Everything you need to reuse or cite the GayOut Gay Travel Index — 208 countries and territories, release 2026.3, generated 2026-08-17. The dataset is free under CC-BY 4.0: use it anywhere, credit “GayOut Gay Travel Index 2026” with a link.
Columns include the composite index, the legal and scene components, all five legal sub-components, per-million scene metrics and a coverage grade per country. The live files refresh weekly; the frozen archive never changes — cite it for reproducibility.
GET https://www.gayout.com/api/gti.php → all 208 countries
GET https://www.gayout.com/api/gti.php?country=spain → one country + legal components
CORS enabled (*) — call it straight from a browser app. Attribution link appreciated.
GayOut Gay Travel Index 2026 (release 2026.3), GayOut Research, gayout.com/gay-travel-index
Goldvasser, Z. (2026). The State of Gay Travel 2026: What the law allows and what the scene delivers (GayOut Gay Travel Index, Release 2026.3) [Data set and report]. GayOut Research. https://www.gayout.com/gay-travel-index
Goldvasser, Ziv. "The State of Gay Travel 2026: What the Law Allows and What the Scene Delivers." GayOut Gay Travel Index, release 2026.3, GayOut Research, 2026, www.gayout.com/gay-travel-index.
Goldvasser, Ziv. 2026. "The State of Gay Travel 2026: What the Law Allows and What the Scene Delivers." GayOut Gay Travel Index, release 2026.3. GayOut Research. https://www.gayout.com/gay-travel-index.
@techreport{goldvasser2026gayout,
author = {Goldvasser, Ziv},
title = {The State of Gay Travel 2026: What the Law Allows and What the Scene Delivers},
institution = {GayOut Research},
year = {2026},
number = {Release 2026.3},
url = {https://www.gayout.com/gay-travel-index},
note = {Dataset (CC-BY 4.0): https://www.gayout.com/downloads/gayout-gay-travel-index-2026.csv}
}