Liberal_L33t posted:

Out of curiosity do you have any examples of a nation not founded on and/or defined by "western" enlightenment principles that has or had equal social toleration (particularly where sexual minorities are concerned) and equal respect for individual rights when compared side-by-side with the modern-liberal-democracy baseline?

(p.s. some kind of historical example of socially acceptable cross-dressing within, say, the confines of a patriarchal caste system, doesn't loving count.