Explorg Amman's gay spac | Xtra Magaze

Contents:

• GAY JORDAN TRAVEL GUI
• GAY AMMAN TRAVEL GUI
• GAY TOURIST JORDAN – HOW TWO STRANGERS INVED ME FOR FUN
• GAY LIFE AQABA - JORDAN FOM
• JORDAN GAY TRAVEL
• EXPLORG AMMAN’S GAY SPAC
• JORDANGAY
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

GAY JORDAN TRAVEL GUI

Still, homosexualy has been crimalized Jordan for nsentg people over the age of 16 sce 1951.

Rears stem om all across the MENA regn and Where do you thk Amman fs  among other gay statns the Middle East? We wouldn’t promote as a gay statn, but rather as an amazg statn general. K: A gay-iendly bar lled RGB (which quickly got a reputatn as a gay bar) closed after the owner received a msage threateng that if didn’t shut down, “all s ctomers will be put solary cells.

GAY AMMAN TRAVEL GUI

Text 'GAYTRAVEL' to 1-800-GAY-TRAVEL (1-800-429-8728). — Travel Guis wh a Gay Perspective.

Gay Jordan. Gay Amman.

GAY TOURIST JORDAN – HOW TWO STRANGERS INVED ME FOR FUN

Amman Gay Scene.

While homosexualy is legal, there still isn't much of an out and proud gay scene Amman or the rt of Jordan.

GAY LIFE AQABA - JORDAN FOM

At the same time, seeg men holdg hands public is relatively mon – ’s a sign of iendship, and many Jordanian men are que appreciative of male bety even if they’re not gay, so may screw up your gaydar! Even whout any tablished LGBTQ-specific venu, many of the bars and rtrants popular wh Amman's large ternatnal populatn of expats are there are some known hangouts for gay lols and visg tourists.

Gay-Friendly Activi & Attractns. Gay-Friendly Dg, Bars & Nightlife.

Partly a rtrant, fe, bar, and lounge, [email protected] is the ** place Amman for gay lols, tourists, and expats.

JORDAN GAY TRAVEL

Thanks to tremendo support om the reigng Queen of Jordan, homosexual rights - rather than movg backward - are fally at a stable place the untry. As one of the more progrsive untri the Middle East terms of protectns for s LGBT populatn, Jordan is a relatively easy place to travel as a gay person, but homophobia fely still exists.

While there is not a massive out gay populatn, there are multiple “gay centric” venu that ter to both the lol and ternatnal gay muny.

EXPLORG AMMAN’S GAY SPAC

When many travelers thk of the Middle East as a gay statn, Tel Aviv is most likely to e to md. Forster went to Alexandria, Egypt, to have his first experience of gay love, and one of the most famo gay poets of the twentieth century, Constante Cavafy, also hailed om that sprawlg metropolis on the sea.

Recently however, a lot of the great gay statns of the Middle East have not been gettg good prs.

JORDANGAY

First, the unrt associated wh the Arab sprg has ma stalwarts of gay travel statns like Tunisia ls appealg. Even hotspot Beit, long known for s excg nightlife and hunky men, has bee ls attractive as Helem, the area's only LGBT anizatn reports that Article 534 of the Lebane Penal Co ("sexual terurse ntrary to nature" is punishable for up to 1 year prison) has been ed recently to harass gay and bisexual sce the famo Nile Queen cint ( which 52 gay Egyptian men were arrted and 'examed' for dancg whout women partners on a floatg dis), Egypt is not nearly as open as ed to be.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

Iran and Sdia Arabia, whatever their cultural appeal to tourists, rema difficult to vis and are known to execute gay men. Iraq, once safe for homosexuals, sce the U. S-led vasn has sce seen some of the worst gay-bashg and murr of homosexual men the Middle 's Left?

There's an outstandg statn for gay and straight tourists alike: Jordan. Like many Mlim untri, homosexual acts and cross-drsg are nsired 'sful' but they aren't technilly illegal.

A gay uple n walk the street arm--arm or holdg hands while a straight uple would get dirty looks. "Amman, the pal, has some worthy attractns, most notably Roman s, pecially the Roman Theater (at night the cy's ma cisg area for gay men) and Jebel al-Qal'a, the ancient cal which clus s of a temple to Hercul, a mm, and the remas of an Umayyad palace, along wh stunng views of the morn urban sprawl of Amman.

Meetg MenAmman lacks a tradnal gay party scene, but is easy to meet gay men. You n fd them on any number of gay s, cludg Books@fe, a lightfully stylish fé that uld jt as well be Wt Hollywood, is full of betiful, mcular Jordanian men puffg away on their nargil (water pip). The cy's streets are filled wh shoppg opportuni: handicrafts and some of the bt valu gold jewelry the key to meetg gay Jordanian men is jt to be open and iendly.

If he is gay and terted, I have found that most Jordanian gay men are que direct, pecially if you make them feel fortable. Many of them directly seek out teractns wh foreigners, partially out of genue cursy and tert -- be prepared for a barrage of random personal qutns about your life back home -- and also bee many gay Jordanian men feel safer proposng Not MissAs far as sightseeg, the real treasur of the untry are beyond Amman. Royal Jordanian often has disunted tickets and has a ach-class like we ed to have on our domtic is not a typil gay statn like Barcelona, but is fely worth visg.