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Contents:

• GAY PEOPLE IN MYANMAR CAN'T LIVE OPENLY. HERE'S WHY
• GAY MYANMAR
• GAY DICTNARY BURME
• HAVEN SPAYANGONMENUHOTELSBARS & CLUBSMASSAGESERVICOFFERSGAY MAPHAVEN SPA
• GOG TO PAGAN: GAY SLANG BURMA

GAY PEOPLE IN MYANMAR CAN'T LIVE OPENLY. HERE'S WHY

A police spokman said at the time that the ps had been performg a “public service” by preventg the group om Myat Tun, a human rights activist wh the Burme LGBT group Colors Rabow, tells The Huffgton Post that such “state-sponsored discrimatn” is a grave ncern for the LGBT muny Myanmar, where homosexualy is crimalized. Earlier this year, Myt Kyu, a polician Mandalay, me unr fire om human rights groups for “makg misrmed, discrimatory, and potentially flammatory statements about gay and transgenr people. ” Durg an Augt parliamentary bate, Kyu, who is the cy’s borr and secury affairs mister was quoted as sayg that the ernment was “nstantly takg actn to have the gays taed at police statns” before “tg” Malaysia, Myanmar -- also a former Brish lony -- still has Sectn 377 of the penal on s books.

”Limed public awarens about LGBT issu is another major problem facg the muny, Tun says, as is a arth of a 2013 terview wh the Myanmar Tim, a 28-year-old gay man named Phyo scribed the visibily of LGBT people Burme culture. “When I was growg up, we didn’t know about homosexuals, ” he said.

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”A 2014 Guardian report discsed how hostily agast homosexualy was unrmg the fight agast HIV/AIDS Myanmar -- which, acrdg to the World Health Organizatn, has one of Asia's hight HIV prevalence is keepg gay men hidn, makg them “hard to reach the most extreme sense, ” Eamonn Murphy, a UNAIDS untry reprentative, told the news outlet. Myanmar's Natnal AIDS Programme said at the time that fewer than 30 percent of the timated 240, 000 gay men Myanmar had received HIV preventn servic. Also on HuffPost:RelatedMyanmarmyanmar lgbtlgbtlgbt rightsGay Rights.

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While 's illegal to be gay there, we've found the culture to be far more acceptg than other untri Asia which ban homosexualy, cludg Malaysia, Sri Lanka, the Maldiv, and India. LGBTQ+ people are rarely out, the untry is voutly Buddhist, and most Burme people tend to thk of gay men as men who want to be women or drs like women.

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Some lols believe that those who nducted sexual misnduct a prev life are gay this one. A holdover om Brish lonial days, homosexualy is illegal Myanmar wh punishment cludg 10 years’ imprisonment.

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Though the culture is welg overall, wh rpect to gay travelers 's more like tolerated, not so much enthiastilly embraced. Intimacy among Burme men is most often a sign of faiary, not of homosexualy.

GOG TO PAGAN: GAY SLANG BURMA

The NomadicBoys, a blog produced by a young well-traveled gay male uple has extensive up-to-date rmatn on the untry and s queer life. EnciclopædiaHow to say gay BurmeBelow are the words of our Burme Gay Dictnary which clus some exprsns of the LGBT muny jargon.

Today is spoken by 42 ln Burma, homosexualy is nmned wh imprisonment om 10 years to life imprisonment by a le hered om Brish lonial law.

+CakeCake is an exprsn that belongs to the jargon of the Burme gay muny. ”+Cake moe poe th tanIt is a recent exprsn that belongs to the jargon of the Burme gay muny. +ChkChk is one of the most ed exprsns Burma to sult homosexual men.