Gay Moroc: The experience is very different for Morocns and foreigners.

Contents:

• GAY MARRAKH
• GAY IENDLY / GAY OWNED RIADS MARRAKECH - MARRAKECH FOM
• WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE GAY … MOROC?
• GAY-IENDLY: MARRAKECH FOR HOMOSEXUALS

GAY MARRAKH

> Gay Moroc Gay MarrakhMarrakh is an enigmatic cy wtern Moroc that's been a huge tourist attractn for many years. Homosexualy is illegal Moroc but there is a small, discrete scene and 's always been a gay-popular untry. Gay iendly / Gay Owned Riads Marrakech.

My partner and I will be visg Marrakech Feb 07 and am hopg that someone will be able to remend a good gay owned or gay iendly riad the meda. We like to stay gay owned plac as 's not nice to feel unfortable your hotel. Re: Gay iendly / Gay Owned Riads Marrakech.

Riad/dar Soulahfa was once advertised on this fom as gay iendly. I've noticed a riad which is meant to be gay-iendly. It is fatly a gay Friendly place.

GAY IENDLY / GAY OWNED RIADS MARRAKECH - MARRAKECH FOM

We have recently returned om stayg at the Riad La maison Rouge, and there was a mixture of upl there straight and gay, and we got iendly wh a lovely newly engaged uple om the next room to ours and they had a wonrful time Marrakech. After a lot of emailg different Riads would seem that the majory are gay iendly -.

The followg all gave back posive and iendly emails regardg my "gay" enquiry:. I've been a very nice gay riad the old meda of Marrakech, owned by a French man.

WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE GAY … MOROC?

Jamaa el Fna, Marrakech’s ma square, is the cy’s primary gay cisg spot after dk. For those who heard about the se of Ray Cole—a Brish tourist arrted last year Marrakech, Moroc, on spicn of mtg “homosexual acts” and sentenced to four months’ hard time a Morocn jail prr to his early release— is perhaps difficult to image that Moroc was somethg of a gay paradise for whe men of standg the aftermath of World War II. Somethg of the gay scene moved to Marrakech, but suffice to say, is far removed om Tangier’s heyday and very much nfed to the margs.

Gay life tak place the pths of certa hammams (Turkish baths) and the back rows of cemas, if people happen to know the right spots; needls to say, cisg plays an important role. There are no gay bars, but a mix of gay and straight patrons n be found clubs that ter primarily to Wterners.

GAY-IENDLY: MARRAKECH FOR HOMOSEXUALS

Seen this light, the se of Ray Cole n be said to be another part of the story of the wherg away of gay life Moroc, or at the very least, the end of turng of a bld eye to .

But what is more signifint about Cole’s se is that monstrat the te realy for gay men Moroc, namely, that while the laws on homosexualy are enforced nsistently, there is evintly a double standard employed their applitn.

The lerature available to potential gay travelers to Moroc—of which there is a great al sce, spe of laws and social norms there, Moroc remas a prime statn for package holiday-goers om Bra, France, and Germany—is very clear settg out what is and isn’t acceptable.