The Middle East; 's gayer than you thk
Contents:
- GAY AMMAN TRAVEL GUI
- EXPLORG AMMAN’S GAY SPAC
- WHAT PART OF THE MIDDLE EAST IS A GREAT GAY DTATN?
- GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS AMMAN
- GAY LIFE AQABA - JORDAN FOM
- GAY LIFE AQABA - JORDAN FOM
- HAMMANHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGEBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASGAY MAPSHOW MOREHAMMAN
GAY AMMAN TRAVEL GUI
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EXPLORG AMMAN’S GAY SPAC
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Amman Gay Scene.
While homosexualy is legal, there still isn't much of an out and proud gay scene Amman or the rt of Jordan. At the same time, seeg men holdg hands public is relatively mon – ’s a sign of iendship, and many Jordanian men are que appreciative of male bety even if they’re not gay, so may screw up your gaydar!
Even whout any tablished LGBTQ-specific venu, many of the bars and rtrants popular wh Amman's large ternatnal populatn of expats are there are some known hangouts for gay lols and visg tourists. Gay-Friendly Activi & Attractns.
WHAT PART OF THE MIDDLE EAST IS A GREAT GAY DTATN?
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Gay-Friendly Dg, Bars & Nightlife. Partly a rtrant, fe, bar, and lounge, Books@Cafe is the ** place Amman for gay lols, tourists, and expats.
Thanks to tremendo support om the reigng Queen of Jordan, homosexual rights - rather than movg backward - are fally at a stable place the untry. As one of the more progrsive untri the Middle East terms of protectns for s LGBT populatn, Jordan is a relatively easy place to travel as a gay person, but homophobia fely still exists. While there is not a massive out gay populatn, there are multiple “gay centric” venu that ter to both the lol and ternatnal gay muny.
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?
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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. When 22-year-old Matt, om Wilmgton, Delaware, arrived Jordan last fall, gettg volved a gay scene was “not part of the plan.
Then he disvered that the Middle East is a lot gayer than he thought. Then Matt started gog to expat parti, where he met gay staff om lol embassi and UN offic.
Acrdg to Matt, cyberspace is the only te safe space for gays to cise Jordan.
GAY LIFE AQABA - JORDAN FOM
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But he says there are gay-iendly spots Jordan’s pal, Amman, where he and his iends like to hang out. WHERE TO BE GAY IN AMMAN Amman is a morn, hilly cy of short, cube-shaped buildgs. Although gay sex was crimalized Jordan 1951, “public displays of affectn” and sex work are illegal and perdilly targets of ernment crackdown.
Here’s where to go to be gay:. Books @ Cafe On Omar Al Khattab Street near the 1st circle, Madian Aljazeera’s dark, retro rtrant/bar is pecially popular wh gays on Mondays and Thursdays.
Toledo Hotel The Toledo’s gym, at 37 Al-Razi Street, is where Matt got his first ht of gay life.
GAY LIFE AQABA - JORDAN FOM
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Drop Acrdg to Madian Aljazeera, Drop is a gay-iendly, rave-style dance party held every Thursday. Acrdg to Aljazeera, the gay scene Amman ed to be pletely unrground.
The first-floor bookstore has a proment display of gay tl – “I like to shove people’s fac, ” says Aljazeera – while the bar and rtrant is a revolvg door of gay ctomers. “We n’t go hard-re gay.
It’s jt a fortable place for the gay muny. Mondays and Thursdays are pecially popular wh gay men, who take up most of the seats around the giant bar so they n eye each other and get a good look at the h meat g . Aljazeera pots out that Jordan don’t have any laws agast homosexualy, but adms that social and relig prsure keeps most gays the closet.
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Answer 1 of 32: How is the gay life Aqaba? are there any bars or diss for gay people? cisg area? beach? * gay cruising on amman *
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. 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.