The Risk Map 2024 from a LGBTQ+ Perspective

The current and future LGBTQ+ Risk Map

As a company that assesses risks for leisure and business travellers, we provide country dossiers that evaluate the risk to travellers based on more than 80 risk criteria. In addition to our annual risk map, this year A3M Global Monitoring is also publishing the LGBTQ+ Risk Map, a world map to assess the safety of travellers from the LGBTQ+ community.

We are aware of the complexity of this topic:
Firstly, no country is monolithic and there are generally significant differences in attitudes towards LGBTQ+ in rural areas and cities.
Secondly, there can be significant differences between official policies, rules and regulations and the experiences of the community in their everyday lives.
There are countries that have extremely strict laws regarding homosexuality, but where a very active underground gay scene flourishes.
Thirdly, LGB is not the same as TQ+. While laws in less secure countries often focus on homosexuality, issues such as gender, transition and non-binary gender identity are sometimes not formulated at all, and the way they are dealt with varies according to country- and region-specific traditions.
Fourthly, the situation for holiday and/or business travellers can differ considerably from the situation for locals and immigrants.

Taking all these caveats into account, we have nevertheless decided to base our LGBTQ+ Risk Map 2025 on a more legalistic viewpoint. In some cases, we were able to interview LGBTQ+ organisations and members of the community in order to take their experiences in the country into account. The results are included in the colouring of the map and are formulated in places in our article below.

A3M Global Monitoring will continue to engage with stakeholders from different organizations to provide expertise from lived experiences in future assessments.