D_Gunther Snotpole
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I'm told Toronto is very kink-friendly. There's a pretty substantial gay population, too.
Definitely, and it's been true for quite a while.
When Edmund White wrote States of Desire: Travels in Gay America (1980), he had positive things to say about Toronto.
I'm not sure things are as good there as they used to be.
In the late 70s, gay life in Toronto seemed really on the ascendent, but the AIDS epidemic knocked things backward for quite a time.
Now, the gay community is just another community, I suspect.
And who knows? Maybe that's maturation as much as anything.
I vote for France, and actually almost anywhere in France. I have a very queeny friend who is a flamboyant ex stripper who lived there for a couple of years. I asked him whether people ever gave him shit for his mannerisms . "Never!" he said. "In France, everybody acts like I do!"
Absolutely.
I lived in France in the early 80s, and only a really low-class dolt would be openly homophobic, and only the most stupid of that number.
The issue never came up.
Never heard anyone ridiculed.
But Amsterdam was the most tolerant place. The Dutch literally didn't give a damn about sexuality. To say someone was gay was like saying someone gardened a lot. A detail you might want to know, for whatever reason, but not because there was any conventional moral judgment attached.
I don't think there's any place in North America quite as tolerant as Europe, unless your looking at small neighbourhoods in the great cities.