Turkey is a beautifully exotic and historically significant country, made up of grandiose palaces, majestic mosques, picture-perfect beaches and bustling markets. However, when it comes of LGBTQ+ rights, well, Turkey is a tricky one. On the one hand, “homosexual activity” has been legal in Turkey since as far back as 1858, and trans people have had the right to change their legal gender since 1988. On the other hand, as a largely Islamic country, the backlash has been considerable — with a conservative government very much pulling the brakes on progress. In truth, as long as you feel safe and take the right precautions, nothing should act as a deterrent to seeing one of the most beautiful places in the world and getting to know a land so rich in culture.
DELTA EXPANDS ‘FACES OF TRAVEL’ PROGRAM TO INCREASE REPRESENTATION IN TRAVEL CULTURE
While Delta has intentionally increased representation within its own marketing assets, Faces of Travel is a program that continues Delta’s long-term commitment to increase representation within the larger travel culture. These free assets can be tapped into for anything from social media to tourism ads and everything in between, while pushing against stereotypes that have been created and upheld.
Prepare for a glamorous gathering of LGBTQ+ icons as our legendary Travel With Pride Journey returns on the rails for its second edition. Traveling from Paris to Venice, join us on 2 November for one night on board the glittering carriages of the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express. With incredible live performances, this journey will celebrate the pioneering spirit of some of the world's most acclaimed LGBTQ+ icons. Working with and supporting Not A Phase – Support Trans Lives.
People today generally think that the LGBTQ+ rights movement took off with the Stonewall riots in 1969—or with one of the US protests that preceded them in the 1960s. Actually, the first public protest against the criminalization of homosexuality didn’t take place in the United States, but in Germany, in Munich—and over a hundred years earlier, in 1867, when a lawyer and writer called Karl Heinrich Ulrichs made a speech to a conference of German jurists, which included perhaps the first modern coming out as well. The word ‘homosexuality’ was also used for the first time in German in the 1860s, in a letter to Ulrichs.
