3. COLOMBIA

Same-sex marriage became legal in Colombia in 2016 and the following year it was voted Best Emerging LGBT Tourist Destination by Fería Internacional de Turismo (or FITUR), a huge annual tourism trade fair in Madrid that’s devoted to countries in the Americas where Spanish and Portuguese are spoken. DNA’s roving travel writer, Marc Andrews reports the country is open to receiving visitors who, in turn, can be free, gay and happy, not to mention safe, in Colombia’s smaller cities and towns.