Tunisia Iterary: Thgs to Do In 10 days In Gay Tunisia

Contents:

• IS MOROC OK FOR GAYS? AND IS WARM ENOUGH WTER? - MOROC FOM
• GAY IENDLY BARS AND CLUBS - MARRAKECH FOM
• MOROC GAY TRAVEL
• TUNISIA ULTIMATE ERARY: THGS TO DO AND SEE WH 10 DAYS GAY TUNISIA
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• NICE TO S , GAY PICK UPS DAY AND... - PARC LA LIGUE ARABE
• GAY-IENDLY: MARRAKECH FOR HOMOSEXUALS
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS AGADIR
• GAY MARRAKH TRAVEL GUI
• GAY MOROC TRAVEL GUI

IS MOROC OK FOR GAYS? AND IS WARM ENOUGH WTER? - MOROC FOM

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.

Regardg the gay issue - no problems at all, though you'd probably have assumed we were jt mat travellg together, as we avoid all PDAs! There are no openly gay bars or clubs bee homosexualy remas a crimal offence Moroc, but some of the bigger clubs which attract wterners are probably the bt bet. There are a few bars listed the gay sectn of the time out gui to Marrakech where one is likely to fd like md people: I'll dig out the py we bought jt this week, and post where they are.

GAY IENDLY BARS AND CLUBS - MARRAKECH FOM

There are No gay iendly bars Marrakech, jt some may turn a bld eye as the gigolos maybe there makg money and rippg people off. Time Out lists Cafe L Negociants Gueliz (Place Abdul Moumen, avenue Mohammed V, open to 11pm daily) and the Cafe Atlas oppose as plac where some gay people hang out, but also not the ever-prence money-driven e-hher looks!

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The Atlas oppose is a bar si, que sleazy, and aga not equented by genue gay people only those lookg for ee drks and cigs and if you go wh them they will rip you off.........

Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea. In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture.

TUNISIA ULTIMATE ERARY: THGS TO DO AND SEE WH 10 DAYS GAY TUNISIA

” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub.

He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year. Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor.

“Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead. ” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak. In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek.

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian. On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene. Gay holidays Moroc are about explorg the untry’s rich culture, mounta and sert chorographi, and historic smopolis.

NICE TO S , GAY PICK UPS DAY AND... - PARC LA LIGUE ARABE

Yet, many homosexual travelers traveled to Moroc after the war to live more eely. Moroc was ls homophobic than the UK or US those days, monstratg how gear chang. You won’t fd gay clubs and pri march; this is a statn to vis for the origal culture and emotnal geographi, not for the LGBT scene.

It may have had var histori, but Tangier no longer has any kd of gay scene. Tunisia ultimate erary: thgs to do and see wh 10 days gay TunisiaStori > Iterari > Tunisia ultimate erary: thgs to do and see wh 10 days gay TunisiaSomethg of a sand-buried secret North Ai is the natn of Tunisia, beneftg om both Mederranean beach and Saharan dun that enclose much the way of unique natnal culture. Photo: Herbert BierLGBTQ suatn TunisiaIs Tunisia safe for gay travellers?

GAY-IENDLY: MARRAKECH FOR HOMOSEXUALS

In realy, homosexualy is a crimal offence Tunisia (punishable by up to 3 years imprisonment), meang that beg open is not advisable while travellg the untry. Dpe this, creased lol LGBTQ+ activism and acceptance has risen up sce the 2011 revolutn, makg Tunisia one of the better plac the Arab world to be Tunisia gay scene is not easy to fe but, thanks to the ter, ’s bee ever easier to tap to s varyg levels.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS AGADIR

From ‘straight’ unhappy hbands to ‘same-sex-not-gay’ liaisons between iends, the gay work certaly exists, allowg for discreet (yet cisy) nnectns at any time.

The lack of anisatn and outward stutns however means ’s hard to form a legimate gay muny, but ongog work om anisatns like ‘Associatn Shams’ and ‘Mawjoud’ helps prent a proud face for gay Tunisia. I thk the laws [crimalizg nsensual gay sex] create a system of homophobia. — Andrew Williams (psdonym), a 28-year-old gay man om Sat Vcent, January 11, 2023.

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— Samuel Sayers (psdonym), a 25-year-old gay man om Sat Vcent, October 25, 2022. This progrs has been slow and cremental, spearhead by civil society efforts the regn to abolish laws that crimalize gay sex.

The laws rerce societal prejudic, effectively givg tac legal sanctn for stigma, discrimatn, and vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people.

The laws are vaguely word, have broad latu, and sgle out nsensual gay sex the “sexual offens” sectn of the crimal that is otherwise rerved for crim like rape, ct, and sexual asslt. In July 2019, two gay men om Sat Vcent and the Grenad livg abroad filed a se challengg the nstutnaly of the discrimatory provisns the crimal .

GAY MOROC TRAVEL GUI

Along wh Domi, Guyana, Grenada, Jamai, Sat Lucia—the other five untri the Caribbean that crimalize gay sex—Sat Vcent and the Grenad ntu to be an outlier a hemisphere that has chewed the crimalizatn of nsensual gay sex. Every LGBT person terviewed by Human Rights Watch said they wished to leave the untry immediately or had envisned their future abroad due, part, to the homophobic or transphobic vlence and discrimatn the untry. Some terviewe noted that fay rejectn was often uched moralistic terms, echog the homophobic rhetoric preached some church, which are a rnerstone of social life and shape social attus.

The human rights ab and the ntued crimalizatn of gay sex Sat Vcent and the Grenad ntravene ternatnal human rights law. In ls than a , five Caribbean untri have crimalized gay sex, brgg the Wtern Hemisphere closer to beg pletely ee of the discrimatory laws.