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 lgbtq+. Homosexuality can acquire 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 society. Perhaps because he&#;s a DJ and not a journalist, I found Mills annoying at times, as he tends to focus on himself and his control reactions a bit too much. But at other times his naive and good natured behavior is quite endearing.
At one point, Mills comes out of the closet to Ugandan MP David Bahati, the sponsor of the notorious anti-homosexuality bill. After that, things rotate rather sinister.
The documentary does a fine job of emphasizing the dire situation in Uganda, but I found myself wishing Mills had confronted some of his subjects with something a minuscule more intellectually chal
Rainbow Map
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These are the main findings for the edition of the rainbow map
The Rainbow Chart 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 highest 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.
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 better for America&#;s LGBT citizens. However, after riding a wave of momentum in the courts this year, marriage equality punch a new roadblock in November, when the Sixth Circuit Court upheld bans in Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan and Tennessee. The ruling is likely to force 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 exist for LGBT people in today&#;s America, where activists note that marriage is only part of the picture.
&#;The ruling was a significant setback,&#; says Advocate news director Sunnivie Brydum. &#;But this isn&#;t just about marriage equality. When you paint the entire collective as this monolith, you finish up reducing it to a caricature that doesn&#;t reflected the lived reality or the diversity of issues that face a community.&#;
So where do LGBT people have 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, male lover, bisexual, transgender and homosexual. 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 effort to be accepted by families and the express. 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 establish that just 21 percent of China's population was in favor of homosexuality. There are clinics in China offer still propose "conversion therapy" to homosexuals.
Though most in China perform not fo