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Originally Posted by batreleaser
i would think itd be more of an issue in eastern europe if anywhere in europe at all. ive been to paris, all over northern france, amsterdam, barcelona, madrird, london, and dublin and everything seemed pretty tolerant everywhere. but really, theres gonna be hateful people everywhere you go.
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Pretty much what batreleaser said. Been to many places all around Europe and in the majority of so-called 'western' Europe the environment seemed very tolerant. It
might be an issue in some of the eastern european countries, but it's only due to the fact that we had less time to get used to the phenomenon of different sexual orientations - until 1989 under communist regime any sign of difference to had been strictly surpressed.
But still, there are reasonable differences among eastern European post-socialist countries in public image of this matter. The naturally more liberal countries (Czech Republic, Hungary) do not have any problem accepting homosexuality as it is (registrated partnership of homosexual couples was legally approved a couple of years ago in Czech Republic), however the ones with strong catholic tradition (Poland, Slovakia) seem to have a problem with this. I, as a citizen of Slovakia, think that it will be really tough to pass the law about legalized partnership, however I see that the public image of homosexuality has been changing a LOT for the past few years. You can see gay couples hand in hand on the streets, there are lots of gay bars in the capital city and you can see a lot of it in TV too (like, contestants of reality shows do not have a problem talking about their sexual preferences etc etc).
So, all in all, I guess we're becoming a bit more civilised, too
