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Contents:

• DUBAI GAY. PO?
• PERIL AND PRIVILEGE: GAY EXPAT NIGHTLIFE DUBAI
• GAY DUBAI
• DUBAI GAY TRAVEL
• DUBAI: GAY TRAVEL ADVICE (OM A LOL)
• EMIRATOS ÁRAB UNIDOS GAY
• WHAT HAPPENED WHEN FOUR GAY GUYS FROM TEL AVIV TOOK A VATN TO DUBAI
• TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021
• DUBAI GAY MAP
• GAY DUBAI DUBAI CY GUI
• GAY TRAVEL DUBAI
• ASIE EXPAT REVEALS WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY DUBAI
• GAY CAB CREW SECRETS OM THE MIDDLE EAST

DUBAI GAY. PO?

Dubai, um dos 7 emirados um pequeno país no golfo Pérsi, ganha paço no “turismo para o públi gay” e atrai ano após ano um aporte gigant turistas gays do mundo a cida Dubai é gay ou é fachada para atrair o turismo sse públi? Se você optar por visar um lugar o Dubai, ve tar ciente que a homossexualida aí é crime, passível pena prisão e/ou disso, tem uma gran população gay vivendo na cida, que trabalha prcipalmente nas grans panhias aéreas o a é gay sim, mas não do jeo que nós nhecemos.

PERIL AND PRIVILEGE: GAY EXPAT NIGHTLIFE DUBAI

Os Emirados Árab Unidos, país on Dubai pertence, tem maria religsa islâmi ou muçulmana, que, apar da tolerância quantos aos stum ocintais, ser homossexual ada é ilegal.

No entanto, a realida para turistas gays que sejam visar Dubai é que é improvável que você enntre problemas, s que eve todas as monstraçõ públis afeto s prisõ anterr turistas gays em Dubai anteceram o rultado orrências públis. Além disso, a menos que teja hospedado em um hotel que você sabe que recebe viajant gays, rerve um quarto 2 mas solteiro (sejam 2 mas queen-size ou uma ma kg-size e uma solteiro). Many LGBT dividuals may chose to vis Dubai or the UAE but is extremely important to be rmed of the nsequenc of beg openly gay this regn.

There are no official gay clubs, but lotns of unofficial gay clubs circulate on the Inter and men gather wh ltle fear of the nsequenc.

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Some claim that the police will simply disperse crowds if a gay club is bted, but other people are fearful that the suatn might be worse.

DUBAI GAY TRAVEL

There are stori of fundamentalists chattg onle and meetg up wh gay men and subsequently threateng to report them to the police. Eleven of the men nfsed to practicg homosexualy and were sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for homosexualy, and an addnal year for obsceny. Kafkaque claims he was disuraged by the police om prsg charg and even faced the possibily of beg charged wh crimal homosexual activy himself.

What is apparent though, is that there have been var s over the last 5 or so years that monstrate harsher treatment for foreigners and crimalizatn of homosexualy. While is clearly a vlatn of human rights to crimalize homosexualy and promote discrimatn, there is a fe le between the right to be yourself and the importance of rpectg other people’s cultur. While is imperative that homosexualy be accepted the UAE, is also important for foreigners to be rpectful of the culture which they impose themselv – even if they disagree wh the ctoms.

The charg arose January and another man, MN was also charged wh prostutn, nsensual homosexual sex, pornographic material, cross-drsg and sultg relign. There were only few reports of prosecutns and punishments but many people on the Inter censor their nversatns and inty gay chat rooms. 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.

DUBAI: GAY TRAVEL ADVICE (OM A LOL)

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.

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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.

“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.

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It has sodomy laws punishable wh imprisonment, but wh such a diverse populatn everyone knows there's plenty of gay lols and visors.

It's also slightly more liberal than other Arab stat, wh no ter ntrol, although many Wtern s are blocked and foreigners have been jailed and ported for simply attendg private "gay parti.

There are obvly no gay hotels Dubai, but orr to feel safer and be surround by like-md people, you may want to stay at Wtern chas close to Jumeirah beach. 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. However, there is always the lgerg realy that you mt monor and censor your actns here, pecially a untry where beg gay is illegal.

DUBAI GAY MAP

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.

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. 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.

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To vtigate further we nnected wh Liam, a gay guy who lived Dubai for most of his life to learn more about the realy of beg gay Dubai and fd out what advice he had for gay travellers thkg about gog. You did not see any gay reprentatn at all and was not talked about – you were put to the tegory of beg straight no matter what.

Is there a huge difference between beg a gay expat Dubai vs a tourist vs a gay lol Dubai (someone whose fay has lived there for many generatns).

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For a lol whose fay has lived Dubai for generatns, beg gay has to be hidn and has to be secret, pecially strict Mlim fai: beg gay is totally forbidn.

Liam: There are plac that are sentially ‘gay bars’ Dubai (and I e the term ‘gay bars’ very loosely), however the are not labelled as such. The will not e up as legally, officially or outwardly facg as gay bars, clubs or events (bee fundamentally they are not) but they are popular wh the LGBTQ+ crowd.

ASIE EXPAT REVEALS WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY DUBAI

Liam: I would avoid all public displays of behavur (this is forbidn straight, gay, lbian – UAE IS A MUSLIM COUNTRY) so ’s not a le jt for LGBTQ people. Y que, nque la homosexualidad tá penada en los EAU, al fal da emirato tiene su prop sistema legal, siendo el Dubái el menos severo y el más avanzado.

Como ya te alantábamos en nutro post “10 reglas l islam que b nocer ant viajar a Dubái”, en EAU la homosexualidad un tema tabú y no tá muy aceptada, ni por la sociedad, ni por la propia legislación… digamos que la diversidad sexual en Dubái ilegal. Es cierto que, pertenecer al lectivo LGTBIQ+ en Dubái ilegal, en base a la Sharia islámi, don se tipula que todas las relacn sexual fuera un matrimon heterosexual se nsiran un lo y que la pena máxima otada a una persona nnada por homosexualidad diez años cárcel, seguida la portación en so ser extranjero.

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S embargo, bemos ser jtos y también importante mencnar que la pena muerte nun se ha aplido o stigo por la homosexualidad o la sodomía en toda la historia los Emiratos Árab Unidos. Sobra cir que todos tos lugar no se publican bajo la banra gay, ni mucho menos, simplemente oecen músi, entretenimiento y roce social.

S embargo, hay un puñado lugar que son mentalidad liberal, atraen a una multud ternacnal y, por lo tanto, puen nsirarse «gayiendly«. Amás, su ambiente multicultural, tanto client o empleados, lo nvierten en un lugar gayiendly perfecto para tomarte un cóctel al atarcer. Los siguient son los prcipal club gay en Dubái para visar, en los que, en osn, puen albergar un evento LGTBIQ+ durante la semana o tener un ambiente relajado y liberal.