Go north, boys! A global survey of gay men suggts you'll fd the happit gay men on earth... Iceland.
Contents:
- WHERE THE WORLD ARE THE HAPPIT GAY MEN?
- WHAT ASPECTS OF SOCIETY AFFECT THE QUALY OF LIFE OF A MORY? GLOBAL EVINCE OM THE NEW GAY HAPPS INX
- WHY GAY-IENDLY TAIWAN IS A CREATIVE HAVEN FOR LGBTQ ART
- MEANG LIFE AND HAPPS COMG OUT: A QUALATIVE STUDY OF MALAYSIAN GAY MAL
WHERE THE WORLD ARE THE HAPPIT GAY MEN?
* gay happiness index *
In roughly one-third of all untri worldwi, lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people are nsired crimals; homosexualy is punishable by ath seven untri. By ntrast, many northern European untri are very acceptg of so, as The Washgton Post reports, as no surprise that gay men are happit those welg lotns, acrdg to a new survey of 115, 000 gay men around the Post reports Pla Romeo, an Amsterdam-based datg and muny se and app, llaborated wh Johann Gutenberg Universy of Maz Germany to rry out the onle poll. Rearchers bed rankgs on public opn, public behavr and life satisfactn -- specifilly, how gay men feel about society's view on homosexualy, how gay men feel they are treated by other people, and how satisfied gay men are wh their own liv, rpectively -- to one worldwi rankg, which they ll The Gay Happs Inx.
Comg at number one all the world as the untry where gay men are the happit is Iceland, followed by Norway, Denmark, Swen, Uguay, Canada, Israel, the Netherlands, Swzerland, and Luxembourg (where the untry's out prime mister earlier this month beme the first natnal lear a legal same-sex marriage) Uned Stat ranks 26th on the list. The map below shows the hight-ranked untri appearg green, wh the lowt-ranked untri 10 untri where gay men are the least happy, acrdg to this rankg, are Kazakhstan, Ghana, Cameroon, Iran, Nigeria, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Ethpia, Sudan, and the top 20 happit untri, 37 percent of rponnts were currently a mted relatnship wh another man, while 3 percent were a relatnship wh a woman.
WHAT ASPECTS OF SOCIETY AFFECT THE QUALY OF LIFE OF A MORY? GLOBAL EVINCE OM THE NEW GAY HAPPS INX
Rearchers say 56 percent of rponnts the 20 "worst" untri were also a lot more likely to say their parents were not acceptg of their sexual orientatn, pared wh 20 percent who said the same of their parents the 20 "bt" many societi are growg more acceptg of homosexualy, gay men some untri report that thgs actually have grown worse the past few years.
I thought this was gog to be a sle, like "I rank Cher out of Cher for gay happs". So the law is on our siHowever a high percentage of the populatn most populated regns is immigrants om Cha, India, Pakistan, Jamai, Ghana, Nigeria etc pendg where you liveAnd most of those immigrants which make up a pretty high percentage of the populatn are not pro-gay at all.
WHY GAY-IENDLY TAIWAN IS A CREATIVE HAVEN FOR LGBTQ ART
Japan and South Korea are much lower than I expected I gus I don't know much about how they treat the gays...
Conservative don't always mean anti-gay though. There is great variatn views on and treatment of mori such as gay men across the world. We are the first to ppot what featur of societi that are beneficial to gay men’s qualy of life by makg e of a unique new cross-untry dataset verg 110 untri, the Gay Happs Inx.
MEANG LIFE AND HAPPS COMG OUT: A QUALATIVE STUDY OF MALAYSIAN GAY MAL
It vers how gays perceive public opn about them, how they experience behavr towards them and how satisfied they are wh their liv. We fd that legal rights for gay men, GDP per pa, mocracy and enomic globalizatn tend to benef gays, primarily by shapg public opn and behavr a pro-gay directn, while relign and livg a post-munist untry exert a negative effect.
The factors have largely been shown to matter for the well-beg of people general as well, which tertgly impli that “special rights” are not necsarily need for gays but the same polici that provi a good life for most people. Keywords: Gays, homosexualy, mori, happs, wellbeg, life satisfactn, stutns, mocracy, globalizatn. Global Evince om the New Gay Happs Inx (December 22, 2015).
Data om five wav (2002–10) of the European Social Survey were examed to see the extent to which heterosexual and homosexual upl differ their health and happs. Homosexual people had lower levels of self-rated health and happs. We suggt that those who experience discrimatn are more strongly tegrated their gay muny, which, turn, may brg posive effects terms of happs due to a sense of belongg, but may be acpanied by the specific health risks associated wh this muny.