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Contents:

• RENNTRE GRATUE GAY TUNISIE
• RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à TUNIS
• OP-ED: GAYS IN THE NEW, COMPLITED TUNISIA
• TUNISIA ULTIMATE ERARY: THGS TO DO AND SEE WH 10 DAYS GAY TUNISIA
• THE 'NIGHTMARE' OF BEG GAY TUNISIA
• VISER LE MAROC EN éTANT GAY?
• TUNIS - RENNTRE GRATUE GAY
• RENNTRE GAY - SE RENNTRE GRATU
• SOSE, TUNISIA GAY IENDLY?? - SOSE FOM

RENNTRE GRATUE GAY TUNISIE

Gay ?️‍? célibataire sportif viril et Discret recherche un homme mûr et mâture pour amié voir pl relat... What I almost never saw om my seat at my favore hnt—the Café Paris, chosen bee, not attached to a hotel, always attracted more Tunisians than tourists—were any signs of a visible, easily intifiable gay or lbian culture.

While the gay visor particular might be thrown ially by the ways which two men or two women openly display their physil affectn—whenever we would cross the avenue together, for example, my iend Hs would grab my hand to make sure that I would not be n down by one of Tunis’s notorly reckls b drivers—and while the sight of a man walkg down the street wh a jasme blossom tucked behd his ear might (wrongly) suggt otherwise, open signs of Wtern-style gay inty are owned upon if not absolutely taboo. Neverthels, same-sex sire, if not a gay inty, is certaly prent Tunisia. In some s, this adolcent homosexual behavr is nsired a stage of life that will soon be left behd, so men who ntue the practice to adulthood—or, worse, who still prefer the passive role—are open to cricism, or worse.

In more recent tim, however, as a rult of global media broadsts via satelle televisn and the Inter, Tunisians are regularly exposed to Wtern notns of gay inty. Though sometim clumsily censored, Wtern shows wh gay characters—like The OC or the Spanish Un Dos Tr, a Fame-style show about a performg arts school—are easily available via satelle dish, as are gay phone sex ads that ma me blh. We also sometim fet the ways which, even the Wt, gay style is munited through the media and “assumed” by as we figure out how to reprent ourselv to each other and to a larger heterosexual public.

RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à TUNIS

As Tunisians who feel same-sex sire see more Wtern reprentatns of gay life, they’re likely to imate the ways of beg and actg, however nstraed by the nf of an Islamic social system.

Bee a visible gay inty is often seen the Islamic world as a product of the Wt, is difficult to untangle a rejectn of gay inty om a rejectn of the Wt wh s profoundly different standards of public behavr and private moraly. Somethg to nsir, then, is the possibily that the tenncy of our media to portray Islam a negative light is makg harr for those Tunisians who wish to “e out” as pennt women, as gay, or as otherwise nontradnal.

The fact that gay inty is built precisely upon a public acknowledgment of beg gay plit thgs a society where, for example, men are so most that they shower their unrwear at the gym, or where, until recently, heterosexual upl uld not so much as hold hands public.

OP-ED: GAYS IN THE NEW, COMPLITED TUNISIA

Not surprisgly, whatever gay life that exists tak place vertly, while the life s more public forms is virtually nonexistent. In Tunisia, the issue of gay inty is plited by the untry’s long history of European tourism, cludg sexual tourism.

I equented the tablishment bee was one of the only plac Tunisia where I uld experience some semblance of a gay culture, but I had to learn to pe wh the daily proposns. (Aaid of where the nversatn might lead, I never disclosed to him my gay inty. His homosexualy, along wh his antipathy for relign of any kd and his awarens of the many ironi of his role as a universy profsor a police state, had left him, if not exactly jad, at least world-weary om a lifetime of knowg, but never beg able to say out loud, that the emperor has no cloth.

TUNISIA ULTIMATE ERARY: THGS TO DO AND SEE WH 10 DAYS GAY TUNISIA

At this fé, where Jacqu met his rent boy, I saw what I would intify as the only visible signs of a gay inty that I saw: some young men nductg surveys about safer sex practic. She wanted to tell me that she found my say movg and that my beg gay was not an issue for her.

But she warned, “I also wanted to tell you to be reful to raise gay issu Arab untri. We do have gays and lbians jt like any other society, but ’s a very closed circle of people and they do everythg to hi and keep secret.

THE 'NIGHTMARE' OF BEG GAY TUNISIA

She was particularly ncerned that when I return for a vis I not bee a victim of vlence, as foreign gays n be targeted. The gay lols I met there through iends on Facebook had no problem wh my beg Jewish, and some even took me to vis a cemetery that clus the grav of Jewish-Amerin soldiers who helped liberate Tunisia om the Nazis. )Tunisia is also the only Mlim untry I have vised so far which I met gay men who had e out to their fai voluntarily; of the two such men I enuntered, one's parents were divorced and the other's father was ad.

VISER LE MAROC EN éTANT GAY?

There are no official meetg spots for gay people, and the only place I saw gay men socializg public was at a small hamam, or bathhoe, hidn on a ty street. No ndoms were sight; although they are available pharmaci, many of the gay men I met had never bought them.

Younger gay men tend to meet onle through gay webs, and sneak to each other's hom at night or when their parents are away. ) Bee public exposure remas a risk--I met two guys whose angry ex-boyiends had tattled on them to their fai--many gay men prefer to socialize wh Wternized women iends, or travel to Europe if they n get visas. Although straight Tunisian men often walk wh their arms around their iends' shoulrs, my gay Tunisian iends don't allow themselv to do the same.

In the long term, sce sgle men over 30 are nsired spic, some wealthy and ted gay men adopt beards: women om relig backgrounds, who will be ls likely to qutn shadowy life has gotten even darker the past two years.

TUNIS - RENNTRE GRATUE GAY

Laws agast homosexual activy were rarely enforced unr Ben Ali, a pro-Wtern ary lear whose regime helped sulate Tunisia om the risg ti of relig fanaticism that has engulfed much of the Mlim world. ) Gay Tunisians tell me that arrts for homosexualy have been on the rise, sometim rultg jail terms of up to three years, om which some prisoners--victims of harassment, rape and vlence om other mat--never return.

RENNTRE GAY - SE RENNTRE GRATU

Secular and morately relig Tunisians, straight and gay, have followed the velopments wh great anxiety.

Whenever I wre about the threat of Mlim fundamentalism abroad, I get angry rpons om Amerin gays.

SOSE, TUNISIA GAY IENDLY?? - SOSE FOM

But gay people om the regns I'm wrg about, who read those same articl, wre om across the world to thank me for llg attentn to the misery they face unr relig le.