How queer friendly is YOUR country? Discuss below ⤵️

OMG! Thank you for this video! I'm Leo, from Buenos Aires Argentina. I'm thinking about going to live to Portugal with my husband in the near future as Argentina is struggling. I've covered expenses, work related issues, life in general but Portugal LGBTQIA+ culture was a huge question I had remaining. So thank you both for giving the space and for addressing this topic! Maru is AMAZING! So easy to hear when she speaks. So interesting! Specially coming from a place like San Francisco. I really enjoyed the video. Oh! And beutiful singing voice.

Thank you for this video. I’m a queer living in Canada and have been playing around with the idea of moving overseas and happened across your video on my research journey. So great to hear from Maru on their experience.

Hello, i am son of a Portuguese family that had to move back to Maia in 1985.

Her ability to speak perfect accentless English is very impressive. She went to the US as an adult.

She is lovely, and speaks with clarity. Kudos to Maru !!

USA and it(Portland, OR and SF/Santa Cruz) are probably some of the most LGBT cities on earth with Berlin. The cities tend to be far more accepting even in the deeply conservitive south. Rual America tends to be not as kind to LGBT people and with trans woman dangerous even.

Very interesting video with a person I could continue listen to for a long long time! So interesting to hear a comparison between these two places. And beautiful singing too! ❤️ It’s breaking my heart to hear that you’d have to think twice before wearing a pride flag on your shirt or holding hands in public :/ I’m from Sweden which is considered to be a very queer-friendly country, but I’ve become more and more aware of that there are so much work left to be done…..

Maru is amazing, i wish to have a friend like her. I'm from argentina and I'm thinking about going to live to Portugal with my wife (i'm also lesbian and genderfluid) so all this experience that she's telling is very helpful and hopeful for us. Thank you very much.

Hello, thanks so much for making this video series. Can you recall the name of the queer friendly place that Mary references at around the

Does this mean that the worst you have to worry about is people staring?

I wonder how difficult it would be to have say like a penpal or something equivalent with today's tech, from portugal? I would like to visit if I could talk to other lesbians in Portugal.

Excellent video! I would love to interview someone as a guest on my podcast called Where Do Gays Retire. Preferably an expat who has moved or retired to The Algarve from the US.

It's funny though, I born in a small country town not far from Lisbon, moved to Porto while i was still a baby, and i use to Live near Maia city, i went to school in Maia city, wish i really like that small city have some close friends they still live there, but moved to Toronto Canada about 20 years ago, miss my Country and proud of being Portuguese .

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I had thought Portugal is much more tolerant for LGBTQ, I guess public opinion statistics and political legislations are not reflecting peoples experiences

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As a 22 year old male from Portugal who came out as bisexual rather recently, I absolutely agree with everything you just said.