Témoignage. Être gay (et étranger) à Dubaï

Contents:

• TéMOIGNAGE. ÊTRE GAY (ET éTRANGER) à DUBAï
• DUBAI GAY TRAVEL
• DUBAI NIGHTLIFE FOR GAY MALE TOURISTS - DUBAI FOM
• PERIL AND PRIVILEGE: GAY EXPAT NIGHTLIFE DUBAI
• GAY EXPAT REVEALS WHAT ’S LIKE TO LIVE DUBAI WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS PUNISHABLE BY 10 YEARS PRISON
• GAY DUBAI DUBAI CY GUI
• WHAT HAPPENED WHEN FOUR GAY GUYS FROM TEL AVIV TOOK A VATN TO DUBAI
• ÊTRE GAY à DUBAï
• DUBAI GAY MAP
• ÊTRE GAY à DUBAï ET à ABU DHABI
• DUBAI GAY
• BEG GAY DUBAI
• GAY DUBAI - DUBAI FOM

TéMOIGNAGE. ÊTRE GAY (ET éTRANGER) à DUBAï

Un journaliste stralien rante son expérience en tant qu’homosexuel dans une bulle relative liberté en ple Moyen-Orient. Je n’ai cune illn sur l’attu officielle s torés Dubaï en ce qui ncerne l’homosexualé. Dans le groupe prse où je travaille, on me d dans s term très clair que je ne dois pas faire référence à l’homosexualé dans m articl ce qui – quand on écr sur s célébrés, sur la culture pop et sur la mo – éta particulièrement difficile.

DUBAI GAY TRAVEL

Une vraie munté LGBT ternatnale Pourtant, malgré c ndns vie pénibl, il se rend pte, grâce à s amis gays renntrés sur place, qu’il existe une vérable munté LGBT: “Du fa la très importante populatn jn ls blancs expatriés, la munté LGBT t une s pl multiculturell et divers du mon. Raids la police, prison, expulsn… Pour tant, il ft être très pnt r l relatns homosexuell sont passibl dix ans prison et l scent police dans l clubs et l soiré gays sont nombrs.

As every untry, there are plenty of gay people Dubai, is more a qutn of how openly you n be gay Dubai. There are no LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr) rights any of the Uned Arab Emirat.

Knowledgeable expats Dubai remend that Gay upl should not even risk old hands public. This means that the more ual punishments for beg gay – beatgs, prolonged imprisonment, flogggs, torture, and chemil stratn – would be nsired to be gettg off lightly. Back 2013 they discsed troducg some form of ttg to prevent gay foreigners om enterg any of those untri.

DUBAI NIGHTLIFE FOR GAY MALE TOURISTS - DUBAI FOM

They only dropped the proposal bee they feared a ntroversy that might rail the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar.So, no: not a gay-iendly regn. There are no gay bars Dubai, but you n rt assured that there is a high gay-quotient every trendy bar.

Gay marriage is not regnized Dubai, no matter how married you may be your home untry. Searchg for Dubai gay travel rmatn onle, ’s easy to unrstand why so many travelers are unsure about visg.

Some webs talk about massive sweaty gay parti, while others mentn LGBT tourists gog to jail for holdg hands public. In this gui, I’ll help you navigate all the nfg rmatn about gay travel to Dubai, ver sential safety tips, and mentn some of the bt hotels and lol thgs to do.

PERIL AND PRIVILEGE: GAY EXPAT NIGHTLIFE DUBAI

The cy wants to further an image of beg more socially liberal and don’t exactly like beg labeled as anti-gay. However, there is always the lgerg realy that you mt monor and censor your actns here, pecially a untry where beg gay is illegal.

At the time, I was pretty worried about beg whether I’d be safe as a gay tourist Dubai. Knowg the Middle East is generally nservative, gay travelers might not feel pletely fortable wh the ia of visg Dubai.

Many ponr safety preutns like letg their gay apps or removg personal tails om social media. Police are not patrollg the streets lookg for pairs of gay men, but bears to mentn that the law remas archaic disallowg any gay rights. While you won’t fd any specifilly gay hotels Dubai, choosg one of the larger ternatnal hotel chas will have a big impact on your sense of safety as an LGBT traveler.

GAY EXPAT REVEALS WHAT ’S LIKE TO LIVE DUBAI WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS PUNISHABLE BY 10 YEARS PRISON

Both of the hotels are certa to adhere to ternatnal standards, so I’d classify them as some of Dubai’s gay-iendly hotels. While you should be credibly skeptil when browsg misleadg lists of Dubai gay bars, you n still have a fantastic time enjoyg the cy’s nightlife. Ryan Centner’s fantastic exposé on Dubai’s gay expat nightlife tells the story wonrfully.

Gay lols Dubai equently change nightlife venu and they munite about the subject extremely privately.

Dubai gay lols have been known to equent a few different parti that attract an open-md crowd. Barbary Cocktail Club is another awome spot known as one of the few Dubai gay bars, remend by a iend of me who liv Dubai.

GAY DUBAI DUBAI CY GUI

While Bar is not officially a Dubai gay club, the space is equented by many gay men. Gay men and transexual dividuals have been taed and prosecuted Dubai before over seemgly harmls gtur.

Homosexualy is illegal the UAE and LGBTQ+ dividuals have no rights whatsoever. Dubai’s thori will certaly not tolerate gay public displays of affectn, so remember that would be dangero to hold your partner’s hand while walkg down the street. But if you’ve ever met a male flight attendant that works for Emirat, they’ll tell you about all the Dubai gay lols livg this glzy metropolis.

How are the “pulsg gay nightclubs” existence while a uple of gay tourists face arrt for holdg hands?

WHAT HAPPENED WHEN FOUR GAY GUYS FROM TEL AVIV TOOK A VATN TO DUBAI

You’ll need to e a VPN nnectn to accs gay datg apps the UAE though, sce the ernment blocks them.

If you do ci to meet someone on a gay applitn, make sure you’ve pletely vetted them. Qui ra c que Dubaï, pet Émirat nservatr à quelqu udé l'Arabie saoude, viendra un «refuge» pour s homosexuels ven l'Égypte, l'Irak ou du Koweït? Cette liberté n't pas celle pouvoir s'afficher publiquement - l'homosexualé t illégale à Dubaï me dans to l pays arab -, mais pouvoir vivre sa vie lo s regards discrets.

«Dubaï t sans doute le meillr endro la régn pour l homosexuels arab qui sont déjà en uple et vlent vivre en paix dans lr n douillet. En effet, si Dubaï t venu une sorte refuge pour s homosexuels irakiens, syriens ou égyptiens, la suatn t bien différente pour l rsortissants s Émirats arab unis, fédératn posée sept Émirats, dont Dubaï.

ÊTRE GAY à DUBAï

Morair sur lr terre (ils représentent environ 16% la populatn), ils ne pvent pter ni sur l'anonymat ni sur une attu préhensive lrs proch, puisque l'homosexualé y t nsidérée me une maladie. Pour venir en ai à s patrt dans la même suatn, il a mis en ligne l'an rnier sur l résex socix un groupe défense s dros s homosexuels x Émirats arab unis. «No voulons jte que l'homosexualé so dépénalisée, qu'elle ne so pl qualifiée maladie», d-il.

DUBAI GAY MAP

À Dubaï, il n'y a pas vraiment «bars ou clubs» nn pour attirer une discrète clientèle gaie, me à Beyrouth, où l'homosexualé t, manière générale, mix tolérée.

Le Prtemps arabe n't pas près souffler pour l homosexuels», d Rania en soupirant. Hi, a iend and I are planng a holiday to Dubai, and we were wonrg what the night life would be like wh beg gay mal?

ÊTRE GAY à DUBAï ET à ABU DHABI

We were disgted to fd a sectn our hotel rmatn book statg that lbianism and homosexualy are illegal. They are tolerant of most 'wtern' behavurs and attus but unfortunately that tolerance do not extend to homosexualy. I've got gay iends the UAE but beg "straight" I'm not up to date wh nightclubs etc.

As Devon and Latimer have said, homosexualy is forbidn here unr the l of Islam although that's not to say that don't happen, eher amongst the expat muny or otherwise. I have the benef of gay iends the UAE ( rather than some people wh no experience) so there's obvly a gay scene there albe not so obv as other plac.

DUBAI GAY

That is the qutn that LSE’s Dr Centner and his -thor Harvard’s Manoel Pereira Neto explore their groundbreakg rearch to Dubai’s expatriate gay men’s nightlife. “As two queer rearchers, we were able to enter the worlds of relatively privileged Wtern gay expatriat. Not a sgle venue’s webpage the word ‘gay’ or related phemisms, nor do they ht at targetg a gay crowd.

They also nducted terviews, relyg on personal ntacts, to fd 26 gay men, aged 24-48 and reprentg 15 natnali. Their forthg paper explas: “Much of the Dubayyan gay nightlife tak place venu wh the cy’s p ternatnal hotels, which are technilly open to all who n afford them. The rearchers wonred, at first, how so many men knew that the are events attend by many other gay men: “The were ed ‘parti’ – on a specific night of the week for different s – equented by gays, not bars intified as gay.

Gay datg apps are also shunned for fear of entrapment by ’s this nstant sense of your hair standg on end and havg to be ut about who's listeng, who's at the door, who's ved, or what might be said and passed along, that uld get most such venu, the rearchers note that the mic played is rarely the kd of remixed, beat-heavy tracks or classilly “gay” songs that domate self-proclaimed LGBTQ bars across many global ci.

BEG GAY DUBAI

Only those wh the most cumulative privilege among a generally imperilled populatn of heterogeneo Dubai-based homosexuals would attempt to ploy this repertoire openly. As you might image, is private hom where Wtern gay men experience the most eedom to build a “more robt sense of belongg, tablishg supportive works that rerce their intifitn as both gay and Wtern, dividually and as a group. Most terviewe talked about needg to fd their “gay fay” Dubai as soon as they arrived, so they might make a “home away om home.

Sce most pani arrange randomly assigned hog shared flats, is up to gay men to ask heterosexual flatmat to swch wh a gay ntact, so two or more gay men n habate and anise private and very selective social seekg some sense of home away om home... The men are, advertently, unwillgly, or some s, que explicly, keepg out other typ of gay or queer people who are not ‘siar’ to them.

GAY DUBAI - DUBAI FOM

Reflectg on the signifince of the rearch, Dr Centner says: “In addn to brgg some attentn to this kd of existence, is also important to note how this is very much an expatriate, relatively privileged, experience of gay life Dubai. So, part of what we try to do is to pot out how, seekg some sense of home away om home, that the men are, advertently, unwillgly, or some s, que explicly, keepg out other typ of gay or queer people who are not ‘siar’ to them.

“So even if homosexualy is illegal, Dubai don't want to be seen as specifilly anti-gay. “However, we felt that, ntrast to plac where even if homosexualy is not illegal, but there's plenty of vlent homophobia, everythg felt more on edge Dubai.

Ined, should you be unlucky enough to be ught engagg homosexual activy the regn, reports claim that punishment n range om 10 years prison, f, portatn and even the ath penalty. 4 Atralian expat Pl Ewart shar his experience of beg a gay man DubaiCred: Pl Ewart. Dpe this, Dubai is host to a thrivg unrground gay scene, wh men flockg to unofficial LGBT clubs wh ltle fear of the nsequenc, acrdg to Detaed Dubai.