Gay Portugal | Everythg You need to know

Contents:

• TOP 7 BT GAY BARS & CLUBS PORTUGAL
• GAY PORTUGAL | EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW
• “THE WORST PART WAS COMG BACK HOME AND FEELG LIKE CRYG”: EXPERIENC OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANS STUNTS PORTUGUE SCHOOLS
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

TOP 7 BT GAY BARS & CLUBS PORTUGAL

Current statSce Apr 7, 2010Legal In Portugal, blood donatns have l regardg sexual behavur but they are the same for homosexual and heterosexual people.

While the cy boasts fewer bars and activi for LGBT people than the pal, the muny has built a home for self wh inic plac such as the drag club Invict and the gay fe Pri Coffee. From luxury to affordable rtrants, amazg hotels and gay nightclubs, and the bt beach the untry, the Algarve is the perfect LGBT getaway, havg retreats and hotels tered to LGBT people and found by LGBT people.

Although there are no “official” signated gay beach, there are a few nudist beach Portugal that are particularly popular wh the whole of the LGBT+ muny, such as Praia do Me (Simbra) and Praia da Bela Vista (between Costa da Capari and Fonte da Telha). Lisbon Pri is also known as Arraial Lisboa Pri and is anized by ILGA, the largt anizatn fightg for gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people Portugal, partnership wh the municipaly of Lisbon. The most anised gay scene Portugal is s pal cy Lisbon, particularly the lively Bairro Alto and Príncipe Real districts, and the nearby town of Casis.

GAY PORTUGAL | EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW

Furthermore, thanks to s recent chang s law regardg the protectn for trans and tersex people, Portugal has moved to number one, ed to be 27th before the Spartac gay travel gui. Of urse, like any untry, there may be pockets of tolerance or discrimatn towards LGBT dividuals Portugal, but overall, the untry is nsired to be very gay-iendly and a welg place for expats. 2007 – Crimal protectnsThe Portugue crimal was amend to provi legal protectns for homosexuals, specifilly addrsg discrimatn and physil offens based on sexual orientatn.

ILGA is the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex advocy anizatn Portugal that works to promote the rights of the LGBT+ muny Portugal. It was found 1995 and is a member of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) – a global feratn of LGBT+ rights anizatns.

In a 2012 poll nducted by Eurobarometer (the European Commissn’s pollg agency), 63% of rponnts said they thought homosexual upl should be allowed to marry legally. Outsi of Lisbon, there isn’t much of a scene for lbians specifilly, but most towns and ci will have at least one gay bar or club where everyone is wele.

“THE WORST PART WAS COMG BACK HOME AND FEELG LIKE CRYG”: EXPERIENC OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANS STUNTS PORTUGUE SCHOOLS

Portugal also recently changed s laws regardg the protectn of trans and tersex people and troduced a number of anti-hate crime iativ, movg to the top spot the Spartac Gay Travel Inx.

As of 2022, six untri' legal s specifilly prcribe the ath penalty for the "crime" of homosexualy and another five untri allow for the possibily of the ath penalty. LGBT and LGBTQ+ have several addnal variatns, cludg LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIA+, and 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two-spir, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, tersex, and asexual, wh the + reprentg pansexual, agenr, genr queer, bigenr, genr variant, and pangenr).

Two of the most notable advancements LGBTQI+ rights the US recent s are the legalizatn of gay marriage and the legalizatn of adoptn of children by same-sex upl.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Gay marriage legalizatn expand om one state 2004 to all fifty stat 2015 through feral urt lgs, state urt lgs, state legislatn, and direct popular vot.

Acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn's annual report State-Sponsored Homophobia, same-sex nduct was crimalized 67 of the Uned Natns' 193 member stat 2020 and was facto illegal two more.

2022's iendlit natn for LGBTQ+ travelers is Canada, the first untry outsi of Europe (and the fourth untry the world) to legalize gay marriage, which did on July 20, 2005. Another of the world's most gay-iendly untri, Swen has legalized both marriage and adoptn for same-sex upl, stalled anti-discrimatn protectns for both genr inty and sexual orientatn, end nstutnal protectns agast discrimatn, and crimalized vlence agast LGBTQ+ people.

Individuals arrted for homosexual nduct are often subjected to addnal mistreatment, om torture and forced anal exams by shady law enforcement officials to oversized sentenc or extend pre-trial rceratn that n last for years. This don’t mean that Portugal is anythg but welg to members of the LGBT muny – ’s jt that some plac the gay scene is more “hidn pla sight” than others. School is often a hostile environment for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) youth (Earnshaw et al., 2016; Kosciw et al., 2016; Pizmony-Levy and Kosciw, 2016; Rsell and Fish, 2016; Toomey and Rsell, 2016; Day et al., 2018; Pizmony-Levy et al., 2019).

Wh ltle more than two s of active lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex (LGBTI) movement, the last 15 years brought neverthels a signifint amount of chang the legal and social ntexts regardg sexual and genr diversy acknowledgment, awarens and rpect. However, a prev work about homophobic bullyg Portugue schools (Antón et al., 2012) revealed that psychologil vlence and victimizatn among LGBTI intified stunts are more prevalent boys; that aggrsive behavrs toward LGBTI stunts are generally unrvalued; that wnsed suatns lack terventn; and that there are signifint psychologil nsequenc for the victims of homophobic bullyg.

Furthermore, seemed that most victims of homophobic bullyg were aaid of revealg their sexual orientatn to their fay and they did not report homophobic episos school to their fay.

(2015) found that havg equent experienc of nflict wh parents exacerbated the negative impact of discrimatn episos on adolcents’ mental health, Antón and Moleiro (2015) verified that parental support was a morator of the effects of homophobic bullyg on psychologil distrs. Homophobic and transphobic bullyg clu teasg, name llg and public ridicule, spreadg mors about one’s sexual orientatn or genr inty (also known as outg), timidatn, phg and htg, stealg or damagg belonggs, social isolatn, cyber bullyg (harassment through email, cell phon, text msag, famatory webs, and social media), physil or sexual asslt, and ath threats (UNESCO, 2012). (2008) found out that nearly half of their sample of LGBT stunts Israel, which ranged ag om 11 to 18 years, reported ocsnally hearg homophobic remarks uttered by most of the teachers.