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Contents:

• GAY BEIT
• WHAT PART OF THE MIDDLE EAST IS A GREAT GAY DTATN?
• MAPA GAY BEIT
• DISVER THE 5 MOST GAY-IENDLY ARAB UNTRI
• SNA & CISG GAY EN BEIT
• GAY LIFE BEIT? - BEIT FOM
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS BEIT

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.

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.

WHAT PART OF THE MIDDLE EAST IS A GREAT GAY DTATN?

” A b of hyperbole, even those more optimistic days, for a untry where homosexualy was still illegal and police uld raid gay meetg plac.

MAPA GAY BEIT

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.

DISVER THE 5 MOST GAY-IENDLY ARAB UNTRI

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. 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.

SNA & CISG GAY EN BEIT

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Consir all gay guis to Beit, even lol on, to out of date (send any recent rmatn you have).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 LIFE BEIT? - BEIT FOM

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.

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.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS BEIT

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. 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.