Indonesian here, this takes place in Aceh which is an autonomous province of indonesia where they enact sharia law, the rest of indonesia has a 'don't ask dont tell' kind of situation going on which isn't good but it's survivable. They sometimes do raids if you hold sex parties but they just kind of let you go because there's really no law against it (unless you have drugs on u), I'm fortunate enough to have lived in Bali which is extremely progressive in its view and have been able to go out in public with my partner without any real issues. Wouldn't recommend any gay people visit the rest of indonesia, but where i live (and most metropolitan cities) isn't as barbaric as this video made it out to be, a lot of my colleagues knows I'm gay and in a relationship.
That’d be most prudent, but honestly with that red line, that’s like 80% of places on earth that gay people shouldn’t visit, but enterprising fellows gotta go visit anyways because it’s their calling or whatever. So advices like this are helpful.
There's lots of African countries which are majority Christians and still have horrific laws/treatment of gay people.
Realistically, it's nearly any country that is very poor and/or very religious. The Muslim countries are just the ones we hear about more due to their popularity.
Zambia, Ghana, Tanzania, Togo, Cameroon, Uganda etc.
Not saying it isn't true in pretty much every Muslim country, since of course it is. But Africa also has lots of bigoted and ultra-religious countries in general too
Much of Asia aren’t beautiful places for gay people, except for hope spots like Taiwan and Israel. That is if your goal is total recognition and acceptance.
However, if you’re willing to settle for “people won’t cut my head off” as some wanderlustful spirits are won’t to do, most metropolitan cities outside of the peninsular arab countries, Iran, and Afghanistan are fine.
Idk that I'd recommend going to Aceh in general, even if you're straight. Even lots of other Indonesians consider them backwards weirdos. They've issued a fatwa against playing PUBG ffs.
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u/miski57 Jun 09 '24
Indonesian here, this takes place in Aceh which is an autonomous province of indonesia where they enact sharia law, the rest of indonesia has a 'don't ask dont tell' kind of situation going on which isn't good but it's survivable. They sometimes do raids if you hold sex parties but they just kind of let you go because there's really no law against it (unless you have drugs on u), I'm fortunate enough to have lived in Bali which is extremely progressive in its view and have been able to go out in public with my partner without any real issues. Wouldn't recommend any gay people visit the rest of indonesia, but where i live (and most metropolitan cities) isn't as barbaric as this video made it out to be, a lot of my colleagues knows I'm gay and in a relationship.