DUBAI, Uned Arab Emirat (AP) — Iran has executed two gay men who were nvicted on charg of sodomy and spent six years on ath row, a rights group reported.
Contents:
- PERIL AND PRIVILEGE: GAY EXPAT NIGHTLIFE DUBAI
- TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021
- GAY EXPAT REVEALS WHAT ’S LIKE TO LIVE DUBAI WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS PUNISHABLE BY 10 YEARS PRISON
- RIGHTS GROUP: IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
- 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
- IS IT ILLEGAL TO BE GAY IN DUBAI?
- MAN BLACKMAILED GAY -WORKER WHO KILLED HIMSELF
- GAY PARTNER JAILED FOR ONE YEAR FOR HAVG NSENSUAL SEX WH VICTIM
PERIL AND PRIVILEGE: GAY EXPAT NIGHTLIFE DUBAI
Ryan Centner overme signifint challeng to vtigate how Wtern gay men livg Dubai e their enomic, social and cultural privileg to create muni where they n meet and socialise. Homosexualy is illegal Dubai, so gay men technilly risk portatn, imprisonment and even the ath penalty. * gay crime uae *
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.
TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021
The LGBTQ+ Travel Safety Inx ranks the world’s most dangero untri for gay travelers 2021. * gay crime uae *
Not a sgle venue’s webpage the word ‘gay’ or related phemisms, nor do they ht at targetg a gay crowd.
GAY EXPAT REVEALS WHAT ’S LIKE TO LIVE DUBAI WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS PUNISHABLE BY 10 YEARS PRISON
* gay crime uae *
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. Only those wh the most cumulative privilege among a generally imperilled populatn of heterogeneo Dubai-based homosexuals would attempt to ploy this repertoire openly.
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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.
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.
13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
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.
IS IT ILLEGAL TO BE GAY IN DUBAI?
“So even if homosexualy is illegal, Dubai don't want to be seen as specifilly anti-gay.
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“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.
But gay travelers face the add plexy of navigatg a myriad of LGBTQ+ laws around the world.
GAY PARTNER JAILED FOR ONE YEAR FOR HAVG NSENSUAL SEX WH VICTIM
And although there have been some improvements over recent years, more than 70 untri still have homophobic laws, acrdg to Equalx.