Painting the mountain pink
The home of Mount Everest, Nepal, is proof that change can happen quickly and where you least it expect it on the issue of marriage equality.
Like Albania, no-one would have predicted rapid advances in rights, certainly not imminent marriage equality or a global tourism campaign promoting Nepal as a destination for gay honeymooners. Maybe that was because homosexuality was illegal until 2007.
But Nepal is killing two birds with one stone: giving a social boost to a minority and an economic boost to all. It’s when you get a powerful alignment of interests like this that change can happen so quickly.
This will be the gayest thing to happen to Mount Everest since these newsreaders. Spread the word.
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