Monday, June 05, 2023

Where not to be gay

Axios ran an article about a Gallup poll which asked people in all sort of countries whether they thought their city or area was a "good" place for gay people to live.

While it pointed out that the general trend (compared to 10 years ago) was up - in fact, way up in places like India, Nepal and Vietnam (and even Poland!) - I'm more interested in the places where people say they're the pits for gay and lesbian.

Of course, we all know many African countries are very bad this way, but there are some other notably unfriendly to gay places: 


Malawi395
Senegal391
Armenia481
Kazakhstan466
Kyrgyzstan673
Ghana786
Kosovo780
Zambia782
Burkina Faso883
Indonesia888
Georgia965
Nigeria983
Tunisia973

Wow, Indonesia really sticks out amongst the local areas.  

Still, the results are sometimes a bit puzzling:   I would not have expected these:

In 25 countries -- including China (47%), Greece (49%), Israel (45%) and Kenya (24%) -- perceptions of communities being good places for gay people to live grew by 10 or more percentage points from 2011 to 2021; still, less than half in these countries say their area is a good place.

I wouldn't have expected China to be that high, but would have guessed Greece and Israel's results to be higher.

Australia ranks at 86%, by the way.   Pretty much identical with Canada and New Zealand.  USA is at 80%, and given the state of politics there, it makes sense that they would rank lower.

Anyway, somewhat interesting...

 

1 comment:

Not Trampis said...

Can I just say to the biblically illiterate deplorables you do not executer people for being homosexuals.
God judges not governments. I might add why homosexuals and not adulterers and fornicators?