#MakeoverMonday 2023 Week 2 - The Spartac Gay Travel Inx

Contents:

• SPARTACUS GAY TRAVEL INDEX 2023 | BELGIUM 17TH MOST GAY TRAVEL IENDLY UNTRY; MALTA ON 1, CANADA AND SWZERLAND SHARE 2ND
• GAY TRAVEL INX
• #MAKEOVERMONDAY 2023 WEEK 2 - THE SPARTAC GAY TRAVEL INX
• HE TRAVEL – GAY TRAVEL TOURS, GAY ADVENTURE TRAVEL, ACTIVE VATNS
• GAY TRAVEL X JAPAN 2021, BY TEGORY

SPARTACUS GAY TRAVEL INDEX 2023 | BELGIUM 17TH MOST GAY TRAVEL IENDLY UNTRY; MALTA ON 1, CANADA AND SWZERLAND SHARE 2ND

The annually updated SPARTACUS Gay Travel Inx rms travellers about the suatn of lbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenr (LGBT) a total of 202 untri and regns. A specific new tegory for queer travellers is that of gay marketg, ditg how and if gay travel is promoted per untry.

The only exceptn is the ath penalty: A untry gets one m pot if the ath penalty for homosexual acts is anchored the law but not executed. Instead, we have add new tegori tailored to the USA, which emphasize the differenc between the stat: Hate crime laws, gay and trans panic fense, anti-discrimatn legislatn and queer astcture. Crimalizatn of Hate-Based Vlence (0 to +50 Pots) — Is anti-LGBTQ+, hate-based, or homophobia-spired vlence nsired a hate crime this untry?

Gallup World Poll (0 to +100 pots) — In the Gallup poll, dividuals were asked, “Is the cy or area where you live a good place or not a good place to live for gay and lbian people? We gave this factor a negative double weightg bee the fact that homosexualy is illegal and n receive the ath sentence means that the laws of the untri are extremely unfavorable for LGBTQ+ people. While gay marriage is still banned, Japan is makg progrs toward the acceptance of same-sex marriage, and gay upl n now register a domtic partnership as of November 2022.

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The most homophobic untri (where homosexualy is illegal) are also often severe human rights vlators, ually penalizg male/male sexualy and/or trans women most harshly. For stance, ’s illegal to be gay Jamai; the “buggery law, ” which is leftover om the lonial era, allows for a sentence of up to 10 years prison, cludg hard labor.

In a 2013 survey of 71 LGBTQ+ people nducted by Human Rights Watch, more than half said they had been victims of homophobic vlence. Those lookg for trans- and gay-travel-safe untri should rensir popular vatn statns like Malaysia, Sdi Arabia, Moroc, Myanmar, and Egypt as well as some of the more popular beach the Caribbean, like Sat Lucia and Barbados. Prevly, the ath penalty was punishment for dividuals acced by mtg “homosexual sex” fed by the act of peratn, for the third time.

#MAKEOVERMONDAY 2023 WEEK 2 - THE SPARTAC GAY TRAVEL INX

– All guilty of an act of homosexualy is punished wh imprisonment of two (2) months to two (2) years and a fe of five hundred (500) to two thoand (2, 000) DA. (1) A person who performs wh a person of the same sex an act rrpondg to the sexual act, or any other cent sexual act, is guilty of homosexual nduct, a Class 7 ser offence, punishable wh a fe term of imprisonment of not ls than 5 years and not more than 7 years. The legislatn troduc a new offense volvg homosexualy known as “aggravated homosexualy, ” which is punishable on nvictn by life prison.

Article (264): Homosexualy is the ntact of one man to another through his posterr; both sodom whether mal or femal are punished wh whippg of. Article 237- Homosexual acts of a male person s other than livat and tafkhiz, such as kissg or touchg as a rult of lt, shall be punishable by thirty-one to seventy-four lash of ta’zir punishment of the sixth gra.

In almost all s, the laws outlawg nsensual gay sex were put to place unr Brish le and were left place followg pennce. India is an example untry that has only 2018 managed to annul Sectn 377, a Brish lonial-era law prohibg “unnatural acts, ” orr to legalize nsensual gay sex.

HE TRAVEL – GAY TRAVEL TOURS, GAY ADVENTURE TRAVEL, ACTIVE VATNS

Long story short, this pots to the fact that was likely the Brish fluence that largely led to Indian homophobia the first place. Beg born this way n be rough, but one thg should not give you anxiety when you’re trans, bi, lbian, queer, or gay: travel. By lookg at the legal rights (and Gallup data) of each untry, we found the top 50 LGBTQ-iendly untri, which often serve as the top gay vatn statns for travelers the world over:.

GAY TRAVEL X JAPAN 2021, BY TEGORY

Also, some stat, LGBTQ+ youth do not have accs to helpful rmatn, wh the so-lled “no-promo homo” laws untg the “propaganda/moraly” tegory. Countri wh marriage equaly laws are often great spots for LGBT+ vatns, but be aware that gay travel to ral or fundamentalist muni n be problematic almost any untry — fely don’t make assumptns when visg smaller towns and muni.

Japan is rarely dangero, wh 35% of lols sayg Japan is a “good place” for gay people to live, while Rsia equently polls at only 9%. Beyond gay-marriage-illegal untri, here are some real problem plac among the list of most-vised untri the world:.

Homosexualy is no longer nsired a mental disorr as of 2001, and the nsens is that homosexualy is legal and that most lols won’t re so long as you fd the right bar to hang out .

Activists have died or gone missg, and dividuals who followed Rsian gay marriage laws to the letter have been forced to flee the untry. Hosts are ually members of the muny themselv and n offer great tips on where and how to safely experience their cy and s gay muny.

Misterbnb also clus rooms available at LGBTQ+ iendly hotels and rorts, so ’s a fantastic rource for fdg the bt gay lodgg. Consir g the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Travel Associatn as a rource for fdg LGBTQ+ owned and affirmg bs untri where you may have more ncerns. Many statns have suffered om gay bar closur so weekly or monthly LGBTQ+ parti are the norm and lols are always the know.