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Contents:

• GAY BELGIUM: A LEADG NATN FOR GAY RPECT AND RIGHTS
• GAY DATG BELGIUM
• 10 GAYT COUNTRI EUROPE
• GAY LIEGE, BELGIUM | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

GAY BELGIUM: A LEADG NATN FOR GAY RPECT AND RIGHTS

And the massive gay party La Demence, held about 12 tim a year at Fe, is a Bssels stutn, drawg men om across Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany and beyond for more than 30 years. Belgium ranked 2nd on ILGA-Europe's 2019 Rabow Inx of natnal LGBTQ+ equaly laws and polici, and tied for 4th on the 2019 Spartac Gay Travel Inx. In many parts of the world, LGBTIQ people (lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and tersex, queer) still face severe forms of discrimatn, timidatn and vlence.

Every year, 17 May – IDAH0T, Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia – is an ial opportuny to put this msage the spotlight. Bis the ual cisns such as reer impact or healthre qualy, gay, lbian, bisexual, tersex, and transgenr dividuals often have to nsir more severe nsequenc. The Netherlands crimalized homosexualy 1811; the first gay bar opened Amsterdam 1927; and 1987, Amsterdam unveiled the Homomonument, a memorial for gays and lbians killed by the Nazis.

GAY DATG BELGIUM

The gay scene extends well beyond Amsterdam, however, wh bars, snas, and cemas several Dutch ci, cludg Rotterdam, The Hague (Den Haag), Amersfoort, Ensche, and Grongen. Valletta don’t immediately sprg to md when you thk of the world’s gay pals, but ty Malta has topped the Europe Rabow Inx for four years a row.

Wellgton and Auckland boast the largt number of gay bars and clubs, but LGBTQIA+ rints Tranga, Christchurch, Duned, and Haton are also guaranteed a good night out.

The Other Foundatn reported that 51% of rponnts a survey on attus and genr non-nformy felt gay people should have the same human rights; 72% thought same-sex activy was morally wrong. Argenta had the most posive attus of all Lat Amerin untri Pew Rearch Center’s 2013 Global Attus Survey, wh 74% of those surveyed sayg homosexualy should be accepted.

10 GAYT COUNTRI EUROPE

There’s a good reason for the Internatnal Lbian and Gay Associatn to be based Bssels Belgium: the untry is one of the most progrsive societi the world regnizg LGBT cizens as fully equal to everyone else. Durg the 20th century the Belgian parliament was far more tolerant than any monarch and for a hundred years a liberal culture emerged–perhaps bee of s lguistic diversy and s straddlg the cultural boundary between Germanic and Lat Europe–which embraced gay rights culmatg 2003 as the 2nd untry the world to legalize gay marriage–after Holland. It has also helped that Belgium is largely a secular untry as the nstutn provis for eedom of relign, hence ltle fundamentalist relig homophobia.

GAY LIEGE, BELGIUM | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!

More than jt a flamboyant para of drag queens, leather boys and gym buffs on floats (though those are fun) the gay people of Bssels and Belgium take Gay Pri celebratn very serly and is more of a polil monstratn where the gay movement’s polil agenda is prented the form of a list of mands cludg mands for better anti-discrimatn laws, cln of gay relatnships high-school sex tn and the right to adoptn by same-sex parents. A former police statn, this 17th century, three-story wonr–Casa Rosa–was donated by the cy of Ghent 1999 and ho the Holebiferatie (‘Holibi’ is a lol word om abbreviatns for ‘homosexual’, ‘lbian’ and ‘bisexual’) and several other groups, as well as a first-floor bookshop/rmatn center.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

Neverthels, much as there is to celebrate Belgium, the number of rints fected wh the HIV vis creased by 20% 2006 wh most of the new diagnos among homosexual men. “There is more HIV fectn among homosexual men, and at the same time the group is only a small percentage of the entire populatn, ” said one health official.

The rise mirrors creas other wtern untri as the first ‘post-retroviral’ generatn of gay men are sced by the myth that AIDS is jt another disease managed by meditn and risky sexual behavr aga be mon. BackgroundSexual mory people clu people who are lbian, gay, bisexual (LGB), pansexual, omnisexual, queer, qutng, fluid, asexual and have other sexual orientatns [1], which we abbreviate as LGB+. To select the relevant subgroups our sample, we asked to dite which scriptn applied to them: heterosexual; bisexual; gay/lbian; pan−/omnisexual; asexual; other, namely ….

The Levene’s Tt was ed to check for homogeney of variance, which led to the e of the Welch t Tt statistic if equal varianc uld not be assumed. LGB+ men were more likely than women to intify as gay, whereas women tend to label themselv more often as bisexual, pan−/omnisexual, asexual, or other pared to the LGB+ participants, 67.

Lbian, gay and bisexual inty timat crease by 70% when rponnts’ sexual behavr is nsired ( addn to inty) and they double when sexual attractn is nsired as a crern [3].

Een beleidsgerichte algemene survey van Vlaamse homoseksuele mannen en vrouwen-Basisrapport [a policy-oriented general survey about Flemish homosexual men and woman-global report]. Examg sexual health differenc between lbian, gay, bisexual, and heterosexual adults: the role of socmographics, sexual behavr characteristics, and mory strs.

BRUSSELS (CNS) — The Flemish-speakg bishops of Belgium have appoted a ntact person for mistry to and wh gay Catholics and have thorized prayer for mted gay upl on the ndn is clear that is not equivalent to a weddg blsg. Gay and lbian upl n marry civilly Belgium, he said, but many Catholic upl also wanted a moment of prayer wh their fai a Catholic church or chapel to pray for God’s grace. The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey.

Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment. Those Wtern Europe and the Ameris are generally more acceptg of homosexualy than are those Eastern Europe, Rsia, Ukrae, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Ai.

In many natns, there has been an creasg acceptance of homosexualy, cludg the Uned Stat, where 72% say should be accepted, pared wh jt 49% as recently as 2007. In many of the untri surveyed, there also are differenc on acceptance of homosexualy by age, tn, e and, some stanc, genr – and several s, the differenc are substantial.