14 gay-iendly ci that LGBT travellers love - Hostelworld Travel Blog

Contents:

• 40 BT GAY DTATNS WORLDWI, ACRDG TO TRAVELERS
• 25 GAYT CI THE WORLD
• THE WORLD'S MOST GAY-FRIENDLY BEACH CI AND RORTS
• 14 GAY-IENDLY CI THAT LGBT TRAVELLERS LOVE
• 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
• GAY USA
• TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021

40 BT GAY DTATNS WORLDWI, ACRDG TO TRAVELERS

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25 GAYT CI THE WORLD

25 Gayt Ci the World Fance Watchlists My Portfol Markets Optns: Hight Open Intert Optns: Hight Implied Volatily News Vios Yahoo Fance Pl Screeners Personal Fance High-yield savgs acunt rat Crypto Indtri Contact Us S&P 500 Dow 30 Nasdaq Rsell 2000 C Oil Gold Silver EUR/USD 10-Yr Bond GBP/USD USD/JPY B USD CMC Crypto 200 FTSE 100 Nikkei 225 25 Gayt Ci the WorldIn this piece, we will take a look at the 25 Gayt Ci the World. GDP per pa is the total enomic output of a untry divid by s populatn, and g the Uned Stat as an example, a $2, 000 per pa ga leads to a whoppg $663 billn addn to the GDP (assumg that the addn is for the entire populatn and not jt the gay people). Buildg on this, the WEF also highlights that gay and lbian young people are also four tim as likely to eher ntemplate or attempt suici, showg the te human impacts that potential discrimatn n have on people who otherwise serve an equal shot at away om the U.

So if hearg that the CEO of Apple is gay n help someone stgglg to e to terms wh who he or she is, or brg fort to anyone who feels alone, or spire people to sist on their equaly, then ’s worth the tra-off wh my own the tails md, 's time to take a look at some of the gayt ci the Ci the WorldTimothy Hodgkson/ Methodology To pile our list, we nsulted a variety of different sourc (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) to see which ci are gay iendly and have large gay populatns.

THE WORLD'S MOST GAY-FRIENDLY BEACH CI AND RORTS

Studi that try to do this often look at polil or legal metrics such as eedom to marry, or laws protectg agast discrimatn.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 worst.An x om the Human Rights Campaign looks at municipal servic, law enforcement and the cy learship’s public posn on equaly across the US.Seventy-eight out of 506 US ci had a “perfect sre” of 100, for reasons such as troducg trans-clive health benefs to cy employe, as Brookgs, South Dakota. Photograph: Brigte MERLE/Getty Imag/Photononstop RF“Morn strongholds for LGBTQI culture rema wtern Europe and Canada,” says Merryn Johns, edor and chief for Curve, a lbian-foced magaze New York.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.A study of US metro areas found San Francis has the biggt proportn of LGBT rints the untry at 6.2%, followed by Portland and At. San Francis has often been lled the “gay pal of the world” for s culture of tolerance and vibrant scene.But even when ci seem progrsive on the surface, the lived experience of members of the LGBT muny n tell a dramatilly different story.“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.A study 2017 found that four 10 LGBT South Ains know of someone who has been killed for “beg or spected of beg” LGBT.

14 GAY-IENDLY CI THAT LGBT TRAVELLERS LOVE

However, the last year has seen rerd numbers of vlent attacks agast the queer muny.Brazilian Print Jair Bolsonaro once said: ‘Y, I’m homophobic – and very proud of .’ Photograph: Evaristo Sa/AFP/Getty ImagAnd wh a newly elected far-right ernment, there are fears uld get worse.“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.

5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)

“Some plac like Mosw and St Petersburghave vibrant gay muni, spe the homophobic laws there.”In Dubl, an excg scene explod out of a stnchly Catholic untry.“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.“Wh the last uple of referendums, Ireland and Dubl have embraced their new prentatn as an clive, progrsive and lovg place.”When Reynolds vised Ireland 2016, many om the LGBT populatn told him stori of growg up nservative astal towns and movg away due to prejudice.

And November, Jared Polis beme the first openly gay man to be elected as a US state ernor.In 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 sexualy.In 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. Although urban statns tend to be most popular wh gay travelers bee of their rich cultural offergs, vibrant nightlife districts, and chic shoppg and dg, a number of the world's most gay-popular ci also enjoy picturque settgs on the water.

GAY USA

Wh outstandg mms, distctive archecture (cludg several treasur by Antoni Gdi) a lively gay nightlife scene centered mostly around the sophistited Eixample district, and an abundance of stylish rtrants and hotels, Barcelona is a terrific statn for urban, yet there's a sweepg and betiful gay beach, Barceloa, jt mut om the cy center. The regn has been eclipsed by nearby Fort Lrdale recent year's as the state's top gay statn, but you'll still fd plenty of gays and lbians livg and playg the parts - and visg durg the several big gay circu parti held South Beach each year, om Wter Party to Whe Party to Miami Gay Pri.

TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021

The largt cy on the famoly swank and sophistited French Riviera, Nice (populatn 350, 000) is not que a gay playground on the same plane as such Euro-queer hot spots as Ibiza and Mykonos, but this stylish cy wh an outstandg variety of tony rtrants and shops do have a growg gay prence (this is also te, by the way, of nearby Cann, which is smaller but also is beg creasgly popular wh gay travelers).