MOROCCO: TWO HAMAM EXPERIENCES MOROCCAN STYLE ~ VAGAYBOND

Contents:

• WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE GAY … MOROC?
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS CASABLAN
• VAGAYBOND
• ELSKA’S LATT ISSUE SHAR CANDID STORI AND IMAG FROM GAY CASABLAN, MOROC
• GAY AND G GRR MARRAKH - MARRAKECH FOM
• HOTEL GAY LSAC
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS MOROC
• ELSKA’S LATT ISSUE SHAR CANDID STORI AND IMAG FROM GAY CASABLAN, MOROC
• GAY TRAVEL EGYPT
• GAY AND G GRR MARRAKH - MARRAKECH FOM
• RICK BLAE (HUMPHREY BOGART CASABLAN) - GAY?
• MOROCN AUTHORI ARRT 80 AT GAY PARTY CASABLAN VILLA
• GAY ALASKA TRAVEL GUI

WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE GAY … MOROC?

To fully explore Casablan, ntract the servic of a Holiday Hoeboy, your private gay iendly tour gui. Remember a Holiday Hoeboy is your gay iendly tour gui who looks after your safety and welfare at all tim. Jamaa el Fna, Marrakech’s ma square, is the cy’s primary gay cisg spot after dk.

For those who heard about the se of Ray Cole—a Brish tourist arrted last year Marrakech, Moroc, on spicn of mtg “homosexual acts” and sentenced to four months’ hard time a Morocn jail prr to his early release— is perhaps difficult to image that Moroc was somethg of a gay paradise for whe men of standg the aftermath of World War II.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS CASABLAN

Somethg of the gay scene moved to Marrakech, but suffice to say, is far removed om Tangier’s heyday and very much nfed to the margs.

Gay life tak place the pths of certa hammams (Turkish baths) and the back rows of cemas, if people happen to know the right spots; needls to say, cisg plays an important role. There are no gay bars, but a mix of gay and straight patrons n be found clubs that ter primarily to Wterners.

Seen this light, the se of Ray Cole n be said to be another part of the story of the wherg away of gay life Moroc, or at the very least, the end of turng of a bld eye to . But what is more signifint about Cole’s se is that monstrat the te realy for gay men Moroc, namely, that while the laws on homosexualy are enforced nsistently, there is evintly a double standard employed their applitn. The lerature available to potential gay travelers to Moroc—of which there is a great al sce, spe of laws and social norms there, Moroc remas a prime statn for package holiday-goers om Bra, France, and Germany—is very clear settg out what is and isn’t acceptable.

VAGAYBOND

Gay upl should rea om public displays of affectn and would be advised to seek out hotels and riads (a tradnal hoe wh an terr urtyard) known to be gay-iendly. The arrt of Morocns for “homosexual acts” occurs every day and go unreported.

The scen of Cole’s fay greetg him at Bra’s Gatwick Airport ntrast starkly wh how gay men are treated Morocn society: looked down upon, rejected by their fai, dismissed wh the Maghrebi Arabic slur zamel. “More than [Cole’s] own se, what happened to him shows how vulnerable gay Morocns are, ”Abllah Taïa, a Morocn wrer and filmmaker who now liv exile, wrote The Guardian, “They are at the mercy of anyone.

ELSKA’S LATT ISSUE SHAR CANDID STORI AND IMAG FROM GAY CASABLAN, MOROC

” To the qutn of what is like to be gay Moroc, then, the answer very much means one thg to a Wtern visor and que another to Morocn natnals, who are nsired by their society and their state to be of lser value. What’s It Like to Be Gay … Poland? What’s It Like to Be Gay … Romania?

Gay and Gay-iendly Hotels CasablanBook the bt gay hotels wh misterb&b, the lear gay travel chosen by 1M travelers. Competive pric - Gay-owned bs - Support for LGBTQ+ NGOsmost bookedcheaptmisterb&b munyAcrdg to human rights and LGBTQ+ anizatns, sexual orientatn and genr inty are crimalized/margalized this statn. To be sure: the male bath hoe is not a gay place; 's where (gay & straight) Morocn men go for a thorough bath, often wh their orred the full scb and massage, undrsed a ty closet (brg your swimmg tnks or you'll need their very basic apron) and entered the wet room.

GAY AND G GRR MARRAKH - MARRAKECH FOM

Moroc has been and remas a popular statn for LGBTQ+ travelers spe beg an Islamic untry where homosexualy is illegal and punishable by law. Homosexualy is seen by most of the populatn as a threat to the “tradnal valu” that support the expectatn of heterosexual norms and Mlim teachgs.

HOTEL GAY LSAC

As a nservative Mlim untry where homosexualy is illegal, there aren’t any official “gay hot spots” or LGBTQ+ celebratns. That’s not to say that gay-iendly bars, rtrants, night clubs or beach do not exist. In urban centers like Tangier, Marrakech and Agadir, ’s possible to fd gay-iendly acmodatns and spots that wele a mix of gay and straight visors.

Elska Magaze, my publitn dited to disverg gay muni around the world, has put the spotlight on gay Casablan for s latt issue. From the 1950s a reputatn for Moroc as a sort of hedonistic gay paradise emerged, spired by the works of William Burroughs, Joe Orton, Tman Capote, Gore Vidal and other queer and queer-adjacent wrers.

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS MOROC

For this edn the Elska team vised the untry’s biggt cy, away om the tourist hors, to speak to ordary Morocn gay, bi, and queer men about what life is really like for them, atttg to how Moroc’s gay reputatn is not a realy for lols today. For a publitn that typilly puts the portraure of diverse gay men at the foreont, Elska Casablan tak a different tact, lettg narrative take the lead.

This was a cisn ma out of necsy more than choice, owg to the difficulti and dangers for Morocns who are exposed as gay. Ined this is a untry where recent years numero men, both lols and visors, have been arrted for “homosexual acts. Pick up the latt issue of Elska, explorg gay Casablan, now.

ELSKA’S LATT ISSUE SHAR CANDID STORI AND IMAG FROM GAY CASABLAN, MOROC

Gay and g grr Marrakh. Im takg the time to wre this to warn gay travelers travelg to Marrakh or Moroc general. Re: Gay and g grr Marrakh.

Firstly, I need to pot out that gay sex Moroc is illegal, albe rarely prosecuted. There actually is a non-mercial gay scene every town Moroc.

GAY TRAVEL EGYPT

To the OP, if you ever e back, try some of the many FB groups or go to (oddly enough) workg class bars or barets where there's often an openly gay terie stg at their table.

GAY AND G GRR MARRAKH - MARRAKECH FOM

DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT risk tryg to hook up, people need to go wh the mdset that Gay don't exist. The Morocn ps have got far better thgs to do than create fake Grdr profil, unlike the ps Egypt who entrap gay guys daily. It's not regard as gay if one's a top, They're jt dog "what men do".

Gay iendly / Gay Owned Riads Marrakech.

Omar is a 21-year-old gay Morocn. Omar’s fears are rooted the fact that homosexualy is a crimal offence Moroc, as is many other Ain untri.

RICK BLAE (HUMPHREY BOGART CASABLAN) - GAY?

The law b wh a strongly nservative society to create a real sense of danger for members of Moroc’s lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) muni.

And, as I pot out my book, the weight of Islam – Moroc is a predomantly Mlim untry – adds another dimensn, accentuatg gay people’s feelgs of nial, self-loathg and guilt.

MOROCN AUTHORI ARRT 80 AT GAY PARTY CASABLAN VILLA

There have been several high profile s of homophobic vlence Moroc.

In July 2015, a man was btally beaten the cy of Fès by a mob who hurled ephets at him bee he was apparently gay. They were later released, but not before the UN Human Rights Commtee reacted to the story by llg on Moroc’s thori to crimalise homosexualy.

Human Rights Watch has repeatedly echoed this ll, potg out that the crimalisatn of homosexualy do not ply wh Moroc’s 2011 Constutn. There are some spac where gay Morocns feel they n exprs themselv a ltle more openly.

GAY ALASKA TRAVEL GUI

Aicha, a 34-year-old teacher who liv Fès, told me: “We are a untry where homosexualy is punishable by imprisonment. Some high profile tellectuals have emerged fence of the gay muny.