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• GAY BARS BEIT - BEIT FOM
• DISVER THE 5 MOST GAY-IENDLY ARAB UNTRI
• OUTRAGED LEBANE MAND END TO ANAL EXAMS ON GAY MEN
• EVERYONE IS WELE: THE ONLY GAY HANGOUT THE ARAB WORLD
• GAY BARS & CLUBS - BEIT FOM
• FOR BEIT'S GAY MUNY, CHEMIL BLAST SHATTERED A SAFE SPACE
• GAY LEBANON
• BEIT GAY MAP
• BEIT GAY BARS

GAY BARS BEIT - BEIT FOM

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DISVER THE 5 MOST GAY-IENDLY ARAB UNTRI

‘Ghost’, a gay-iendly club Dekwaneh, Matn, Lebanon, was raid by 12 policemen unr the orr of Antoe Chakhtoura, the municipaly's head.

OUTRAGED LEBANE MAND END TO ANAL EXAMS ON GAY MEN

Another one of the victims, a Syrian gay man, was terviewed by the Lebane Broadstg Corporatn (LBC) the followg footage released by Raynbow Lebanon on YouTube. Hasan Abssamad jokgly begged France to ‘re-lonize’ Lebanon, cg the ntrast between the French mandate-era law nmng sexual relatns that are “ntradictg the laws of nature” (Article 534 of the Lebane Penal Co) and France's recent legalizatn of Gay marriage:.

EVERYONE IS WELE: THE ONLY GAY HANGOUT THE ARAB WORLD

@JoSamuelAoun: I admire when homophob start their homophobic phrase wh “Wh all my rpect to those people and to human rights” #LebLGBT. It drew 400 people and ran for hours as dozens of young Beitis, cludg Hamed Sno, lead sger of the ternatnally succsful Mashrou Leila, stood up to tell their g-out Grand FactoryThe gay sger and dancer Moe Khansa is big news, too: at the Beit Art Fair an Iranian artist’s portra of him embracg another man sold for $8, 000.

Bar/rtrant Bardo, central Hamra, has tablished self as the epicentre of the gay scene, and is one of the cy’s bt-regard spots of any kd. Through a haze of shisha smoke and somewhat stiflg sexual stigma, the Arab world unveils an unexpected realm of possibili for trepid gay travellers. If you n five the state-approved homophobia and are willg to act wh discretn while out and about, the Arab untri n reem themselv a thoand and one different ways, om the ancient centre of Petra to the glterg ephets of Bahra and to the serts beyond.

While by and large closeted kgdoms, the handful of gay clubs the progrsive cy of Beit n allow you to be your te self, while the luxury ternatnal hotels across the regn n ensure your privacy is rpected. Wh so much do see and do, Mt is bt seen by tour b, allowg you to hop off at untls mms, the Sultan’s Palace and the Mutrah Corniche wateront, before venturg further afield on day trips to the beach and turtle-filled lagoons for divg and of the slightly more tolerant untri the regn, Oman is said to have once had s own gay sultan – Sultan Qaboos b Said al Said – although the state prs is quick to ny this as a pric mour!

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Neverthels, the unofficial gossip is that the former sultan leads a lavish gay liftyle wh his palace, divorced om his wife and enjoyg the ocsnal English lover.

In realy, the laws are rarely upheld except high-profile s, however, and gay Oman remas a perfectly safe place to | Photo: Katera KerdiPetra, particular, is the crowng glory of Jordan, protected wh sandstone cliffs and offerg an unrivalled llectn of monuments, cludg the fg Siq to the Treasury on an ethereal sert se of red rock and dun known as Wadi Rum2. Now you, avid explorer of gay Arab worlds, get to see the antiqui all their majty, movg om Roman Amphheatre to Csar stle wh a samplg of early Christian art along the way.

FOR BEIT'S GAY MUNY, CHEMIL BLAST SHATTERED A SAFE SPACE

Jordan crimalised homophobia as early as 1951 and while there remas social stigma and ‘public moraly’ laws that hr LGBTQ+ eedoms, gay Jordan gas tractn thanks to s unrground gay muny (most active on Grdr! Gay Bahra legalised homosexualy 1976 though this means ltle as an LGBTQ crackdown is still force targetg those that supposedly vlate “public cency”, as Jordan.

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Tunisian society is viewed posively among the Arab gay muny for s LGBT progrs, as the base for anisatns such as ‘Mawjoud’ which mpaigns for LGBTQ mory rights. On paper, Tunisian law still stat that homosexualy is illegal, yet wh an openly-gay printial ndidate recently nng and ongog activism, ’s lookg more and more likely crimalisatn will e. In a strange twist, one gay marriage beme legally regnised Tunisia and though that don’t say much for society as a whole, ’s a small w for gay Tunisia.

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Avoid the occurrenc and Lebanon will she, thanks to s fantastic beach rorts not far om the pal as well as s mounta vistas, ancient s and more, all urteoly attend by kdly Lebane social stigma rgs te and the ft array of Arabian gays is likely to be found onle (hello Grdr, my old iend) gay Lebanon is perhaps one of the few Arab natns where a tentative gay scene tak shape real life. As well as hostg the regn’s largt gay club, POSH, where gay Arabs and ternatnals n fally dance together whout fear of persecutn, gay Beit also hosts annual queer events such as the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia and Beit Pri.

Image ptn, The police raid on the CePlaza cema Beit me after a TV reportGay-rights activists Lebanon are llg on the thori to stop performg anal examatns on men spected of havg "sexual terurse ntrary to nature". It started wh a raid by police on a cema one of the poort districts of Beit, followg claims on a televisn show that was a "gay hoe". On Facebook and Twter and by email, many Lebane shared clips om the troductn of the bullet - an ditn of the shock ed by the the first time, was not only gay-rights activists who were batg and nmng the practice but mastream society.

"The memorandum is vaguely wrten but appears to ll for rtrat the applitn of the move was met wh a great al of scepticism by the untry's gay muny, which mands nothg ls than a total ban of the tts. (Beit) – Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people and their rights  Lebanon are part and parcel of the natnwi protts that began on October 17, 2019, Human Rights Watch said today a web feature. Everyone is, a study bathed by the afternoon sunshe, Wael Hse, a 24-year-old gay man, is chattg wh Naya, a transgenr woman, ahead of Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOTB) on Thursday.

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”Compared wh other untri the Middle East, such as Iran where homosexualy is punishable by ath, Lebanon has a relatively thrivg LGBT muny. ”Sce then Helem’s reputatn has spread beyond Lebanon throughout the Arab world and several siar anisatns have been set up, cludg the NGO Shams Tunisia, fightg for the crimalisatn of homosexualy. He ed to be the manager of Bardo, Beit’s most famo gay bar, before jog Helem, an experience he says has opened his ey to the discrimatn faced by those om prived social backgrounds.