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Contents:
- INSI MONGOLIA’S ONLY GAY BAR
- GAY MONGOLIA TRAVEL GUI
- GAY MONGOLIA: A REMOTE PATH
- MONGOLIA GAY CULTURAL VISTAS TOUR
- GAY MONGOLIANS SEE FLICKERS OF PROGRS AMID FEAR AND OSTRACISM
INSI MONGOLIA’S ONLY GAY BAR
At the only gay bar the most sparsely populated pennt untry the world, Zorig Alima tells me he’s a “penis shaman.” The proprietor of d.d/h.z says he n nfintly predict men’s penis siz and sexual predilectns. He giv my pann a disputable “readg,” and dash away to tend to iends and ctomers, explag, “This place is like my livg room.” * mongolian gay *
At the only gay bar the most sparsely populated pennt untry the world, Zorig Alima tells me he’s a “penis shaman. “It’s like gay life Mongolia, ” he says. ”In Mongolia, isn’t easy for a gay bar to fly unr the radar, even the center of Ulaanbaatar, the untry’s biggt cy, home to more than a third of Mongolia’s total populatn of 2.
Until 1989, homosexualy was illegal and punishable by imprisonment.
GAY MONGOLIA TRAVEL GUI
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Gay life Mongolia is still far om easy. For many Mongolians, gay visibily is seen as an vasn, a foreign fluence rptg tradnal life. Several Mongolian gay bars predate d.
Photo: Lila SeidmanFewer than 18% of Mongolia rints have ter accs, and until recently, rmatn about anythg related to gay life was nearly impossible to e by.
GAY MONGOLIA: A REMOTE PATH
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In the ‘90s, a famo and grisly cint disturbed the ty untry, when a Mongolian pop sger who was mored to be gay was found behead his apartment.
MONGOLIA GAY CULTURAL VISTAS TOUR
LGBT Rights Mongolia: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * mongolian gay *
”Zorig “heard stori” about the existence of gay people growg up, but didn’t meet another gay man until he moved to Japan at 19. There, Zorig worked as an vtment banker for 15 years “havg a nice time enjoyg my gay life” before movg back to Mongolia 2012.
” Gay men uld meet at “secret parti, ” but Zorig said he was tired of hidg. Jt last year, police terpted Ulaanbaatar’s Equaly Walk and harassed prev November, one of the most proment trans men Mongolia, Anaraa Nyamdorj, opened the now-funct gay bar, 100%. The roadblocks seemed numerable, begng wh the Mongolian Mistry of Jtice and Home Affairs nyg official registratn to the NGO and requirg that the LGBT Centre to obta “a lguistic fn” of the words “lbian, ” “gay, ” “bisexual” and “transgenr” om the Lguistics Instute of the Mongolian Amy of Scienc.
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GAY MONGOLIANS SEE FLICKERS OF PROGRS AMID FEAR AND OSTRACISM
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” It was as if gay, lbian, bisexual and trans people were gnom livg v unrground, g out only to feed at night, then scurryg back aga to safety of the damp, dark earth. We me to know our first ntact, Anaraa through, tertgly, Maggie’s dad Florida (who is not gay as one person asked but had happened to attend a nference for profsors along wh an LGBT activist, who had recently met Anaraa at another nference). [Update 2016: The first gay bar opened 2004 lled Cy Life but only lasted a few months due to lack of attendance om the LGBT muny.