Disver how love and the celebratn of human diversy has turned the ten stunng ci petors for the tle of the world's gay mec!
Contents:
- WHERE IS THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD? TEN FABULO CONTENRS… ?
- CULTUR EXPLAED: HOW DID SAN FRANCIS BEE THE WORLD’S GAY MEC
- 25 GAYT CI THE WORLD
- WHAT IS THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD? THIS LIST WILL TELL YOU!
WHERE IS THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD? TEN FABULO CONTENRS… ?
* gay capital of the world *
Equalx, a llaborative knowledge base for the global LGBT movement that maps the legaly of homosexualy, intifi a number of factors cludg eedom to change genr and to adopt – although hasn’t ranked untri or ci orr of bt to x om the Human Rights Campaign looks at municipal servic, law enforcement and the cy learship’s public posn on equaly across the US. Arguably the size of the LGBT populatn urban areas uld reflect the level of iendls, as “many LGBTI folk head to ci om ral areas bee of the promise of a eer, more tolerant life there, ” says André du Plsis, executive director of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn. San Francis has often been lled the “gay pal of the world” for s culture of tolerance and vibrant even when ci seem progrsive on the surface, the lived experience of members of the LGBT muny n tell a dramatilly different story.
CULTUR EXPLAED: HOW DID SAN FRANCIS BEE THE WORLD’S GAY MEC
San Francis is known for s annual Pri ftival, LGBT performanc and open gay bars. But how exactly did this e to be? * gay capital of the world *
“For a certa social strata [sic], Cape Town and Johannburg are gay mecs, but at the same time black lbians livg poor areas there are alg wh vlence and targeted rape, ” says Graeme Reid, director of the LGBT rights programme at Human Rights Watch. Brazilian Print Jair Bolsonaro once said: ‘Y, I’m homophobic – and very proud of .
25 GAYT CI THE WORLD
In this piece, we will take a look at the 25 Gayt Ci the World. For more ci, head on over to 10 Gayt Ci the World. The risg trend of diversy and cln and acceptance for different sexual orientatns is impactg the global enomy posively. Several rearch papers have attempted to expla […] * gay capital of the world *
“Wh the electn of an openly homophobic print, Jair Bolsonaro, who has famoly said he would rather have a ad son than a gay son, R’s reputatn as a statn cy may falter, and vlence crease, ” Reid says. “R is seen as a liberated cy, but also has high levels of [homophobic] vlence. ”‘Gay Disneyland’Conversely, some untri wh backward and dangero attus to the LGBT muny, such as Iran and Sdi Arabia, discreet but vibrant unrground scen n thrive.
This is even the se Rsia, where activists say two people were killed last week and nearly 40 taed, as part of a new homophobic crackdown by police the Chechnya regn. “You’ll fd a gay scene many plac that may surprise you, ” says Ed Salvato, an LGBT travel expert. “Some plac like Mosw and St Petersburghave vibrant gay muni, spe the homophobic laws there.
“Dubl is like gay Disneyland now, and that wasn’t the se 20 or 30 years ago, ” says Prof Andrew Reynolds, founr of the Universy of North Carola’s LGBTQ Reprentatn and Rights Rearch Iniative. The untry was the first to legalise gay marriage by popular vote, a 2015 referendum wh a y vote of says: “They went to Atralia. The gay stronghold of Palm Sprgs, California, has elected an entire cy uncil that intifi as LGBT.
WHAT IS THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD? THIS LIST WILL TELL YOU!
And November, Jared Polis beme the first openly gay man to be elected as a US state Poland, one of Europe’s most Catholic and nservative untri, voters the small cy of Slupsk this year elected a gay atheist mayor, Robert Biedron. Jt a few years ago, Biedron was attacked on the streets of his cy bee of his Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunil Pant beme Asia’s first openly gay feral-level elected official 2008, rultg a spate of public scty. “I thk that the spoff is that Kathmandu is a lot more gay-iendly than was before, ” says Reynolds.