From gay marriage to transgenr rights, Expati looks at the most LGBTQIA+ iendly untri for those nsirg a reer change abroad.
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
LGBT Rights Belgium: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * belgium lgbt *
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.
GAY DATG BELGIUM
Explore our gay travel gui to Belgium featurg LGBTQ+ safety tips, gay rights , top ci & attractns, where to stay and more! * belgium lgbt *
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.
10 GAYT COUNTRI EUROPE
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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 LIEGE, BELGIUM | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!
A leadg natn for gay rpect and rights There's a good reason for the Internatnal Lbian and Gay Associatn to be based Bssels Belgium: * belgium lgbt *
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.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
LGBT Rights Bssels, Belgium: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * belgium lgbt *
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.
Disver Gay datg near you and Belgium. Fd a lol nnectn today! * belgium lgbt *
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 people had a tough time until some of the rights were granted to them. Stunt protts of the 1970s were a perd of change for the Uned Stat of Ameri. * belgium lgbt *
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.
Gay Liege bars, clubs, parti, hotels, snas, massag and more. Queer-centric rmatn. Your plete directory to LGBT life Liege, Belgium! * belgium lgbt *
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. 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.