10 Amazg Gay Travel Tours & Trips 2023/2024 - TourRadar

Contents:

• UNR THE ‘GAYDAR’: 10 BT GAYTN DTATNS THAT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU
• 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
• 10 HOTTT GAY STATNS FOR 2019
• LGBT TRAVEL IAS: TOP 12 GAY FRIENDLY CI
• TOP LGBT-FRIENDLY PLAC FOR GAY SENR TRAVEL AND RETIREMENT
• GAY TRAVEL TOURS & TRIPS
• GAY TRAVEL DTATNS 2019: FROM EUROPE TO ASIA
• HOTTT GAY STATNS OF 2020
• THE WORLD’S 30 BT GAY-FRIENDLY TRAVEL DTATNS 2020

UNR THE ‘GAYDAR’: 10 BT GAYTN DTATNS THAT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU

While Prague has been hot for many years, gay travelers are also disverg the Czech Republic's send largt cy and the fantastic surroundg Moravian untrysi.

Sg has long been an artistic hangout, and LGBTQ travelers will also enjoy the thrivg nightlife scene visors to this urban mec e back year after year for s famoly sunny weather, of great beach, and gay-iendly vibe. Tel Aviv is full of great mms, tertg archecture, hip rtrants and plenty of bee a certa anti-gay admistratn is town currently don't mean that the natn's pal shouldn't be on your 2019 queer list. And wh so much cultural wealth to vis durg the day, you'll need a rerve of energy to keep gog after of the more gay-iendly plac the Caribbean, Puerto Ri is back open for bs after s awful strg of storms-pl 's safe and perfectly orr all the ma tourist areas.

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

The new market is almost twice the size of the old cy on Lake Erie wasn't on the queer scene until unexpectedly won the right to host the 2014 Gay Gam, which was nsired a huge succs. From the nightlife the Castro to the views around every rner to a thoand magil spots to disver, like the Palace of Fe Arts (pictured), there's somethg for everyone your gay is a natural mag for queer cizens the Uned Kgdom and across Europe.

Denmark was the world's first untry to regnize same-sex partnerships, 1989, and the natn remas one of the most queer-iendly plac you'll fd, loted on the picturque shor of Lake Zurich, may brg to md bankg and fance, but the largt cy Swzerland also boasts nvenient accs to the Alps, betiful wateront promenas, and a liberal mdset that has rulted a vibrant gay and lbian scene. Come for the annual Pk Apple Film Ftival or the cy's gay Angel parti, which happen four tim per Kong often walks a tightrope between Che and Wtern valu, and s past treatment of LGBTQ people has not been good. You'll fd wi acceptance of queer upl here (the untry legalized gay marriage 2015), and a fun gay neighborhood Barr Bellavista, wh rtrants, clubs, and plenty of certaly n't go wrong wh travelg to a Greek island.

10 HOTTT GAY STATNS FOR 2019

Ci like Richmond and Columb may not register on your gaydar like San Francis and NYC, but that don’t mean they don’t have plenty to offer gay travelers. ’Outsirs may thk of the old Conferate pal as a cy stuck s ways, but ltle do they know that Richmond, Virgia is anythg “g out” 2014, Richmond has emerged as the gay pal of the South. 4 percent of the cy’s populatn intifi as LGBT), the New England pal has bee a haven for East Coast gays lookg for somewhere tamer and quater than Boston and NYC.

The Milwkee Gay Arts Center offers one-of-a-kd LGBTQ productns, and Walker’s Pot is settg self up to be the next big most renowned “gay statns, ” Santa Fe, New Mexi don’t have a go-to district like L.

S., but ’s also home to North Carola’s annual Pri Ftival and the state’s Gay & Lbian Film if that’s not enough for North Carola, head wt to Asheville and fd an LGBTQ bohemian paradise smacked the Smoki. Lolly known as the San Francis of the regn, the gay cultural landspe is vibrant, and the drag scene is easily among the bt the natn–jt watch “Kgs, Queens, and In-Betweens” cy is also a risg fashn mec, hog the third most fashn signers the untry, along wh retail giants like L Brands, Exprs, Victoria’s Secret and Abercrombie & Fch. As if that’s not enough, Columb ranks as the send most sexually satisfied cy the untry–wk, is the largt gay rort the Midwt Michigan’s “Bible Belt?

LGBT TRAVEL IAS: TOP 12 GAY FRIENDLY CI

” It mt be somethg the over 140 gay-owned bs, rangg om B&Bs to bars to art galleri to cuty ice cream shops, the small neighborg towns of Sgatuck and Douglas are home to the largt gay rort the Midwt–and thanks to lol protectn of genr inty and sexual orientatn, you’ll be hard-prsed to fd anti-LGBTQ attus here. The cy created the first gay and lbian muny center the untry, and ’s Albany that was home to one of the earlit transgenr groups datg back to the cy may not have the crazy, never-endg nightlife of NYC, and may not have the sheer numbers of NYC, but, for general “Queer Life, ” Albany ranks seventh the untry–not to shabby for a cy overshadowed by the Big LGBT muny and the Mormon church hasn’t always seen eye-to-eye.

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.

TOP LGBT-FRIENDLY PLAC FOR GAY SENR TRAVEL AND RETIREMENT

Ci like Lisbon and Porto have the bt gay scen the untry and Portugal is hopg to host the 2022 Europri, the world's biggt event celebratg gay pri Europe. 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.

GAY TRAVEL TOURS & TRIPS

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. “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.

GAY TRAVEL DTATNS 2019: FROM EUROPE TO ASIA

“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.

“Publicly, homosexualy is a taboo topic, so LGBTQ+ travelers choosg to vis Sudan should proceed wh utn and rema discreet wh regards to their sexualy. “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.

HOTTT GAY STATNS OF 2020

That said, the LGBTQ+ muny is margalized this untry and there are heavy nsequenc for beg homosexual, which clu seven years to life prison for any same-sex act, ” says Fergson. Unfortunately, thgs may soon be gettg even worse for the LGBTQ+ muny, as the Ugandan ernment has recently lled to retroduce an anti-homosexualy bill, which would clu the ath penalty for same-sex acts, the midst of the recent murr of a gay Ugandan activist. “In the Paltian terrori of Gaza and the Wt Bank, the anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment is taken very serly, wh homosexual acts rultg up to 10 years prison, ” says Fergson.

THE WORLD’S 30 BT GAY-FRIENDLY TRAVEL DTATNS 2020

“Groups advotg for LGBTQ+ rights are threatened by the erng thori Palte, who nsir homosexualy to be ‘a blow to, and vlatn of, the ials and valu of Paltian society.