Is Latvia a Dtatn for Gay Travelers? | Two Bad Tourists

Contents:

• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
• GAY RIGA - RIGA FOM
• GAY LIFE LHUANIA
• LGBTQ TRAVEL: A FABULOUS GUI TO GAY TRAVEL 2023
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS RIGA
• RIGA GAY CISE CLUBS
• RIGA GAY MAP
• GAY VILNI
• THE BEST RIGA GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS RIGA

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS

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”“The fact that a sgle scene on an Apple Pl show featurg Tom Holland has brought out so much homophobia om the stupist people is... Jet aga the doorman (y the bald guy is still there) at Club Jt said was a private gay club:) I've been Riga several tim. There's been que a lot of ntroversy about gays Riga over the past uple of months followg a Gay Pri rally and the rival Anti-Gay rally anized by.

GAY LIFE LHUANIA

There are probably more gay plac than this, but I image that you would need to ask someone who's to the scene about them as they are probably que unrground. I know that the school I will be gog to has a fairly large LGBTQ+ populatn, but at the same time I know that that part of the world se a lot of homophobia.

Here is one of those former Soviet bloc untri where morn “Gay Life Lhuania” is nflict wh old tradns as the untry emerg om the reprsive mentaly that stigmatized and crimalized homosexualy. A story about gay Lhuanian life is a paful one wh twists and turns of anti-gay parliament legislators agast nstutnal urt judg and urageo gay activists the streets.

The ntroversy about gay rights and discrimatn has rulted a legislative ‘war’ between Lhuanian prejudicial anti-gay statut and the European Unn’s standards of tolerance and equaly. Sce the passg of a homophobic law July 2009 that was tend to protect mors om the negative effects of public rmatn–cludg so-lled “advertisg of homosexual, bisexual and polygamo relatns”–crics and fenrs have stumbled over then difficult issue of public homosexualy Lhuania.

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Upon assumg office, the new Lhuanian print, Dalia Grybskaė, promised to propose amendments to the discrimatory law agast homosexuals. The article pertag to the ban on homosexual advertisg, orr, supposedly, to protect mors, will be replaced by a ban on all rmatn which would promise sexual tegry, particularly that of young children. Acrdg to a survey by soclogists specializg genr issu, 38 percent of Lhuanians would distance themselv om a iend who revealed his or her homosexualy to them.

When puti adopt homo-phobic laws, there are no assuranc that the groups of hate-mongers won’t terpret this as a ll to act”, he hammers out, alarmed at the cisns beg ma by legislators. “The visible cizens”, as they are termed by the soclogists who thored a large-sle survey on homophobia Lhuania, are subject to several forms of discrimatn, most notably the workplace.

He claims to have recently been a victim of discrimatn when he requted a day off to participate the ILGA Conference of the European Associatn of Homosexuals, held Vilni 2007, and thereby revealed his sexual orientatn. On several ocsns, the municipali of the larger Lhuanian ci have halted attempts ma by the Lhuanian gay associatn to rm the public about homosexualy. In Knas, Lhuania’s send largt cy, was forbidn to affix large ads to the trolleyb wh the followg slogans: “A lbian n be a teacher”, and “A policeman n be gay”.

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Given the suatn, as Vladimir Simonko remarks, many young homosexual Lhuanians “seek out plac where they are safe to exprs themselv whout discrimatn and where they n be themselv, whout hidg nor lyg, and where they n image a future”. The headl the Lhuanian media the past five years have prented the nflict between gays and straights dramatic tail, sometim biased agast and sometim tolerant.

Soho gay club ( Vilni) after London’s venu feels like a Soviet Unn’s basement club for old pervs to be hont Men’s Factory is not a gay club anymore. Aramantas wrote this reactn to the problems of Lhuania and pared s relig fluence to other Catholic untri: “Gay rights activists and anizers are vilified Catholic Vilni; meanwhile, largely Catholic Mexi has legalized same sex marriage and Brazilian megapolis San Paolo hosted the world’s largt pri event wh over three ln participants early June.

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The greatt chang on the GLBT ont are occurrg Catholic Lat Ameri, while strongly Catholic Poland and Lhuania ntue to persecute their gay mori.

Another ment, om Dunn, offers a more balanced view his ments: “I am a gay UK man and have vised LT many tim, and am aware that Lhuania is a homophobic untry. Many Lhuanians who have worked the UK, where LGBT people are more accepted, have worked wh gays, noticed they are no different to straights, and lost their homophobic opns. Here is another young man, Petras, om Lhuania who has had a very different experience of beg gay, “well, I haven’t enuntered any homophobic act agast me my life.

And fally, Jonas had this to say: “I saw Gay Pri 2010 Vilni and was very strange; a small, shy monstratn wh mostly foreign people, cludg Polish supporters, lookg like a prott of workers at a supermarket. Male and female same-genr sexual activy have been legal Lhuania sce 1993, however gay-marriage and civil same-sex partnership are not officially regnized. Durg that mpaign members of Lhuanian Parliament were asked to state their opns regardg the harsh posn of Lhuanian Catholic church hierarchy that claims “homosexualy is a perversn”.

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Lhuanian gay league is an advocy anizatn dited to fightg homophobia and discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty. Through tn, support, and reprentatn of the LGBT muny, LGL promot an clive social environment for gay men, lbian women, bisexual and transgenr persons.

GAY VILNI

Lhuanian Gay League is a natnal nonprof, nonernmental anizatn ung homosexual, bisexual, and transgenr persons, a member of the Internatnal Lbian and Gay Associatn (ILGA) sce 1994. This group ncentrat on velopg mean of munitn, socializg between homosexual upl Lhuania, and munitg wh other siar groups and associatns abroad.

It has published a Lhuanian versn of the booklet ‘Our Dghters and Sons’ origally posed the Uned Stat by PFLAG–Parents and Friends of Lbians and Gays. The booklet is an attempt to answer the qutns which have no easy answers for parents who know that their child is gay or lbian.

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The mon tert is to abolish discrimatn and the equaly of lbian, gay and bisexual persons the area of employment and enablg LGBT persons to work unr circumstanc that are equal to their lleagu. Dpe several charg at the barris and smoke bombs, plastic bottl and unoked ssag thrown at police by the anti-gay protters, there was no vlence only 12 arrts, which clud several members of parliament.

There had been mors origatg om the Interim Prosecutor General Raimondas Petrskas that anti-gay radils would attack the participants upon entrance and ex to the para, but when the b rolled up to the perimeter of the fenced area, only the teal fatigu of the Vilni police force uld be seen. Seimas member Rokas Žilskas was posg for the meras wh the huge rabow flag and told Baltic Reports that although he had been skeptil at first, he was out mpaigng for human rights, not only gay rights.

The first LGBT film ftival ‘Koks kas’ is anised by Equal Rights & Social Development Centre llaboratn wh Lhuanian Gay League and wh kd support of the Royal Netherlands Embassy Vilni as well as other sponsors. ” I barely knew how to travel, wasn’t entirely sure I was a lbian, and I didn’t really know how to give them an LGBTQ-iendly spiel… A gay travel gui assortment of tips and advice… Their qutns really threw me. But I also know that travellg n be the bt gift to give yourself while tryg to figure out which booti you like bumpg and how to live a life that is still not nsired “normal”, there are some super smashg gay iendly ci to fill the spiratn cup along the way.