why is canada known for being a gay friendly country?

[RobertWoll]

when homosexuality is not really accepted and still a lot of homophobes.like i know you get homophobes everywhere.but theres a lot more countrys in west europe,few east asian countrys and south brazil,urgauy,parts of argentina.which are more gay friendly.like maybe in the city centres its accepted (toronto city centre etc) but suburbs,rural areas and even smaller cities and towns its quite homophobic.
but for some reason alot of gay people and others say its gay friendly when it clearly isnt.