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- MEET 'THE FIRST AND ONLY GAY TOUR GUI THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST'
- GAY SYRIA 2004 - PERSONAL STORI
- THE BT GAY IENDLY HAMMAM ISTANBUL - ISTANBUL FOM
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MEET 'THE FIRST AND ONLY GAY TOUR GUI THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST'
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“There were eight or ne hammams [Turkish baths] the Old Cy, and four or five of those were gay.
And when I say gay, they were, like, so gay.
”His Aleppo is a liberal wonrland, a place where men n get on wh other men the public baths and a gay tour group n rent out a whole hotel wh no problems.
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And this is jt the latt example of how his work, like me, is always domated by polics, bee how n be otherwise when he is a gay man takg groups of other gay men on tours around the Middle East?
Bertho beme the Arab world’s first and only gay holiday rep 2005. He asked a iend to resign his webse wh a "gay iendly image", and that's how his pany, Lebtour, was born.
“If I was gog to do gay tours to Barcelona I’d have so much petn, ” he says. “All the gay people go on holiday there. After all, the Middle East is not a regn wh a reputatn for beg particularly open towards homosexualy.
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In most Arab untri, beg actively gay is still punishable by law, even if, practice, the thori are unlikely to prosecute. In Lebanon the law prohibs "abnormal sex", but many people – pecially smopolan Beit – are openly gay. And yet, even Lebanon, homosexuals are perdilly arrted and gay bars ocsnally, and arbrarily, shut down.
“Most gay tourists who e for the first time say that they’re not expectg this, ” he says.
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“We’d go on tours of the hammams Aleppo, and Damasc was a paradise for gay people. And he started lghg bee was so clear that there were no women and that we were a group of gay men. ”I n’t que believe that uld have been so easy, so I ask him if he's openly gay.
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In the photo a group of men stand Lebanon’s Baalbek, gathered behd an adaptn of the gay pri flag that's embellished wh a paw prt. But Hezbollah don't re whether you are gay or straight, bee, for them, ’s all about Israel.
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It’s the only untry the Arab world where homosexualy is unambiguoly legal, but he tells me, spe that, s social norms make a ls tolerant place than both Lebanon and Syria.
“There’s only one fé there that's gay-owned, but I’ve never even felt that that is a gay place, ” he says. Next week I’m takg a gay scuba divg group there.