10 of Europe’s bt statns for LGBTQ+ travellers this Pri season | Gay and lbian travel | The Guardian

Contents:

• LOS 10 MEJORES DESTINOS GAY EN EUROPA
• CUáL SON LAS CIUDAS EUROPEAS GAY FRIENDLY
• 9 MOST GAY-FRIENDLY COUNTRI IN EUROPE
• LAS MáS "GAY IENDLY" CIUDAS EN EUROPA
• LA 5 CIUDAS MáS GAY IENDLY EUROPA
• 14 GAY-IENDLY CI THAT LGBT TRAVELLERS LOVE
• 11 CIUDAS MáS GAY FRIENDLY L MUNDO
• LAS DIEZ CIUDAS MáS GAY IENDLY L MUNDO
• 14 CIUDAS GAY-IENDLY QUE TE VAN A ENAMORAR ?

LOS 10 MEJORES DESTINOS GAY EN EUROPA

It’s one of only five untri to make queer rights equal at a nstutnal level and holds first place on ILGA-Europe’s Rabow Europe Inx, which ranks untri on LGBTQ+ my last vis, a gay gui showed me round the wdg medieval streets of Valletta and Rabat, potg out sential bars and rtrants om Michel-starred Noni to the Monaliza Lounge drag bar, as well as the nightclub Michelangelo lively Paceville.

CUáL SON LAS CIUDAS EUROPEAS GAY FRIENDLY

This spir filters down to Dubl’s many LGBTQ-iendly tablishments: two personal favour are iendly bnch spot Social Fabric Café Stoneybatter, one of the cy’s most tertg neighbourhoods, and Street 66 bar, a eful cktail spot before a night at inic LGBTQ+ stutn The southsi is gay-owned Gutter Bookshop (named after the famo Osr Wil quote), and the weekly “big gay dis” Sunday Social at Farrier & Draper; or cross the river for the Outhoe LGBTQ+ muny rource fe on Capel Street and PantiBar, owned by drag queen, activist and performer Panti Bliss. Enjoy bnch at Osr bar and fe, before a beer at one of Europe’s olst gay bars, Centralhjor, which hosts drag and Sunday jazz ssns venu clu Bøssehet Christiania, home to theatre, performanc, exhibns and parti – a well-suated boutique hotel is SP34 (doubl om £133) the Lat Quarter. Nearby Delmoni’s (known lolly as “Del’s”), has been Merchant Cy’s “gay triangle” sce stay nearby, try the good-value Bnswick hotel (doubl om £50), on a street wh venu marked by rabow flags.

9 MOST GAY-FRIENDLY COUNTRI IN EUROPE

Photograph: Nick Maslen/AlamyOn my last vis to Birmgham the rabow flag seemed to be everywhere, and the historic Gay Village, wh s bars, shops and f, is hugely visible, centred largely on Hurst Street. Start wh bibimbap at the thoroughfare’s Korean rtrant Topokki before drks at Missg, Siwalk or lbian bar The Fox and dancg at the legendary Nightgale Club, the olst gay club the cy, datg back to summer’s hot LGBTQ+ event is Fierce’s Healg Garns of Bab (27 June - 17 July): part of Birmgham 2022 Ftival, ’s an artistic rponse to this summer’s Commonwealth Gam, celebratg “what the Brish Empire tried (and failed) to stamp out”.

LAS MáS "GAY IENDLY" CIUDAS EN EUROPA

Mykonos’s rep as queer heaven dat back to the 1970s, when Jackie Onassis beme a regular visor (she first vised 1961), before blossomed as gay rort the 1980s, wh acmodatn sprgg up for the largely male 2022, you n hang out at tablished hotspots Jackie O, bar Porta or Kastro’s, and stay at the Super Paradise (doubl om £249), handy for the island’s ma LGBTQ+ beach. Photograph: Subodh Agnihotri/AlamyFor many gay men of a certa age, Fland is extribly associated wh leather-clad inic hero Tom of Fland, whose books pict a ggedly sexualised masculy durg a time pre-1971 when homosexualy was still illegal.

Now you n take a tour of where thor Too Laaksonen lived his whole adult life, passg the Kansalaistori (People’s Square) ont of parliament, once a clanste meetg pot for gay karaoke fans should check out Mann’s Street, a boozy stutn; other fun spots are Street Pri the Kamppi district, and Kvääristö, a jot for queer women, transgenr, and non-bary people. 5ln people each year, cludg 300, 000 overseas self is one of the most LGBTQ-iendly untri the world: same-sex sexual activy was ma legal 1979, and was the third untry to legalise gay marriage, 2005.

First stop has to be Chue, Madrid’s “gaybourhood” wh bars and venu dotted around Plaza Chue (also don’t miss the recently refurbished Merdo San Antón for tasty food stalls and a rooftop terrace).

LA 5 CIUDAS MáS GAY IENDLY EUROPA

The island Mederranean natn is known for s iendly lols, betiful beach and vibrant gay scene after a ncerted effort to shift attus a untry domated by Roman Catholic were the bt LGBTQ+ statns cid? However, public attus lag behd legislatn wh 84 per cent of the public tellg the World Valu Survey they didn’t thk homosexualy was jtifiable between 2017 - remag Nordic untri, already famo for their high happs rankgs, are also high-ranked for their progrsive polics.

However, the Rsian ernment has already drawn ternatnal ire for s ‘Gay Propaganda law’ which, siarly to now-repealed Sectn 28 the UK, bans discsg homosexualy Pri paras are banned Rsia’s major ci and there are also reports of ‘gay-hunters’ attackg gay men the street. All Pri week activi were banned Istanbul, the untry's largt cy, this has also been claimed that the Turkish ernment told Netflix to remove a gay character om one of their scripts or risk losg their license for filmg the untry. Digamos que en los país nórdis hay mucha variedad e la ciudad Helski se encuentra la diste gay más gran los país nórdis, su nombre Hercul, y que si er l lectivo y visas Flandia, ¡no pues no ir a darlo todo allí!

Y si vas el día la celebración l Orgullo Gay, habrás ido al mejor s para celebrarlo, todas las ll llenas luz, eventos y sfil durante una semana entera y asistent, ¿te lo vas a perr? While attracts visors om all mographics their mass durg peak season, the island has plenty to offer the LGBT muny, om s host of gay bars and nudist beach to s annual ternatnal gay ftival, XLSIOR.

14 GAY-IENDLY CI THAT LGBT TRAVELLERS LOVE

Aunque todavía queda muchísimo por hacer, -en más 70 país ser homosexual ntua siendo un lo- la unidad gay va logrando la igualdad s rechos y la discrimación cero.

11 CIUDAS MáS GAY FRIENDLY L MUNDO

Esta misma semana, la Jticia la Unión Europea ha otado a los matrimons homosexual, pendientemente si el país en cutión renoce la unión entre parejas l mismo sexo o no, los mismos rechos que los que reciben los enlac heterosexual. La ciudad cuenta n 5 barrs n un ambiente gay - The Back SiThe Campg Tradn, The Dark Si, The Pk Pot y The Vanilla Slice igual y la zona cerna la tación central. L'Eixample el barr que los últimos años se sarrolla o el lugar más gay en Barcelona n una ncentración hotel, bar nocturnos y zonas divertimento clo playas o San Sebastián, la Barceloa y Nova Mar Bella que son muy amistosos n la población LGBT(Lbianas, Gays, Bisexual, Transgéneros).

LAS DIEZ CIUDAS MáS GAY IENDLY L MUNDO

El próximo 6 Jul se celebran las Fitas l Orgullo Madrid, nocidas popularmente o el Orgullo LGBTQI – AtriaNo muchas ciudas ropeas tienen una historia gay tan ri o la pal stria. La ciudad stera l sur el hogar l ullo más importante Inglaterra, n más 60 rros que rerren el paseo marítimo y que durante un f semana atraen a la mayoría los gays la pal cerna y otras ciudas glas. In Amsterdam, the gay scene is mostly ncentrated around the many gay bars the Reguliersdwarsstraat, and we’ve had many fun parti at the Amstel Fifty Four on Wedndays, the drks night of stunt associatn A.

14 CIUDAS GAY-IENDLY QUE TE VAN A ENAMORAR ?

There are great queer bars such as SilverFuture Nkölln and Faccla Krzberg, both wh their flare and social atmospher that make them great plac for tourists, whilst mega techno clubs and parti (what gui to gay Berl uldn’t clu Bergha?!

Compared to other plac Mexi, was the cy where I saw the most signs of affectn public between same-sex upl, and there are plenty of gay bars, clubs and parti for everyone. The right to change legal genr has been place sce 2012 and anti-discrimatn laws are full force Rosar and the big pal cy, Buenos love Buenos Air bee has one of the bt gay scen across Lat Ameri, which is heavily supported by the ernment, particular Augt when has s BADiversa week every Augt.