Gay Neighborhood Beit - Beyrouth - Lebanon by Category

Contents:

• GAY BEIT
• GAY LIFE LEBANON: BOUNCE BACK BEIT
• GAY NEIGHBORHOOD BEIT
• MEET 'THE FIRST AND ONLY GAY TOUR GUI THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST'
• GAY STREET BEIT
• GAY STREET BEIT
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS BEIT
• GAY BARS BEIT - BEIT FOM
• DISVER THE 5 MOST GAY-IENDLY ARAB UNTRI

GAY BEIT

>   Gay Lebanon     Gay BeitBeit is home to an ever-growg gay scene. Outsi of Israel, Lebanon is the most gay-iendly untry the Middle East.

GAY LIFE LEBANON: BOUNCE BACK BEIT

Although homosexualy is theoretilly illegal, the penal law is rarely ed. Gay travelers Beit shouldn't face any difficulti, but public displays of affectn are ill-advised.

In the Magreb, Tunisia and Moroc, long-time gay statns wh very DL scen, have remaed absent om our pag, for fear of helpg to stroy them.

As far as the gay scene is ncerned, more than one reviewer once scribed Beit as the “Provcetown of the Middle East.

GAY NEIGHBORHOOD BEIT

” A b of hyperbole, even those more optimistic days, for a untry where homosexualy was still illegal and police uld raid gay meetg plac. In this part of the Arab world few plac offer even the relative eedom om fear and persecutn still found her - but then gay men have never walked hand hand down Hamra Street eher. Gay people n hang out together chic f, de at trendy rtrants, or dance at hip clubs whout fear of beg harassed by the police, but sexual meetg plac like bathho and cisg areas are more dangero.

GayInBeit is another blog of tert, datg om more open tim of 5-7 years ago, but not recently updated. The Empire Metropolis at Centre Sofil is a gay-iendly art hoe cema wh ternatnal screengs and events. Yunkun Club, still known for s ternatnal crowd and unrground mic scene, did have Gutter gay dance party nights, but like so much of the gay scene the end 2014.

Mawaleh, the first and only gay magaze neighborg Syria, was published 2012 - 2015 by Sami Hamwi "a Syrian gay guy, " documentg the stggl of LGBTQ people the face of that natn's scent to hell. See Proud Lebanon for rmatn about their volunteers' work to help gay Syrian refuge Beit, often victims of torture and extortn by both sis that untry's civil war.

MEET 'THE FIRST AND ONLY GAY TOUR GUI THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST'

LebTour, the LGBT travel service and tour gui, found 2005, wh adventure tours for gay men, once the bt lol rource of s kd, has closed and disappeared om the web. For some lol bars and other listgs see our Gay Beit maps & listgs tab. Consir all gay guis to Beit, even lol on, to out of date (send any recent rmatn you have).

Clubs open and close, or move around the cy equently, and gay clubs prefer to keep a low profile onle, relyg stead on word of mouth. Everyone is wele: the only gay hangout the Arab world - Saeed Kamali Dehghan - The Guardian, May 17, 2018.

GAY STREET BEIT

Beit’s world fame for war is fally beg overshadowed by s emergg reputatn as the (gay) party pal of the Middle East. The New York Tim’ travel sectn emed the cy the ‘number one place to vis 2009’, and, another article, raved about the cy’s thrivg gay scene, dubbg ‘The Provcetown of the Middle East’. Even gay life is boomg.

The cy’s gay bars – even if most still prefer to be lled ‘gay iendly’– are thrivg.

They have ma Beit a visible fol pot of gay tourism the Middle East. Acrdg to Ghassan Makarem, executive director of Helem Lebanon’s gay rights anisatn (the first and only of s kd the Arab world), the ernment don’t object to this image. “If the state knows a certa bar is a gay bar, they don’t re.

GAY STREET BEIT

” The last time a gay bar was harassed by the police, Makarem relled, was 2005. At the cy’s two ma gay clubs, Milk and Acid, a mix of Lebane, Syrian, Jordanian, Kuwai and even some Iraqi men disprove any remag theory of cultural relativism. That is to say, once si people don’t behave differently om any other gay club the world – wh the possible exceptn of the ocsnal male belly dance.

But acrdg to Bertho Makso of Lebtour, a Beit-based travel agent that promot gay tourism to Lebanon and anis very popular Bear Arabia events, that is exactly what his clients are lookg for. Still, I was loath to accept such a one-dimensnal image of gay life Lebanon.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS BEIT

On a stroll across the universy grounds he explaed that the ‘gay’ song our mutual iend referred to, Shem el Yasme (Smell the Jasme), plays wh a tradnal property of Arabic poetry and lyrics: love is always directed to a man. Haig tells me that everyone the band has gay iends and ’s really not an issue.

GAY BARS BEIT - BEIT FOM

Hamed Sno, the charismatic lead sger of the band, is of a rare speci: a publicly out gay man Lebanon. Some prits are unhappy wh the official stance of the Catholic Church and have ved Helem to talk about the issue of homosexualy to their ngregatns. Many prenceived, Wtern ias about polil and relig attus toward homosexualy prove rather els Lebanon.

One rehg surprise is that Al-Akhbar, a newspaper that is half owned by Hezbollah, has ma homosexualy part of s reportg agenda and wr que posively about the issue. Recently, they ran a big exposé on homosexualy prisons. Another surprise reveals what is, acrdg to Makarem, a ser mistake on the part of the Wtern media: the assumptn that pro-Wtern polil parti are pro-gay.

DISVER THE 5 MOST GAY-IENDLY ARAB UNTRI

“The New York Tim, which is supposed to be a ser newspaper, ran an article on gay nightlife that claimed some thgs that were absolutely ridiculo.

For stance, nclud that bee a pro-Wtern majory was elected, that would be a good thg for gays Lebanon. This was nsistent wh stori of a large flux of gay men om Dahiyeh the cy’s gay bars and clubs, and the experience of a woman who told me she got ls flack for wearg a miskirt Dahiyeh than the smopolan shoppg street of Hamra, where the men would ‘accintally’ bump to her and stare at her cht.