Disthèqu gays - Fom Côte d'Ivoire - Foms

Contents:

• DISTHèQU GAYS
• PLAN GAY CôTE D'IVOIRE
• ABIDJAN - RENNTRE GRATUE GAY
• JAILG OF GAY IVORIAN MEN STOK FEARS LGBT SAFE HAVEN

DISTHèQU GAYS

Maisons clos: Voici le bar préféré s homos d’Abidjan. Fa rare en Aique l'Out, où l'homosexualé t vlemment réprimée, il existe bien à Abidjan, une boîte nu gay très prisée, suée dans une e lme du quartier Bietry, à une centae mètr du siège d’un célèbre ncsnnaire tomobile. Assis dans s ftils en siicuir, serrés l uns ntre l tr par manque place, ou dansant sur la piste so la boule à facett et vant un grand miroir, s homm et quelqu femm ne craignent pas d'afficher lr homosexualé, dans un pays qui stigmatise pourtant l gays.

Dans un rapport, plirs anisatns défense s dros s homosexuels dénoncent d'aillrs l vlenc perpétré par l forc l'ordre à l'enntre s gays. ‘‘ Depuis avril 2011, s éléments patrouille nocturne s Frci ont débarqué dans un bar équenté en majoré par la munté gay d'Abidjan. Moi, si j'ai envie, je px aller dans s bars gay-iendly, où l homosexuels sont tolérés sans que ce so affiché me tel.

PLAN GAY CôTE D'IVOIRE

‘‘Il n'y a qu'ici que je me sens en sécuré, r il n'y a que s homosexuels. Disthèqu gays - Fom Côte d'Ivoire - Foms. D chambr privé et appartements x hôtels LGBTQ-iendly, vo pourrez choisir le séjour qui vo nvient le mix dans le r s quartiers gays mais ssi to l tr quartiers s statns visé.

ABIDJAN - RENNTRE GRATUE GAY

Un loft à Soho, une chambre partagée à Barcelone ou dans le Castro, un hôtel gay-iendly dans le Marais ou à Chelsea, profez misterb&b dans tout l statns gays!

ABIDJAN (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Relaxg on the terrace of a gay bar Ivory Coast’s mercial pal Abidjan, a group of men embraced and lghed as people walked past whout even glancg their the bar, a young man rsed his pann’s ch the rner, while a transgenr woman greeted everyone before stttg and shakg to the mic unr the strobe lights. “Others are jt fe beg themselv their neighborhoods, ” he add, his voice barely eclipsg the bar is one of many gay venu Abidjan, a relatively tolerant cy for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) people a regn where homosexualy is mostly illegal, and sexual mori face persecutn, discrimatn and Coast is one of a mory of Ain untri - around 20 of the 54 natns on the ntent - which do not explicly crimalize homosexualy or same-sex the recent jailg of two gay men for three months - unr a public cency law that rri a harsher prison sentence for “an cent or unnatural act wh a person of the same sex” - has sent shivers through the LGBTI, 31, and Abdoul, 19, were arrted the southwtern cy of San Pedro October after mors spread about the nature of their relatnship, leadg Abdoul’s uncle to file a police plat as he believed Yann was abg his activists say Mistry of Jtice officials are nsirg changg the public cency law so that no longer sgl out homosexual acts or relatns.

Home to gay bars, gay rights groups, and even an annual cross-drsg bety pageant, Abidjan is nsired a refuge for LGBTI people, both wh the untry and across the Yann and Abdoul, who plan to move there soon, the cy offers their bt hope of havg a normal life as a gay uple. “They don’t nsir [beg gay] a big al there.

JAILG OF GAY IVORIAN MEN STOK FEARS LGBT SAFE HAVEN

”Dpe s tolerant reputatn, sexual mori and even LGBTI anizatns Abidjan are prey to abe, harassment and vlence, wh ltle legal protectn, several activists 2014, a mob of nearly 200 people ransacked and looted the headquarters of Alternative Cote d’Ivoire (ACI) - a proment gay rights group Abidjan - after days of anti-gay year, several gay men were abed, beaten, and forced to flee their hom after the U.

“Most people are reluctant to publicly display their sexualy exactly bee of the difficulti associated wh the daily liv of [LGBTI] persons, ” said Alexis Ouattara, print of the civil society group Lbian Life abe and vlence may be stoked by sensatnalist and meang media verage, an ACI official said, cg the example of a newspaper misreprentg a gay rights group as promotg homosexualy, and g photos of LGBTI unter this, the ACI ns a program to raise awarens among Ivorian journalists about the liv of LGBTI goal is to ensure journalists unrstand that the LGBTI muny suffers wispread discrimatn, said the ACI activist, who fearg for his safety, did not wish to be named.