Jordan removed legal punishments for same-genr relatnships nearly two s before the UK crimalised nsensual gay male terurse. But day-to-day life for LGBTQ people the untry isn't easy. Nora B reports.
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- GAY JORDAN TRAVEL GUI
- GAY AMMAN TRAVEL GUI
- QUEER FANS MOURN LLIE JORDAN, A SYMBOL OF A 'LOST GENERATN' OF GAY MEN
- JORDAN GAY TRAVEL
GAY JORDAN TRAVEL GUI
LGBT Rights Jordan: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * jordan lgbt *
Still, homosexualy has been crimalized Jordan for nsentg people over the age of 16 sce 1951.
GAY AMMAN TRAVEL GUI
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Rears stem om all across the MENA regn and Where do you thk Amman fs among other gay statns the Middle East?
We wouldn’t promote as a gay statn, but rather as an amazg statn general. K: A gay-iendly bar lled RGB (which quickly got a reputatn as a gay bar) closed after the owner received a msage threateng that if didn’t shut down, “all s ctomers will be put solary cells.
QUEER FANS MOURN LLIE JORDAN, A SYMBOL OF A 'LOST GENERATN' OF GAY MEN
Jordan is one of only three untri the MENA regn, alongsi Bahra and Iraq, where same-sex activy is not illegal. The fact that homosexualy is not illegal do not make Jordan a gay-iendly untry. * jordan lgbt *
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Homosexual activy Jordan is Homosexual activy has been legal Jordan sce 1951, however, the Penal Co clus vague provisns around "moraly" and "cent acts" that uld be ed to target LGBTQ+ people. In 2014, for example, Jordan thori arrted 10 gay men and women who were holdg a receptn at a party hall. Public opn data shows that homosexualy is wily seen as marriage Jordan?
EqualSet age of nsent and homosexly is legal. Nasser*, a 23-year-old who moved to Jordan about a year ago and intifi as a homosexual, has experienced beg asked to leave an tablishment for displayg affectn publicly.
JORDAN GAY TRAVEL
, statn travel guis wh a gay perspective. * jordan lgbt *
In 2015, rmal LGBT activists and the Jordan-based LGBT-clive magaze anized a small event central Amman for the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT), where members of several European embassi and the US embassy unofficially attend the event as a show of support, sparkg nmnatn of the US ambassador by Jordanian thori. However, homosexualy is still not accepted socially. The fact that homosexualy is not illegal do not make Jordan a gay-iendly untry.
People lose privileg when they are intified as gay bee ’s a patriarchal society, but ’s also really nnected to genr and mostly class. At least, om what I know and what I hear, no one has been killed for beg gay Jordan. At least there is a space for gay people there, the art scene notably bee they n spread msag whout havg to preach to people, and they have the magaze It is posive to have a space like this.
Amman's smopolan atmosphere make a great statn for gay travelers to the Middle East. Fd a lively bar and rtrant scene, a welg populatn and many tourist thgs to do Amman this gay gui to Jordan's pal cy. * jordan lgbt *
“We are often perceived as a ntroversial publitn, which wasn’t liked by gay activists until 2015, when we started to talk about important thgs, like genr and femism, and velop our ntent stead of jt the look of , ” Abl-Hadi told Fanack.
Now, our ntent is often ed for people to send to fay members and iends orr to start the nversatn or check what their reactn would be to homosexualy. “The media were sayg ‘vil worshipers’, then ‘perverts’ and now they e more ‘homosexuals’, which is a good sign, ” he said.