When it comes to holding hands in public, we didn’t feel as comfortable as in other countries. We’ve loved it each time, especially my chips-loving-Frenchman! Belgium is overall very welcoming for gay travellers. We’ve been several times to Belgium as a gay couple – either on a city break to Brussels and Bruges and once on a Flanders Field “pilgrimage” to see the former WW1 battlegrounds. The mayor of Bogota is widely considered the second most important political post in Colombia after the President, which is a big deal for the LGBTQ community in Colombia! Read more in our Colombia gay travel guide.ĭid you know? In October 2019, Ms Claudia López Hernández became the first woman and first lesbian to be elected mayor in Bogota. However, we didn’t encounter this on our travels in Colombia as we just avoided them. One of these included a fine for shouting homophobic abuse to others in public! The only thing we’d say in Colombia, which is the case for many countries in Latin America is that the machismo culture is prevalent in rural areas, particularly along the coast. In one hotel in Medellin, we noticed a sign in the lift showing the penalties the police could give you for certain crimes. 2.Some of our favourite travel highlights include the coffee region, the Cocora Valley, the Salt Cathedral, the Caño Cristales Rainbow River, Cartagena old town and the Tayrona National Park.Īs a gay couple, we had no issues in Colombia and felt accepted everywhere. In March of 2018, they followed up the success of Hymns with a sequel album, Hymns, Vol. Replacing founding member Alan Powell, pop singer Spencer Kane made his debut with Anthem Lights on their fifth album, Painted Skies, later that year. The group also began releasing mini-albums of their favorite songs by other artists, under the banner Covers most were recent songs by pop artists such as One Direction, Taylor Swift, and OneRepublic, but the group also charted its influences with covers of Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way" and Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'." For 2017's Hymns, they took a more classicist approach, applying their distinctive harmonies to a set of traditional hymns and contemporary Christian favorites. By the end of the year, third album Escape had appeared, with a pair of singles ("Just Fall," "Run Away") performing well on the charts. It was led by the single "Hide Your Love Away," their most popular song yet on the Christian charts. One year later, The Acoustic Sessions EP followed.Īnthem Lights' second album, You Have My Heart, appeared in early 2014. The quartet later signed on with Reunion Records, and with the new name in place and the backing of a label, Anthem Lights released a pair of eponymous albums, an EP and their full-length debut, in 2011. Working under the name Yellow Cavalier, the four singers released their self-titled debut EP in 2009 before they changed the group's name to Anthem Lights the following year. After working on songs for Graham's debut, the pair decided to expand the project into a four-piece pop group, recruiting vocalists Kyle Kupecky and Caleb Grimm into the band. Formed while founding members Chad Graham and Alan Powell were both living in Los Angeles, California, Christian pop band Anthem Lights began as a solo project for Graham in 2007.
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