Gay spartacus guide

Positive developments in the respective countries count as plus points, negative ones as minus points. The legal and societal situation for queer s. Information - Hotels - Events - Saunas - Guides. Spartacus is publishing the Gay Travel Index since Due to the sometimes wide differences in the world, it can happen that holidaymakers endanger themselves simply by unwise behaviour.

We are convinced that there are holidaymakers who choose countries where the queer community is an accepted and beloved part of society. When creating the index, the focus is on political decisions affecting the queer community, legal changes or acts of violence and prohibitions.

Iceland joins the world’s most LGBTQIA+ friendly travel destinations for the first time, according to the Spartacus Gay Travel Index The gay travel guide keeps a close watch on Eastern Europe and the United States of America. The index has become more and more diverse and queer in the past years.

But every step towards equality is a step forward towards social acceptance and has therefore a direct impact on holidaymakers. The updated Spartacus Gay Travel Index provides an overview of the situation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex people in a total of countries and regions.

With a bill to introduce marriage equality, Thailand has the chance to catch up with Taiwan 13th place in the upcoming index in Following a ruling by the I nter-American Court of Human Rights in Costa Rica in on the introduction of marriage equality, which is binding for twenty countries in the region, countries such as PeruBoliviaEcuadorHonduras and Panama are under pressure to implement the ruling.

Categories include among others: marriage equality and anti-discrimination laws, sodomy laws, pride parade bans and hate crimes.

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Switzerland and Australia follow immediately behind. With the passing of a law in to legalize marriage equality, Estonia makes a big leap forward and improves from 47th to 32nd place. It was sold to current owners GayGuide UG inwhereupon the guide.

Belgium stagnates and due to the advancing countries, it is now 21st on the list. In the regular index, the United States rank 41st. The kingdom drops to 21st because other countries advanced. Thanks to the ban on conversion therapy, Norway is also one of this years winners, improving from 17th to 8th place.

Spartacus World: The source of gay travel. The Baltic state is the first country in Eastern Europe to grant same-sex spouses the same rights as the heterosexual population. Germany follows in 8th place, together with countries such as DenmarkIcelandNorway and Uruguay.

{INSERTKEYS} [1] It was founded by John D. Stamford in as a printed guide, before being bought by Bruno Gmünder in following investigations into Stamford's tax violations and promotion of paedophilia. Our aim is to monitor the safety of queer people in each country and also increase the awareness on grievances.

The index is intended to provide either type of holidaymaker with trustworthy and valid information. While the Russian Federation was still ranked th in the Spartacus Gay Travel Index , it has now been downgraded to th place and is therefore only a few places away from the far end Afghanistan , Chechnya , Iran and Saudi Arabia , which share th place.

Over the years, Spartacus has added new categories to the index to match with a broader diversity of the queer community. The Spartacus International Gay Guide is an international gay travel application and formerly an annually-published guide.

Political developments such as marriage equality might at first only affect the LGBT community of the respective country. In addition to Malta, which already took first place in , Canada, New Zealand, Spain and Portugal have now also moved to the top.{/INSERTKEYS}