Gay Moroc: The experience is very different for Morocns and foreigners.

Contents:

• ARAB LGBT : MOVI, DOCUMENTARI AND SHORT FILMS OF TERT FOR A GAY AND LBIAN DIENCE OM ALGERIA AFGHANISTAN EGYPT IRAN IRAQ LEBANON MOROC TUNISIA + PAKISTAN AND TURKEY
• DISVER THE 5 MOST GAY-IENDLY ARAB UNTRI
• TOP 10 ARAB MEN ONLYFANS & SPICY ARAB GAY ONLYFANS 2023
• DUBAI NIGHTLIFE FOR GAY MALE TOURISTS - DUBAI FOM
• GAY CAB CREW SECRETS OM THE MIDDLE EAST
• SDI GAY SCENE: 'FORBIDN, BUT I N'T HELP IT'
• WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE GAY … MOROC?

ARAB LGBT : MOVI, DOCUMENTARI AND SHORT FILMS OF TERT FOR A GAY AND LBIAN DIENCE OM ALGERIA AFGHANISTAN EGYPT IRAN IRAQ LEBANON MOROC TUNISIA + PAKISTAN AND TURKEY

The movie tells the story of an Algerian-French heterosexual young man begng a soclogy study of gay islamic homosexuali and disverg gay love wh a young French steward. A documentary by Peter Barbosa and Garrett Lenoir, I Exist giv a voice to gay and lbian Amerins om the Middle East, who often rema silent out of shame and fear. Filmed 12 untri and 9 languag, this documentary, directed by gay Mlim filmmaker Parvez Sharma, tells the lorful and varied stori of gay and lbian Mlims om all over the world.

In this portra that is multi-layered both terms of form and ntent, a gay man nonts the ghosts of his past and explor hidn longgs, unrequed love and tormentg feelgs of guilt. After beg tranged om his fay for his homosexualy, we observe a young Arab man over four seasons and om far away as he navigat his solu – all the while attemptg to rennect wh his mother.

Meet like-md members wh terts Gay Arabs, Gay Mlim Datg, Gay Mlims, Gay Arabic, Gay Iranians, Gay Egyptians, Gay Persians, Gay Armenians, Gay Afghans, Gay Iraqis. Trapped between European liftyl and Islamic roots, this film tells the stori of young, gay men on the path to attag a life of their own creatn while fightg agast a society that ref to see them. A group of Pakistani sexual mori, raise qutns about transgenr activism, relign, unrground gay life, social acceptance and llective faial ctoms of transgenr women urban Pakistan.

DISVER THE 5 MOST GAY-IENDLY ARAB UNTRI

In a workg class neighborhood Casablan, Abllah, a homosexual teen, tri to build his own life wh his big fay, ught between an thorarian mother and an olr brother, who he ador. Focg on homosexualy wh the Tunisian society, this documentary brgs three stori of LGBT upl, who cid to take up the challenge of revealg their inti and their sexual tennci to the mera.

As a child terrified about the very real repercsns that would e om beg found out as gay, Arab mic was my forbidn u at faial events, temptg me to reveal myself and th ensure my a kid, I was particularly obssed wh the mic of Umm Kulthum, the 20th-century Egyptian sger whose vols hypnotised the Arab world wh their yearng gravas. Out went the Umm Kulthum CD om the budget Walkman, and went the nsirably ls poetic I started htg gay clubs at 18, was the soundtrack of Madonna, Diana Ross and Lady Gaga that allowed me to move my body a more natural way, whout the fear of faial judgment. Through a haze of shisha smoke and somewhat stiflg sexual stigma, the Arab world unveils an unexpected realm of possibili for trepid gay travellers.

TOP 10 ARAB MEN ONLYFANS & SPICY ARAB GAY ONLYFANS 2023

If you n five the state-approved homophobia and are willg to act wh discretn while out and about, the Arab untri n reem themselv a thoand and one different ways, om the ancient centre of Petra to the glterg ephets of Bahra and to the serts beyond. While by and large closeted kgdoms, the handful of gay clubs the progrsive cy of Beit n allow you to be your te self, while the luxury ternatnal hotels across the regn n ensure your privacy is rpected. Wh so much do see and do, Mt is bt seen by tour b, allowg you to hop off at untls mms, the Sultan’s Palace and the Mutrah Corniche wateront, before venturg further afield on day trips to the beach and turtle-filled lagoons for divg and of the slightly more tolerant untri the regn, Oman is said to have once had s own gay sultan – Sultan Qaboos b Said al Said – although the state prs is quick to ny this as a pric mour!

DUBAI NIGHTLIFE FOR GAY MALE TOURISTS - DUBAI FOM

Neverthels, the unofficial gossip is that the former sultan leads a lavish gay liftyle wh his palace, divorced om his wife and enjoyg the ocsnal English lover. In realy, the laws are rarely upheld except high-profile s, however, and gay Oman remas a perfectly safe place to | Photo: Katera KerdiPetra, particular, is the crowng glory of Jordan, protected wh sandstone cliffs and offerg an unrivalled llectn of monuments, cludg the fg Siq to the Treasury on an ethereal sert se of red rock and dun known as Wadi Rum2. Now you, avid explorer of gay Arab worlds, get to see the antiqui all their majty, movg om Roman Amphheatre to Csar stle wh a samplg of early Christian art along the way.

Jordan crimalised homophobia as early as 1951 and while there remas social stigma and ‘public moraly’ laws that hr LGBTQ+ eedoms, gay Jordan gas tractn thanks to s unrground gay muny (most active on Grdr! Gay Bahra legalised homosexualy 1976 though this means ltle as an LGBTQ crackdown is still force targetg those that supposedly vlate “public cency”, as Jordan.

GAY CAB CREW SECRETS OM THE MIDDLE EAST

Tunisian society is viewed posively among the Arab gay muny for s LGBT progrs, as the base for anisatns such as ‘Mawjoud’ which mpaigns for LGBTQ mory rights. On paper, Tunisian law still stat that homosexualy is illegal, yet wh an openly-gay printial ndidate recently nng and ongog activism, ’s lookg more and more likely crimalisatn will e.

SDI GAY SCENE: 'FORBIDN, BUT I N'T HELP IT'

In a strange twist, one gay marriage beme legally regnised Tunisia and though that don’t say much for society as a whole, ’s a small w for gay Tunisia. Avoid the occurrenc and Lebanon will she, thanks to s fantastic beach rorts not far om the pal as well as s mounta vistas, ancient s and more, all urteoly attend by kdly Lebane social stigma rgs te and the ft array of Arabian gays is likely to be found onle (hello Grdr, my old iend) gay Lebanon is perhaps one of the few Arab natns where a tentative gay scene tak shape real life. As well as hostg the regn’s largt gay club, POSH, where gay Arabs and ternatnals n fally dance together whout fear of persecutn, gay Beit also hosts annual queer events such as the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia and Beit Pri.

If asked to intify a untry wh a thrivg sex dtry, ubiquo exposure to pornography and rampant homosexual sex, most would pot somewhere the Wtern world. Gay sex is as ubiquo as the ll to prayer, and for many men, of urse, beddg a boy is a far more appealg prospect than bendg over the mosque, although beg pulled both directns, pendg on the urge of the moment, mt be que normal too. The lol gay guys, who have lonized all of the downtown f and the sgle bar, told me they were never harassed by the police or ernment, but they also said was practilly impossible to get gay sex whout payg for , pecially wh younger guys.

WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE GAY … MOROC?

As Devon and Latimer have said, homosexualy is forbidn here unr the l of Islam although that's not to say that don't happen, eher amongst the expat muny or otherwise. I have the benef of gay iends the UAE ( rather than some people wh no experience) so there's obvly a gay scene there albe not so obv as other plac. We know that b crew lead fun liv, but jt how fun is livg as gay b crew Dubai the Uned Arab Emirat, gay b crew Abu Dhabi or gay b crew Qatar?

I was attracted to the glamour of air travel and loved the ia of wearg a smart uniform, stayg luxur 5* rorts and also of workg wh lots of other gay men.

I loved meetg the other (normally very good lookg) gay guys and hearg their stori – many of them were om untri where they weren’t accepted for beg who they are and saw this job as a great way to pe. It was unrground and never advertised so you had to know the right people but this created a nice sense of muny – thk all-day all-gay yacht parti and all-night pool parti on the Palm. The police shut down many of the anised events but I thk this was more due to the levels of noise and rowds of the crowds more than the fact was clearly a gay club, as alhol is illegal Dubai.