Tips for Gay and Lbian Travelers Prague | Frommer's

Contents:

• GAY PRAGUE
• IN PRAGUE, A FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS GO INTERNATNAL
• #GAY RIGHTS
• THE GAY SI OF PRAGUE
• PRAGUE GAY PRI
• CZECHIA AND ATRIA CRICISE HUNGARY FOR RTRICTG A GAY NOVEL
• AS THE EU TAK A STEP FORWARD FOR GAY RIGHTS, CZECHIA STANDS STILL ON THE ISSUE
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS PRAGUE

GAY PRAGUE

Gay Marriage⚭✖ Civil unnsCensorship✔ No censorshipChangg Genr✖ Legal, but requir surgeryNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedEmployment Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyHog Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyDonatg Blood✖ Banned (1-year ferral)Conversn Therapy✖ Not banned. Suggt Public Opn DataPublic OpnPerceptns of lol area as a "good place" for gay and lbian people? 8%) Mentned homosexualsDid not mentn homosexuals (67%)Jtifiabily of homosexualy?

IN PRAGUE, A FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS GO INTERNATNAL

Current statSce Jan 1, 1962Legal Homosexual activy was crimalized marriage Czech Republic?

Current statSce Jul 1, 2006Civil unns Registered partnerships are available for same sex upl, but they have limed rights parison to marriage (no pensn and tax rights and no adoptn rights)Not legalgay marriage is not legal. IllegalThe Czech Republic do not currently allow gay upl to adopt, as adoptn is rerved for married upl only and gay upl are not legally able to get married the untry. Servg openly ary Czech Republic is Acrdg to rearch by The Palm Center, "homosexualy is not nsired a liabily for enlistment.

Current statSce Jul 1, 1990Equal The age of nsent Czech Republic is 15 years for both heterosexual and homosexual dividuals. Travelerasked Czech native and Prague4Gay tour-pany owner Petr Prokopík about how his home cy has changed, his favore plac, and why heterosexual travelers love learng about LGBT should LGBT travelers know about Prague?

#GAY RIGHTS

Registered partnership for gays and lbians was troduced 2006.

When I started Prague4Gay ten years ago, my clients were mostly gay men, many of them primarily wantg to explore the unfaiar and exotic gay pal of Eastern Europe. Today, I serve as an IGLTA (Internatnal Gay and Lbian Travel Associatn) ambassador the Czech are your tour clients and what are they most terted ?

On every cy tour you’ll learn the date pennt Czechoslovakia was tablished—but how was life Prague 1920s and ‘30s for members of the “other” muni, like gays, lbians, Jews, Germans, members of different religns? To learn about those differenc n be tertg for everyone—gays, lbians, trans people, and Prokopík's gay-foced tour pany lnched 2005.

THE GAY SI OF PRAGUE

It has more than 110, 000 viewers annually—gay and straight—pl screengs ten Czech ci. To meet wh iend and have a great cup of ffee or a beer, I ually go to Q Café, a small iendly fé where everyone is wele—gays, lbians, lol artists, stunts. 2, also known as Vohrady, recently nicknamed Prague’s “gay quarter.

Thoands of people rallied the Czech pal on Wednday to honor two Slovak gay men that were shot ad Bratislava and mand a better protectn of the LGBTQ muny. PRAGUE (AP) — Thoands rallied the Czech pal Wednday to honor two Slovak gay men shot ad this month outsi a bar Slovakia, and mand better protectn of LGBTQ people and their gatherg Prague’s central Wenclas Square was held the same day the funerals of Matúš Horváth and Juraj Vankulič were nducted said they boosted their prence at the Prague rally after they taed a man who was threatg to e a gun agast the LGBTQ people at the square.

PRAGUE GAY PRI

The Czech Republic, the Central European untry is the most liberal European untry regardg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr (LGBT+) rights acrdg to CEE New Perspectiv.

CZECHIA AND ATRIA CRICISE HUNGARY FOR RTRICTG A GAY NOVEL

A 2013 Pew Rearch Center survey monstrated that 80% of Czechs thk that homosexualy ought to be acknowledged by society, one of the most top among the 39 natns surveyed. The reason why homosexual people prefer to move to Prague than any other place the untry is that some of them are still a b of sred to e out as a homosexual wh the fear of dreadg rults as revealed by the surveys recently nducted by the Czech Amy of Scienc (fd here Czech). It aims are maly to promote tolerant civil society, fight agast homophobia and crease public awarens of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muny the Czech Republic.

Also 2011 Prague’s first gay & lbian pri ftival happened. We talked to two gay upl livg Brno, to get to know more about the current suatn. It is often hard to meet and to make iendships wh other gay people around and once a Czech gay people fd a partner they tend to hi away om other gays.

AS THE EU TAK A STEP FORWARD FOR GAY RIGHTS, CZECHIA STANDS STILL ON THE ISSUE

There is also a gay film ftival lled Mezipatra that plays movi both ci (Prague and Brno).

There is also a gay ball every Febary and works siarly to the Mezipatra ftival. There are very few plac Brno for gay people and one of them is often more equented by straight people.

I tried to be amible to a person there once and he warned me not to touch him as he “is not gay.

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS PRAGUE

After that cint, I gave up gog to gay bars and siar plac like that.

You n be whout hatn openly queer/gay Prague, as there has never been a problem wh public discrimatn or vlence.

Homosexual acts have been crimalised 1962, followed by anti-discrimatn law 1999. No matter the time of the year, there is still somethg gay happeng Prague. If you ci to vis Prague sprg, there are two sportg events wag for you: Prague Rabow Sprg at the very begng of May followed by the chary n Fun&Run which tak a place around May 17 (the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia).