“It is both frightening and embarrassing that one of our nation’s staunchest allies has warned its citizens to of the risks of traveling to North Carolina and MS because of anti-LGBT laws passed by their elected officials”, said Ty Cobb, Director of HRC Global. You must carry a passport showing that you have leave to enter or remain with you at all times.
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The guidelines say: “The US is an extremely diverse society and attitudes towards LGBT people differ hugely across the country. Before traveling please read our general travel advice for the LGBT community”.
North Carolina’s law, House Bill 2, prohibits cities from approving LGBT protections and bars students attending public institutions from using the bathroom that does not conform to their gender at birth. You can find more detail on LGBT issues in the U.S. on the website of the Human Rights Campaign’. Mississippi’s law, passed earlier this month, allows businesses to refuse services to gay couples based on religious objections.
The moves, initiated in America’s southern states, have provoked heated debate, with advocates of the restrictive legislation claiming they are protecting the freedom of religious beliefs.
The Foreign Office’s advice comes on the eve of USA president Barack Obama’s visit to the UK. “But”, she added, “most people who identify as LGBT in the United Kingdom will already be aware of the nature of certain states”.
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But now, the Foreign Office has changed its advice. CYNDI LAUPERThe singer released a statement that she’s planning to turn her upcoming concert in Raleigh, North Carolina, into an event “to build public support to repeal HB2”. [If] I thought playing a show for my fans in North Carolina was in any way some tacit endorsement of this fearful, petty, ignorant nonsense, I wouldn’t.
