Gay Bar Beit - Beyrouth - Lebanon by Category

Contents:

• GAY BARS BEIT - BEIT FOM
• GAY LIFE LEBANON: BOUNCE BACK BEIT
• GAY BAR BEIT
• FOR BEIT'S GAY MUNY, CHEMIL BLAST SHATTERED A SAFE SPACE
• MEET 'THE FIRST AND ONLY GAY TOUR GUI THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST'
• BARS & CLUBS GAY BEIT
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• BEIRUT GAY BARS
• GAY BARS & CLUBS - BEIT FOM
• GAY BEIT - BEIT FOM
• DO ANYONE KNOW OF GAY IENDLY BARS EAST BEIT - BEIT FOM
• OASIS OF TOLERANCE OR 'REPUBLIC OF SHAME'? TWO FAC OF GAY LIFE BEIT
• GAY BEIT
• BEIT GAY MAP

GAY BARS BEIT - BEIT FOM

I was tryg to set up a walkg tour wh a gay travel se Beit and got an ial quiry of tert to help, but they have failed to rpond to all my follow up emails. Beit’s world fame for war is fally beg overshadowed by s emergg reputatn as the (gay) party pal of the Middle East. The New York Tim’ travel sectn emed the cy the ‘number one place to vis 2009’, and, another article, raved about the cy’s thrivg gay scene, dubbg ‘The Provcetown of the Middle East’.

GAY LIFE LEBANON: BOUNCE BACK BEIT

Acrdg to Ghassan Makarem, executive director of Helem Lebanon’s gay rights anisatn (the first and only of s kd the Arab world), the ernment don’t object to this image. At the cy’s two ma gay clubs, Milk and Acid, a mix of Lebane, Syrian, Jordanian, Kuwai and even some Iraqi men disprove any remag theory of cultural relativism. That is to say, once si people don’t behave differently om any other gay club the world – wh the possible exceptn of the ocsnal male belly dance.

GAY BAR BEIT

But acrdg to Bertho Makso of Lebtour, a Beit-based travel agent that promot gay tourism to Lebanon and anis very popular Bear Arabia events, that is exactly what his clients are lookg for. On a stroll across the universy grounds he explaed that the ‘gay’ song our mutual iend referred to, Shem el Yasme (Smell the Jasme), plays wh a tradnal property of Arabic poetry and lyrics: love is always directed to a man.

FOR BEIT'S GAY MUNY, CHEMIL BLAST SHATTERED A SAFE SPACE

Hamed Sno, the charismatic lead sger of the band, is of a rare speci: a publicly out gay man Lebanon.

MEET 'THE FIRST AND ONLY GAY TOUR GUI THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST'

Some prits are unhappy wh the official stance of the Catholic Church and have ved Helem to talk about the issue of homosexualy to their ngregatns. Many prenceived, Wtern ias about polil and relig attus toward homosexualy prove rather els Lebanon.

BARS & CLUBS GAY BEIT

One rehg surprise is that Al-Akhbar, a newspaper that is half owned by Hezbollah, has ma homosexualy part of s reportg agenda and wr que posively about the issue.

Another surprise reveals what is, acrdg to Makarem, a ser mistake on the part of the Wtern media: the assumptn that pro-Wtern polil parti are pro-gay. “The New York Tim, which is supposed to be a ser newspaper, ran an article on gay nightlife that claimed some thgs that were absolutely ridiculo. For stance, nclud that bee a pro-Wtern majory was elected, that would be a good thg for gays Lebanon.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

This was nsistent wh stori of a large flux of gay men om Dahiyeh the cy’s gay bars and clubs, and the experience of a woman who told me she got ls flack for wearg a miskirt Dahiyeh than the smopolan shoppg street of Hamra, where the men would ‘accintally’ bump to her and stare at her cht. What was even more remarkable to me – g om a part of the world where Mlims are generally perceived as the most nservative and homophobic group society – was that a lot of people seemed to agree that Mlims Lebanon were more open to discsg homosexualy on the street (albe never the media) than Christians.

BEIRUT GAY BARS

Havg said that, when I ntacted the admistrators of the Facebook group lled ‘Gays of Dahiyeh’, took a que a b of persuasn to get them to talk to me.

GAY BARS & CLUBS - BEIT FOM

Whoever was I talked to, before he signed off he told me that the past few years thgs had changed a lot Dahiyeh and that there had been an enormo crease visible homosexualy the neighbourhood – he claimed that some 30% of the men were now gay.

But whether he was jt scramblg back to the closet or not; the gay sex he reportedly admted to unr terrogatn had never been the issue.

GAY BEIT - BEIT FOM

The same people anise very popular Bear Arabia-events twice a year: check They’re very knowledgeable and fun and have big plans for Beit: the owner Bertho Makso exprsed his visn to anise a (gay) love pri para the near future. The Gefor Rotana is one of the most nveniently loted hotels Beit, wh walkg distance om the Corniche (the seasi promena) and s beach clubs, the shops and rtrants of Rue Hamra and Downtown Beit, and some of the most popular gay-iendly plac town.

DO ANYONE KNOW OF GAY IENDLY BARS EAST BEIT - BEIT FOM

If you vis only one gay-iendly place Beit, let be Bardo, across om the Haigazian Universy Hamra. Other plac to check out: Behd the Green Door (porn spired bar Gemmayzeh); Barometre (very atmospheric, very tellectual leftist Arab bar near the Amerin universy Hamra – great cheap food, too, and Acid (somewhat tacky, but still… you n’t miss the biggt gay club the Middle East). It drew 400 people and ran for hours as dozens of young Beitis, cludg Hamed Sno, lead sger of the ternatnally succsful Mashrou Leila, stood up to tell their g-out Grand FactoryThe gay sger and dancer Moe Khansa is big news, too: at the Beit Art Fair an Iranian artist’s portra of him embracg another man sold for $8, 000.

OASIS OF TOLERANCE OR 'REPUBLIC OF SHAME'? TWO FAC OF GAY LIFE BEIT

Bar/rtrant Bardo, central Hamra, has tablished self as the epicentre of the gay scene, and is one of the cy’s bt-regard spots of any kd.

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GAY BEIT

“My parents are super relig, so my mom had this nversatn wh me where she was like, ‘Ah, you n’t stay here bee my relign wouldn’t allow me to keep you here, bee you’re gay, bee you do a lot of thgs that we n’t accept, ’” he said.

“It hurt way more knowg wh everythg that happened Beit, you still … have to leave home bee you’re gay, ” he said.

BEIT GAY MAP

’”The Arab world’s progrsive enclaveLebanon is nsired relatively liberal the Arab world, even though remas one of the approximately 70 untri around the globe that still crimaliz homosexualy. Vol advot the ty Mederranean untry fend LGBTQ rights, and gay bars and clubs are allowed to operate. And while s volvg homosexualy still go to trial om time to time the untry, an 80-year old article the penal prosecutg homosexual relatns has been unrmed recent years by a succsful mpaign waged by activist lawyers to obta liberal judicial lgs, which have ma creasgly difficult to crimalize same-sex 2017, a judge Lebanon led for the first time that homosexualy is not a crime, so long as is not public, wh a mor or unr ercn.