Via Towleroad.
This is the world we live in: Where Nepal, a rural, religious country between China and India, grants constitutionally guaranteed equality to all citizens, regardless of sexual orientation or identification, and the United States of America, does not.
Not only that but they plan on staging gay weddings on Mt. Everest:
Sunil Babu Pant, a Communist legislator and leader of the country’s homosexual rights movement, has launched a travel company dedicated to promoting the former Hindu kingdom to gay tourists in an effort to tap the so-called “Pink Pound” and dollar.
The company will offer elephant-back bridal processions, Everest base camp ceremonies and weddings in remote Tibetan enclaves in the Himalayan republic.
Mr Pant is hoping to build on the government’s new determination to maximise income from tourism by targeting all potential markets. The country’s tourism minister wrote a welcome statement for the International Conference on Gay and Lesbian Tourism in Boston last October, in which he said he believed Nepal will benefit from an increase in gay visitors.
So you can be in a country that recognizes you’re a real person, get married and also ride an elephant in the process?
Yes, please!
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