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From the most excg cultural events for LGBTQ travelers to the bt of Dubl’s gay nightlife, this gui will tell you everythg you need to know to have an amazg holiday Dubl * ireland gay cities *

While San Francis might reasonably be nsired the gay pal of the world, Ireland’s foremost cy remas one of the bt and iendlit ci for LGBTQ travelers to vis.

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Most people who are gay Dubl will head over to the famo Temple Bar district, known for s excellent nightlife terg to all kds of people.

The Temple Bar area is where much of Dubl’s nightlife is ncentrated, cludg the cy’s most popular gay bars. Dubl is one of Ireland’s bt ci for nightlife and has plenty of excellent gay bars and clive tablishments.

While other clubs have gay-themed nights or parti, The Gee is the only fully LGBTQ nightclub Dubl, and is one of the most vised gay venu the cy.

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The first monstratn for gay rights Dubl happened 1974, the first Gay Pri Week was held 1979, and the first Pri March was held March 1980. Its proximy to Dubl’s gay nightlife (and The Boilerhoe sna) mak a popular choice for LGBTQ travelers visg the cy. Ireland don't have one particular gayborhood, but they do have a lot of different bars, clubs, and f sttered around the untry.

However, there isn't a particular gayborhood or hotspot to fd them all one place, they are spread all over the cy.

It wasn’t always that way, but there has been a massive shift general attus sce the crimalisatn of homosexualy 1993. BarsDubl’s olst and biggt gay bar is The Gee, which has been servg the cy’s LGBTQ+ muny for over thirty years. Also worth checkg out is the Internatnal Gay Theatre Ftival, which ually tak place May and featur LGBTQ+-themed productns staged theatr and smaller venu across the cy.

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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. 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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Gay Ireland is a thrivg and stgglg force that was given legal birth the early 1990’s when homosexualy was crimalized * ireland gay cities *

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.

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Although homosexualy was not crimalised Ireland until 1993, thgs have changed rapidly sce and there is an active and lively gay scene most ci and some larger towns. Outsi of urban centr thgs are still a ltle bleak on the social ont, though tolerance is rare. * ireland gay cities *

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. The cy’s pact size means ’s easy to bop om place to place and LGBT travellers shouldn’t feel they’re limed to ‘official’ gay-iendly venu; would be difficult to fd a venue Dubl cy centre you won’t be wele .

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As many Wtern ci, gay bars are more likely to be closg down than openg up Dubl, as homosexualy be more accepted across all venu. North of the Liffey, Pantibar ntu to draw crowds, thanks part to beg owned by the unofficial queen of Ireland, Panti Bliss, bonafi drag royalty and one of the untry’s leadg gay rights activists.

Wh lourful flowers and plenty of cycle lan, mak for a nice sojourn and has a wir signifince: the tragic murr of a lol gay man lled Declan Flynn the park 1982 is wily nsired the talyst for the Irish gay rights movement. Break for the Borr stands place of Bartley Dunne’s, probably the untry’s first gay-iendly venue, which prid self on allowg punks and ‘alternative’ people , while the Vikg holds the tle of beg Ireland’s first exclively gay bar – ’s now unr new management and has been renamed Brogan’s. The GAZE Film Ftival July has been celebratg LGBT storytellg for 25 years, while the Dubl Gay Theatre Ftival tak place smaller venu across the cy May.

Like all ci, homophobic cints are not unheard of but are few and far between, and public displays of affectns between same-sex upl are que monplace. Gay Rights Ireland has grown to be one of the most liberal untri of the world, as was the first one to legalize gay marriage on a natnal level by popular vote.

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