With a newfound ‘people first’ approach to politics, Argentina swiftly ushered in constitutional rights for queer people. As Rob explains: in the early 80s, human rights issues pushed Argentina to make the significant transition to democracy. Rob’s first pick, and the only South American country to breach his top ten, is aristocratic Argentina. Argentina Why Rob ranked Argentina as a gay friendly country. The difference is nuanced but important.ġ0. Rather than, say, a country that will outwardly flaunt LGBTQ legislation with the sole intention of reaching into our pockets. However, Rob emphasizes that he prefers the term LGBTQ welcoming, as it reflects a more deliberate step on the country’s part to be an authentic ally to our entire community. Throughout this post we’ll primarily use the term ‘gay friendly’ as it’s the more widely recognized phrase. Given his ample travel experience, we put one of the most frequent questions we receive before him: What are the most gay friendly countries in the world today? See his countdown below. During this time he has experienced acceptance in unexpected locales, and at other times, he has felt less-than-welcomed as a cis gay man. Photo: Google Streetview.Since launching Out Adventures 12 years ago, Rob has travelled to some 60+ countries around the globe. EKRE is currently the second most popular party in Estonia.Ĭover: The fast food shack in the Tallinn borough of Mustamäe, where a young female gay couple was brutally attacked and beaten. In October 2020, the then interior minister of Estonia and one of the leaders of the populist Estonian Conservative People’s Party (EKRE), Mart Helme, said in an interview with Deutsche Welle that his attitude towards gays is “unfriendly” and “Estonian gays could be better off in Sweden” (Helme resigned for different reasons a month later). Photo by Grete Maria Neppo.Īs of 2018, Estonia was the third most homophobic country in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, after Turkey and Latvia. “We’re very afraid of drunken men now, when we’re out,” she admitted to the newspaper.Īccording to the police, an investigation has been opened into the brutal attack, Postimees said. She also had nerve ache in her foot so that she couldn’t walk for two days. Police and an ambulance came the men who beat us had already left,” she told Postimees.Įmma said her girlfriend had a concussion and both of their heads ached for four days after the beating. “The next moment I remember was when my girlfriend was talking to the emergency services over the phone. According to the victim, it later emerged that one of the men who attacked her had previously been involved in martial arts, and was over seven feet tall – “like a bear”.Īccording to Emma, she received three kicks to the head and lost consciousness. Two of them were beating us and the third one was just looking,” Emma told Postimees. …/ The men started to beat us with their hands and feet. “He held my neck firmly, my girlfriend tried to push the guy away. According to the newspaper, one of the attackers started to strangle Emma after that. One of the victims, whom Postimees calls Emma, but admits it’s not her real name, told the newspaper that she got angry at the men and told them to pipe down.
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The horrific attack took place in the borough of Mustamäe, at a food shack near the Szolnok bus stop.Īccording to Postimees, the women – 20 and 18 years old – had gone to buy French fries at the food shack in the morning of Sunday, 8 August, when they encountered three men, of whom one felt the necessity to call them “lesbians” and laughed at them.
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A young female gay couple was brutally attacked and beaten by two men in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, in the morning of 8 August.