LGBTQ+ Travel Safety
Know Before You Go. For Real.
WanderSafe rates destinations for LGBTQ+ travelers using four data layers: legal status, live news monitoring, personal travel experience, and community reports. More current than a guidebook, more honest than a tourism board.
How WanderSafe Works
Every rating is built from four independent data layers. No single source is enough — a country can be legally tolerant and socially hostile, or illegal on paper but rarely enforced. The rating combines all four.
Legal Status via Equaldex
Real-time legal data from Equaldex's global LGBTQ+ rights database — criminalization status, recognition laws, anti-discrimination protections, and more. Updated weekly via automated worker.
Live News Monitor
An automated worker scans international news sources daily, classifying LGBTQ+-relevant developments and surfacing incidents that legal data alone would never catch.
Personal Assessment
On-the-ground experience from travel as a gay man, supplemented by research from other queer travelers. Legal safety and practical safety aren't always the same thing.
Community Reports
Travelers submit direct reports via a moderated form. Each submission is reviewed before it affects a rating — this is first-person intel, not algorithms.
Featured Destinations
A sample of the range — from the most welcoming cities to places that require a sharper eye.
United States
State-by-state safety ratings across all 50 states.
Legislative protection maps, hate crime data, and trans-specific risk by state — updated continuously as laws change.
View US Safety Map →17
Safe states
19
Exercise Caution states
15
High risk states
51
States + DC rated
Traveled somewhere recently?
Your experience helps other LGBTQ+ travelers make better decisions. Submit a report and it goes into the moderated review queue — if it clears, it affects the rating.
Submit a Community ReportStay ahead of the risk.
When laws change, our pipeline catches it. Get it in your inbox before your next trip.
- Weekly safety digest — all 150 destinations, updated continuously
- High-risk alerts when the legal or news pipeline flags changes
- Safety intel from the Android app audit series, condensed to actionable advisories
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