🇸🇪Sweden

Acceptance

Pew 2019: 94%, the highest of 34 countries surveyed.

Travel advice

Go. Hold hands, book the double room, kiss at the airport. The whole country is on your side, not just the capital.

Where the boys go

Stockholm.

Method

Tiered on the legal status and social acceptance of gay men and LGB people using ILGA World, the ILGA-Europe Rainbow Map, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Human Dignity Trust, the Williams Institute, Pew, the Spartacus Gay Travel Index, Equaldex and court rulings. Where two tiers are plausible we choose the more cautious one. How we tier. Last reviewed September 2026.