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Gay Travel Index 2026 — Press Kit

Everything a journalist or researcher needs to cover the GayOut Gay Travel Index: headline numbers, quote-ready lines, the full open dataset, charts and usage terms. All figures below are generated from the live 2026.3 dataset.

208countries & territories scored in release 2026.3
Spain · 92/95ranks #1 worldwide on the composite index
65UN member states still criminalize same-sex intimacy
17,000+verified venue listings powering the Scene Score, collected since 2008

The four-tier system

Every country lands in one of four safety tiers — the headline classification of the index. Please cite results as a tier plus a 0–100 score (for example “Tier: Welcoming — 92/100”), never as a letter grade.

43 countriesWelcoming

Legal equality plus a functioning open scene. Travel freely.

93 countriesSome caution

Legal, but patchy protections or social hostility. Read local guidance.

60 countriesHigh risk

Criminalized or actively repressed. Serious caution required.

12 countriesDeath-penalty risk

Capital statutes on the books or applied. Most travelers should not go.

Quote-ready lines

Free to use verbatim with the attribution shown.

“The map of where gay travelers are welcome is being redrawn in both directions at once: 2025 was the first year in almost a decade that the number of countries criminalizing same-sex intimacy actually grew.”— Ziv Goldvasser, M.B.A., research lead, GayOut
“A perfect law book does not pour a drink. We score the legal reality and the lived scene separately, because a country can pass every test on paper and still have nowhere for a gay traveler to actually go.”— Ziv Goldvasser, M.B.A., research lead, GayOut
“Sixty-five UN member states still criminalize who we are. For a gay traveler that is not an abstraction — it is an itinerary constraint, and our index exists so nobody discovers it at passport control.”— Ziv Goldvasser, M.B.A., research lead, GayOut

Data & assets

The dataset behind every chart and ranking, in the format you need.

Full dataset — CSVAll 208 countries, 26 columns: legal status, scene metrics, tier, composite index. Full dataset — JSONSame data, machine-readable; the exact file this page and the widget render from. Research report (2026.3)The full written report with figures, complete country table and references. MethodologyScoring formula, sources (ILGA, Human Dignity Trust), caps and coverage grades. Charts & infographicsInteractive dashboard — every chart has a “Download PNG” button for reuse. Interactive indexThe public country-by-country index with search, tiers and per-country notes.

Download the report as PDF Opens the report and your print dialog — choose “Save as PDF”.

Embed the index

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Suggested citation

GayOut Gay Travel Index 2026 (release 2026.3), GayOut Research, gayout.com/gay-travel-index

Academic formats (APA / MLA / Chicago / BibTeX): Data & Citations page.

Citation lines in other languages

Copy-ready credit lines for non-English coverage.

Español
Índice GayOut de Viajes Gay 2026 (edición 2026.3), GayOut Research, gayout.com/gay-travel-index

Deutsch
GayOut Gay Travel Index 2026 (Ausgabe 2026.3), GayOut Research, gayout.com/gay-travel-index

Français
Indice GayOut du voyage gay 2026 (édition 2026.3), GayOut Research, gayout.com/gay-travel-index

Italiano
Indice GayOut dei viaggi gay 2026 (edizione 2026.3), GayOut Research, gayout.com/gay-travel-index

Português
Índice GayOut de Viagens Gay 2026 (edição 2026.3), GayOut Research, gayout.com/gay-travel-index

עברית
מדד הנסיעות הגאה של GayOut לשנת 2026 (מהדורה 2026.3), GayOut Research, gayout.com/gay-travel-index

Press contact

Interviews, custom data cuts, per-country breakdowns or embargoed briefings: info@gayout.com. We typically reply within one business day.

Usage terms

The Gay Travel Index dataset, charts and quote lines on this page are released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0). You may copy, redistribute, adapt and republish them — including commercially — provided you credit “GayOut Gay Travel Index 2026” and link to gayout.com/gay-travel-index where the medium allows. Please do not present modified figures as the original index.