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Contents:

• THE 10 BEST BELGIUM GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BELGIUM
• GAY PRI EVENTS BELGIUM
• GAY LIEGE, BELGIUM | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!
• GAY BELGIUM: A LEADG NATN FOR GAY RPECT AND RIGHTS
• BSSELS GAY SPORTS (BGS)
• JOZSEF SZAJER: HUNGARY MEP QUS AFTER ALLEGEDLY FLEEG GAY Y
• MEMBER OF HUNGARY’S ‘ANTI-GAY’ ERNMENT QUS AFTER Y BT
• INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
• SEAONT HEALG: MARV GAYE MM MOOTED BELGIAN TOWN HE LOVED
• BELGIAN BISHOP LASH OUT AT VATIN OVER GAY UNNS CREE

THE 10 BEST BELGIUM GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BELGIUM

And the massive gay party La Demence, held about 12 tim a year at Fe, is a Bssels stutn, drawg men om across Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany and beyond for more than 30 years.

GAY PRI EVENTS BELGIUM

A leadg natn for gay rpect and rights There’s a good reason for the Internatnal Lbian and Gay Associatn to be based Bssels Belgium: the untry is one of the most progrsive societi the world regnizg LGBT cizens as fully equal to everyone else. From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis.

Some gay-iendly acmodatns may also provi ameni specifilly terg to the LGBTQ+ muny, such as rabow flags or lerature about lol LGBTQ+ events or rourc. Needls to say, there are also hundreds more hotel and hostel optns Liege if none of the su your sired budget, facili or area – but the are the bt hotels acrdg to other gay travelers and . Whether ’s dancg the night away at a gay club or mglg wh lols at a gay-iendly bar, you’ll have the chance to make memori and create lastg nnectns.

GAY LIEGE, BELGIUM | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!

Sure, the sna culture Liege is not as hedonistic as Amsterdam, Barcelona or Berl, but the venu still offer a chance to meet new people, socialize, and engage sexual activy – whout rortg to gay hookup apps. If you are apprehensive, we advise studyg our gui to visg a gay bathhoe for the first time, which should help set your md at ease and always practice safe sex. Latvia swore the first openly gay print of a Baltic natn Rkēvičs, who sce 2011 was the untry’s foreign mister, was elected by Parliament May after Print Egils Levs did not seek re-electn.

GAY BELGIUM: A LEADG NATN FOR GAY RPECT AND RIGHTS

She is thought to be the first openly gay prime mister the was an active unnist her nearly 10 years workg as a flight attendant, acrdg to the Council of Women World Lears, a work of female heads of state. ”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported.

BSSELS GAY SPORTS (BGS)

“To be natnally blamed, to be nsired as not normal, to be nsired as a danger for young people — ’s not realizg that beg gay is not a choice, ” Bettel said, acrdg to Rters. “Hopefully this will blow over three or four days, and then I won’t be known as the gay mister, ” she told The Associated Prs at the Varadkar Prime Mister of Ireland (2017-20, 2022-prent)Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar Bssels on June 30. There’s a good reason for the Internatnal Lbian and Gay Associatn to be based Bssels Belgium: the untry is one of the most progrsive societi the world regnizg LGBT cizens as fully equal to everyone else.

Durg the 20th century the Belgian parliament was far more tolerant than any monarch and for a hundred years a liberal culture emerged–perhaps bee of s lguistic diversy and s straddlg the cultural boundary between Germanic and Lat Europe–which embraced gay rights culmatg 2003 as the 2nd untry the world to legalize gay marriage–after Holland. More than jt a flamboyant para of drag queens, leather boys and gym buffs on floats (though those are fun) the gay people of Bssels and Belgium take Gay Pri celebratn very serly and is more of a polil monstratn where the gay movement’s polil agenda is prented the form of a list of mands cludg mands for better anti-discrimatn laws, cln of gay relatnships high-school sex tn and the right to adoptn by same-sex parents.

JOZSEF SZAJER: HUNGARY MEP QUS AFTER ALLEGEDLY FLEEG GAY Y

A former police statn, this 17th century, three-story wonr–Casa Rosa–was donated by the cy of Ghent 1999 and ho the Holebiferatie (‘Holibi’ is a lol word om abbreviatns for ‘homosexual’, ‘lbian’ and ‘bisexual’) and several other groups, as well as a first-floor bookshop/rmatn center.

MEMBER OF HUNGARY’S ‘ANTI-GAY’ ERNMENT QUS AFTER Y BT

Neverthels, much as there is to celebrate Belgium, the number of rints fected wh the HIV vis creased by 20% 2006 wh most of the new diagnos among homosexual men. “There is more HIV fectn among homosexual men, and at the same time the group is only a small percentage of the entire populatn, ” said one health official.

INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD

The rise mirrors creas other wtern untri as the first ‘post-retroviral’ generatn of gay men are sced by the myth that AIDS is jt another disease managed by meditn and risky sexual behavr aga be mon. Belgian police and the lol public prosecutors’ office have yet to nfirm or ny if the killg was motivated by homophobia, but the se highlights the fact that for LGBTQ+ people, searchg for a romantic nnectn onle right now n put you ser danger. Acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA’s) Annual Review of LGBTQ+ rights Europe, hate crim agast LGBTQ+ people the Netherlands were reported by Dutch media almost every week 2020.

Many are feelg vulnerable, and there are fears that homophobic assailants may be takg advantage of the fact that queer datg apps are one of the only opportuni LGBTQ+ dividuals n e to meet others right now.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

Sce lockdowns were imposed around the world when the panmic took hold early last year, apps such as Grdr, Scff and Her have have taken on a greater role the LGBTQ+ muny, as tradnally safe public LGBTQ+ spac, such as gay bars, clubs and pubs, were forced to shut their doors. ILGA pots out s State-Sponsored Homophobia report that LGBTQ+ people have found themselv adrift durg the panmic: “Lockdowns meant the abpt and plete terptn of activi, gathergs beme impossible, events and Pris got spend, and safe spac dramatilly shnk overnight wh extremely ltle to no notice.

5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)

” If they work to uphold fundamental eedoms and tamp down risg homophobic rhetoric, then LGBTQ+ people are likely to feel safer as they navigate onle datg spac, he argu.

The recent murr of a gay man Belgium has sent shockwav through the lol LGBTQ+ muny and exposed a disturbg rise attacks agast queer people the European natn.

Lrent Jam, founr of the support group LGBTQIA+ BE, tells Out the attack agast David is ditive of a subtext of hate and homophobia that permeat a large portn of Belgian society, and scrib a growg outrage the untry over the murr and attacks.

SEAONT HEALG: MARV GAYE MM MOOTED BELGIAN TOWN HE LOVED

A 2019 report om Unia showed a 38 percent rise reported attacks agast the LGBTQ+ muny Belgium over the prev five years, wh 125 cints of discrimatn and 17 acts of physil aggrsn registered wh the group 2018 blam the rise on "right-wg polics, relig backgrounds, and a lack of tn, " sayg attackers acquire their homophobia "outsi of their schools and stand strong their nvictns. Although the groups are still active and mpaigng around the world, Belgium n look back on s history wh a progrsive glimmer, as was the send untry to allow gay marriage and one of the first to legalise homosexualy. After the age of enlightenment and the many revolutns across Europe, homosexualy beme legal some societi, like France, and this extend to Belgium as were unr French domn; which allowed same-sex relatns as early as 1795.

And this sentiment is reflected Belgian society, as the untry had one of the first openly gay prime misters, El Di Rupo, as well as two openly gay misters. But this also cis wh the fact that many European untri have banned same-sex marriage, wh Slovakia enactg the law as recently as 2014 and Hungary havg repealed prevly enstated rights that allow gay marriage and protect gay upl om discrimatn. So for gay activists, they ntue to mpaign for equal rights across Europe, but at least for the cizens of Belgium, people are ee to live and exprs themselv however they see f and live a society that judg them not on preferenc, but on the weight of their character.

BELGIAN BISHOP LASH OUT AT VATIN OVER GAY UNNS CREE

Image source, AFPImage ptn, Jozsef Szajer is a senr member of Hungary's lg Fisz partyAn MEP om Hungary's lg party, which is hostile to LGBT rights, has qu after he was ught attendg what Belgian media scribe as a gay sex party Bssels on Szajer, a top member of Prime Mister Viktor Orban's Fisz party, was stopped by police after reports of a hoe party vlatg lockdown l. "Belgium's De Standaard daily says the ual fe for breakg the Covid l on assembly is €250 (£224) Szajer's rignatn, followed by his nfsn that he took part what media have scribed as a "gay y", is a ser blow for Fisz, which has erned Hungary for the past . A member of Hungary’s anti-gay ernment regime has rigned after beg ught at an y the basement of a Belgian gay bar, held vlatn of ronavis preutns.

Police Bssels on Friday bted up a bash the basement of a gay bar — which officials have characterized as an y — that drew Szájer and 24 other revelers, reportedly cludg several diplomats. That unbearable, paful erotic tensn is more or ls the staed mood of Oliver Herman’ shimmerg and sensual ary drama “Moffie, ” which is easily the bt movie about gay male reprsn sce “God’s Own Country. ” Set 1981 South Ai at the apex of the South Ain Borr War, the film’s story of gay unrequed sire turns out to be a sg for somethg far more lethal s marrow.

Frears’ film nonts all manner of taboos, not only terms of the gay relatnship at s center, but also the entrenched xenophobia and natnalism that challenge their bond.