the LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) movement, visualizg LGBTQ+ rights through maps, timel, and data. * europe gay rights map *
Meanwhile, Hungary moved down three plac, maly bee s parliament adopted a number of amendments which directly discrimate agast LGBTI people, cludg a ban on the “portrayal and the promotn of genr inty different om sex at birth, the change of sex and homosexualy” for persons unr 18. Every year, along wh the State-Sponsored Homophobia report, ILGA World publish also maps of sexual orientatn laws the world. This map is supported by the data llected State-Sponsored Homophobia 2020: Global Legislatn Overview Update (published December 2020).
Laws that explicly mentn sexual orientatn primarily target, whether for protectn or harm, lbian, gay, and bisexual people. More than 18 years after the Netherlands beme the world’s first untry to legalize same-sex marriage, Northern Ireland has bee the latt European jurisdictn to allow gays and lbians to marry. The Czech Republic is the only untry out of 19 surveyed Central and Eastern Europe where a majory of adults (65%) support gay marriage.
EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
The rights of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people have taken centre stage ahead of Spa's July 23 natnal electn. * europe gay rights map *
Image: REUTERS/Darren OrnzShare:Stay up to date:Genr InequalyLGBT rights like homosexual activy are still illegal some untri of the world Image: EqualxRecent chang laws regardg legalizatn of same sex marriage and siar LGBT rights Image: EqualxLegaly of genr changg LGBT rights is subject to surgery most untri. Hungary’s hardle natnalist ernment passed a new law earlier this month banng ntent that “promot” homosexualy and genr change om beg shared wh children, effectively prohibg any discsn of LGBTQ them schools. In dog so, Orbán has followed the playbook of Poland’s ernment, which has been chippg away at the rights of the LGBTQ muny for a number of years, adoptg discrimatory rhetoric and stokg homophobia.
To unrstand how gay rights vary around the world, Bs Insir created a set of maps that visualize which untri have legalized gay marriage and the untri where gay people n still be put to ath, among other qutns. * europe gay rights map *
“There’s a real regrsn happeng many different untri, and rights that had been regnized are now beg challenged, ” said Evelyne Paradis, the executive director of the European branch of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA-Europe). Orbán, like the ernment Poland and some other untri, is tryg to prent homophobic polici as a way of protectg natnal valu.
“It’s not about homosexuals, ’s about the kids and the parents, ” he told reporters, addg that he was a “eedom fighter” durg Hungary’s munist era. She add that the ia of natn is often closely associated wh a tradnal fay and genr rol – another way to “other” the gay muny.
“You have plac like Germany, France, Spa where 85% or more say that homosexualy should be accepted by society and then once you’re past the dividg le, on the other si of the former Iron Curta, those numbers beg to fall pretty rapidly and then get even lower as you go to Rsia, ” he said.