

Queer acceptance scales very closely with HDI with a 5-20 year lag. The actual causes I believe are poverty reduction, achieved higher education, urbanization, and most recently, internet access, which are all major HDI contributors.
(There’s also a big contributing factor outside of HDI, which is queer legislation eg., sodomy laws, gay marriage, name/gender changing, surgery, hormone therapy. This more or less defines the boundaries of how much or little queer acceptance is allowed within a country for reasons I do not understand)
There’s some capitalist tricknology embedded in HDI because of its use of nominal GDP/capita rather than GDP(PPP)/capita, but it’s very widely used and good enough for this application.
By queer acceptance I’m talking about reduced hate crimes, and myriad trust-me-bro self-surveys, because it’s a somewhat nebulous concept.
There are of course some very obvious outliers. Rich, extraction based countries (UAE, Bahrain) have a lower than expected rate of acceptance. Poor, tourism based countries (Thailand, Cuba) have much higher acceptance rates than expected.
There’s also a very noticable East-West divide on which queers are accepted. Western nations strongly prefer cisgender homosexuals, and asian nations are conparatively more lenient when it comes to binary trans people.
The HDI-queer connection makes a lot of sense dialectically. The further advanced capitalism becomes in a nation, the more thouroughly the vestiges of feudalism are liquidated until a breaking point is reached where they can no longer justify the rigid gender norms that engender queerphobias.



Back in 2025 I was at my absolute bottom point. I had long covid that had graduated to ME/CFS and was all but bed bound. There wasn’t even a treatment plan for it, and the healthcare system here is so obscenely ass that I couldn’t even get a diagnosis, so I put a date in the calendar to die. Forunately I had nothing left to lose at that point, so I got some sketchy rapamycin pills and tirzepatide vials from Indian resellers, and about a year later, I’m almost healthy enough to go back to college part-time.
Don’t kill yourself yet folks. Medicine is still advancing very quickly. Make sure to exhaust all of your options before you do it. Do some research on new medicines and therapies. If you think you’re on your way out anyways, don’t be afraid to do something risky.
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