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Fally, LGBTQ+ travelers will want to note the gay/nu beach and around Nice, like St Lrent d’Eze, Co Beach and Castel Plage. The small towns and villag around the Alps mounta range bee ski rort hotspots, wh annual gay ski weeks takg place like the European Gay Ski Week.

France was one of the first untri to legalize homosexualy 1791 and has long had place proactive anti-discrimatn legislatn for employment, genr inty and hate speech. Stefan and Sebastien are a gay uple who met London 2009 and have been travelg extensively together Asia, Lat Ameri, North Ameri and Europe. Ntled the gay-hotspot of Le Marais, the hotel (named after the Tfft film) is set a former 18th century prec metal factory.

• Gay-only gutho: Le Moul Tet (External lk) Touloe and La Villa Ltoral (External lk) Montepellier (the former 30 m om downtown, the send a rort-type lodgg near the beach of Southern France) are ial if you're lookg for a gay-only stay an timate settg. It’s a qutn that’s top of md for many gay travelers as they nsir where to go and evaluate the world’s saft and most dangero plac. Sourc clu Human Rights Watch, the Gallup World Poll and ILGA (the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Associatn), jt to name a few.

The Fergsons started trackg the saft and most dangero plac for gay travelers 2019 and have been updatg the story annually sce then. “They were one of the first untri to legalize same-sex marriage, they have nstutnal anti-discrimatn protectns and the majory of Canadians report that is a safe place to live for gay and lbian people. Acrdg to the LGBTQ+ Travel Safety Inx, Bnei is the most dangero untry for gay travelers 2023, followed by Sdia Arabia and Nigeria.

“Neverthels, there are other stat where gay, trans and non-bary people are targets, both legislatively and their day-to-day liv, ” he says. Some of the notable chang sce Fergson started dog this report 2019: 15 new untri have eher legalized gay marriage or allowed same-sex upl to register as civil unns. And the past 12 months alone, Swzerland, Slovenia and Cuba have legalized gay marriage, while Sgapore, Sat Kts & Nevis, Barbados and Antigua & Barbuda crimalized same-sex relatnships.

“For stance, Bolivia gay marriage isn’t ‘legal’ but a handful of upl have been able to register their marriage by petng the urts, ” says Fergson.

Another challenge: While some of the world is tchg up to equal rights for gay and lbian upl, transgenr and non-bary people still have the furtht way to go. 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.

The Dutch pal, often dubbed the gayway to Europe, has a vibrant LGBTQIA+ culture and ters to all appet and fetish. 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.

In 2006, Sg unveiled the untry’s first LGBTQIA+ monument to memorate a 1996 police crackdown on gay men at the beach at night. 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. There is also a wi variety of bars, clubs, and gay snas; this is possibly bee of social prsur to nform to tradnal heteronormative mols.

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. A 2017 poll found that 67% of South Ains agreed that gay, lbian, and bisexual people should have equal rights; 17% disagreed.

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. Cape Town has a reputatn for the bt gay scene Ai; hosts plenty of summer events, cludg Mother Cy Queer Project and Cape Town Pri. 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.

Civic attus to LGBTQIA+ people are progrsive, wh a 2013 Pew survey notg that 80% of Canadians accept homosexualy. In April 2019, Canada released a memorative loonie (the one-dollar ) to celebrate 50 years of the partial crimalizatn of homosexualy. Europe has long been viewed as a relatively progrsive part of the world for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights.

LuxembourgAdolphe Bridge Luxembourg CyNilas Enomou / NurPhoto via Getty Imag fileLuxembourg’s prime mister, Xavier Bettel, is one of only three openly gay heads of ernment the world. In 2019, durg an addrs at the Uned Natns, Bettel lled on world lears to nmn hate speech, sayg, “Homophobia is a personal choice, and we have to fight agast .

Nilas Enomou / NurPhoto via Getty Imag fileA new bridge beg built Belgium’s pal, Bssels, will be named after inic gay rights activist Suzan Daniel, who found the untry’s first LGBTQ associatn, acrdg to The Bssels Tim. French people are creasgly tolerant of homosexualy and s exprsn public, but ntue to hold clichéd views of LGBT dividuals, acrdg to a survey published by pollsters Ifop on Wednday.

In 1975 jt 24 percent of people held the same view, acrdg to the survey nducted by Ifop for the Jasm Roy-Sophie Dmarais Foundatn, associatn wh Dilcrah, the Intermisterial Delegatn to Fight Racism, Anti-Semism and anti-LGBT eight percent ntue to view as “an illns that should be cured", whereas 42 percent thought so 1975, seven years after homosexualy was crimalised France. Today, seven percent ntue to nsir homosexualy a “sexual perversn that should be opposed”, down on 22 percent 1975.

François Krs, director of Ifop’s polil sectn, said the growg tolerance of homosexualy should not be nfed wh plete, greater tolerance has failed to elimate old clichés about five among the French public thk that "certa profsns where one is permanent ntact wh children should be prohibed to homosexuals", the survey said, while 27 percent of rponnts say they are unfortable the prence of transgenr people and 14 percent wh homosexual or bisexual people of their own total, 30 percent of French people admted havg been at one time unfortable wh LGBT survey was nducted as a self-admistered onle qutnnaire mid-2019, wh a sample of 3, 013 people reprentative of the French populatn aged 18 and over. Public OpnSurveys France have shown mixed views towards LGBTQ+ rights and SurveysSupport for Same-Sex Marriage of French support gay marriageViews on Homosexualy Among Mlims of French Mlims fd homosexual acts to be acceptableHistoryHomosexual activy France?

Current statSce Sep 25, 1791Legal The law of 1791 crimalized homosexual activy, however, do not regnize homosexualy marriage France? Current statSce Mar 16, 2022Legal In 2022, France removed the ferral perd for gay and bi men donatg blood, replacg wh a new policy that appli to all donors, regardls of sexual (3-month ferral)In July 2019, Mister of Health Agnès Buzyn announced that the ferral perd would be rced to four months of abstence om 2 April "f s scrimatns don du sang pour l homm ayant s relatns sexuell avec s homm.