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KEY WEST IS RENOWNED AS A PIONEERING LGBTQ+ MECCA
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Lying at the southernmost tip of the Florida Keys, surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, Key West attracts some 250,000 LGBTQ+ visitors annually and continues to be a leading gay vacation mecca. Key West is a quirky place—with chickens that run free and five-toed cats sauntering down its alleyways. Historically, the LGBTQ+ community has been drawn to the island due to its remoteness and come-as-you-are attitude. As a result, the LGBTQ+ community has long played a pivotal role in the culture of Key West. Watch this video to see just how diverse Key West really is. | Image credit: Friendly Map |
LGBTQ+ TRAVEL GUIDE TO URUGUAY |
| Uruguay is one of the most progressive countries in the world, let alone South America, especially when it comes to being LGBTQ+ inclusive. It was one of the first countries in South America to legalize same-sex marriage and has passed various other progressive laws, including legalizing abortions in 2012 and the legalization of cultivating, selling and consuming recreational cannabis in 2013. Uruguay has been viewed as one of the safest places for LGBTQ+ travelers to visit and for LGBTQ+ people to live. Often overshadowed by more popular destinations within South America, like Brazil and Argentina, Uruguay is quickly climbing the ranks to claim the top spot for LGBTQ+ visitors to South America.
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EXPLORE LGBTQ+ RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS AROUND THE GLOBE |
| Interested in traveling abroad? Check out our guide with extensive data on LGBTQ+ rights and protections around the world. The guide features an overview of global marriage equality as well an application that sources LGBTQ+ rights and protections in over 250 countries and regions. The application was developed in partnership with Destination Pride, a data-driven platform that reimagines the Pride flag as a dynamic bar graph, then uses it to visualize the world's LGBTQ+ laws, rights and social sentiment. The platform, created by PFLAG Canada, brings together thousands of data points from around the globe—including marriage equality laws, census data and real-time social sentiment—to generate a Pride flag visualization for each destination. Currently, just 29 countries recognize same-sex marriage. On the other hand, over 70 countries currently have laws that allow for the punishment of same-sex activity between consenting adults, including more than 10 that even allow for those ‘crimes’ to be punished with the death penalty.
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TWO HOMELANDS CONVERGE FOR LGBTQ+ CUBAN AMERICANS IN MIAMI'S LITTLE HAVANA
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| The Miami Cuban community is not monolithic. It is Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, and Santeros. It is the conservative, mostly-white business owners who fled Cuba in the early '60s, and the queer Afro-Cuban artists who were among the 125,000 Cuban immigrants who arrived during the 1980 Mariel boatlift. And everything in between and beyond. But if there's one thing that has become crystal clear as thousands march in Miami in solidarity with Cuban protestors. Nowhere do these co-existing allegiances converge more than in today's Little Havana, the Miami neighborhood where Cubans started settling after the 1959 Cuban Revolution. Little Havana is a funky mix of cultures. It is a place where old-world traditions blend with progressive thinking—where machismo and queerness cohabitate.
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TRAVEL GUIDES, EVENTS, TOURS, SPECIALS & MORE!
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