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• GAY ISTANBUL
• GAY TURKEY
• GAY BODM
• CAGALOGLU HAMAMHOTELSON TODAYBARS & CAFéSDANCE CLUBSSNASMASSAGECY GUITOURSGAY MAPSHOW MORECAGALOGLU HAMAM
• VERY VERY GAY IENDLY HAMAM - DAVUTPASA ISKELE HAMAMI
• EXPLORE VAST AND HIDN GAY TURKEY

GAY ISTANBUL

There’s a rich tradn of munal bathg and hammamg Istanbul, and gay travelers will also fd some of Europe’s bt gay snas. The ma gay district of Istanbul is Taksim, where gay travelers will fd a variety of venu tailored toward LGBTQ+ visors. Taksim is also very central Istanbul makg a great base for visg gay travelers.

Beyoglu is another gay district of the cy and is known for beg a hub of the creative arts, wh many of the rints beg trendy, young profsnals. The gay scene Istanbul is growg rapidly, wh more gay bars and clubs poppg up than ever before. Turkey is a socially nservative untry, but homosexualy has not been illegal sce 1858 when was crimalized by the lers of the Ottoman Empire.

Gay Istanbul · HotelsMany gay visors stay or near Beyoglu district, the heart of morn Istanbul, close to the Istiklal Cadsi street, Taksim shoppg area, great rtrants and gay nightlife. In tradnal Ottoman practice, the termology of “gay” and “straight” was largely absence om disurse, as explaed by scholar Serkan Görkemli.

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There, zenn equently perform (whout a sexual element) for straight-intified male dienc says filmmaker Mehmet Bay, whose 2012 feature Zenne Dancer explor the iendship between an Istanbul zenne dancer, a German photographer, and a gay “bear” om the nservative Urfa provce.

Back when Bay and his llaborator Caner Alper started rearchg zenne 2006, they saw as a “vanishg culture” – found only ral areas and a few unrground gay clubs Istanbul. Even among Istanbul's sizable gay muny, for whom zenne dancg might have particular ronance, “people would rather watch drag shows or go-go boys. But the past half-, zenne dancg Istanbul has gone mastream: bolstered by the media attentn paid to Bay and Alper's film as well as the succs of gay crossover clubs like Chanta: which ter their zenne shows to a largely heterosexual, female clientele.

When he was 15 or 16, a iend enuraged him to start dancg publicly, but the only work he uld fd was a seedy gay nightclub Istanbul's Aksaray district.

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Like many gay Turkish men, Segah found a gree of eedom Istanbul – wh s active, out gay muny – that do not necsarily exist outsi the cy.

While the Turkish ernment do not crimalize homosexualy – nor do provi LGBT dividuals wh any formal protectn om discrimatn – cultural attus toward homosexualy are largely negative; acrdg to a 2011 poll nducted as part of the World Valu Survey, a full 84 percent of Turks intified gays and lbians among their least sirable neighbors. And although Istanbul particular has beg creasgly welg to gays – Istanbul's annual Gay Pri para is the largt any majory-Mlim untry -- the risg thread of Islamism the Turkish ernment is slowg progrs for LGBT rights. In 2013, Turkey’s prime mister at the time, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, cricizg the adoptn of a Turko-Dutch boy by a Dutch lbian uple, publicly lled homosexualy a “sexual preference, which is ntrary to the culture of Islam.

The Turkish ary's approach to homosexualy reflects this cultural ambivalence. Out gay men are nsired exempt om mandatory ary service on the grounds of mental illns. In practice, they are often forced to provi gradg pornographic imag of themselv or be subject to a rectal examatn to “prove” their homosexualy.

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“They realize [that I'm gay]”, he says but 's not somethg they ever openly talk about.

He rells only once beg heckled wh slurs by a homophobic dience member. Gay Rights.

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Unfortunately, this is havg a very real and visible effect on LGBT rights Turkey that gay travelers to the area should take to acunt when planng a trip.

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The Legal Suatn In Gay Turkey. Unlike many Mlim untri, Turkey do not technilly outlaw homosexualy. In fact, same-sex sexual activy was legalized the Ottoman Empire 1858 and homosexualy has been legal sce 1923 when morn Turkey was found.

Addnally, homosexuals are banned om ary service. This is spe the efforts of some opposn parti who have attempted to troduce bills that would allow gay and transgenr people legal protectn. Although homosexualy is technilly legal, life as a member of the LGBT muny Turkey n be extremely challengg.