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strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;} em{font-style:alic;font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;}</style><p data-no-id="0" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><em>In the latt addn to the </em>Downton Abbey<em> anchise (</em><style data-emotn="css geg5">{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:her;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:#9a0500;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;}{lor:#595959;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Downton Abbey: A New Era" class="body-lk css-geg5 et3p2gv0">Downton Abbey: A New Era</a><em>) one thg remas nstant: change. As half the fay har off to the French Riviera to unravel a myster herance, Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) stays behd to shepherd the productn of a silent film at Downton. Thomas Barrow (Rob Jam-Collier)—former footman, would-be blackmailer, and early morn homosexual everyman—is now head butler on staff, givg him ample opportuny to teract wh the visg stars, and particular, wh the bonair Guy Dexter (Domic Wt). While Lady Mary unexpectedly tak on a role the film, Thomas fds himself offered a new role all his own, when Guy pursu him to leave Downton and bee his manservant. But is there more to his offer? And even if there is, will Thomas be willg to give up everythg he’s achieved at Downton for ? </em></p><p data-no-id="1" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><em>In the origal televisn seri, Barrow’s character seemed preternaturally morn and self-knowg, nyg viewers the excg chance to see how our ias about queer inty veloped and spread the early 20<sup>th </sup>Century. As everyone else be, Barrow merely is. (For a further examatn of Barrow’s historil accuracy, read the article below.) The new film n’t erase this history, but do offer a glimmer of an alternative, by showg how celebry culture brought queer ias to even the most tradnal tat England. </em></p><p data-no-id="2" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><em>Datg back at least to the 19</em><em><sup>th</sup></em><em> century, queer performers were tegral to the spread of sexual rmatn several ways. Some took queer or genr-bendg rol, cludg such early silent films as </em>The Amazons<em> (1917) or </em>What Is the World Comg To?<em> (1926). Others lived public “bachelor” or “spster” liv, travelg om one metropolan center to another, nnectg queer muni and spreadg their ias. And regardls of their own te inti, nearly every celebry was the ocsn for a btlg gossip and newspaper dtry, whose timatns of sexual viance were equal parts tillatg and rmative to rears who might otherwise never had accs to the bedrooms of Hollywood and London.</em></p><p data-no-id="3" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><em>Although the queer storyle </em>A New Era<em> is small, is one of the most historilly illumatg that the anchise has produced to date.</em></p><style data-emotn="css 18pb4rg">{borr:0;borr-bottom:th solid black;marg:1.875rem 0;clear:both;}</style><hr data-no-id="4" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><style data-emotn="css 7v2ck1">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;}{float:left;text-transform:upperse;font-weight:bold;marg-right:0.9375rem;marg-bottom:-0.625rem;marg-top:0;}{lor:#030929;font-fay:NewParis,NewParis-fallback,Geia,Tim,serif;font-size:3.8431rem;font-weight:normal;le-height:1;}@-moz-document url-prefix(){{marg-top:0.625rem;}}@media(max-width: 64rem){{font-size:3.75rem;le-height:1.15;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:3.75rem;le-height:1.15;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:6.25rem;le-height:1;}} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;} em{font-style:alic;font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;}</style><p data-no-id="5" class="body-dropp css-7v2ck1 et3p2gv0">Fifty-seven mut to <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="the first episo of " class="body-lk css-geg5 et3p2gv0">the first episo of </a><em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Downton Abbey" class="body-lk css-geg5 et3p2gv0">Downton Abbey</a></em>, the fastid, sharp-featured footman Thomas Barrow mak his move, nontg his erstwhile summer lover—the impoverished (but entled) De of Crowborough—wh epistolary evince of their affair. Barrow has all the iled menace of a speful child, a weak sort of strength that only kicks when you’re down. </p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="6" data-embed="pullquote" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><style data-emotn="css 1eiql25">{text-align:center;marg:0rem;paddg-top:0.9375rem;paddg-bottom:0.9375rem;}</style><blockquote class="css-1eiql25 e1pe3zr91"><style data-emotn="css 118z4a">{background-lor:#9a0500;lor:#fff;ntent:'';display:block;height:0.125rem;marg:0 to 1.875rem;width:60%;}</style><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-118z4a eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css q6i00s">{lor:#030929;font-fay:NewParis,NewParis-fallback,Geia,Tim,serif;font-size:1.625rem;le-height:1.2;marg:0rem;}@media(max-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.25rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:2.625rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.8125rem;le-height:1.1;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><blockquote class="css-q6i00s e1pe3zr90">Is Thomas an accurate unveilg of historil homosexualy, hidn but fully formed, jt wag for to notice his existence?</blockquote><style data-emotn="css 1fv5ixs">{background-lor:#9a0500;lor:#fff;ntent:'';display:block;height:0.125rem;marg:1.875rem to 0;width:60%;}</style><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-1fv5ixs eagam8p1"></span></blockquote></div><p data-no-id="7" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">The De, on the other hand, is louche and unctuo, the human personifitn of privilege loungg a fabulo drsg gown. Their short <em>tete-a-tete</em> is a gem of a scene, their body language forestg the evable: the attempted blackmail fails, and three mut later, Barrow watch his letters burn, takg wh them his imaged future as the De’s valet and lover. </p><p data-no-id="8" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">It’s a bold move—for Barrow, sure, but more so for <em>Downton Abbey</em>. Wh one short scene, creator Julian Fellow ma a claratn: the love that dare not speak s name would be given voice here. Goodbye to veiled timatns and Signifint Looks; goodbye to fty, dty “nfirmed bachelors” and “spster” nts; goodbye to the historil closet and your mother’s <em>Masterpiece Theatre</em>. </p><p data-no-id="9" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Hello to the future of the gay past.</p><style data-emotn="css 1736von">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;clear:both;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="10" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><style data-emotn="css uwraif">{width:100%;display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;}</style><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="Su, Formal wear, Event, Tuxedo, " tle="Su, Formal wear, Event, Tuxedo, " loadg="lazy" width="3000" height="2000" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><style data-emotn="css swqnqv">@media(m-width: 20rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}</style><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><style data-emotn="css qtcc4k">{lor:#030929;font-fay:Terma,Terma-fallback,Helveti,Arial,sans-serif;m-width:100%;paddg-top:0.625rem;width:0;}@media(max-width: 64rem){{font-size:0.8125rem;le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:0.875rem;le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:1rem;le-height:1.6;}} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;} i, em{font-fay:Terma,Terma-fallback,Helveti,Arial,sans-serif;}</style><div class="css-qtcc4k e1xqj1sx1">(Left) Thomas Barrow the Downton Abbey televisn show.</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd2">Nick Briggs</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="11" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">“I thk what we've done wh Thomas the story is tried to reflect how sry was,” says Alastair Bce, who worked as the historil advisor to the show, and is reprisg that role <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="wh the new Downton movie" class="body-lk css-geg5 et3p2gv0">wh the new <em>Downton</em> movie</a>, theaters September 20. In the film, dienc will see Barrow the ntext of a wir gay world for the first time: visg a secret gay bar, dodgg police harassment, and possibly even fdg love. </p><p data-no-id="12" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">It’s an excg tale set an excg perd. The post-Edwardian moment—<em>Downton Abbey </em>opens 1912, wh news of the skg of the Tanic; the movie tak the story all the way up to 1927—was an era of tremendo upheaval Wtern culture. World War I was still “the war to end all wars,” the Roarg Twenti were ratchetg up to the Great Deprsn, and the last vtig of Victorianism were beg thrown out the Overton wdow. A rejectn of the past was so fundamental to this perd that we still refer to the artistic flourishg of this moment as “Mornism,” spe now beg 100 years ago. </p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="13" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="Downton Abbey" tle="Downton Abbey" loadg="lazy" width="3500" height="2333" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-qtcc4k e1xqj1sx1">"I thk one of the thgs that Downton Abbey don’t get right is that actually a great al more of those young men who were service were homosexual."—alastair bce, the show's historil advisor.</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd2">Jaap Buendijk</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="14" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Wendy Moffat, thor of the wily celebrated bgraphy <em><a href=" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="A Great Unrerd History: A New Life of E. M. Forster" data-vars-ga-product-id="8752360d-3a52-43f3-a534-3fe87ee8ff3a" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="sale | (not set)" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"143b311b-9d5f-4937-a414-329e5c368343","se_id":"115eff3b-95a0-4668-832c-9d02ea92500d","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-product-price="$14.97" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="b1386759-6136-4961-aaab-77f5f4d5cb4a" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Authors" class="body-lk product-lks css-geg5 ebsw2pb0">A Great Unrerd History: A New Life of E. M. Forster</a></em>, characteriz this perd as one of “public disptn of what seemed like stable patterns” life. The tricky work of navigatg those chang is the dramatic enge that powers <em>Downton Abbey</em>. We are watchg morn life emerge all s msy glory, like a ltle alien head punchg through a rseted cht. Ias about sex and sexualy are as much a part of this vlent flowerg as are atonal mic or flapper drs. <em>Downton</em>’s protagonists were born unr one regime of thought, and we enjoy watchg them all stggle to enact s succsor.<br /></p><p data-no-id="15" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">All of them, that is, except for Thomas Barrow. Barrow is stantly regnizable as a morn gay man, even if he never que those words. From isolatn to nversn therapy, his stggl are our stggl, jt perd drag. </p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="16" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="Clapham And Dwyer" tle="Clapham And Dwyer" loadg="lazy" width="2914" height="2185" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-qtcc4k e1xqj1sx1">A pair of well-drsed actors, cir 1920.</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd2">B. H. Gooch</span><style data-emotn="css 117g3a1">{lor:#595959;font-fay:Terma,Terma-fallback,Helveti,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.4;paddg:0 0.3rem;text-transform:upperse;}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg-right:0.3125rem;}}</style><span class="css-117g3a1 e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="17" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">On the one hand, this feels like an elaboratn of that famo gay liberatn slogan “we <em>are </em>everywhere,” expandg to be “we <em>were </em>everywhere” also. On the other hand, seems to remove sexualy om the doma of history entirely, suggtg that the experience of beg gay has always been the same, no matter the place or perd. This helps to expla why, after such a strong start, Barrow’s story le <em>Downton Abbey</em> largely fizzl out: he has nowhere to velop. While everyone else the show <em>be</em>, Barrow already <em>is</em>.</p><p data-no-id="18" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">The qutn for queer <em>Downton Abbey</em> fans, then, is this: Is Thomas an accurate unveilg of historil homosexualy, hidn but fully formed, jt wag for to notice his existence? Or is he a backward projectn of our current ia of what means to be gay, an anachronism disguised as a revelatn?</p><style data-emotn="css 108o02t">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:50%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:50%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:50%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:45%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:lc(-30% - 1rem);float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:45%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:lc(-30% - 1rem);float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:45%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:lc(-30% - 1rem);float:left;clear:left;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="19" class="align-left size-medium embed css-108o02t e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><a href=" target="_blank"><img alt="Landmark, Text, Font, Archecture, Le, Dign, Poster, Buildg, Advertisg, History, " tle="Landmark, Text, Font, Archecture, Le, Dign, Poster, Buildg, Advertisg, History, " loadg="lazy" width="1000" height="1022" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /></a><style data-emotn="css 78jldq">{paddg-left:0rem;}</style><div class="css-78jldq e1xqj1sx2"></div></div></div><p data-no-id="20" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">The most obv pot of reference for Barrow’s character n be found E. M Forster’s <em>Mrice. </em>Forster, born on New Year’s Day, 1879, documented the emergence of morn England through the foibl and failur of those that lived (like Forster himself) on the outskirts of the upper-class.<br /></p><p data-no-id="21" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><em>Mrice</em>, his most tobgraphil book, was wrten 1914. It follows s tular protagonist, Mrice Hall—“a medcre member of a medcre school”—as he disvers his sir for other men. After an abortive and agonizg affair wh a fellow stunt om his own upper-class i, Hall meets Alec Scudr on a vis to his ex’s tate. The affair between Scudr and Hall rac forward, movg quickly through break-up and blackmail before liverg the happy endg that was Forster’s <em>raison d’etre</em> for wrg the book the first place. Like Thomas Barrow, Alec Scudr seems preternaturally <em>gay</em>, fully aware of his sexual sir, that they are exclively for men, and that they mark him, irrevobly, as a different sort of person. </p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="22" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="Mrice Hugh Grant" tle="Mrice Hugh Grant" loadg="lazy" width="1024" height="693" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-qtcc4k e1xqj1sx1">Jam Wilby as Mrice Hall and Hugh Grant as Clive Durham Merchant Ivory’s 1987 film versn of mrice.</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd2">Courty of Merchant Ivory</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="23" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">On the surface, this feels like ntrovertible proof of <em>Downton’</em>s historil accuracy. But when Forster wrote <em>Mrice</em>, he’d never had a relatnship wh another man, and he wouldn’t until midway through World War I, when he was 38 years old. “He imaged the thgs well before he experienced them,” agreed Moffatt, Forster’s bgrapher. Yet the book is often ed as perd rearch. </p><p data-no-id="24" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">“It’s much easier jt to look at some medil texts and maybe some lerary on, rather than do the difficult task of workg out what people <em>really</em> thought,” said Profsor Alison Oram, who led the iative <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Pri of Place: England’s LGBTQ Herage" class="body-lk css-geg5 et3p2gv0">Pri of Place: England’s LGBTQ Herage</a>, which documented queer historil spac for the Brish ernment. </p><p data-no-id="25" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">In particular, lerary rearch n substute the experienc of the upper class for those of all people. In the post-Edwardian perd, upper class men were more likely to already unrstand the world terms of heterosexuals and homosexuals, wh a bright and absolute le dividg the two. But for workg class men like Thomas Barrow, same-sex sire didn’t necsarily preclu havg an otherwise “normal” existence, often cludg relatnships wh women. </p><style data-emotn="css 1mtk2uq">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:70%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:0rem;float:right;clear:right;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:70%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:0rem;float:right;clear:right;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:60%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:0rem;float:right;clear:right;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:60%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:lc(-30% - 1rem);float:right;clear:right;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:60%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:lc(-30% - 1rem);float:right;clear:right;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:60%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:lc(-30% - 1rem);float:right;clear:right;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="large" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="26" class="align-right size-large embed css-1mtk2uq e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="E.M. Forster" tle="E.M. Forster" loadg="lazy" width="2596" height="3617" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-78jldq e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-qtcc4k e1xqj1sx1">E.M. FORSTER IN AN UNDATED PHOTO. BORN IN 1879, THE NOVELIST AND CRITIC WROTE <em>HOWARDS END</em> (1910), <em>A ROOM WITH A VIEW</em> (1908), AND <em>A PASSAGE TO INDIA</em> (1924).</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd2">Hulton Dtsch</span><span class="css-117g3a1 e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="27" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">When Forster himself did, fally, embark upon a sexual relatnship, was wh an Egyptian man named Mohammed el-Adl. Like Alec Scudr and Thomas Barrow, el-Adl was young and workg class. But whereas Scudr and Barrow seemed to thk of themselv as gay, el-Adl experienced his sire for men differently. He was worried about beg ught, but didn’t have the kd of existential, what-do-this-mean-about-my-inty crisis that we the Wt associate wh same-sex behavr. Soon after he and Forster met, el-Adl married a woman (for whom he had romantic feelgs), but didn’t curtail his relatnship wh Forster. </p><p data-no-id="28" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Forster was keen to get al-Adl to unrstand sexualy, and sexual orientatn, the same way that he did: An unnsc extensn of the broar lonial project of rhapg the world the image of (aristocratic) England. Over time, <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Brish ctoms would obscure and eventually replace the thoand years of Middle Eastern history celebratg (some kds) of sex between men" class="body-lk css-geg5 et3p2gv0">Brish ctoms would obscure and eventually replace the thoand years of Middle Eastern history celebratg (some kds) of sex between men</a>, another example of “morny” beg born this perd. </p><p data-no-id="29" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">But while El-Adl’s sir might have seemed strange to Forster, they would have been fairly regnizable to another group: workg class Brs. In the post-Edwardian perd, “there uld be greater acmodatn of same-sex sir and same-sex acts workg class muni,” says <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Profsor Jt Bengry" class="body-lk css-geg5 et3p2gv0">Profsor Jt Bengry</a>, a cultural historian of queer sexualy England. </p><p data-no-id="30" class="body-dropp css-7v2ck1 et3p2gv0">The Labouchere amendment of 1885 ma “gross cency”—a.k.a. sex between men—a crime, and was ed to prosecute Osr Wil. It was a forenner to the kds of police reprsn that Barrow enunters <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="the new Downton movie" class="body-lk css-geg5 et3p2gv0">the new <em>Downton</em> movie</a>. But popular unrstandg, beg a “crimal pervert” wasn’t necsarily about the sex you were havg. It was about how well you lived up to the expectatns of your genr, if you wanted a married life, and if you were otherwise rpectable.</p><p data-no-id="31" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">The most highly visible queer people this perd would have been those who openly fied genr norms. Even when me to the prosecutn of Wil, much was ma about his athetic and dandified existence, which mocked tradnal manhood.<br /></p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="32" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="Shaken Not Stirred" tle="Shaken Not Stirred" loadg="lazy" width="3575" height="2852" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-qtcc4k e1xqj1sx1">A group of men socializg at the bar of the Savoy Hotel November 1927.</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd2">Fox Photos</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="33" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">But for mascule, workg class men, wantg sex wh men “didn’t <em>necsarily</em> qutn their sense of themselv as virile or ‘normal,’” said Dr. Bengry. Acrdg to historian <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Matt Houlbrook’s " class="body-lk css-geg5 et3p2gv0">Matt Houlbrook’s </a><a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Queer London" class="body-lk css-geg5 et3p2gv0"><em>Queer London</em></a>, this is the “central difference between the sexual landspe of terwar London and the prent day.” </p><p data-no-id="34" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">To a 21<sup>st</sup> century ear, this might sound surprisg. But we have to remember the ntext which the men were raised. The Victorian world was cleft twa, wh men on one si, and women on the other. The divi between them was imaged as vast and almost surmountable. Outsi of their immediate fai, men were expected to spend most of their time wh other men; women, wh other women. <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Romantic and tense same-sex iendships were rigur" class="body-lk css-geg5 et3p2gv0">Romantic and tense same-sex iendships were rigur</a>. Heterosexual marriage obvly had sexual dimensns, but was also a eply practil stutn, the ma un of enomic productn the untry, and the only surance agast the vagari of old age. </p><p data-no-id="35" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">As Victorian ials reced om domance—as cross-genr iendships beme more mon, as marriage beme more pannate, as urbanism and greater social mobily created enomic possibili outsi the fay—the men and women who still had tense iendships and bloodls marriag began to seem strange. Increasgly, sexologists, policians, and wrers began to promulgate the ia that the behavrs were signifiers of homosexualy, to be surveilled and curtailed. </p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="36" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="Lerary Garn Party" tle="Lerary Garn Party" loadg="lazy" width="2593" height="1971" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-qtcc4k e1xqj1sx1">A lerary garn party of Irish and English men cir 1924. Compton Mackenzie, pictured send om the left the ont row, wrote several works about gay men.</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd2">Bettmann</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="37" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">A workg class man like Thomas Barrow, livg the untrysi, was unlikely to have accs to this kd of rmatn about gay inty. Moreover, his relative manls meant he probably would never have thought to go lookg for . Acrdg to <em>Queer London</em>, men like Thomas “neher unrstood themselv, nor were labeled by others, through their choice of sexual partner.”</p><p data-no-id="38" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Later life, <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="after he embarked on a long relatnship wh a happily married London policeman" class="body-lk css-geg5 et3p2gv0">after he embarked on a long relatnship wh a happily married London policeman</a><u>, </u>even Forster realized that his portrayal of workg class sexualy was a b off. At first, he tried to change Bob Buckgham (as he had Mohamed el-Adl), wrg a letter “he mt be ma to see that there n’t be a <em>ménage a trois</em>.” But as the years ntued, and Forster entered to a rg détente wh his boyiend’s wife, he me to realize that was his fictn that might need to change, tellg Christopher Isherwood, “I have sometime thought of Alec [Scudr] marryg.” </p><p data-no-id="39" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Forster never did ed <em>Mrice</em>, however, and his hard-won knowledge of the plexi of the human heart (amongst other ans) died wh him. As s passed, the neat fictn of bary sexualy beme broadly acknowledged “tth,” leavg ls and ls space for middle-dwellg, workg-class men like Buckgham and el-Adl.</p><p data-no-id="40" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">From an earlier and earlier age, people would be tght— streets as much as schools—that homosexuals existed, that they were unlike other men, and that any apparent “middle ground” was actually a slippery slope head straight to hell. </p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="41" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="Social group, Event, Relig stute, Uniform, Formal wear, " tle="Social group, Event, Relig stute, Uniform, Formal wear, " loadg="lazy" width="3574" height="2126" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-qtcc4k e1xqj1sx1">Thomas Barrow (Fourth om the right) the Downton Abbey televisn show.</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd2">Collectn Christophel / Alamy Stock Photo</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="42" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">All of which brgs back to Thomas Barrow and the new <em>Downton Abbey</em> movie. 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PACHA MARRAKECH, AVENUE MOHAMMED VI, MARRAKECH MOROC, +212 524 38 84 00 PACHA SIGN | © DAVID BOYLE/FLICKR | © DAVID BOYLE/FLICKR VIP CLUB MARRAKECH SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT VIP CLUB MARRAKECH ALSO LOTED GUELIZ, VIP CLUB EXUS GLAMOUR AND GLZ. STROBE LIGHTS FLICKER THROUGH THE CLUB AND REVELERS GYRATE TO THE BEATS. A GAY-IENDLY CLUB, PEOPLE N ENJOY TECHNO ONE AREA OR A LIVELY MOROCN BARET SHOW ANOTHER. VIP CLUB, AVENUE MOHAMED 5, GUELIZ, MARRAKECH, MOROC, +212 661-152026 CAFé GRAND ATLAS CAFE, BAR, MOROCN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT DON’T BE FOOLED BY THE NAME; CAFé GRAND ATLAS IS MORE OF A BAR THAN A Fé. AN TIMATE AND RELAXED VENUE, THE ROOF TERRACE IS PECIALLY POPULAR. IT’S A GOOD PLACE TO ENJOY A MOROCN MEAL WH A LD BEER A LAID-BACK ATMOSPHERE. MAJESTIC TURKEY TRAVEL OM THE BAZAARS OF ISTANBUL TO THE BETIFUL BEACH OF ANTALYA. VIEW TRIP COMPTOIR DARNA BAR, RTRANT, COCKTAILS SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT COURTY OF COMPTOIR DARNA COMPTOIR DARNA IS A SOPHISTITED RTRANT AND BAR WH A ZY AND ROMANTIC VIBE. IT IS POPULAR WH UPL OF ALL SEXUAL ORIENTATNS. WELG TOWARDS EVERYONE, THE AMBIENT MOOD, THE DANCG, AND THE DARK YET STYLISH TERRS WILL HELP PATRONS HAVE A GREAT NIGHT WHEN VISG MOROC’S RED CY OF MARRAKH. TANGER INN BAR, NIGHTCLUB, MOROCN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT © FABRIC/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS A LONG-STANDG NAME THE LOL-BAR SCENE, THE TANGER INN HAS ATTRACTED EE-THKERS AND LIBERAL SOULS FOR MANY YEARS. POPULAR WH LOLS AND TOURISTS ALIKE, THE BAR WAS PREVLY A FAVOURE HNT OF LERARY FIGUR LIKE TENNSEE WILLIAMS, JACK KEROUAC, FERI GARCíA LOR, AND WILLIAMS BURROUGHS. ALTHOUGH TANGIER DON’T HAVE THE SAME OPENNS AS DID TIM GONE BY, THIS IS A GOOD CHOICE FOR LGBTQ TRAVELLERS WHO ARE VISG THE NORTHERN ASTAL CY. IT IS WH HOTEL EL MUNIRIA. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. RTRANT D'ORIENT ET D'AILLRS RTRANT, MOROCN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT ALTHOUGH LARGELY A PLACE FOR DG, GUTS N STILL ENJOY A RELAXED DRK A IENDLY ATMOSPHERE AT RTRANT D’ORIENT ET D’AILLRS THE ASTAL CY OF ESSAOUIRA. DISCREET AND ROMANTIC, THE CHARMG VENUE IS ONE OF THE CY’S ZIT PLAC FOR A RELAXG EVENG WH A LOVED ONE. FLAMGO ORIENTAL NIGHT CLUB SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT FLAMGO ORIENTAL NIGHT CLUB A VIBRANT BEACH CLUB THE POPULAR SEASI RORT OF AGADIR, FLAMGO ORIENTAL NIGHT CLUB IS PECIALLY BY AT WEEKENDS. PLAYG A BLEND OF MIC THAT MALY FEATUR ALL THE LATT HS, THE CLUB ATTRACTS A BALANCE OF LOLS AND TOURISTS. IT’S A TOP PLACE AGADIR FOR LGBTQ VISORS TO FEEL AT EASE AND MGLE. FLAMGO ORIENTAL NIGHT CLUB, RUE DU OUED SOS, AGADIR, MOROC, +212 5288-44343 RYAD MOGADOR AL MADA BAR, HOTEL RTRANT, MOROCN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT RYAD MOGADOR AL MADA IS A LARGE HOTEL AGADIR. THE HOTEL BAR IS OPEN TO BOTH RINTS AND NON-GUTS, AND IS POPULAR WH LGBTQ TRAVELLERS. A GOOD SELECTN OF MORN TUN PLAYS UNTIL THE EARLY HOURS. IT IS SUATED CLOSE TO THE BEACH FOR THOSE WHO FANCY A LATE-NIGHT ROMANTIC STROLL. PLASTIK CLUB BAR SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT PLASTIK CLUB PREVLY KNOWN AS CANDY BAR, PLASTIK CLUB N BE FOUND CLOSE TO THE CORNICHE CASABLAN. A LIVELY-EVENG VENUE WH A RELAXED AND AN ALMOST ANYTHG-GO VIBE, ’S NOT UNUAL TO SEE PEOPLE DRSED UP WILD OUTFS DANCG TO THE TUN ON THE STROBE-L DANCE FLOOR. OPEN EACH NIGHT, THE DJ PLAYS ALL THE FAVOURE HS. THERE’S SOMETIM LIVE ENTERTAMENT. THE RNIVAL-LIKE FEELG APPEALS TO MANY PARTIERS. PLASTIK CLUB, HOTEL RIAD SALAM, 55, BOULEVARD LA CORNICHE A DIAB, CASABLAN, MOROC CAFé RAMS RTRANT, MOROCN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT © THIBT DéMARE/FLICKR LOTED THE BTLG HEART OF MOROC’S LARGT CY, CAFé RAMS DON’T SERVE ALHOL, BUT IS OPEN UNTIL LATE THE EVENG AND OFFERS A RELAXG, GAY-IENDLY SPOT. THE Fé SERV FOOD AS WELL AS HOT AND LD SOFT DRKS. FAIRLY SMALL, THE Fé HAS AN TIMATE ATMOSPHERE. THE TERRACE IS A PLEASANT PLACE TO S AND WATCH THE WORLD GO BY OVER A GLASS OF REHG-MT TEA. VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
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HOW MOROC BEME A HAVEN FOR GAY WTERNERS THE 1950S

A Brish man has flown home om Moroc after beg jailed for "homosexual acts" - there was a time though when Moroc was a haven for gay wrers. * tangier gay *

Moroc has been and remas a popular statn for LGBTQ+ travelers spe beg an Islamic untry where homosexualy is illegal and punishable by law. Homosexualy is seen by most of the populatn as a threat to the “tradnal valu” that support the expectatn of heterosexual norms and Mlim teachgs.

As a nservative Mlim untry where homosexualy is illegal, there aren’t any official “gay hot spots” or LGBTQ+ celebratns. That’s not to say that gay-iendly bars, rtrants, night clubs or beach do not exist. In urban centers like Tangier, Marrakech and Agadir, ’s possible to fd gay-iendly acmodatns and spots that wele a mix of gay and straight visors.

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Mara Bay Hotel is a luxury, gay-iendly hotel loted Tangier. Featur a large pool, ocean views, on-se bar, and more. Reviews, maps, more . * tangier gay *

Image source, Getty ImagA Brish man flew home om Marrakech last week after beg jailed for "homosexual acts".

There was a time though when Moroc was renowned as a haven for gay Amerins and Brons, who fled rtrictns their own untri to take advantage of s relaxed a walk down one of the ma streets Tangier, the Boulevard Pastr, turn left before the Hotel Rembrandt and scend towards the sea. The book, banned unr US obsceny laws, is a mixture of tobgraphy, science fictn and satire, peppered wh scriptns of gay sex. Its bookshelv are another remr of Tangier's huge lerary legacy which clus Jean Ge, Andre Gi, Tennsee Williams, Tman Capote, Gore Vidal and Joe Orton, all of whom were gay or bisexual, as well as many others, om Samuel Pepys to Mark Twa, who were source, AFPImage ptn, Tangier's Boulevard Pastr, 1944For s Tangier and other Morocn ci were mags for gay tourists.

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" The Amerins who turned up the 1950s were pg om a reprsive society where homosexualy was outlawed. "For some straight men the predomance of gay men had s advantag.

"So why did Moroc, an ostensibly vout Islamic untry, allow homosexualy to thrive? gay life tangiers. we are thkg of a week tangier, are there any gay iendly bars, hotels etc.

10 TOP LGBTQ BARS MOROC RABOW JELLO | © ANDREA.PACHE/FLICKR SARAH WILLIAMS 19 MAY 2020 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT ALTHOUGH HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL MOROC—AS IS THE SE MANY ISLAMIC UNTRI— IS GENERALLY A POPULAR STATN FOR MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQ MUNY. WHILE TANGIER WAS PREVLY THE MA HUB FOR LGBTQ TRAVELERS TO THE NATN, SOME OF THE BARS LISTED HERE N BE FOUND PLAC LIKE MARRAKECH THAT HAVE BEGUN TO GROW POPULARY. VIEW ALL TRIPS PACHA MARRAKECH BAR, NIGHTCLUB, GAY BAR SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT © DAVID BOYLE/FLICKR PACHA MARRAKECH A LIVELY BAR AND NIGHTCLUB LOTED GUELIZ, PACHA MARRAKECH PROCLAIMS SELF TO BE “THE BT CLUB MOROC” AND IS PART OF THE WELL-KNOWN TERNATNAL CLUB CHA. OPEN EACH NIGHT OF THE WEEK, DRAWS THE LARGT CROWDS ON THE WEEKEND. WHILE NOT A GAY BAR, HAS A IENDLY AND RELAXED VIBE THAT MAK ALL PARTY-LOVERS FEEL RIGHT AT HOME ON THE DANCE FLOOR. THE DJ PLAYS A MIXTURE OF DANCE AND POP TUN TO KEEP THE CROWDS PLEASED. PACHA MARRAKECH, AVENUE MOHAMMED VI, MARRAKECH MOROC, +212 524 38 84 00 PACHA SIGN | © DAVID BOYLE/FLICKR | © DAVID BOYLE/FLICKR VIP CLUB MARRAKECH SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT VIP CLUB MARRAKECH ALSO LOTED GUELIZ, VIP CLUB EXUS GLAMOUR AND GLZ. STROBE LIGHTS FLICKER THROUGH THE CLUB AND REVELERS GYRATE TO THE BEATS. A GAY-IENDLY CLUB, PEOPLE N ENJOY TECHNO ONE AREA OR A LIVELY MOROCN BARET SHOW ANOTHER. VIP CLUB, AVENUE MOHAMED 5, GUELIZ, MARRAKECH, MOROC, +212 661-152026 CAFé GRAND ATLAS CAFE, BAR, MOROCN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT DON’T BE FOOLED BY THE NAME; CAFé GRAND ATLAS IS MORE OF A BAR THAN A Fé. AN TIMATE AND RELAXED VENUE, THE ROOF TERRACE IS PECIALLY POPULAR. IT’S A GOOD PLACE TO ENJOY A MOROCN MEAL WH A LD BEER A LAID-BACK ATMOSPHERE. MAJESTIC TURKEY TRAVEL OM THE BAZAARS OF ISTANBUL TO THE BETIFUL BEACH OF ANTALYA. VIEW TRIP COMPTOIR DARNA BAR, RTRANT, COCKTAILS SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT COURTY OF COMPTOIR DARNA COMPTOIR DARNA IS A SOPHISTITED RTRANT AND BAR WH A ZY AND ROMANTIC VIBE. IT IS POPULAR WH UPL OF ALL SEXUAL ORIENTATNS. WELG TOWARDS EVERYONE, THE AMBIENT MOOD, THE DANCG, AND THE DARK YET STYLISH TERRS WILL HELP PATRONS HAVE A GREAT NIGHT WHEN VISG MOROC’S RED CY OF MARRAKH. TANGER INN BAR, NIGHTCLUB, MOROCN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT © FABRIC/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS A LONG-STANDG NAME THE LOL-BAR SCENE, THE TANGER INN HAS ATTRACTED EE-THKERS AND LIBERAL SOULS FOR MANY YEARS. POPULAR WH LOLS AND TOURISTS ALIKE, THE BAR WAS PREVLY A FAVOURE HNT OF LERARY FIGUR LIKE TENNSEE WILLIAMS, JACK KEROUAC, FERI GARCíA LOR, AND WILLIAMS BURROUGHS. ALTHOUGH TANGIER DON’T HAVE THE SAME OPENNS AS DID TIM GONE BY, THIS IS A GOOD CHOICE FOR LGBTQ TRAVELLERS WHO ARE VISG THE NORTHERN ASTAL CY. IT IS WH HOTEL EL MUNIRIA. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. RTRANT D'ORIENT ET D'AILLRS RTRANT, MOROCN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT ALTHOUGH LARGELY A PLACE FOR DG, GUTS N STILL ENJOY A RELAXED DRK A IENDLY ATMOSPHERE AT RTRANT D’ORIENT ET D’AILLRS THE ASTAL CY OF ESSAOUIRA. DISCREET AND ROMANTIC, THE CHARMG VENUE IS ONE OF THE CY’S ZIT PLAC FOR A RELAXG EVENG WH A LOVED ONE. FLAMGO ORIENTAL NIGHT CLUB SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT FLAMGO ORIENTAL NIGHT CLUB A VIBRANT BEACH CLUB THE POPULAR SEASI RORT OF AGADIR, FLAMGO ORIENTAL NIGHT CLUB IS PECIALLY BY AT WEEKENDS. PLAYG A BLEND OF MIC THAT MALY FEATUR ALL THE LATT HS, THE CLUB ATTRACTS A BALANCE OF LOLS AND TOURISTS. IT’S A TOP PLACE AGADIR FOR LGBTQ VISORS TO FEEL AT EASE AND MGLE. FLAMGO ORIENTAL NIGHT CLUB, RUE DU OUED SOS, AGADIR, MOROC, +212 5288-44343 RYAD MOGADOR AL MADA BAR, HOTEL RTRANT, MOROCN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT RYAD MOGADOR AL MADA IS A LARGE HOTEL AGADIR. THE HOTEL BAR IS OPEN TO BOTH RINTS AND NON-GUTS, AND IS POPULAR WH LGBTQ TRAVELLERS. A GOOD SELECTN OF MORN TUN PLAYS UNTIL THE EARLY HOURS. IT IS SUATED CLOSE TO THE BEACH FOR THOSE WHO FANCY A LATE-NIGHT ROMANTIC STROLL. PLASTIK CLUB BAR SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT PLASTIK CLUB PREVLY KNOWN AS CANDY BAR, PLASTIK CLUB N BE FOUND CLOSE TO THE CORNICHE CASABLAN. A LIVELY-EVENG VENUE WH A RELAXED AND AN ALMOST ANYTHG-GO VIBE, ’S NOT UNUAL TO SEE PEOPLE DRSED UP WILD OUTFS DANCG TO THE TUN ON THE STROBE-L DANCE FLOOR. OPEN EACH NIGHT, THE DJ PLAYS ALL THE FAVOURE HS. THERE’S SOMETIM LIVE ENTERTAMENT. THE RNIVAL-LIKE FEELG APPEALS TO MANY PARTIERS. PLASTIK CLUB, HOTEL RIAD SALAM, 55, BOULEVARD LA CORNICHE A DIAB, CASABLAN, MOROC CAFé RAMS RTRANT, MOROCN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT © THIBT DéMARE/FLICKR LOTED THE BTLG HEART OF MOROC’S LARGT CY, CAFé RAMS DON’T SERVE ALHOL, BUT IS OPEN UNTIL LATE THE EVENG AND OFFERS A RELAXG, GAY-IENDLY SPOT. THE Fé SERV FOOD AS WELL AS HOT AND LD SOFT DRKS. FAIRLY SMALL, THE Fé HAS AN TIMATE ATMOSPHERE. THE TERRACE IS A PLEASANT PLACE TO S AND WATCH THE WORLD GO BY OVER A GLASS OF REHG-MT TEA. VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

Re: gay life tangiers.

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I only noticed a uple of young gay boys stg a rner holdg hands last time I dropped for a nightp but maybe there were more huddled the Snug bi the piano.

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Travelg to any foreign untry as a gay man or woman n be a dicey proposn. Make no mistake; homosexualy is still illegal Moroc.

Homosexualy isn’t somethg spoken openly about often, but lols seem to be fe wh for the most part.

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Fdg a gay bar or rtrant is next to impossible, though you might stumble across a few that ter to both gay and straight crowds here and there.

Unfortunately, ’s difficult to ppot to gay-specific nightlife the cy bee any bs that advertis as terg to gay men or women is technilly mtg a crime. Instead, you should foc on enjoyg the sights and sounds of Tangier rather than havg an all-enpassg “gay” experience.

You’re bound to meet lots of open and acceptg, and likely gay, men and women throughout the cy who will be happy to s down wh you for a drk. Explore Gay Rooms & Rentals Tangierbt ratedmisterb&b munyAcrdg to human rights and LGBTQ+ anizatns, sexual orientatn and genr inty are crimalized/margalized this statn.

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The circle was almost pletely gay and, surprisgly to me, maly Jewish: Aled Chter, spe his name, was a yhive bokher om Brooklyn; his clost iend Tangier was Norman Glass, a Brish Jew; and Jane Bowl (née Auer) grew up a posh Jewish suburb of Long Island.

And Charl Wright, the gay Ain-Amerin novelist, who wrote The Msenger, The Wig, and Absolutely Nothg to Get Alarmed About, who tormented and was tormented by Chter.

David Bergman, G&LR poetry edor, is the thor of the recently republished Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Reprentatn Amerin Lerature.

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Two dozen young men were stg on battered foldg chairs, several discreetly smokg kif - tobac blend wh Morocn port has always been a cy of extrem - a surreal crossroads where Northern Ai meets Europe, the Mederranean meets the Atlantic Ocean, and hedonism and history seem to while the grty thenticy of Tangier is still there, a new generatn of artists and expats is givg this fabuloly shabby port a new the heady years after World War II, when Tangier was still diplomatic limbo as an Internatnal Zone, s craggy shor beme a gay-iendly haven for spi, globe-trottg bsmen, beatniks exile and eccentric foreigners. Although homosexualy is illegal Moroc—as is the se many Islamic untri— is generally a popular statn for members of the LGBTQ muny. Pacha Marrakech Bar, Nightclub, Gay Bar © David Boyle/Flickr Pacha Marrakech A lively bar and nightclub loted Gueliz, Pacha Marrakech proclaims self to be “the bt club Moroc” and is part of the well-known ternatnal club cha.

While not a gay bar, has a iendly and relaxed vibe that mak all party-lovers feel right at home on the dance floor.

A gay-iendly club, people n enjoy techno one area or a lively Morocn baret show another. Plastik Club, Hotel Riad Salam, 55, Boulevard la Corniche A Diab, Casablan, Moroc Café Rams Rtrant, Morocn © Thibt Démare/Flickr Loted the btlg heart of Moroc’s largt cy, Café Rams don’t serve alhol, but is open until late the eveng and offers a relaxg, gay-iendly spot.

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