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Show HN: I made a site that helps you find LGBT+ Travel Rankings and Gay Laws
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#12Where does the data come from?
I collected the data from https://spartacus.gayguide.travel/blog/spartacus-gay-travel-...
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#13It will also be useful for those wanting to avoid LGBT+ people and acceptance. I realize this isn't the intent, but it will be divisive (cause division).
From my perspective of being an American, the strongest anti-gay countries in the world also seem to be anti-American; purely coincidental, but still a damper on such potential vacation plans.
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#14It looks like you have a typo: "civit rights" instead of "civil rights".
Where do the numbers come from?
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#15Great website, really nice UX. Small bug with some of the data -- spot the "undefined"s: "United States has a LGBT+ travel rank of 53 with a total gay travel score of 57. United States is part of Americas with main city at Washington, D.C.. Its Developed country with a population of 324M people. The main currency is undefined. The languages spoken are English. the United States of America is the formal name of undefi…
Thanks, mate for spotting the bug. I will fix it!
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#16It will also be useful for those wanting to avoid LGBT+ people and acceptance. I realize this isn't the intent, but it will be divisive (cause division).
I really don't think there's any meaningful level of tourists not traveling somewhere because they're scared of too many LGBT+ community members. LGBT+ members need/want a site like this because they want to be safe while traveling and exploring the world. Bigoted fools don't have any real risk going somewhere with LGBT+ rights.
It's not about risk. It's about the type of place they want to spend time at or live in.
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#17https://visalist.io/russia/gay-travel
> The main currency is undefined.
It's the Russian Rouble (RUB).
> the Russian Federation is the formal name of undefined
I'm not sure what this is supposed to say, but according to the Russian constitution, the names “Russia” and “the Russian Federation” are synonymous.
At first I was surprised at how low the Russian Federation is on the list, but then I remembered that Chechnya exists. I guess a lot of these pages should have a note that YMMV, depending on the region and the city. Moscow shouldn't be that much different from Kiyiv or, say, Warsaw, while the North Caucasus regions are clearly closer to fundamentalist societies when it comes to LGBT+ rights.
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#18It will also be useful for those wanting to avoid LGBT+ people and acceptance. I realize this isn't the intent, but it will be divisive (cause division).
I really don't think there's any meaningful level of tourists not traveling somewhere because they're scared of too many LGBT+ community members. LGBT+ members need/want a site like this because they want to be safe while traveling and exploring the world. Bigoted fools don't have any real risk going somewhere with LGBT+ rights.
I've only been to two places that I deemed (at least) kid-unfriendly ... in general, you never know who in the crowd of tourists might be part of the LGBT+ community. And while the federal government (in the US) provides accurate assessments of travel risk in general (you should use the STEP program for any travel abroad - https://step.state.gov/) it doesn't consider laws and the social climate risks for minority populations.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really don't think there's any meaningful level of tourists not traveling somewhere because they're scared of too many LGBT+ community members. LGBT+ members need/want a site like this because they want to be safe while traveling and exploring the world. Bigoted fools don't have any real risk going somewhere with LGBT+ rights.
It's not about risk. It's about the type of place they want to spend time at or live in.
No. But this site is created to help people that don't want to face discrimination being themselves. If one or two bigots don't go to Canada because they don't discriminate enough then I don't think anyone is going to miss a night's sleep.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really don't think there's any meaningful level of tourists not traveling somewhere because they're scared of too many LGBT+ community members. LGBT+ members need/want a site like this because they want to be safe while traveling and exploring the world. Bigoted fools don't have any real risk going somewhere with LGBT+ rights.
I've only been to two places that I deemed (at least) kid-unfriendly ... in general, you never know who in the crowd of tourists might be part of the LGBT+ community. And while the federal government (in the US) provides accurate assessments of travel risk in general (you should use the STEP program for any travel abroad - https://step.state.gov/ ) it doesn't consider laws and the social climate risks for minority po…
Yes. If you're going somewhere with a higher-than-usual risk to yourself compared to more traditional tourist locations you should definitely register yourself with STEP (or the equivalent for your home country).
I don't see the usefulness of this site being whether you should go to a deeply religious country engulfed in civil war, as is unfortunately the case in some countries. I think this is far more valuable when considering countries that some people might not know too much about. Like if you want to go to Kiev for a week. I've been there and as a straight guy I couldn't tell you if going there as an LGBT+ person would be safe or not. That's where I see the real value.