Equalx is a llaborative knowledge base for the LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) movement, visualizg LGBTQ+ rights through maps, timel, and data.
Contents:
- TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021
- 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
- BT AND WORST STAT FOR LGBTQ FOLKS? DIVI WORSENS AFTER 'DON'T SAY GAY,' REPORT SAYS
TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021
The LGBTQ+ Travel Safety Inx ranks the world’s most dangero untri for gay travelers 2021. * gay safety index *
The bevy of state laws ensurg that queer rints of California have accs to the same treatment as other people the state is, perhaps, one reason why the state remas a popular statn for gay upl.
C., for example, has most of the same anti-discrimatn laws found natnal lear California, except for legislatn that exprsly prohibs anti-gay discrimatn jury selectn.
5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
But, of urse, New York’s place the battle for acceptance of the LGBTQ+ muny go back much further, as the Stonewall Uprisg, one of the first major ton of the gay rights movement, began June 1969 New York Cy’s Greenwich Village. Unlike the stat at the top of our list, many of those fallg to the bottom have actively hostile laws targetg members of the queer muny, and they often also have yet to pass laws banng thgs like anti-gay discrimatn or nversn therapy.
While Tennsee don’t still crimalize sodomy like Mississippi do, has few laws that bar anti-gay discrimatn and actively bars municipali the state om puttg lol ordanc place to do so. The state lacks anti-discrimatn laws protectg queer dividuals most areas except for lleg and universi, and perms anti-gay discrimatn adoptn and foster placement. Like many others at the bottom of this list, Louisiana do not have laws barrg anti-gay discrimatn hog, employment, or tn, and the state allows relig exemptns to protect those wh anti-gay views.
Louisiana state lawmakers sent addnal anti-LGBTQ+ legislatn to their ernor’s sk durg the first week of Pri Month 2023: a pyt of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, a ban on genr-affirmg re for mors, and guil for pronoun age schools. However, the state perms anti-gay discrimatn adoptn and foster placement and has laws agast sodomy and non-disclosure of HIV stat. But gay travelers face the add plexy of navigatg a myriad of LGBTQ+ laws around the world.
BT AND WORST STAT FOR LGBTQ FOLKS? DIVI WORSENS AFTER 'DON'T SAY GAY,' REPORT SAYS
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. “Of the ‘least safe’ untri on our list, the top 49 still have prison sentenc as punishment for beg gay, ” says Fergson.
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