Jordan removed legal punishments for same-genr relatnships nearly two s before the UK crimalised nsensual gay male terurse. But day-to-day life for LGBTQ people the untry isn't easy. Nora B reports.
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Jordan is one of the most progrsive untri the Middle East relatn to LGBTQIA+ rights and homosexualy has been crimalised Jordan for nsentg people over the age of 16 sce 1951. When many travelers thk of the Middle East as a gay statn, Tel Aviv is most likely to e to md. Forster went to Alexandria, Egypt, to have his first experience of gay love, and one of the most famo gay poets of the twentieth century, Constante Cavafy, also hailed om that sprawlg metropolis on the sea.
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Recently however, a lot of the great gay statns of the Middle East have not been gettg good prs. First, the unrt associated wh the Arab sprg has ma stalwarts of gay travel statns like Tunisia ls appealg.
Even hotspot Beit, long known for s excg nightlife and hunky men, has bee ls attractive as Helem, the area's only LGBT anizatn reports that Article 534 of the Lebane Penal Co ("sexual terurse ntrary to nature" is punishable for up to 1 year prison) has been ed recently to harass gay and bisexual sce the famo Nile Queen cint ( which 52 gay Egyptian men were arrted and 'examed' for dancg whout women partners on a floatg dis), Egypt is not nearly as open as ed to be.
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Iran and Sdia Arabia, whatever their cultural appeal to tourists, rema difficult to vis and are known to execute gay men. Iraq, once safe for homosexuals, sce the U. S-led vasn has sce seen some of the worst gay-bashg and murr of homosexual men the Middle 's Left?
There's an outstandg statn for gay and straight tourists alike: Jordan. Like many Mlim untri, homosexual acts and cross-drsg are nsired 'sful' but they aren't technilly illegal.
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