Gay Jordan 2023 Travel Gui - Hotels, Bars, & Events

Contents:

• GAY AMMAN TRAVEL GUI
• JORDAN GAY TRAVEL
• GAY TOURIST JORDAN – HOW TWO STRANGERS INVED ME FOR FUN
• GAY JORDAN TRAVEL GUI
• 10 BT GAY DATG APPS & S FOR LGBTQ+
• THE TOP LGBTQ+ DATG S AND APPS: 14 BT GAY DATG S

GAY AMMAN TRAVEL GUI

Still, homosexualy has been crimalized Jordan for nsentg people over the age of 16 sce 1951. Rears stem om all across the MENA regn and Where do you thk Amman fs  among other gay statns the Middle East?

We wouldn’t promote as a gay statn, but rather as an amazg statn general. K: A gay-iendly bar lled RGB (which quickly got a reputatn as a gay bar) closed after the owner received a msage threateng that if didn’t shut down, “all s ctomers will be put solary cells.

JORDAN GAY TRAVEL

When many travelers thk of the Middle East as a gay statn, Tel Aviv is most likely to e to md. Forster went to Alexandria, Egypt, to have his first experience of gay love, and one of the most famo gay poets of the twentieth century, Constante Cavafy, also hailed om that sprawlg metropolis on the sea. Recently however, a lot of the great gay statns of the Middle East have not been gettg good prs.

GAY TOURIST JORDAN – HOW TWO STRANGERS INVED ME FOR FUN

First, the unrt associated wh the Arab sprg has ma stalwarts of gay travel statns like Tunisia ls appealg. Even hotspot Beit, long known for s excg nightlife and hunky men, has bee ls attractive as Helem, the area's only LGBT anizatn reports that Article 534 of the Lebane Penal Co ("sexual terurse ntrary to nature" is punishable for up to 1 year prison) has been ed recently to harass gay and bisexual sce the famo Nile Queen cint ( which 52 gay Egyptian men were arrted and 'examed' for dancg whout women partners on a floatg dis), Egypt is not nearly as open as ed to be.

Iran and Sdia Arabia, whatever their cultural appeal to tourists, rema difficult to vis and are known to execute gay men. Iraq, once safe for homosexuals, sce the U. S-led vasn has sce seen some of the worst gay-bashg and murr of homosexual men the Middle 's Left?

There's an outstandg statn for gay and straight tourists alike: Jordan. Like many Mlim untri, homosexual acts and cross-drsg are nsired 'sful' but they aren't technilly illegal. A gay uple n walk the street arm--arm or holdg hands while a straight uple would get dirty looks.

GAY JORDAN TRAVEL GUI

"Amman, the pal, has some worthy attractns, most notably Roman s, pecially the Roman Theater (at night the cy's ma cisg area for gay men) and Jebel al-Qal'a, the ancient cal which clus s of a temple to Hercul, a mm, and the remas of an Umayyad palace, along wh stunng views of the morn urban sprawl of Amman. Meetg MenAmman lacks a tradnal gay party scene, but is easy to meet gay men. You n fd them on any number of gay s, cludg Books@fe, a lightfully stylish fé that uld jt as well be Wt Hollywood, is full of betiful, mcular Jordanian men puffg away on their nargil (water pip).

The cy's streets are filled wh shoppg opportuni: handicrafts and some of the bt valu gold jewelry the key to meetg gay Jordanian men is jt to be open and iendly. If he is gay and terted, I have found that most Jordanian gay men are que direct, pecially if you make them feel fortable.

10 BT GAY DATG APPS & S FOR LGBTQ+

Many of them directly seek out teractns wh foreigners, partially out of genue cursy and tert -- be prepared for a barrage of random personal qutns about your life back home -- and also bee many gay Jordanian men feel safer proposng Not MissAs far as sightseeg, the real treasur of the untry are beyond Amman. Royal Jordanian often has disunted tickets and has a ach-class like we ed to have on our domtic is not a typil gay statn like Barcelona, but is fely worth visg. Remember, tradnal Mlim societi do not necsarily fear homosexual sex acts: they fear a gay inty.

For Wterners who are gay and out, this attu n e across as particularly offensive.

But gay visors need to remember Forster and that, at one time, the Middle East was a relative refuge for gay men who faced jail-time Europe. However, medieval Arabic love poetry idolized the betiful young man; 1, 001 Nights has many exampl of homosexual liaisons.

THE TOP LGBTQ+ DATG S AND APPS: 14 BT GAY DATG S

So step back, take a ep breath, leave you prupposns on the plane, and open yourself to one of the gay-iendlyt closeted cultur the world. Text 'GAYTRAVEL' to 1-800-GAY-TRAVEL (1-800-429-8728). — Travel Guis wh a Gay Perspective.

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