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SPARTACUS Gay Travel Index 2025

by Janis

  Iceland joins the world’s most LGBTQIA+-friendly travel destinations for the first time The updated SPARTACUS GAY TRAVEL INDEX, provides an overview of the situation for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, asexual, and queer individuals (LGBTQIA+) in a total of …

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SPARTACUS Gay Travel Index 2024

by Sascha Hoppe

SPARTACUS Gay Travel Index 2024: Record number at the top The updated SPARTACUS GAY TRAVEL INDEX provides an overview of the situation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBT+) people in a total of 213 countries and regions. In …

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SPARTACUS Gay Travel Index 2023

by Sascha Hoppe

SPARTACUS Gay Travel Index 2023: Malta, Canada, and Switzerland are the most LGBT+ friendly travel destinations The updated SPARTACUS GAY TRAVEL INDEX provides an overview of the situation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and intersex (LGBT+) people in 203 different …

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Why Berlin is the queer capital of Europe

by Sascha Hoppe

Nowhere do lesbians, gays and the queer community shape the cityscape as much as in Berlin, including outside the well-known rainbow districts. Visiting the queer capital of Europe is always an unforgettable trip. Lesbian couples walking hand in hand through …

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SPARTACUS Gay Travel Index 2021

by Sascha Hoppe

Gay Travel Index 2021: Canada is the most LGBTQ*-friendly travel destination The editorial offices of männer* and Spartacus have compiled the annual Gay Travel Index and one person can be really happy: Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada. The …

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Great Britain: “Historical injustice” corrected

by Sabine Hannakampf

British military veterans who were dishonourably discharged from the military because of their sexual or gender orientation and lost all awards are to be rehabilitated and honoured again. In doing so, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) wants to correct a “historical injustice”.

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“Mortal Danger” – Drama about two queer Chechens

by Leander Milbrecht

Two queer men who escaped torture in Chechnya were abducted by police in Russia and deported back to their home country. There they are currently being held, interrogated and threatened – without access to legal representation. The queer organisation Russian …

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New York lifts controversial ‘walking while trans’ ban

by Sabine Hannakampf

On February 2, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law in New York that repeals a controversial law commonly known as the “Walking While Trans” ban.

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Banda Aceh: 77 lashes for gay love

by Leander Milbrecht

All protests, complaints and pleas remained in vain: On Thursday, 28 January 2021, the young couple was publicly whipped. The two men had to endure 77 lashes each with a whip made of solid rattan. And all because they had been in a relationship within their own four walls.

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Lesbian dream wedding in top sport: Fifa world footballer proposes via Instagram

by Sabine Hannakampf

Six-time FIFA World Player of the Year Marta Vieira da Silva has announced she will marry her Orlando Pride teammate Toni Deion Pressley.

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Honduras

Honduras: “Constitutional ban” against gay marriage

Members of the Honduran parliament have voted in favour of a constitutional amendment that makes it much harder to change existing laws.

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Queeres Asien: Dein Guide für Nightlife- & Strand-Hotspots von Bangkok bis Bali

– Advertorial – Die Vorstellung von Asien als einem einzigen, unbeschwerten Regenbogen-Paradies ist ein schönes Märchen – leider ein ganz schön gefährliches, denn die Region ist ein wilder Mix aus total toleranten Partyzonen und Gebieten mit krassen, alten Gesetzen. Was …

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International Mr. Leather is coming to Chicago again

  Strap on your harnesses, boys! The International Mr. Leather competition is once again descending upon Chicago, the last weekend of May, during the Memorial Day holiday in the U.S. IML is one of the largest and most prestigious leather …

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