The LGBTQ+ Travel Safety Inx ranks the world’s most dangero untri for gay travelers 2021.
Contents:
- ‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
- WHAT'S THE SO-LLED DON'T SAY GAY BILL THAT ULD IMPACT THE WHOLE UNTRY
- TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021
- ON THE MOSW METRO AND BEG GAY
‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
It’s Time to Drop the ‘LGBT’ From ‘LGBTQ’The se for a new term that scrib all sexual moriKatie MartFrank Kameny, the last century’s greatt gay-rights activist, filed the first-ever Supreme Court petn challengg discrimatn agast homosexuals. By 2007, when gay-rights advot cid to make their support for a feral antidiscrimatn bill ndnal on the cln of protectns for transgenr people, was clear that the gay-and-lbian and trans movements had bee polilly joed at the hip; cludg the T ma unniable sense. In Kameny’s 1961 Supreme Court petn (challengg the feral ernment’s ban on the employment of homosexuals), he built his argument on the Declaratn of Inpennce’s promise that the pursu of happs is an unalienable right.
WHAT'S THE SO-LLED DON'T SAY GAY BILL THAT ULD IMPACT THE WHOLE UNTRY
Every time lbian and/or gay and/or bisexual and/or transgenr and/or QIAA+ activists mand the recatn of a strg of ials, they implicly tell a story about seekg equaly and betterment for groups, not for dividuals, and not for that other set of ials, short, if there ever was a time when sexual mori were served by remdg the world of their factnalism, that time is past. The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey. Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment.
The study is a follow-up to a 2013 report that found many of the same patterns as seen today, although there has been an crease acceptance of homosexualy across many of the untri surveyed both years.
TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021
However, while took nearly 15 years for acceptance to rise 13 pots om 2000 to jt before the feral legalizatn of gay marriage June 2015, there was a near equal rise acceptance jt the four years sce legalizatn.
ON THE MOSW METRO AND BEG GAY
This staggerg 56-pot difference exceeds the next largt difference Japan by 20 pots, where 92% and 56% of those ag 18 to 29 and 50 and olr, rpectively, say homosexualy should be accepted by society. In South Korea, for example, those who classify themselv on the iologil left are more than twice as likely to say homosexualy is acceptable than those on the iologil right (a 39-percentage-pot difference).