GLASGOW, Scotland — This country would be rated as the most gay friendly and tolerant nation in Europe if it were separate from the rest of the United Kingdom, new research has found.
A survey measuring equality and human rights found that Scotland would top a European league table after meeting 90% of the 52 criteria looked at by the advocacy group International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association-Europe, better known as ILGA-Europe.
The Rainbow Index, compiled each year, placed the entire United Kingdom in third place at 81% behind Malta at 88% and Belgium at 82%, mostly because of Northern Ireland's refusal to adopt same-sex marriage laws. In the single digits were Azerbaijan at 5%, Armenia and Russia at 7% and Turkey at 9%.
Malta made it to the top after scoring 77% in 2015 when it enacted a number of laws favorable to gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgender and intersex people in the past year. The United Kingdom as a whole was in first place last year with an 86% rating, and Belgium was at 83%.
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10 comments:
America is worse.
look up upstate ny
Well, the men do wear skirts in Scotland! (No hating, I know they're called Kilts, It's just a funny.)
833 what part of upstate ny? Cooperstown?
Is it any wonder it is Gay friendly, the men have been wearing skirts for years!
Real Men.
I guess cavemen where girls to idiot?
Not Cooperstown, the home of the Baseball Hall of Fame! Say it ain't so!
Nyc
makes sense. They already like to wear kilts.
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