With the way 2016 has gone, it’s great to hear that there are places around the world that are doing wonderful things for the LGBT community — such as Malta. On December 5th, the island nation became the first country in Europe to ban gay conversion therapy! Malta’s parliament passed the Affirmation of Sexual […]
Meet Button and Bly, the coolest lesbian travelers who have their own LGBT travel show on YouTube. Originally from Los Angeles, the two friends set out to Europe and have been filming their travels ever since. (They feature some places in the U.S. too such as New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles) Beyond the […]
By: Shannon Ralph My wife and I are planning a European trip. We are not now, nor have we ever been, seasoned world travelers. We do not have current passports. We do not possess a single frequent flyer mile between us. Our foreign country experience to date has been limited to Canadian border towns and […]
By Alex Temblador Italy is currently the only major country in Western Europe without legal recognition of same-sex couples, however, that might not be the case for long. The European Court of Human Rights ruled in the case of Oliari and Others vs. Italy that Italy’s ban on same-sex marriage was a human rights violation. […]
ILGA-Europe, an international human rights organization, found that the U.K. has the most legal equality for the LGBT community. Forty-nine countries were measured and ranked by how much legal protection is provided for the LGBT people. The countries were measured in 48 different criteria from marriage equality to employment discrimination protection to hate crime laws. “We witnessed several […]
