4. Amsterdam, the Netherlands – 21 points
It would not be Europe’s most liberal city if it were not openly gay-friendly, would it? Amsterdam is most likely one of the first, if not the first, cities in the world to decriminalize homosexuality and the Netherlands is also the very first country to allow same-sex marriage ages ahead of every other country. As early as the 1800s, gays flocked to the picturesque city of Amsterdam to exercise the freedom they could not have elsewhere in the planet. Amsterdam is the site of one of the world’s largest and most unique gay pride parades and is the home of the world’s first gay monument, the “HomoMonument” erected and inaugurated in 1987.
