In the Pacific islands, many families with a shortage of female offspring literally rear young boys as girls, or at least relegate them to female chores around the home and village. It can be found about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand and is comprised of an archipelago 332 islands, a number of which make up the majority of the land area, and about 110 of which are inhabited.Īlthough homosexuality is officially frowned upon by local laws and by some local religious leaders, an old Fiji custom makes this a relatively friendly destination for gay men with one proviso: Stay away from gay prostitutes. Fiji (occasionally called the Fiji Islands), is a Melanesian nation within the South Pacific Ocean.
