Tips for Gay and Lbian Travelers Bali | Frommer's

Contents:

• GAY BALI
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS BALI
• GUI TO GAY FRIENDLY HOTELS BALI INDONIA (2023 UPDATED)
• IS SAFE FOR GAY UPL TO TRAVEL TO BALI?
• GAY BALI · MID-RANGE HOTELS

GAY BALI

Gay rights Bali have terrated recent years, but Bali remas somethg of an oasis. It has a gay scene but ’s discrete. Gay travelers need to rema alert.

Bali is fely the most welg part of Indonia for gay travelers.

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS BALI

LGBTQIA+ travelers are those who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, pl queer or qutng, tersex or asexual dividuals. Although homosexualy is legal most parts of the untry, there is still polil tensn and revisns to the untry's crimal are currently beg nsired which uld potentially crimalize gay sex and same-sex relatnships.

Gay datg apps and media portrayg queer behavr as “normal” have also been banned. There are que a few queer-iendly bars, rtrants and rorts  Bali, and also an (unofficial) gay strip on Jalan Camplung Tand Road Semyak at the southern end of the island. Here you'll fd a number of trendy gay bars, rtrants, drag shows and queer-iendly beach bars.

Tips for Gay and Lbian Travelers Bali. In Bali you will fd a relatively rich gay scene although not one that is openly flnted. While homosexualy is accepted, any public display of romance, whether straight or gay, is owned upon.

GUI TO GAY FRIENDLY HOTELS BALI INDONIA (2023 UPDATED)

The Indonian legal age of nsent for straight and gay sex is 16.

Bali is now a gay-iendly place, and is unlikely that gays will enunter any problems while on holiday, pecially the touristy areas of the south. The bt place to base yourself is Semyak, wh s open gay scene and plenty of gay-owned and gay-iendly acmodatns, bars, and nightclubs. There is also a fabulo gay cisg area north of Petenget beach.

For up-to-date rmatn on the bt plac to stay and Bali's gay scene check out the followg webs:;;;; and Lombok, a Mlim island, owns upon homosexualy and you will fd difficult to fd suable acmodatns and acceptg people. Not wantg to let the risg ti of homophobia and transphobia brg them down further, some two dozen LGBTQIA+ Indonians who ri Bali went ahead and solemnly celebrated Pri Month, but a reful way so as not to attract any negative attentn towards themselv at the same time. Among the atten of the three-hour event were members of fellow NGOs om across Bali cludg Yayasan Gaya Dewata, Yayasan Gaya Nantara, QLC Bali, GSHR Udayana, Kwiir, Kabar Sej, Komunas Teman Baik, Queer Archive, Lokaha Yogyakarta, LBH Apik, and Persatuan Waria (Trans Women Unn).

IS SAFE FOR GAY UPL TO TRAVEL TO BALI?

In the past few weeks alone, a married gay uple appearg a popular podst sparked renewed lls for crimalizatn of same-sex relatns Indonia, as well as givg rise to homophobic sentiments among the general public.

Then, there was a harmls vio of gay men beg affectnate wh each other at a ffee shop Jakarta that went viral, which prompted their arrt and the temporary closure of the tablishment.

Indonians’ homophobia has even lated beyond borrs.

GAY BALI · MID-RANGE HOTELS

Last year, a gay uple Thailand was harassed onle by Indonian izens jt bee they put their weddg photos on Facebook. Bali is well known for beg one of the most gay iendly ci Asia.