Dubai: Gay Travel Advice (om a lol) - The Globetrotter Guys

Contents:

• GAY EXPAT REVEALS WHAT ’S LIKE TO LIVE DUBAI WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS PUNISHABLE BY 10 YEARS PRISON
• DUBAI FOR GAY UPLE - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM
• GAY UPLE DUBAI - DUBAI FOM
• WHAT HAPPENED WHEN FOUR GAY GUYS FROM TEL AVIV TOOK A VATN TO DUBAI
• GAY UPLE DUBAI - DUBAI FOM
• BRISH GAY UPLE ‘TAED DUBAI AIRPORT WHILE STAFF LGHED ABOUT THEIR SEXUALY’
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• GAY DUBAI
• PERIL AND PRIVILEGE: GAY EXPAT NIGHTLIFE DUBAI
• DUBAI: GAY TRAVEL ADVICE (OM A LOL)

GAY EXPAT REVEALS WHAT ’S LIKE TO LIVE DUBAI WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS PUNISHABLE BY 10 YEARS PRISON

ON the surface, beg gay Dubai sounds like a dangero prospect.

Ined, should you be unlucky enough to be ught engagg homosexual activy the regn, reports claim that punishment n range om 10 years prison, f, portatn and even the ath penalty. 4 Atralian expat Pl Ewart shar his experience of beg a gay man DubaiCred: Pl Ewart. Dpe this, Dubai is host to a thrivg unrground gay scene, wh men flockg to unofficial LGBT clubs wh ltle fear of the nsequenc, acrdg to Detaed Dubai.

Here, Atralian expat Pl Ewart shar his experience of beg a gay man Dubai. It’s 2am and the club is packed wh a sea of sweaty, gay men gettg their groove on to a Madonna classic — and I’m one of them. Nothg strange here you might thk, I mean, there are gay clubs the world over, right?

DUBAI FOR GAY UPLE - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM

4 Pl claims clubs are packed wh a sea of sweaty, gay men gettg their groove on to Madonna classicsCred: Pl Ewart. Dpe beg nservative by Wtern standards, this is where alhol and sex-starved Arabs flock to drov to get their fix — and that clus the gays.

GAY UPLE DUBAI - DUBAI FOM

From the get go, I’m unr no illns about Dubai’s official attu to homosexualy.

At my publishg pany, I’m told no uncerta terms to avoid g gay referenc wh stori which — when wrg celebry, pop culture and fashn — was particularly difficult. On the surface ndns for gay Dubaiians might seem bleak, but thanks to some quickly acquired gay iends I learn quickly that, spe the legali, a vibrant gay scene flourish. I break my Dubai gay club virgy at one of the most popular hangouts.

Enterg via an unrground r park on a Saturday eveng, my male iend and I enunter the uneven door polici that are rife throughout gay venu (a vague attempt to curb gay activy). 4 Pl says a vibrant gay scene flourish the Arab untry, spe homosexualy beg agast the lawCred: Pl Ewart.

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

Passg on that offer, I quickly meet an equally forward New Zealanr workg as crew for Emirat Airl (where a large portn of the cy’s gay ntgent work).

Though I had a boyiend (an English expat) for the bulk of my time the cy, my gay iends played the field extensively and I know om their rpective tal that there was no shortage of actn. Ined, wh a meltg pot of party-lovg Asi and Brs, lubrited wh large quanti of booze, no matter if you’re gay OR straight, bedhoppg is a cert. While Dubai has bee somethg of a gay Mec for Arabs om surroundg untri where there are even harsher views on homosexualy (you n’t get much harsher than the ath penalty, after all) gays the cy n’t afford to rt on their lrels.

Acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian and Gay Associatn, nsensual gay sex Dubai is punishable by up to 10 years prison. Bee the mentaly here is that gay men need to be terred om homosexual activy, police raids of clubs and private parti are mon. For a time, the thori even patrolled the plethora of Dubai malls, searchg for “obv” signs of homosexualy.

GAY UPLE DUBAI - DUBAI FOM

When unspectg gay men are entrapped, the nsequenc of their sexualy are pennt on their natnaly.

The hard le taken by Dubai officials has led to var reports of jtice makg ternatnal headl, but unfortunately, there are untls s of gay persecutn that undoubtedly still rema undocumented. Re: Dubai for gay uple.

I'm a gay 27 year old male, me and my fiancé have vised both Abu Dabhi and most recently Dubai and we loved !

BRISH GAY UPLE ‘TAED DUBAI AIRPORT WHILE STAFF LGHED ABOUT THEIR SEXUALY’

So y homosexualy is illegal over there but so is unmarried heterosexuals sleepg the same bed! We also have iends who are a gay uple and live out there and firstly they love but also say 's nothg to worry about, there is a growg gay muny out there but they jt don't flnt . Gay uple Dubai.

We are a gay uple one Indian (US Green Card) and one Amerin visg Dubai late Feb.

Is OK to vis given beg gay is not legal Dubai? Re: Gay uple Dubai. Apparenly there is a gay 'scene' here but is hidn?

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Swiss - I don't thk sayg they are married is an optn, the OP and subsequent qutns are om Gay upl. A double room for two men may be more of an issue and I would always advise gay mal to book a tw room.

Dubai nightlife for gay male tourists.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

Can four openly gay guys om Tel Aviv who never hi their sexual orientatn enjoy a vatn Dubai? As I was relaxg on a direct flight I took wh three of my iends to Dubai Internatnal Airport, I uldn't help but wonr: Would we be able to meet gay men the seasi Emirati cy whout gog unrground?

GAY DUBAI

Do the gay hookup and datg app Grdr pose a risk to your personal safety?

Jt Then, Flights From Israel to Dubai Began' A Mlim Woman and a Gay Jewish Man Are the Perfect Couple This Show Visg Dubai Is Like Standg on the Sil of a Gang Rape We found a real drag kgdom at a rooftop bar on top of a central hotel which has a gay lp every Friday night. After the wa, which provid time to observe numero gay men too-tight jeans who do too many squats, we go . Any gayer than that and we’d fat.

At first I thought this was my first enunter wh explic homophobia, but turns out that the ronavis rtrictns the cy ban dancg. Another g and tonic, some starg at a gay uple smokg a water pipe on the balny, and we head home. COVID panic at the Dis A somewhat ls formal gay bar nearby was a pleasant surprise.

PERIL AND PRIVILEGE: GAY EXPAT NIGHTLIFE DUBAI

Durg the nversatn, enhanced wh genero quanti of alhol, the picture beme clear: Immigrants to Dubai, particularly the gays among them, are often fleeg Arab or Eastern European untri where they had a much harr time. We fd a real drag kgdom at a rooftop bar which has a gay lp every Friday nightSamir, tall and rather shy, told me how he left his parents Moroc and hasn’t seen them for almost two years. People at the Mall of the Emirat Dubai, May 28, Ahmed Jadallah/RtersThere’s another place for gays to meet that’s a lot ls lorful but a lot more hectic: Grdr, the gay datg app.

Re: gay uple Dubai. Dubai is generally very permissive and a lot of thgs that are strictly illegal (drkg whout a licence, homosexualy, prostutn, sharg a room wh an unmarried hetero partner) are wily practised. I have -habg ex-pat gay iends livg here and they rry on their day-to-day liv as normal.

Obvly there is no gay 'scene' as such and even straight upl should do no more than hold hands when public.

DUBAI: GAY TRAVEL ADVICE (OM A LOL)

May be worth a post on the gay fom here as well.

A Brish gay uple have plaed about  treatment an airport Dubai – where lol gay men risk the ath penalty or life prison. Homosexualy is strictly illegal the Uned Arab Emirat, wh lol gay men riskg anythg om a fe to life prison or the ath penalty. Mr Charlton, who appears to have been unaware of the untry’s strgent anti-gay laws, plaed on the Emirat Facebook page that Emirat handlg staff at Dubai Internatnal Airport pulled his fay asi for “checks” when he rmed them they were gay parents.