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Contents:
- GAY BEIT
- BARS & CLUBS GAY BEIT
- MAPA GAY BEIT
- GAY LIFE LEBANON: BOUNCE BACK BEIT
- LA UNIDAD GAY DA S PRIMEROS PASOS PARA SALIR L ARMAR EN BEIT
- GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS BEIT
- GAY EN BEIT
- BEYROUTH GAY
- BEIT, PAL áRABE L ULLO GAY
GAY BEIT
Our gay gui to Beit, Lebanon, featurg gay-iendly hotels, gay bars and travel rmatn. * vida gay en beirut *
> 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. Although homosexualy is theoretilly illegal, the penal law is rarely ed.
BARS & CLUBS GAY BEIT
* vida gay en beirut *
Gay travelers Beit shouldn't face any difficulti, but public displays of affectn are ill-advised.
MAPA GAY BEIT
La pal libana celebra la semana l ullo gay, sentando un precente en la región * vida gay en beirut *
D habacn y apartamentos privados hasta hotel LGBT-iendly, tien la opción alojarte en el meollo los distros gays, así o en otros barrs los lugar que vis.
Un tud en el Soho, una habación partida en Barcelona o en el Castro, un hotel gay en Chelsea o en el Le Marais, ¡vive la experiencia misterb&b en todos los stos turístis gay! 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.
GAY LIFE LEBANON: BOUNCE BACK BEIT
Deja que Menkarta te asista br Gay en Beit nque vivas en Beit. Nutro ampl tálogo lugar ambiente crece todos los días gracias a ti. * vida gay en beirut *
They have ma Beit a visible fol pot of gay tourism the Middle East.
LA UNIDAD GAY DA S PRIMEROS PASOS PARA SALIR L ARMAR EN BEIT
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.
GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS BEIT
“If the state knows a certa bar is a gay bar, they don’t re. ” 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.
GAY EN BEIT
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.
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.
BEYROUTH GAY
Haig tells me that everyone the band has gay iends and ’s really not an issue.
BEIT, PAL áRABE L ULLO GAY
Hamed Sno, the charismatic lead sger of the band, is of a rare speci: a publicly out gay man Lebanon.