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Contents:
- THE 20 MOST AND LEAST GAY-IENDLY UNTRI THE WORLD
- TOP TEN LEAST GAY-FRIENDLY COUNTRI
- AMERI’S 10 LEAST GAY-FRIENDLY BIG CI
THE 20 MOST AND LEAST GAY-IENDLY UNTRI THE WORLD
This chart shows the saft and least safe untri for LGBTQ+ travelers acrdg to the Gay Travel Inx 2023. * least gay city in the world *
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.
TOP TEN LEAST GAY-FRIENDLY COUNTRI
The five stat are the worst plac to live if you're a gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr Amerin. * least gay city in the world *
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.
Brazilian Print Jair Bolsonaro once said: ‘Y, I’m homophobic – and very proud of .
“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.
AMERI’S 10 LEAST GAY-FRIENDLY BIG CI
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“R is seen as a liberated cy, but also has high levels of [homophobic] vlence. ”‘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.
“You’ll fd a gay scene many plac that may surprise you, ” says Ed Salvato, an LGBT travel expert. “Some plac like Mosw and St Petersburghave vibrant gay muni, spe the homophobic laws there.