Which country offers (currently) the best life for a lesbian, in your opinion?

submitted by whateverbeaver from (self.Lesbians)

So I am thinking of moving to another country (am from the U.S.); I speak Japanese at an intermediate level but already know that the culture is not right for me. I am looking for a country where the sort of "liberal censoring" (that we are all familiar with in regards to trans stuff) is low, but also where protections and rights for homosexuals exist. I'm not really sure if a country like that exists these days. I basically want to escape America's trumpness and wokeness, but don't really know where to turn to if I were to make the move. I am impartial to socialism vs. capitalism vs. whatever else, but obviously, a 1st world country if possible. Am also impartial to if a country is secular on paper because though the United States is, religion is obviously, very sadly, a huge determining factor in some of our decisions (I know Denmark isn't secular on paper, but heard religion matters far less there, ironically!).

And if your opinion is America, I will be sad but will accept lol (I am from northeast America..maybe a different state could be a possibility...though I do love foreign cultures).

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[–]Dudukolo 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Try Taiwan. They are very accepting of homosexuality and woke-ness/trans stuff seem relatively unknown or unpopular there.

Or Israel. It's pretty first world and homosexuality seems accepted there.

One more option I can think is Thailand. Butch/gnc women are really common and seem widely accepted/tolerated when I visited the country. They are even more common than feminine gay men. There's however a lot of transwomen but they seem to be attracted only to men aka former gay blokes who transitioned so not really a threat to lesbians. Strangely, transmen seems rarer than/uncommon compared to transwomen in Thailand. Furthermore, queer theory and other woke crap are not popular or trendy there. The Thai locals and most other Asians don't seem to even know what woke culture is or followed them. Moreover, catcalling and hitting on women is heavily frowned upon here by the public, so you don't have to worry about dudes trying to harass you if you hold hands with your gf or some other girl. Lesbians also aren't fetishized by males there like in the West. One negative stuff though is despite all of that, gay marriage is still not recognized in Thailand.

[–]LesChameleon 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I can cofirm that Taiwan is an amazing place for lesbians 🤩

[–]QueenOfTheNorth 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Reading this comment I have a sudden desire to go to Taiwan.

In some ways I think gay marriage in certain places was kind of a mistake. It made homosexuals equal on paper so LGB became irrelevant, therefore cutting off all the funding to LGB orgs, so they had to invent TQ opression to stay relevant. I mean it's nice that homosexuals can get married but is marriage even that great? What is the real difference between marriage and a civil partnership? Idk, I live in a country where gay marriage won't ever be legal and I don't see the big deal.

[–]whateverbeaver[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Same feeling exactly. It was like “ok gays, you have your marriage, bye now!” lmao. And yeah, who needs marriage really? I mean government benefits can be nice, but marriage has always seemed like such a hetero thing anyway 🤔.

[–]whateverbeaver[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You have decided it for me—when I do move, it will be to Taiwan. This is perfect, thank you. Goodbye ‘murica 👌

Thailand and Israel also good to know. I am glad there are options. The world seems like a better place now 😂

[–]Rubyredpython 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This makes me want to visit Taiwan.