From Iceland — Iceland Foreign Ministry Publishes Travel Advisory For LGBTQ+ People

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issues guidelinesThe Governing Council of Iceland has issued guidelines for the travel of queer people. The Executive Director of the Association 78 welcomes this. He says many people have approached the organization with concerns about travel and people are scared. Some people have stopped traveling.In many places, the rights of queer people are not respected and homosexual relationships or cohabitation are a vio…

From Iceland — Iceland Foreign Ministry Publishes Travel Advisory For LGBTQ+ People

The Foreign Ministry has published a travel advisory aimed at LGBTQ+ people, encouraging travellers to be mindful of the attitudes found in other countries. Compared to Iceland, views towards queer identities are different in other parts of the world, the ministry states, encouraging queer travellers to research the visiting country’s laws and customs beforehand. Queer rights are only respected in a third of the world’s states, the advisory read…