Hate Is Spreading

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ILGA-Europe's 2020 Rainbow Map

The UK was once ranked the most LGBT-friendly nation in Europe. This year, it’s not even close

The annual Rainbow Map ranking has named Poland, Russia, Turkey and Azerbaijan as some of the worst countries to be LGBT+ in Europe, while the UK continues to slide down the rankings.

Pink News UK

By Patrick Kelleher

May 14, 2020

Since 2009, LGBT+ organisation ILGA-Europe has compiled an annual Rainbow Map ranking of the 49 countries in Europe based on each country’s commitment to LGBT+ rights and equality.

In the ranking each country is assigned a percentage point based on its standing in six key areas: equality and non-discrimination; family; hate crime and hate speech; legal gender recognition and bodily integrity; civil society space and asylum.

This year’s list names Azerbaijan as the worst country in Europe for LGBT+ rights and equality with a score of just 2.3 per cent. Other countries trailing behind include Turkey (3.8 per cent), Armenia (7.5 per cent), Russia (10 per cent) and Poland (16 per cent).

Conversely, Malta topped the ILGA-ranking for the fifth year in a row, coming out with an incredible 89 per cent score. It was followed by Belgium and Luxembourg (both 73 per cent), Denmark and Norway (both 68 per cent) and Spain (67 per cent).

This is wedge politics.

In elections now a days we see a split of almost 50 50 between the winners and the losers, and the conservatives see the difference between winning and losing is the votes of the bigots and haters. That 3 or 4 percent can be the difference that the conservatives are looking for to win so they play to their base.

What we need to do is to make the other 46 – 47 percent who usually vote conservative to not want to get in bed with the bottom slime.