Amman's smopolan atmosphere make a great statn for gay travelers to the Middle East. Fd a lively bar and rtrant scene, a welg populatn and many tourist thgs to do Amman this gay gui to Jordan's pal cy.
Contents:
- GAY AMMAN TRAVEL GUI
- EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
- AN EMERGG SCENE: GAY CULTURE JORDAN
- AN EMERGG SCENE: GAY CULTURE JORDAN
- WHAT PART OF THE MIDDLE EAST IS A GREAT GAY DTATN?
- GAY JORDAN TRAVEL GUI
- GAY NIGHTLIFE AMMAN
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* gay culture in amman *
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EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
The official fictn, Brian Whaker explas, is that gay people don’t exist the Middle East. They do – and for many of them, attus of fay and society are a bigger problem than fear of beg persecuted * gay culture in amman *
Amman Gay Scene.
While homosexualy is legal, there still isn't much of an out and proud gay scene Amman or the rt of Jordan. At the same time, seeg men holdg hands public is relatively mon – ’s a sign of iendship, and many Jordanian men are que appreciative of male bety even if they’re not gay, so may screw up your gaydar!
AN EMERGG SCENE: GAY CULTURE JORDAN
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Even whout any tablished LGBTQ-specific venu, many of the bars and rtrants popular wh Amman's large ternatnal populatn of expats are there are some known hangouts for gay lols and visg tourists. Gay-Friendly Activi & Attractns.
Gay-Friendly Dg, Bars & Nightlife.
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, statn travel guis wh a gay perspective. * gay culture in amman *
Partly a rtrant, fe, bar, and lounge, Books@Cafe is the ** place Amman for gay lols, tourists, and expats. Thanks to tremendo support om the reigng Queen of Jordan, homosexual rights - rather than movg backward - are fally at a stable place the untry.
As one of the more progrsive untri the Middle East terms of protectns for s LGBT populatn, Jordan is a relatively easy place to travel as a gay person, but homophobia fely still exists. While there is not a massive out gay populatn, there are multiple “gay centric” venu that ter to both the lol and ternatnal gay muny. Acrdg to the kgdom’s relig police, the school was fed 100, 000 riyals ($26, 650) for displayg “the emblem of the homosexuals” on s buildg, one of s admistrators was jailed and the offendg parapet was swiftly repated to match a blue rabow-ee se of the gaily pated school shows how progrs one part of the world n have adverse effects elsewhere and serv as a remr that there are plac where the nnectn between rabows and LGBT rights is eher new or yet to be Afghanistan, only a few years ago, there was a craze for ratg rs wh rabow stickers – which Che factori were only too happy to supply.
WHAT PART OF THE MIDDLE EAST IS A GREAT GAY DTATN?
It wasn’t until the Afghan Pajhwok news agency explaed how they might be misterpreted that the craze me to a sudn on the ter and you will also fd pi of the “Rabow Qur’an” for sale – an unnscly gay edn of the holy book wh tted pag of every hue and remend on one webse as “an ial gift for Mlims” there are two sis to this cross-cultural misunrstandg. Genr segregatn, which go to extreme lengths the more nservative Mlim untri, enurag homosocial behavur, creatg a suatn where men are often more fortable the prence of other men and where placg a hand on another man’s knee is a sign of iendship, not an vatn to sex. Morocn activists participate a vigil Rabat to pay tribute to the victims of the Orlando gay club shootg.
Historilly, Mlim societi have often acknowledged this – toleratg to some extent even if they the 19th and early 20th centuri, men who had been persecuted for their sexualy Europe often sought refuge Moroc and, long before same-sex marriage was dreamed of the wt, male-on-male partnerships were regnised – and marked wh a ceremony – the remote Egyptian oasis of some Mlim untri, whole towns have bee the butt of jok about the supposed homosexualy of their habants. In those that have no specific law agast homosexualy, gay people may still be prosecuted unr other laws. In Egypt, for example, an old law agast “bchery” is often laws have a tastrophic effect on the liv of people who are unlucky enough to get ught but, spe ocsnal crackdowns, the thori don’t, on the whole, actively seek out gay people to arrt them.
Statistics are srce but the number of arrts is undoubtedly lower than was durg the Brish wave of homophobia the 1950s. In England 1952, there were 670 prosecutns for sodomy, 3, 087 for attempted sodomy or cent asslt, and 1, 686 for gross problem wh such laws, even if not vigoroly enforced, is that they signal official disapproval of homosexualy and, upled wh the fulmatns of relig scholars, legimise discrimatn by dividuals at an everyday level and may also provi an exce for actn by vigilant. Years before Isis began throwg allegedly gay men off the top of buildgs, other groups Iraq were attackg “un-manly” men – sometim killg them slowly by jectg glue to the reason for the paratively small number of prosecutns is the official fictn that gay people don’t exist to any great extent Mlim untri; homosexualy is regard primarily as a wtern phenomenon and large numbers of arrts would ll that to qutn.
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Some of the most btal Arab regim (Iraq unr Saddam Hse and Syria unr the Assads, for example) also showed ltle tert attackg gay people – probably bee they had other thgs to worry Syrian refugee Subhi Nahas wh the US ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, durg an rmal meetg on the persecutn of LGBT people by Isis.
Gay people are not the only on, though.
Arrts the Arab untri often volve groups of men at parti (sometim scribed as gay “weddgs”) and ocsnally at hammams (bathho). Individuals or upl acced of havg unlawful sex may be arrted for a variety of reasons, cludg some which ially are unrelated to homosexualy.
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There are also reported s where people spected of beg gay have been arrted by police seekg to elic brib or turn the spects to rmers.
For those ught, the effect on their liv is tastrophic but the law is not much of a terrent and for those who are discreet about their sexualy the risk of arrt is the vast majory who intify as gay, lbian or transgenr the attus of fay and society are a much bigger one issue that affects all gay people – everywhere – at some pot their liv is g out. A few of the more fortunate on fd a gay or lbian partner of the oppose sex and enter a pretend marriage. In Egypt and Lebanon – predomantly Mlim untri wh a large Christian populatn – attus towards homosexualy among Christians are not very different om those among Mlims.
Also, ’s clear that the prophet Muhammad never specified a punishment for homosexualy; wasn’t until some years after his ath that Mlims began discsg what a suable punishment might nmnatns of homosexualy, like those Christiany, are based maly on the story about God’s punishment of Sodom and Gomorrah which is reunted the Qur’an as well as the Old Ttament. Although Mlim societi today n be scribed as generally homophobic, ’s a mistake to view homophobia as a self-ntaed problem: ’s part of a syndrome which the rights of dividuals are subsumed the perceived terts of the muny and – often – matag an “Islamic” ethos. Gay men, pecially those who show feme tras, may th be regard as challengg the social orr.