Worst place to be gay
&#;The Worst Place To Be Gay&#;
In a documentary broadcast recently on the BBC, the British DJ Scott Mills travels to Uganda and reports on the rampant homophobia there. Technically, Uganda may not be the very worst place to be gay. Homosexuality can get you beheaded in Saudi Arabia for example, and there are several other places with similar policies. Nevertheless, Uganda&#;s pretty bad. Mills&#; film is depressing viewing as he discovers the breadth and depth of rabid homophobia in Ugandan culture. Perhaps because he&#;s a DJ and not a journalist, I found Mills annoying at times, as he tends to emphasize on himself and his retain reactions a bit too much. But at other times his naive and good natured behavior is quite endearing.
At one indicate, Mills comes out of the closet to Ugandan MP David Bahati, the sponsor of the notorious anti-homosexuality bill. After that, things turn rather sinister.
The documentary does a good job of highlighting the dire situation in Uganda, but I found myself wishing Mills had confronted some of his subjects with something a little more intellectually chal
The 5 Worst States for LGBT People
If you pay attention to the news, it&#;s hard not to get swept up in the feeling that things are getting beat for America&#;s LGBT citizens. However, after riding a wave of momentum in the courts this year, marriage equality strike a new roadblock in November, when the Sixth Circuit Court upheld bans in Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan and Tennessee. The decision is likely to strength a ruling from the Supreme Court, a body that&#;s up until now been &#;leading from behind&#; on this issue. It&#;s also a reflection of the broader inequalities that still remain for LGBT people in today&#;s America, where activists message that marriage is only part of the picture.
&#;The judgment was a significant setback,&#; says Advocate news director Sunnivie Brydum. &#;But this isn&#;t just about marriage equality. When you paint the entire community as this monolith, you end up reducing it to a caricature that doesn&#;t reflected the lived reality or the diversity of issues that face a community.&#;
So where execute LGBT people possess it worst? According to Michaelan
The worst place in the world for LGBT to live is China, according to a survey that puts Beijing at the bottom of a list of most welcoming cities, alongside several other Chinese cities.
To celebrate Pride Month, German housing website Nestpick ranked the most welcoming cities for people who identify as lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender and gender non-conforming. Beijing came last out of a cities, while Shanghai sat at number 89 and Hong Kong at
At the other end, Madrid topped the list, followed by Amsterdam, Toronto, Tel Aviv and London.
Last week, Shanghai Parade activists told The Daily Beast about LGBT experience in China, saying that although gay clubs remain, few people come out as many people battle to be accepted by families and the articulate. Homosexuality in China was decriminalized in , and was removed from an official list of mental illnesses a few years later.
A survey by the Pew Research Center initiate that just 21 percent of China's population was in favor of homosexuality. There are clinics in China offer still present "conversion therapy" to homosexuals.
Though most in China perform not fo
Rainbow Map
rainbow map
These are the main findings for the edition of the rainbow map
The Rainbow Blueprint ranks 49 European countries on their respective legal and policy practices for LGBTI people, from %.
The UK has dropped six places in ILGA-Europe’s Rainbow Map, as Hungary and Georgia also register steep falls following anti-LGBTI legislation. The data highlights how rollbacks on LGBTI human rights are part of a broader erosion of democratic protections across Europe. Read more in our press release.
“Moves in the UK, Hungary, Georgia and beyond signal not just isolated regressions, but a coordinated global backlash aimed at erasing LGBTI rights, cynically framed as the defence of tradition or public stability, but in reality designed to entrench discrimination and suppress dissent.”
- Katrin Hugendubel, Advocacy Director, ILGA-Europe
Malta has sat on superior of the ranking for the last 10 years.
With 85 points, Belgium jumped to second place after adopting policies tackling hatred based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics.