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• LEBANON LNCH POLICE RAIDS TARGETG GAY MEN
• VERY VERY GAY IENDLY HAMAM - DAVUTPASA ISKELE HAMAMI
• THE BT GAY IENDLY HAMMAM ISTANBUL - ISTANBUL FOM
• GAY MARRAKH TRAVEL GUI
• GAY LIFE AQABA - JORDAN FOM
• EVERYONE IS WELE: THE ONLY GAY HANGOUT THE ARAB WORLD
• GAY BEIT
• CAGALOGLU HAMAMISTANBULMENUHOTELSON TODAYBARS & CAFéSDANCE CLUBSSNASMASSAGECY GUITOURSGAY MAPCAGALOGLU HAMAM
• GAY BEIT

LEBANON LNCH POLICE RAIDS TARGETG GAY MEN

Beit, Lebanon – In an enomilly troubled, nservative untry where homosexual behavur is taboo, a growg number of men are prostutg themselv to scrape together a livg. Hassan – who asked his real name not be ed – was forced to leave his untry after his fay found out about his homosexualy and threatened to kill him. A uple of days later, a wealthy entreprenr om Turkey picked him up at a gay club loted the heart of the pal.

The fact that one n anonymoly e gay social works such as Grdr or Manjam to meet clients a matter of mut – or look for potential on Beit’s gay bars, clubs or hammams – mak easier for the male prostut to stay safe and to keep their job a secret.

Dpe homosexual activy beg illegal Lebanon, Beit is wily regard as the saft place for homosexuals the Middle East. The world-famo Lebane band Mashrou Leila has an openly gay sger.

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Before the vlence and stabily Lebanon turned them away, wealthy gay men om the Gulf untri were pecially proment, ready to pay up to a few thoand dollars – sh, jewellery or signer cloth – for a night wh an rt.

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Lebane police has lnched a stg operatn targetg gay men across the untry makg dozens of operatn begun on Saturday wh police arrtg 27 men for alleged "gay sex" and "cency" durg a raid on Agha Hammam the area of Hamra-Conrd, have been released on Thursday while the 21 others have been transferred to Zahle's prison unr the claims that there is no more space Hbeish. 16 of the tae asked Helem, Lebanon's LGBTQI advocy anisatn for legal help and n only be released wh the payment of a substantial bail, to which the anisatn is llg for Thursday a further raid occurred the morng on Sheheraza Hammam the Burj Hammoud neighbourhood of Beit, before opened s doors to the public, wh one employee beg addn there have been unnfirmed reports of further raid on a private home the northern cy of Tripoli, where gay men were meetg, wh 17 people arrted also on Thursday. Although Hbeish police statn has prevly been cricized g the "anal-probe" tt to "terme" if someone is gay, Haddad nied that this stant the tt was ed although he said that vtigators received "nfsns" as the sexual orientatn of 24 of the tae wh three claimg they aren't gay.

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Five Lebane advocy anizatns, Helem, Arab Foundatn for Freedom and Equaly (AFE), M-Coaln, Marsa Sexual Health Clic, and the Lebane Medil Associatn for Sexual Health (LebMASH), have nmned the arrt, brandg "homophobic practice" and lled for the dividuals to be also strsed that durg the raid there were no sexual acts takg place at the Agha personnel vtigated the tae and their fil have now been transferred to the General Prosecutor, Bilal Dnawi, awag charg.

They are often not out and the police has now put their liv at risk bee their fai and muni will be rmed, and are ually not very tolerant of gays. "Why are thori targetg poor gay men, if this was a mpaign about 'public cency' why were only the tablishments selected?

They are ready to target mori and gay people as they are a tchy subject.

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"Speakg wh me about the cint, Ge Azzi, director of AFE nmned MTV's "tabloid sensatnalist journalism" and said: " tim where relig fanatism is threateng the secury and the eedom of the untry and had killed many of our soldiers is a ltle b absurd that police is focg 's effort on gog after the gay muny ""Aren't we supposed at this time to promote eedoms and fight extremism wh more personal eedoms and rpect of human digny?

I tried about 6 hamams but this place is so better and higher is more gay iendly but I remend of experience: January 2018Ask n2018 about Davutpasa Iskele Hamami7 Thank n2018 This review is the subjective opn of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC.

Read our transparency report to learn for your ments about hamam but need to clarify that this hamam is not a gay we have many kd of ctomers om Turkey and om all over the world and we are tryg for bt to servic. Owner and management changed here and we are not happy about that our hamam known as a gay hamam...

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N you please check/ed your ment about hamam aga(pecially "gay" ntent)Thanks and Bt RegardskprimaszDubai, Uned Arab EmiratReviewed Augt 29, 2017 via mobile Vised today, 10 m walk om metro statn Yenkapi. (Whole sale area, dont be sred)It is not advertised so but seems is a gay hammam. N you please check/ed your ment about hamam aga(pecially "gay" ntent)Thanks and Bt RegardsReviewed April 18, 2017 via mobile Very good place to be, crew staff very iendly, massage and foam massage very profnal mosr if are a man and want to see what is a real haman go there.

The bt gay iendly hammam Istanbul. Is there any gay iendly hammam attend also by young people like (we're 26-28)? Re: The bt gay iendly hammam Istanbul.

If you are lookg a place to meet other gay upl for y wh oriental touch, you are at the wrong fom….

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You are not really sayg there are no gay Mlims.

In addn, there are no laws agast homosexualy Turkey, which do not fe self as an Islamic untry, even though gay people lack some protectns afford to heteros. Even if the majory of the populatn is om the islam belief, Turkey is a secular state and there are no laws agast homosexual relatns or beg a homosexual dividual…. There are no laws or regulatns not to allow gay upl to the hamams… It is pure discrimatn unr the laws… But, hamams are not the right place to meet other gay upl….

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The newer, more trendy (and more gay-iendly neighborhood) of Gueliz is found to the northwt of Meda. Marrakh Gay Scene. Marrakech is a fairly nservative Mlim untry, though years of French lonizatn and a cently sized expat muny mean there is a gay scene, however quat may be.

Homosexual sexual acts of both men and women are illegal acrdg to Morocn law, and the punishment for such rang om 6 months to 3 years prison and a fe.

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