The LGBTQ+ Travel Safety Inx ranks the world’s most dangero untri for gay travelers 2021.
Contents:
- BEG GAY ALGERIA
- TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021
- GAY ORAN - ALGERIA FOM
- ALGERIA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN AUGT 2023
- BEG GAY ALGERIA TODAY
BEG GAY ALGERIA
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’ The peculiar habs of sgers are part of the folklore of Algeria’s barets, rai mic venu wh a reputatn for alhol, prostutn and homosexualy that are tolerated as long as they rema on the margs of pole society.
Algerians know homosexualy exists, but tend to avoid the subject and feel gay people should keep to themselv. Homosexualy, when mentned at all, is prented as an illns that requir treatment by a psychiatrist, or the terventn of an imam. Some acce the Wt of seekg to export a ‘gay inty’ that don’t exist Algeria; this may enurage homophobic behavur by the thori and nservative elements of society (1) Last July, some Arabic media plaed when the Brish embassy Algiers raised an LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and trans) flag support of the Pri London para.
Until the 1990s, Algerians rarely mentned homosexualy, pecially the prence of adolcents. Slimane scribed why he had felt alone durg his teens: ‘I didn’t know any other homosexuals, so I thought I was the only one, and that was sry. Acrdg to Mariem Guellouz, a doctor of lguistics, ‘every word for homosexualy Arabic has negative nnotatns, other words the language self is systemilly hurtful and discrimatory.
TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021
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The language is not jt a sign of homophobia; ’s homophobic self’ (2).
A homosexual may be given a girl’s name as a nickname, or sulted as ‘a man who giv’ (’attay). It’s very different for those born after the civil war (1992-2000); they are on new media all the time, and the offer a view of homosexualy that is not guilt-ducg, and posive role mols. Am, a universy stunt, joked, ‘The character Mar, Degrassi [a Canadian drama seri that als wh the teenage problems and issu a realistic way], changed my life: I realised that beg gay was a thg.
The poort are the most vulnerable, bee when public spac are the only place where you n have sex, there are many dangers: the police, homophobic attacks, theft, and health risks if you don’t have a ndom. The hierarchy of the sex and the domance of men fluence even homoerotic relatnships;many men prent themselv as active toprerve their digny, and assert their virily by rejectg anythg that might be perceived as feme. Society perceiv the two ways of life as totally antagonistic, and few gay upl live together Algeria.
GAY ORAN - ALGERIA FOM
This perceptn of homosexualy, and an unqutng rpect for parental thory, lead many men to nform to the social norm. And if we had a functng enomy and labour market, wh accs to jobs and hog, and greater mobily, more people would accept that they are gay.
If we had a functng enomy and labour market, wh accs to jobs and hog, and greater mobily, more people would accept that they are gay.
Slimane’s reasong rembl that of John D’E, who saw the emergence of gay inty the US cidg wh enomic ndns that allowed (salaried employment and pennce om the fay) (5). The ncepts of gay inty and sexual orientatn that have served as a basis for claimg rights sce the rebelln of the patrons of the Stonewall gay club New York 1969 have worked for some, like Slimane.
ALGERIA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN AUGT 2023
But most gay men Algeria are not tryg to align their practic wh their sexual inty. Though Algeria do not have reprsn on a sle parable to some Sub-Saharan untri, those nvicted of homosexual acts are subject to a fe of 500 to 2, 000 dars ($4 to $17) and between two and 24 months prison (the penalti are heavier if one partner is a mor). If the populatn together to fight agast the patriarchy and the relig taboos that (unequally) opprs the sexualy of all, then gay people will feel eer to assert their difference: 10 October has been LGBT Day Algeria sce 2007 (6), but is only celebrated on social works.
BEG GAY ALGERIA TODAY
But gay travelers face the add plexy of navigatg a myriad of LGBTQ+ laws around the world. And although there have been some improvements over recent years, more than 70 untri still have homophobic laws, acrdg to Equalx. Sce the Fergsons’ study on the most dangero plac for gay travelers 2019, several laws have changed—some for the better (Sudan), and some for the worse (Hungary, Poland).
The journalists have noticed the Covid-19 panmic negatively affect gay rights around the world. “Of the ‘least safe’ untri on our list, the top 49 still have prison sentenc as punishment for beg gay, ” says Fergson. The wi variatn gay rights pendg on the state you’re certaly ntributed to the Uned Stat’ low rankg of saft untri.