62 Countries

Country Guides

Legal climate, cultural context, and honest city-level intelligence — country by country.

9.2
1 city
Argentina
The country that legalized marriage while the rest of Latin America was still arguing about it.
Full Equality
6.4
1 city
Aruba
One happy island, mostly — a beach paradise still waiting on its own courts to catch up.
Decriminalized
8.6
11 cities
Australia
Sydney threw its first Mardi Gras in 1978 against police batons — now it's the party of the hemisphere.
Full Equality
9.1
1 city
Austria
Vienna gave us Conchita, the waltz, and a bureaucracy that's somehow warmer than it looks.
Full Equality
4.6
⚠
1 city
Bahamas
Turquoise water, colonial churches, and a colonial-era law that still criminalizes us — this one needs honesty.
Criminalized
8.6
2 cities
Belgium
The first country on the continent to say yes — quietly, without a parade, very Belgian.
Full Equality
6.6
1 city
Bermuda
The only place on Earth that legalized same-sex marriage and then took it back — beautiful, complicated, and worth understanding before you book.
Partial Equality
8.3
8 cities
Brazil
The world's largest Pride lives here, and so does the grief — Brazil holds both without apology.
Full Equality
9.0
6 cities
Canada
It was legal here before most of the world had even started the argument.
Full Equality
8.1
1 city
Chile
The thin country stretched down the edge of the world, getting bolder with every latitude.
Full Equality
7.7
3 cities
Colombia
Bogotá threw the fiesta before the ink was dry on marriage equality — Colombia doesn't wait.
Partial Equality
7.3
1 city
Croatia
EU-modern coastline, Catholic-old constitution — Croatia welcomes you, just don't ask it to call it a marriage.
Partial Equality
8.1
1 city
Cuba
The Caribbean's most surprising LGBTQ+ story — a revolution that once persecuted us, now constitutionally protects us.
Full Equality
8.4
1 city
Czech Republic
Prague says little, tolerates everything, and pours the cheapest beer in queer Europe.
Full Equality
9.2
1 city
Denmark
Denmark legalized partnerships in 1989 when most countries were still pretending we didn't exist.
Full Equality
5.6
1 city
Dominican Republic
All-inclusive paradise on the surface, conservative Catholic country underneath — and the gap matters.
Decriminalized
6.9
2 cities
Ecuador
The constitution bans discrimination, the mountains don't care either way, and Quito is figuring it out.
Partial Equality
8.1
2 cities
Finland
Quietly one of the most progressive countries on earth — sauna, silence, and self-ID.
Full Equality
8.8
5 cities
France
Paris loves the idea of you — the Republic just needs a moment to catch up with the romance.
Full Equality
7.7
1 city
French Polynesia
Full Equality
8.7
8 cities
Germany
Berlin has been the world's permission slip for a century — the city that never asks you to explain.
Full Equality
3.8
⚠
1 city
Ghana
The laws are colonial relics — the activists fighting them are not.
Criminalized
8.3
4 cities
Greece
The ancients had no word for homosexuality because they had no concept of it being unusual.
Full Equality
7.3
1 city
Hong Kong
A world-class city stuck in legal limbo — gay nightlife thrives while the courts and government play chicken.
Decriminalized
6.8
1 city
Hungary
Budapest still pulses under Orbán's thumb — the scene is smaller now, and more defiant for it.
Partial Equality
9.1
1 city
Iceland
The world's first openly gay head of government lived here — and Iceland treated it like it was obvious.
Full Equality
6.1
⚠
8 cities
India
Section 377 is dead; the Supreme Court buried marriage equality in 2023 — India is mid-sentence.
Decriminalized
6.3
⚠
1 city
Indonesia
Bali exists in its own timezone from the rest of Indonesia — spiritually, legally, and otherwise.
Criminalized
8.7
1 city
Ireland
The first country to put it to a vote — and 62% said yes, including the parish priests' neighbors.
Full Equality
8.2
1 city
Israel
Tel Aviv Pride rolls to the sea while thirty minutes away the rules are different — hold both truths.
Decriminalized
7.5
8 cities
Italy
All the beauty in the world, held back by politics that haven't caught up.
Partial Equality
6.9
11 cities
Japan
Japan doesn't need you to understand it — find the right Shinjuku bar and it will find you.
Partial Equality
4.1
⚠
1 city
Kenya
Criminalization hasn't silenced Nairobi's community — it's made it more fluent in code and courage.
Criminalized
6.8
1 city
Latvia
Partial Equality
8.3
1 city
Malta
The smallest country in the EU and somehow the loudest voice for LGBTQ+ rights on the continent.
Full Equality
8.1
14 cities
Mexico
Mexico City has had marriage equality longer than most US states — the capital moves faster than the country.
Full Equality
5.1
⚠
1 city
Morocco
Breathtaking country, criminalized reality — go knowing exactly what you're walking into.
Criminalized
9.1
2 cities
Netherlands
Amsterdam in 2001 — first on earth, before anyone else even had the paperwork ready.
Full Equality
8.6
3 cities
New Zealand
Aotearoa voted yes in 2013 and parliament broke into song — that actually happened.
Full Equality
8.8
1 city
Norway
Marriage equality by 2009, gender identity by 2016 — Norway just keeps going without making a fuss.
Full Equality
6.3
1 city
Panama
Decriminalized
6.5
2 cities
Peru
Stunning beyond words, legally stuck in neutral — and the ceviche alone justifies the trip.
Decriminalized
6.3
1 city
Philippines
Wildly welcoming on the street, stubbornly stalled in the legislature.
Decriminalized
6.8
2 cities
Poland
A country pulling in two directions — and the cities are winning.
Decriminalized
8.8
2 cities
Portugal
Lisbon legalized marriage in 2010 and kept it quiet — Portugal doesn't need you to know how progressive it is.
Full Equality
8.7
1 city
Puerto Rico
A US territory with federal protections and a Catholic grandmother who will still dance at your wedding.
Full Equality
8.6
1 city
Saint Barthélemy
Eight square miles of French law, billionaire yachts, and a discreet kind of welcome that doesn't need a flag to prove itself.
Full Equality
7.2
1 city
Singapore
Spotless, efficient, and quietly contradictory — a city-state that decriminalized gay sex and constitutionalized straight marriage in the same breath.
Decriminalized
8.2
1 city
Slovenia
Full Equality
8.2
2 cities
South Africa
The only constitution on earth written with us in it from day one — 1994, ink still fresh from apartheid's end.
Full Equality
7.2
1 city
South Korea
Neon-bright cities, world-class food, and a scene that thrives despite the politics.
Decriminalized
9.1
11 cities
Spain
Spain legalized marriage in 2005 and threw a party in Madrid so loud the Vatican heard it.
Full Equality
9.2
1 city
Sweden
Stockholm moved so fast on equality it had to loop back and wait for the conversation to catch up.
Full Equality
8.8
2 cities
Switzerland
Switzerland took until 2021 to say yes — characteristically late, characteristically correct.
Full Equality
8.4
1 city
Taiwan
First in Asia, and it fought for every word of that sentence.
Partial Equality
8.6
4 cities
Thailand
Thailand never criminalized it, passed civil unions in 2024, and still does Songkran better than anyone.
Full Equality
6.3
1 city
Turkey
Ancient beauty, modern contradictions — and a scene that refuses to disappear.
Decriminalized
4.7
⚠
1 city
United Arab Emirates
Glamour and surveillance, wealth and exposure — the UAE is beautiful, complicated, and not for the careless.
Criminalized
8.6
10 cities
United Kingdom
The country that criminalized us, decriminalized us, elected us, and is currently arguing about us again.
Full Equality
8.2
91 cities
United States
The country that invented the modern movement, exported it globally, and is now in a knife fight to keep it.
Full Equality
8.1
1 city
Uruguay
The smallest country in South America legalized everything first — marriage, adoption, identity, all of it.
Full Equality
6.5
3 cities
Vietnam
No laws against you, no protections for you — and more warmth than you'd expect.
Decriminalized
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