Is it OK to be gay in Portugal?

After you have lived in the gayest place on earth, can anywhere else even come close?

Living in a city like San Francisco for a very long time affords you a worldview that is a tad different than most other cities. As many coastal Californians like to say, we live in a bubble.

When differences from inside the bubble are exposed outside, this often becomes a shock to the system when traveling to other parts of the US or abroad. Example: an…