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Equalx, a llaborative knowledge base for the global LGBT movement that maps the legaly of homosexualy, intifi a number of factors cludg eedom to change genr and to adopt – although hasn’t ranked untri or ci orr of bt to x om the Human Rights Campaign looks at municipal servic, law enforcement and the cy learship’s public posn on equaly across the US. Arguably the size of the LGBT populatn urban areas uld reflect the level of iendls, as “many LGBTI folk head to ci om ral areas bee of the promise of a eer, more tolerant life there, ” says André du Plsis, executive director of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn.

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San Francis has often been lled the “gay pal of the world” for s culture of tolerance and vibrant even when ci seem progrsive on the surface, the lived experience of members of the LGBT muny n tell a dramatilly different story. “For a certa social strata [sic], Cape Town and Johannburg are gay mecs, but at the same time black lbians livg poor areas there are alg wh vlence and targeted rape, ” says Graeme Reid, director of the LGBT rights programme at Human Rights Watch. “Wh the electn of an openly homophobic print, Jair Bolsonaro, who has famoly said he would rather have a ad son than a gay son, R’s reputatn as a statn cy may falter, and vlence crease, ” Reid says.

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”‘Gay Disneyland’Conversely, some untri wh backward and dangero attus to the LGBT muny, such as Iran and Sdi Arabia, discreet but vibrant unrground scen n thrive. This is even the se Rsia, where activists say two people were killed last week and nearly 40 taed, as part of a new homophobic crackdown by police the Chechnya regn.

“Dubl is like gay Disneyland now, and that wasn’t the se 20 or 30 years ago, ” says Prof Andrew Reynolds, founr of the Universy of North Carola’s LGBTQ Reprentatn and Rights Rearch Iniative.

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The untry was the first to legalise gay marriage by popular vote, a 2015 referendum wh a y vote of says: “They went to Atralia. And November, Jared Polis beme the first openly gay man to be elected as a US state Poland, one of Europe’s most Catholic and nservative untri, voters the small cy of Slupsk this year elected a gay atheist mayor, Robert Biedron. Jt a few years ago, Biedron was attacked on the streets of his cy bee of his Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunil Pant beme Asia’s first openly gay feral-level elected official 2008, rultg a spate of public scty.

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