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:: Keanu
:: QA5 Having the neighbours round | |
I just thought I'd let everyone know how it is in the country I live in.
Thailand.
When it comes to LGBT people.
First of all, I lived 16 years in Australia, and I can honestly say it was horrible, when it came to LGBT people.
Obviously not nearly as horrible as some other countries, where it is illegal, etc etc. But when you come to a country like Thailand, Australia is crap.
So in Thailand they have a couple of funny ideas.
1. They have a word for man. But if your gay your not a man. Your gay. It's not offensive at all. Their word for man doubles as straight.
2. They also have 2 types of gays, that apparently everyone falls into. Your either King or Queen. A King will be manly, and the giver. The Queen will be feminine and the receiver.
3. A ladyboy is one to it's own. Your not a gay guy. Your not a feminine gay guy, your just a ladyboy.
4. There are some ladyboys here who haven't changed anything surgically, they just look good as ladies, they dress up, put on makeup, wear girls clothes, and make fake boobs out of tissues etc etc. There are other ladyboys who have had the boobs surgically done, but they've kept their manhood downstairs, apparently a lot of westerners come to thailand for ladyboys like this. Then you've got the ladyboys who have had it all done.
5. A lesbian is called a tom. I'm not completely sure about the lesbians but I know to be a tom is to be a manly lesbian. I'm not sure what the feminine lesbians are called.
All in all, LGBT people are very accepted here. There are no real big issues against them. Ladyboys are very very popular on thai tv, and they love feminine gay guys on tv too. They are very accepting of it all, it's generally a select few of the older generation that have an issue, but I've never met any.
That's the country I live in.
How is it in yours?
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Edit: Keanu, Thu 3 May 12, 1:44PM
Post: #645748  , Thu 3 May 12, 1:41PM |
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In england it's mixed.
You have those who hate gays for religious reasons
Those who dislike gays just cos
Those who're more live and let live but look at me funny and I wont be happy
Those who're live and let live
Those who're the kind of people who seek out gays to have as accesorys
and then there're my favourite. The straight guys who are pretty much as gay as the gay in their group and just don't care 
So yeah  XD
I'm a Loiner, apparently...
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Post: #645750 , Thu 3 May 12, 1:44PM |
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:: Kuuipo
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Canada and England are pretty much equal when it comes to lgbt people c:
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Post: #645793 , Thu 3 May 12, 4:03PM |
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In Hungary, it's illegal to discriminate LGBT people, and there is no gay marriage but there is civil partnership, like in the most western european country.
Accepting is an other thing, there is nearly everybody (I don't even know any religious person) atheist (because in the "communist time" if you were religious you maybe lost your job, or worse), so no one tells that gays will burn in hell. But there is nearly no accepting person here, for instance we have a far right-party (neo-nazi) in the parliment (the 3rd biggest). Even I was shocked when I saw the first gay couple in my life (when I was 18!), soo, nvm, I don't like to be here at all 
I would be happy to someone from Scotland (mainly from the lowlands) would write a comment or a PM, from the situation there, I hope better than Hungary
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Post: #645799 , Thu 3 May 12, 6:12PM |
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It's illegal to discriminate against gays but marriage is a no no? ^^
I'm a Loiner, apparently...
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Post: #645800 , Thu 3 May 12, 6:16PM |
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:: Falconfly
:: QA5 Having the neighbours round | |
The northern areas of Portugal are quite homophobic. Around here in Algarve, it's generally more tolerant.
Helps that, while in the north the Catholic Church is very influential, here everyone couldn't give a rat's ass about it.
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Post: #645801 , Thu 3 May 12, 6:38PM |
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:: Lia47
:: QA9 Grand Elder | |
The American Northeast (where I live) is a lot like Canada/England in terms of LGBT friendliness, but there are other parts of the country that are much less accepting. For instance, since a lot of middle American states have a large fundamentalist christian population, they can sometimes be a little worse about it. A friend of mine's family actually relocated from Utah because of the bullying. Most of the U.S. is a lot better about it, though.
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Post: #645831 , Thu 3 May 12, 10:05PM |
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I can't speak for the whole United States, but I can speak for Chicago. Chicago is a pretty gay-friendly area. We're pretty liberal here and I hate to say it, but liberalness often does correspond with gay-friendliness. For example, that is to say that people could be openly gay at my high school and they wouldn't receive abuse for it. Being for gay marriage was considered cool and almost everyone was for it. Even the token conservative kid in my class said he didn't care if gay people were allowed to marry, it wasn't his position to decide. So that goes to show you. Not sure why I decided to remain in the closet so long knowing how Chicagoans feel about LGBT people...
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Post: #645910 , Fri 4 May 12, 7:59AM |
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:: perdedor
:: QA5 Having the neighbours round | |
China's still coming around to the LGBT concept, but they're much more accepting than they were, say, 20 years ago. Shanghai definitely is one of the more accepting cities, and we have a couple of gay bars/clubs all to ourselves. It's still hard to find non-local LGBT teenagers sometimes, though :\
I know the nickname for lesbian is "lala" (拉拉), which I think is adorable! ^^ Not sure about gay men...
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Post: #645913 , Fri 4 May 12, 9:34AM |
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Here in Australia people want to be accepting, but then you still get the religious nuts who think that they have every right to tell a person how to live their life. It's almost cool to support gay marriage too, but it sort of annoys me because you don't know who really supports it and who just wants political votes. People still use 'gay' as an insult, and there is a lot of ignorance, but I think, with such a strong american media influence, we are slowly becoming a more lgbt-friendly country
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Post: #646119 , Sat 5 May 12, 12:44PM |
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:: Falconfly
:: QA5 Having the neighbours round | |
If that is because of american influence, I'm seriously worried, given how things are becoming over there...
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Post: #646143 , Sat 5 May 12, 2:25PM |
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What do you mean Carlos? I'm talking about things like Glee and Lady Gaga and Ellen Degeneres, do you mean to say it's a bad thing? O.o
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Post: #646155 , Sat 5 May 12, 2:57PM |
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:: Falconfly
:: QA5 Having the neighbours round | |
Those things are not the majority on american culture...
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Post: #646244 , Sat 5 May 12, 9:51PM |
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The Philippines is a more accepting country than most. Most people are okay with the LGBT community, but a lot of people have a tendency to make fun of gays behind their backs and are heavily influenced by stereotypes. In our country, most of the gay men they see on television are the outwardly flamboyant types so for most people, when you say gay they have a hard time grasping the concept of a gay man who isn't flamboyant. Same with lesbians, who most people think always fall into the butch category. Another issue would probably be that the term and gender identity of transgender really has no defining line with just being gay in our country. In the Philippines, being transgender is a foreign concept because for everyone you're either just gay or lesbian. I wouldn't say our country's progressive like the US because religion ( particularly the Catholic faith) plays a big role in the community, but I wouldn't say it's an oppressive country either. Overall, its not a bad place to be in if you're LGBT, but it can get kind of lonely though because its not something people really talk about.
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Post: #653989 , Mon 4 Jun 12, 12:43PM |
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:: Aaron
:: QA4 A spot of tea please, Alfred! | |
In Ireland it's mixed. The greater part of the community thinks that it's ok to be gay but they still think that it is in some way inferior to being straight. Because of this gay people are often looked down on or treated as some kind of cute novelty by that part of society. Sometimes people can be really patronizing. Then there is the par of our society that still for some unknown reason think that the catholic church has the faintest idea what it's talking about. This group unfortunately still holds most of the political power in Ireland because the whole country is run like a family business. The final group (also influenced heavily by the catholic church) is the travelling community; The women of that community are thee nicest people you could meet, at least in my experience, But the men are scarily violent when it comes to gay people. Gay members of the travelling community literally have to fear for their lives.
if I don't make sense that means i'm sleepy, if i'm awake that means i'm sleepy.
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Post: #654054 , Mon 4 Jun 12, 6:18PM |
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Similar to what Bella said, Here in Australia it's different all over the country but here in Western Australia being a homosexual doesn't matter no-one ive met even cares and mostly support it. I havent seen any bad gay bullying or anything but the word 'gay' is now an expression of something you don't like or something that is bad, I don't mind if people use it in that way because i understand their meaning but it still can be offensive. Marriage still isn't allowed anywhere here but couples are reconised as couples (by banks and things).
P.S Apparently Sydney has the biggest pride festival in the world. ?
But this is just my view and there are still alot of homophobic people out there.
HelLOO :3
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