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Contents:

• WHAT PART OF THE MIDDLE EAST IS A GREAT GAY DTATN?
• DOZENS OF GAY MEN ARE OUTED MOROC AS PHOTOS ARE SPREAD ONLE
• GAY CAB CREW SECRETS OM THE MIDDLE EAST
• GAY MIDDLE EASTERN MEN'S SUPPORT GROUP
• WHAT HAPPENED WHEN FOUR GAY GUYS FROM TEL AVIV TOOK A VATN TO DUBAI
• EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI

WHAT PART OF THE MIDDLE EAST IS A GREAT GAY DTATN?

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. Iran and Sdia Arabia, whatever their cultural appeal to tourists, rema difficult to vis and are known to execute gay men.

DOZENS OF GAY MEN ARE OUTED MOROC AS PHOTOS ARE SPREAD ONLE

S-led vasn has sce seen some of the worst gay-bashg and murr of homosexual men the Middle 's Left? 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. "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.

GAY CAB CREW SECRETS OM THE MIDDLE EAST

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 fe 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.

GAY MIDDLE EASTERN MEN'S SUPPORT GROUP

If he is gay and terted, I have found that most Jordanian gay men are que direct, pecially if you make them feel fortable. 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.

WHAT HAPPENED WHEN FOUR GAY GUYS FROM TEL AVIV TOOK A VATN TO DUBAI

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. 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.

Bee Lebane queer artist Munir Abdallah's gallery on our se of his first nu gay photography exhibn the Arab world was so popular, we asked him for even more timate photos of the tradnally private Abdallah's exhib of gay erotic photographs of Arab men at ArtLab Beit Cy Lebanon is over.

EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI

But the impact of the notable first show of gay eroti the Arab world still lgers -- and giv hope for more open exprsn this new, born 1964 Beit, is a Tai Chi stctor and a photographer. Due to the nudy and homosexual ntent of his pictur, Munir only nsired startg showg his work 2017. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe ia was to show the hypocrisy of Morocn society by showg how many gay men are livg quietly straight society.

It backfired S/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagPARIS — At least 50 to 100 gay men were outed Moroc over the last two weeks, rights activists say, after the men were intified on lotn-based meetg apps while shelterg at home amid a ronavis at least three s, men were kicked out of their ho, L. ”In Moroc, a North Ain kgdom where homosexualy and sex outsi marriage are crim, gay people are pafully acctomed to the feelgs of peril and rejectn, and many keep their sexual inti unr, their ver has been blown a way that would be crimal most Wtern societi, rights advot say.

”What mak this episo particularly paful, gay lears say, is that was igned by someone who had also been sgled April 13, a Morocn transgenr Instagram personaly based Istanbul, Naoufal Mosa or Sofia Talouni, was sulted about her sexual orientatn. In a rage, she released a profany-laced vio enuragg women to download the lotn-based meetg apps, like Grdr and Pla Romeo, which are ually ed by gay subsequent vios, she said her aim was to reveal the hypocrisy of Morocn society by showg her attackers how many gay men were livg their vicy, perhaps even their own people followed Ms.