Disver the 5 Most Gay-iendly Arab Countri  | Mr Hudson

Contents:

• THE 'NIGHTMARE' OF BEG GAY TUNISIA
• TRAVEL TO TUNISIA FOR GAY PEOPLE - TUNISIA FOM
• GAY LIFE TUNIS? - TUNIS FOM
• IS THERE ANY GAY BARS OR CLUBS HAMMAMET TUNISIA - HAMMAMET FOM
• DISVER THE 5 MOST GAY-IENDLY ARAB UNTRI
• TUNISIA GAY
• GAY HAMMAMET - TUNISIA FOM

THE 'NIGHTMARE' OF BEG GAY TUNISIA

Gay and Lbian Review.

TRAVEL TO TUNISIA FOR GAY PEOPLE - TUNISIA FOM

What I almost never saw om my seat at my favore hnt—the Café Paris, chosen bee, not attached to a hotel, always attracted more Tunisians than tourists—were any signs of a visible, easily intifiable gay or lbian culture. While the gay visor particular might be thrown ially by the ways which two men or two women openly display their physil affectn—whenever we would cross the avenue together, for example, my iend Hs would grab my hand to make sure that I would not be n down by one of Tunis’s notorly reckls b drivers—and while the sight of a man walkg down the street wh a jasme blossom tucked behd his ear might (wrongly) suggt otherwise, open signs of Wtern-style gay inty are owned upon if not absolutely taboo. I found nearly impossible to spot any Tunisian I uld intify as gay.

GAY LIFE TUNIS? - TUNIS FOM

Neverthels, same-sex sire, if not a gay inty, is certaly prent Tunisia.

In some s, this adolcent homosexual behavr is nsired a stage of life that will soon be left behd, so men who ntue the practice to adulthood—or, worse, who still prefer the passive role—are open to cricism, or worse.

In more recent tim, however, as a rult of global media broadsts via satelle televisn and the Inter, Tunisians are regularly exposed to Wtern notns of gay inty.

IS THERE ANY GAY BARS OR CLUBS HAMMAMET TUNISIA - HAMMAMET FOM

Though sometim clumsily censored, Wtern shows wh gay characters—like The OC or the Spanish Un Dos Tr, a Fame-style show about a performg arts school—are easily available via satelle dish, as are gay phone sex ads that ma me blh.

We also sometim fet the ways which, even the Wt, gay style is munited through the media and “assumed” by as we figure out how to reprent ourselv to each other and to a larger heterosexual public.

DISVER THE 5 MOST GAY-IENDLY ARAB UNTRI

As Tunisians who feel same-sex sire see more Wtern reprentatns of gay life, they’re likely to imate the ways of beg and actg, however nstraed by the nf of an Islamic social system. Bee a visible gay inty is often seen the Islamic world as a product of the Wt, is difficult to untangle a rejectn of gay inty om a rejectn of the Wt wh s profoundly different standards of public behavr and private moraly.

Somethg to nsir, then, is the possibily that the tenncy of our media to portray Islam a negative light is makg harr for those Tunisians who wish to “e out” as pennt women, as gay, or as otherwise nontradnal.

TUNISIA GAY

The fact that gay inty is built precisely upon a public acknowledgment of beg gay plit thgs a society where, for example, men are so most that they shower their unrwear at the gym, or where, until recently, heterosexual upl uld not so much as hold hands public. Not surprisgly, whatever gay life that exists tak place vertly, while the life s more public forms is virtually nonexistent.

GAY HAMMAMET - TUNISIA FOM

Homosexualy, Tunisia Style: Where the Actn Is.

In Tunisia, the issue of gay inty is plited by the untry’s long history of European tourism, cludg sexual tourism. Many of the men might be lled, a Wtern exprsn, “gay for pay.