Tag: Gay
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Gay in the Balkans: Pick an Oppressive Religion
Like many countries previously behind the Iron Curtain, a lot of the countries of the former Yugoslavia continue to be very conservative when it comes to sexual minorities. The people of the region are fairly religiously diverse, but it doesn’t really help gay people. Serbs tend to be Eastern Orthodox, Croats are generally Roman Catholic,…
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Top 9 Best Gay Travel Blogs, According to WeTwoBoys
Since beginning my own journeys I’ve become aware of how many fellow travelers there are. There are quite a few gay travel bloggers out there living the nomadic lifestyle full-time and writing all about it, taking beautiful pictures, and making us all insanely jealous (or is that just me? – I haven’t figured out the…
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Community, At Its Best…
As I travel from country to country seeking out the gay community, sometimes I lose sight of what we mean when we use the phrase “the gay community.” It’s a phrase I took for granted until some people I talked to in my travels expressed confusion about it. Apparently it doesn’t always translate well. So I…
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A Pakistani-Brit Traveled to Pakistan to See Gay Life Up Close
YouTube vlogger Mawaan Rizwan recently returned to his home country of Pakistan with a crew from BBC in tow to see what his life would have been like if he had stayed there. Let’s just say he ended up happy he had left. Though that result was fairly predictable, Mawaan also discovered some things that…
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Gay in Bucharest, Romania
I have a real soft spot for Romania. People often seem baffled as to why I choose to focus so much on Romania. Even a lot of Romanians don’t understand. Well here’s why, people: It’s the foreign country I’ve spent the most time in – several weeks in a city called Cluj-Napoca and a couple…
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Gay in Budapest: Goulash Gay
Budapest is one of my favorite cities and inarguably one of the most beautiful. It’s also a city with a very problematic political environment. The country is currently being run by a far-right government led by Prime Minister Victor Orban. You may have heard some of his controversial opinions and actions toward refugees in the…
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Gay in Bratislava, Slovakia
It only took a couple hours on a train to travel from Vienna to Bratislava, Slovakia, but it felt like a million miles. During the Cold War, Slovakia was one half of communist Czechoslovakia; though so close to the relative freedom of Austria, they were blocked from experiencing it. The national border is even closer…
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Gay Crossing Only: Gay in Vienna
In Vienna, there are crosswalks meant just for gay people. Some green walk-sign lights have pictures of two boy stick figures holding hands and walking with a heart between them. Others have the same with two girl stick figures. Which leads me to believe that only gay people holding hands with someone they love are…
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Gay in Brno, Czech Republic
Just looking at Brno tells a fascinating story. There’s an imposing gothic cathedral on one hill and a huge castle complex (complete with moat – so cool!) on the other hill. There’s a very pretty historic center adjacent to the cathedral. The rest, filling in and surrounding the others, are the signature block buildings of…
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On Sex Workers in Prague
I have this neurosis that draws me to things I’m uncomfortable with. So let me begin by saying that this isn’t a very comfortable topic for me, as will no doubt be apparent in the article. But I decided it was an important issue to talk about. As I mentioned in my main post on…