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Contents:
- GAY NORWAY
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
- TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS NORWAY
- OSLO SHOOTG NEAR GAY BAR VTIGATED AS TERRORISM, AS PRI PARA IS NCELED
- GAY OSLO
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2022 marked the 50th anniversary of the liftg of the ban on homosexualy Norway. Gay NorwayExplore Norway's land of a thoand fjords, the great outdoors, charmg towns, untrysis and gay scen Oslo and Bergen. Lbian, gay and bisexual people Norway are ls satisfied wh their liv than the general populatn, acrdg to a new survey om Statistics LGB+ populatn is particularly dissatisfied wh their personal fanc and mental health.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
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Statistics Norway f LGB+ as people who rpond that they:· nsir themselv to be gay or lbian, bisexual or other. A study om the Universy of Agr om 2018 shows that many lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people southern Norway stggle wh poor mental health. More young people fg themselv as lbian, gay or bisexual.
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“Gay people generally sre worse than others, and this is reflected workg life and ultimately the enomy, ” he says. “At one end you have people who are dog really well, and at the other you have people who are dog extremely poorly, ” says Grønngsæ earlier study om Statistics Norway published last year shows that gays, lbians and bisexuals are somewhat more sceptible to worse mental health.
Bisexuals are greatly affected by lonels (32 per cent), followed by lbians and gays (24 per cent) and people wh other sexual orientatns (21 per cent). They work to enable lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenred and queer people to be able to live openly whout fear of beg socially exclud, discrimated agast or harassed, acrdg to their own webs. Latvia swore the first openly gay print of a Baltic natn Rkēvičs, who sce 2011 was the untry’s foreign mister, was elected by Parliament May after Print Egils Levs did not seek re-electn.
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”Rkēvičs “proudly” announced he is gay on Twter November 2014, though the untry, a former Soviet republic, is not pecially LGBTQ-clive. ” He said he knew there would be “mega hysteria, ” but he end wh the hashtag “#Proudtobegay.
OSLO SHOOTG NEAR GAY BAR VTIGATED AS TERRORISM, AS PRI PARA IS NCELED
”He is one of jt a few openly gay heads of state the world. She is thought to be the first openly gay prime mister the was an active unnist her nearly 10 years workg as a flight attendant, acrdg to the Council of Women World Lears, a work of female heads of state. After the accatn, he said, he was chased down the street by reporters, one of whom yelled, “Yet they say you’re a homosexual!
”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported.
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“To be natnally blamed, to be nsired as not normal, to be nsired as a danger for young people — ’s not realizg that beg gay is not a choice, ” Bettel said, acrdg to Rters. Gay, lbian and bisexual people n serve the ary, but transgenr people nnot. “Hopefully this will blow over three or four days, and then I won’t be known as the gay mister, ” she told The Associated Prs at the Varadkar Prime Mister of Ireland (2017-20, 2022-prent)Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar Bssels on June 30.
Ludovic Mar / AFP - Getty Imag fileVaradkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay Taoiseach, or prime mister, 2017 and served until 2020. Dependg on where they’re head, gay travelers n face great risks. Acrdg to Equalx, a range of gay activi are illegal 71 untri.
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 uple also updated the list wh the bt and worst plac for gay travelers 2021, which n be viewed here. A new report tails the most dangero—and saft—plac for gay.