40 Bt Gay Dtatns Worldwi, Acrdg to Travelers

Contents:

• 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
• 10 HOTTT GAY STATNS FOR 2019
• CONGRATULATNS TO THE 2019 GAY TRAVEL AWARD WNERS!
• LGBT TRAVEL IAS: TOP 12 GAY FRIENDLY CI
• THE WORLD’S 30 BT GAY-FRIENDLY TRAVEL DTATNS 2020
• 40 BT GAY DTATNS WORLDWI, ACRDG TO TRAVELERS
• UNR THE ‘GAYDAR’: 10 BT GAYTN DTATNS THAT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU
• 6 OF THE TOP GAY-IENDLY RORTS AROUND THE WORLD

5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)

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TV seri "Queer As Folk" ma Manchter and s lively Canal Street gay village a top spot for ternatnal LGBTQ travelers — and still very much is, particularly durg Augt’s Manchter Pri.

Vis Manchter’s queer-centric webse is well worth the click, and clus tails about the cy’s LGBTQ herage walk and key stops — the Alan Turg Memorial, pictg the putg pneer who broke the Nazi’s enigma but was persecuted for beg homosexual, is pulsory — while you n also book a guid versn wh Manchter Guid Tours. For equent LGBTQ visors and lols, this was a given, however: Taiwan’s pal, Taipei, is home to the ntent’s largt annual Pri celebratn durg the fall — the para is so long spls and branch to several lor-d rout — and Red Hoe, a buzzg, two-level gay nightlife plex entailg shops, f, and open-air bars. The Xyi district’s outstandg W Hotel is facto the cy’s gayt property, wh a prime transportatn and shoppg hub lotn, Taipei 101 views, and a swimmg pool ma for exhibnists, surround by the lobby’s Woo Bar and lounge.

From the quiet appreciators of sun and sand lookg to relax on picture-perfect public beach before loungg poolsi wh a cktail to the more socially teractive crowd lookg for gay beach, nu beach, and even cidly adult swimmg pools at gay rorts, Fort Lrdale has optns aplenty.

40 BT GAY DTATNS WORLDWI, ACRDG TO TRAVELERS

While Wilton Manors, vis the World AIDS Mm and Edutn Center, and don’t miss Fort Lrdale’s Stonewall Natnal Mm, honorg and explorg the uprisg that sparked the gay rights movement 50 years ago New York Cy. LGBTQ nightlife is centered around the Silom neighborhood, where two streets, Soi 4 and Soi 2, are crammed wh gay venu rangg om dance clubs to lady-boy bars, wh a variety of nich between.

In an attempt to help terme the worst plac for gay travelers, the duo created the 2019 LGBTQ+ Danger Inx, rankg the world’s most dangero—and saft—untri for gay travelers. The journalists looked at the top 150 most-vised untri the world by the number of g tourists, then ranked them g eight factors, cludg laws agast gay relatnships, legal protectn agast discrimatn and more. “In 2018, India managed to annul Sectn 377, a Brish lonial-era law prohibg ‘unnatural acts, ’ orr to legalize nsensual gay sex, ” says Fergson, who pots out that ancient Indian lerature such as the Mahabharata and Ramayana have many referenc to LGBTQ+ hero cludg transgenr warrrs and two queens who ma love orr for one queen to get pregnant wh an heir for their kgdom.

“We found this to be a b ironic as the reason for many of the harsh homophobic laws untri throughout the world is largely leftover om laws created durg Brish le, ” says Fergson. Wh an overall natnal attu that is relaxed and acceptg towards homosexualy, Belgium is known for havg a vibrant gay and lbian scene, particularly Bssels, ” says Fergson. It was ranked so highly largely due to the extreme penalti for simply beg gay, which clu up to 14 years prison and the ath penalty stat unr Sharia law, ” says Fergson.

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“Sdi Arabia is another of the untri on our list which implements the ath penalty for nsensual homosexualy unr their terpretatn of Sharia law, ” says Fergson. “Iran ma #6 on the x, due part to s extreme punishments for homosexualy, which clu 100 lash for homosexual terurse or the ath penalty, and 31 lash for same-sex acts other than terurse, ” says Fergson.

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“Historilly, Barbados and some other Caribbean islands have had poor anti-LGBTQ+ legislatn and practic, largely left over om the Brish occupatn which put the laws place and rerced anti-gay attus. Unfortunately, imposed punishment for homosexualy is severe and the existence of gay people Malaysia was nied by their tourism mister as recently as March 2019, ” says Fergson.