Fun fact: the US didn't provide full equal rights for its gay citizens until sometime after 2013.

While I am firmly in favor of gay rights (and my political donations are largely directed towards those causes) there is a significant difference in degree here and the comparison is insulting to both.

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Where would you rather be gay - the US or Saudi Arabia?

How many countries did so earlier?

After some wiki-research, I found that my facts on this were dead wrong.

It turns out that progressive Saudi Arabia was far more forward-thinking when it comes to the abolition of slavery than I had imagined, they abolished slavery in 1962 not 1965...

But to answer your question, A LOT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_slavery_timeline#1...

(But also, ahem...http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html)

All smart assery aside, even today you are in big trouble as a Filipino or Eastern European maid or nanny if you choose or are tricked into setting up shop in Saudi Arabia

I was asking about equal rights for homosexuals, not slavery. As far as I know, very few countries qualify today.

I'm guessing this is an attempt to be provocative or sassy or something, but let's get real here dude/dudette

US abolished legalized racial discrimination just one year earlier.

What do you mean by legalized racial discrimination?