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Sorry for the radio silence here, but after having returned home to the USA for the holidays, I’ve had a lot of time to think and to reflect — mostly about the past year and a bit about the future. And in making some of my plans for the next year, I’ve thought a lot about the past year.

Namely the fact that it’s probably been my gayest year ever. Is that even a thing? Who knows. I don’t care. But I undergo like this was an significant year for gay rights, and also for my own interest in gay travel.

Gay travel?!

Yeah, that topic again. Travel is tour, yes. But this year I’ve also realized just how many of my own trips and experiences are almost certainly chosen because of my own sexual preference. Where I’ve traveled to isn’t necessarily anything to do with the fact that I’m gay, I guess, but these are the places that I’ve found that are actually great for other gay travelers like myself—either solo or for gay couples.

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Gay Travel Index: Most LGBTQ+-friendly explore destinations

For many people, camping is the epitome of freedom. The freedom to let yourself be driven by the desire to travel, to go exactly where it is most beautiful and to spend the night in your own home on four wheels where you like it best. Unfortunately, this feeling of freedom is not always a given, especially for travellers from the LGBTQ+ community. Unfortunately, people still encounter intolerance, prejudice, restrictions and sometimes even persecution because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Travellers from the LGBTQ+ community therefore often possess to choose their travel destinations even more carefully - even when it comes to camping. How free and safe are people from the queer community in different holiday destinations? Where can they feel safe and welcome and meet like-minded people? The Spartacus Gay Travel Index takes a closer look at holiday destinations in Europe and around the world and assesses how LGBTQ+-friendly or unfriendly they are 🏳️‍🌈

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The World&#;s 10 Greatest LGBTQ-Friendly Countries For Travellers

Based on our 15 years of experience travelling to over 70 countries.

We’ve experienced warm welcomes in conservative countries and pockets of homophobia in liberal lands (admittedly, even Canada and the USA have problem spots). But at the end of the day, as part of the LGBTQ+ community, where will you have the most enjoyable as a traveller? The team has discussed&#;and here’s our list of the world’s top 10 most LGBTQ-friendly countries to verb for your next gaycation!

Spain

Since Ancient Rome, the men of Spain have ‘enjoyed’ one another’s company. Of course there was the homophobic Christian Dark Ages, but the fall of Dictator Francisco Franco gave us the progressive Spain we know today. Same-sex activity became legal in (for a second time, after that whole Fascist moment), and things have continued to progress since then.

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Same sex marriage and adoption have been legal since , and trans people can ‘self identify’, meaning they can legally change gender without surgery or sterilization

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It’s and my boyfriend and I are hovering nervously at a hotel reception in Woodbridge, Suffolk. We can sense the frosty contempt of the fiftysomething male at the desk when we ask for a double, not a twin room. After we check in, we’re both tetchy: I’m annoyed at how we’ve been treated, while my partner believes we should just “accept” it, that “it’s just the way it is.”

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Back then, there was tiny you could do about such blatant prejudice – at least on a day-to-day basis. Some respite could be found trawling through the listings in Gay Times for gay-owned hotels and B&Bs. But, sadly, travel has long remained an issue for LGBTQ+ people, whether in the UK or abroad, where customs, legality and local cultural norms still need to be considered.

No matter how liberal a nation may be, there’s always some anxiety

In the last decade, there have, of course, been positive changes.