'We live here': fears tourist tweets on gay liftyle may backfire on Bali's LGBT muny | Bali | The Guardian

Contents:

• IS SAFE FOR GAY UPL TO TRAVEL TO BALI?
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS BALI
• INDONIA GAY & LGBT TRAVEL INFORMATNS
• 'WE LIVE HERE': FEARS TOURIST TWEETS ON GAY LIFTYLE MAY BACKFIRE ON BALI'S LGBT MUNY
• GAY YOGYAKARTA, INDONIA | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!
• GAY BALI · ISLAND GUI

IS SAFE FOR GAY UPL TO TRAVEL TO BALI?

All members of the gay muny should be able to travel where they want and enjoy the experienc Indonia has to give, but ’s important to be aware of the suatn before travelg. As stands, same-sex sexual activy is still legal most provc although there is a strong movement to crimalize gay sex and is currently beg discsed ernment. An anti-pornography law that also forbids sex parti and ‘viant sexual acts’ are often over-broadly terpreted and ed to target LGBT people; this is ed as the exce behd the growg number of police raids on meetg pots for the Indonian gay muny.

Islamic anizatns have put a lot of prsure on the ernment to crack down on the gay populatn, and sce 2016 there has been a rise anti-LGBT rhetoric g om policians and public figur, as policians try to e moral issu to w vot. Tradnally Indonian society, there was a fair amount of tolerance towards gay people, provid they stayed discreet and quiet about their private liv. Over time, however, as the public discsn around homosexualy has bee more ght and there have been high-profile sndals volvg celebri and homosexual misnduct, the natnal broadstg missn troduced a policy banng programm om portrayg LGBT behavr as ‘normal.

Waria (men born wh the souls of women) lived openly daily life and are a varied group: cross-drsers, transsexuals, drag queens and effemate gay men.

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS BALI

However, while homosexualy might not technilly be illegal, but is a volatile suatn at the moment, one which foreigners will not necsarily be exempt om, so safety and nstant awarens will be ccial. Here LGBT travelers n fd a relatively flourishg gay scene, wh plenty of gay-iendly acmodatn, bars, and clubs, particularly Semyak the south of the island. The Gili Islands between Bali and Lombok are as ee as Bali, though; the three ty piec of paradise are somewhere gay travelers n feel fortable lettg their guard down a ltle, although they are far ls hedonistic than Bali.

In a untry, as silenced as Indonia, n be hard to work out how you might meet like-md lols who n tell you more about Indonia’s gay muny and the gay scene – or jt to show you a good time!

INDONIA GAY & LGBT TRAVEL INFORMATNS

In Bali’s gay bars ’s easy enough to get chattg to people, but most gay events other plac end up gettg shut down and phed unrground, so unls you’re the know, you are likely to miss the entirely.

'WE LIVE HERE': FEARS TOURIST TWEETS ON GAY LIFTYLE MAY BACKFIRE ON BALI'S LGBT MUNY

However, polics isn’t always people, and gay travelers uld be surprised by the wele and tolerance they might receive; would be a generalizatn to assume everyone is a nservative Mlim. 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.

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. It is one of the few plac the untry that is welg to the gay Indonia, Bali is always the go-to for gay is safer for the LGBTQ island is also one of the iendlit and most welg plac a gay uple uld on the island, there is nothg to hi om the lols. Save for the PDA, gay upl n actually do as they please when on the upl n be themselv whout fear of timidatn and and the Gay CommunyBali is a laid-back muny that is very acceptg of the LGBT tourists e and go to the on the island, physil ntact and affectn between iends are acceptable.

Fally, you n enjoy a night out town to any of their bars and listen to some live mic while you sip on your a night out Semyak, you n aga laze your day away on one of s Semyak gay-iendly?

GAY YOGYAKARTA, INDONIA | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!

Semyak has a big gay muny pared to other parts of always ment that Semyak is the gay haven of the, you will fd villas, hotels, and a lot of om that, is also this part of the island where you n see drag shows and gay beach are gay-iendly. Semyak and Gay BarsThere are a lot of notable gay bars there are a few of them I n anythg else, you should know that the gay bars Semyak are jt one is what they ll the Jalan Camplung Tand of the LGBTQ+ crowd equent three popular they are:MixwellThis is the most famo of the three gay bars on the has an amazg drag show durg the if you want a great show and a party afterward, you should vis on a Friday or a Saturday. Asi om that, party plac and drag shows abound this part of the BeachThe bt beach Bali are mostly should also follow that the sunsets here are betiful sunsets, you n vis the Double Six Belig Beach is also the beach that gays equent.

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. 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. When you’ve filled up on tasty Thai cuise and want to burn off those extra lori, dance the night away DJ Statn, one of Bangkok’s most famo gay clubs.

The lols accept and wele all tourists regardls of sexual orientatn, and there are plenty of gay-iendly venu where you n eher go all out or let your hair down. When the sun go down, grab a cktail or two the Semyak regn, where you’ll fd well-tablished gay bars such as Mixwell and Bali Kong has more skyscrapers than New York, makg a fantastic holiday statn for those who want to lose themselv a ncrete maze. You’ll fd LGBT-iendly bars all over Shanghai, but s gay-iendly spas, gyms and massage parlours make this Che metropolis a unique statn for the LGBT muny.

GAY BALI · ISLAND GUI

Indonia do not have a sodomy law and Indonia do not currently crimalize private, non-mercial homosexual acts among nsentg adults, yet Indonian law do not protect LGBT muny agast discrimatn and hate crim. 1) Indonian ary and LGBTQ 3) Blog featurg Indonian Controversial Milary Requirements and excln of LGBTQ 4) Vio on how suici and anti-gay beliefs donia are rrelated 5) Human Rights Watch article on Indonian LGBTQ 6) Google Scholar Article on Indonian LGBTQ rights 7) Poetry on gay rights 8) Ttimony on beg gay Indonia 10) Leadg webs voted to the issue. Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people, a group facg worseng discrimatn Indonia, have been supportg people impacted by COVID-19 measur across the archipelago.

In Surabaya, physil distancg measur to curb the spread of COVID-19, have forced one of the olst LGBT groups Indonia, GAYa NUSANTARA, to swch their activi onle. For example, on April 22, 2020, 61 people joed a webar on progrsive relig terpretatns hosted by GAYa NUSANTARA, llaboratn wh the universy UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta. For example, to celebrate the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia on May 17, GAYa NUSANTARA hosted a webar wh the Global Interfah Network based South Ai and Coaln for Sexual and Bodily Rights Mlim Societi wh members 16 untri.

The webar featured well-known ternatnal speakers such as the Amerin Mlim philosopher Ama Wadud, the pastor and genr jtice advote Kakay Paramam, and De Oetomo, GAYa NUSANTARA founr.

Her scriptn of the island as a welg place for LGBT travellers was among the ments they, a Hdu-majory island and a tourist statn that attracts gay travellers, is nsired more open-md than other areas of Indonia, where discrimatn agast LGBT people is rife. Photograph: Firdia Lisnawati/APLGBT rints on the island, however, do not enjoy the same privileg as visors, said Arya, a program manager at Gaya Dewata Foundatn, an NGO that provis health and tnal servic for LGBT people. Last year, thori announced they were vtigatg a villa that had marketed self as a statn for gay travellers, wh one official statg at the time that “here Bali we don’t regnise that culture”.

Exorcism and nversn therapy ntue to be imposed upon people, while the Indonian Psychiatrists Associatn (PDSKJI) classifi homosexualy, bisexualy and transsexualism as mental disorrs that n be cured through proper treatment. A study by Pew Rearch Center published 2020 found that only 9% of Indonians agreed that homosexualy should be accepted by has nied any wrongdog relatn to her bs activi, statg that she had not ma money Indonian piah Indonia.

Acrdg to the LGBT+ Pri Survey of 2021 nducted by Ipsos across 27 untri, 80% of the people surveyed intified as heterosexual while 3% intified as homosexual, 4% intified as bisexual, 1% intified as pansexual or omnisexual, 1% intified as other, 1% intified as asexual, and 11% did not rpond.