Brazil’s largest city São Paulo has long been the heart of the country’s cultural, food, and design scenes — but in recent years, the city has also become a hub for sustainability and innovation.
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Brazil’s largest city São Paulo has long been the heart of the country’s cultural, food, and design scenes — but in recent years, the city has also become a hub for sustainability and innovation.
Excerpted from Sassy Planet: A Queer Guide to 40 Cities. Jordan doesn’t criminalize LGBTQ+ identities, and trans people can even have their gender marker modified there—but locals say that being openly queer nonetheless carries a huge social stigma in Amman and across the country. Still, homosexuality has been decriminalized in Jordan for consenting people over the age of 16 since 1951. While Amman has few queer spaces, the scene is nonetheless very present, a situation unlike in many neighboring countries, where it has been forced underground. Read the article here.
The nightlife industry has been decimated by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and LGBTQ+ communities—whose members are heavily employed in service and hospitality jobs—have been especially hard hit. Nowhere is this truer than in New York City, a place more accustomed to being the epicenter of queer nightlife and culture than a global pandemic.