Gay Vilni

Contents:

• LHUANIA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN AUGT 2023
• FRENCH POLYNIA: TAHI GAY CISE
• 14 GAY-IENDLY CI THAT LGBT TRAVELLERS LOVE
• ATTUS TOWARD GAYS BALTIC UNTRI? - LHUANIA FOM
• GAY LIFE LHUANIA
• GAY VILNI · CY GUI
• GAY VILNI
• VILNI GAY SNAS

LHUANIA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN AUGT 2023

In Amsterdam, the gay scene is mostly ncentrated around the many gay bars the Reguliersdwarsstraat, and we’ve had many fun parti at the Amstel Fifty Four on Wedndays, the drks night of stunt associatn A. There are great queer bars such as SilverFuture Nkölln and Faccla Krzberg, both wh their flare and social atmospher that make them great plac for tourists, whilst mega techno clubs and parti (what gui to gay Berl uldn’t clu Bergha?!

Compared to other plac Mexi, was the cy where I saw the most signs of affectn public between same-sex upl, and there are plenty of gay bars, clubs and parti for everyone. The right to change legal genr has been place sce 2012 and anti-discrimatn laws are full force Rosar and the big pal cy, Buenos love Buenos Air bee has one of the bt gay scen across Lat Ameri, which is heavily supported by the ernment, particular Augt when has s BADiversa week every Augt.

FRENCH POLYNIA: TAHI GAY CISE

The gay scene of Buenos Air is que spread out, but the fol pot is the large, rintial neighbourhood of Palermo, pl a few plac dotted about super ol San Telmo and well-to-do Releta. Hostels Auckland | Cheap flights to AucklandGran Canaria, Canary IslandsGran Canaria, remend by Stefan and Sebastien om Nomadic Canaria is an extremely famo statn throughout the year for European gays. From the 1960s, tourism really started to take off, attractg more and more foreigners and therefore even more tolerant love Gran Canaria bee there is a massive gay scene at Maspalomas and Playa l Ingl the southern part of the island.

The Yumbo Centre is the fol pot for the area: a large shoppg mall full of gay bars, clubs, rtrants and boutique shops, makg a gay man’s paradise. Gran Canaria also has several gay pri ftivals happeng throughout the year such as the Maspalomas Fetish Week October, Maspalomas Wter Pri November, Carnivals Febary (both Maspalomas and Las Palmas), Maspalomas Gay Pri May and fally numero bear parti October and another of our favoure experienc Gran Canaria was takg a boat trip (n by Canarias Gay) wh iends to the remote beach lled Gui Gui.

14 GAY-IENDLY CI THAT LGBT TRAVELLERS LOVE

Hostels Gran Canaria | Cheap flights to Gran CanariaMilan, ItalyMilan, remend by Luigi & Daniele om Gayly love Milan bee has the bt GLBT scene Italy. There’s Hell’s Kchen, where lots of gay guys hang out, or Henrietta Hudson the Village, which is one of three remag lbian bars the five boroughs.

Hostels New York | Cheap flights to New YorkRome, ItalyRome, remend by Luigi & Daniele om Gayly is an credible cy wh tonn of amazg plac to take photos and historil s that will take your breath away. You’ll fd yourself talkg to everyone and, wh the night g, you’ll want to disver one of the most popular Italian clubs: Mucssassa wter and Gay Village Pri tak place every June. Hostels Rome | Cheap flights to RomeLisbon, PortugalLisbon, remend by Gian Lu om Viaggia e of the most amazgly gay-iendly ci I n remend for LGBT travellers Lisbon.

Therefore, public displays of affectn (PDAs) and topics like sex and sexualy are thgs Japane do not talk about, though genr norms are more fluid Japan than elsewhere the LGBT people Japan are jt ‘gay for the weekend’ and often even have a ‘normal’ fay durg the rt of the week. The gay bars n be found Tokyo’s gay area Shju-nichōme, the perfect place to eher fd your special someone or to celebrate your love wh your special someone.

ATTUS TOWARD GAYS BALTIC UNTRI? - LHUANIA FOM

To fd the bt gay hangouts, the top neighborhoods clu the U Street Corridor, Dupont Circle or Logan Circle wh LGBT favore spots like Cobalt, 30 Degre, Green Lantern or DIK Bar. The cy’s premier fancial district by day, once the sun go down the area is home to lectable street food, rooftop bars and Thailand’s prospero and lively gay village. Although homosexualy is legal most parts of the untry, there is still polil tensn and revisns to the untry's crimal are currently beg nsired which uld potentially crimalize gay sex and same-sex relatnships.

There are que a few queer-iendly bars, rtrants and rorts  Bali, and also an (unofficial) gay strip on Jalan Camplung Tand Road Semyak at the southern end of the island. The Thai Government has approved a same-sex civil partnership bill to crease the legal rights of gay and lbian upl, and Bangkok’s top private hospal, Bumngrad, opened a clic specifilly for LGBTQ+ patients 2021. Homophobia still exists, of urse, as do every untry, but is rare Thailand, and beg ls mon as young Thai people are reared a natn that’s creasgly clive of gay and lbian people.

GAY LIFE LHUANIA

The wispread warmth Thailand towards the gay and lbian muny was highlighted April 2021 after a Thai gay uple received ath threats om Indonian ter ers for postg photos of their weddg. It's not like we'll be drivg to the towns on our Gay Pri Para float, but we equently fd that, some of the more "off the beaten path" plac that we vis, we attract looks that range om cursy to outright hostily, I assume bee we're two guys our 40s travelg together and 's probably obv that we're not "drkg buddi" or "aterny brothers. We don't see a lot of gays public so people are not ed to :) You have to go to alternative plac or plac for foreigners near Rote square and Vilni street.

We generally don't have any problems when we travel, but wh the Baltic untri' past nnectn to Rsia, and Rsia's extremely anti-gay stanc (and also Lhuania's proximy to Poland, which is pretty anti-gay), I was a ltle ncerned about how aggrsive the anti-gay people might be this regn. The suatn is slowly changg, pecially as some famo people are g out and there are already a number of policians who openly support gay rights, but you should rema reful. 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.

GAY VILNI · CY GUI

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. 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.

GAY VILNI

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”. 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”.

VILNI GAY SNAS

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.