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Xinyu Wen traveled to Thailand in June, planning a two-week vacation around Bangkok’s Pride parade. But the 28-year-old ended up staying a month and a half, soaking up the Thai capital’s thriving LBGTQ+ community.

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[-] livus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@Blursty There is quite a lot of Black American tourism to Liberia, maybe that's an example of what you are talking about.

[-] Blursty@lemmygrad.ml -2 points 1 year ago

Is there really? I don't know anything about that, good for them to experience some freedom.

[-] candle_lighter@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Liberia was founded by Black Americans. It even uses the US Dollar

[-] livus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@candle_lighter

@Blursty

Yes, Liberia was colonized by freed slaves from America, and their descendants formed a power elite there until the civil wars.

It's a fascinating history. At one point America had to step in because Britain wanted to investigate reports that the ex-slaves were massacring some of the local African population.

[-] Blursty@lemmygrad.ml -3 points 1 year ago

Cool. There's a lot of place they could go to escape American persecution.

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