LGBTQ Lerature: Farm Boys: Liv of Gay Men om the Rural Midwt

Contents:

• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS KOS
• IS KOS GAY FRIENDLY? - KóS FOM
• NU BEACH PARTIALLY GAY KOS - TIGAKI BEACH
• KOS BAR, CLUB & BEACH GAY FRIENDLY
• LGBTQ LERATURE: VICE PATROL: COPS, COURTS, AND THE STGGLE OVER URBAN GAY LIFE BEFORE STONEWALL
• LGBTQ LERATURE: FARM BOYS: LIV OF GAY MEN OM THE RURAL MIDWT
• GAY LIFE KOSOVO
• GAY CLUBS/BARS - KóS FOM
• GAY HOLIDAYS GREECE & THE ISLANDS
• REMEMBERG LGBT HISTORY: HOW WORLD WAR II CHANGED GAY AND LBIAN LIFE AMERI
• JEFF SHARLET GO TO RSIA FOR GQ TO INVTIGATE GAY LIFE: IT'S GRIM

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS KOS

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IS KOS GAY FRIENDLY? - KóS FOM

Me and my partner holidayed Kos last year for 2 weeks and had a great time - we stayed at the Aqua Blu Lambi - 2 other gay upl were also stayg there at the same time - partly due to beg an adults only hotel I gus. I have seen many many gay upl on holiday here that dont feel the need to hi which is amazg to be able to exprs your self and i m proud of our island beg so welg.

I have gay s and iends on the island and of urse they have a perfectly normal life, lovg fays, their jobs and love life! Boy toy is a Gayf riendly bar for guys but not exclively. There are not any exclively gay beach  Kos, however, the majory of the beach on the island are gay-iendly.

NU BEACH PARTIALLY GAY KOS - TIGAKI BEACH

To appreciate the impact, pare that ary and polil upheaval wh the ments om a gay male partner livg Europe: “My partner life is om Kosovo, and we know what gay life is all about Kosovo. Fay ti mean a lot to anybody there, but if you tell your fay that you are gay n easily mean, that you will loose all your fay and iends. There is no other way than hidg and ceptn to live Kosovo for somebody who is gay.

To add more to this dntg scene, nsir that the draft nstutn of of Kosovo was unr attack om Roman Catholic polil anizatns who fought agast any effort to protect gay people om discrimatn.

Although Kosovo has among Europe’s most progrsive anti-discrimatn laws public attus ntue to be very homophobic and is unclear and uncerta to what extent the anti-discrimatn law is applied. In 2007, a gay man om Kosovo was granted polil asylum the Uned Stat after prentg evince of repeated beatgs and harassment. Inter rearch reveals (as of March 2012) there is no gay rights based anizatn workg directly and properly gay rights.

KOS BAR, CLUB & BEACH GAY FRIENDLY

Other referrals scribe gay life Kosovo as beg “very unrground”. Prista or other Kosovan ci have no gay clubs, and there have so far been no gay pri paras.

In 2011 there was some effort to open the first gay bar the center of Prista soon closed soon due to media exposure and harmful ments om people.

LGBTQ LERATURE: VICE PATROL: COPS, COURTS, AND THE STGGLE OVER URBAN GAY LIFE BEFORE STONEWALL

Currently, the bt way to get ntact wh gay people is throughout social workg like Facebook, Gayromeo, Gaylbania.

Is the first webse that was created jt for Albanian gay muny pecially those livg Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia.

LGBTQ LERATURE: FARM BOYS: LIV OF GAY MEN OM THE RURAL MIDWT

That said, Charl and Fred report on their blog, “ Prista there is a big gay muny and many gay iendly plac you n go and feel ee; you jt need to ask the right persons for more . But when Arian go out for a drk wh his boyiend they appear jt iends – homosexualy remas a taboo Kosovo. “Our relign outlaws homosexualy, and extremists beat gays.

I’ve been physilly and emotnally abed so I keep the fact that I am gay to myself, ” Arian says. Wh the Albanian ernment’s latt proposal for legalisg same-sex marriag, and gay pri ncelled Belgra this weekend, gay rights have bee a hot topic across the Balkans. As far as gay rights are ncerned, Krasniqi said that “the ernment supports the law agast discrimatn, which clus discrimatn agast them”.

However, Arber Nuhiu om the human rights anisatn Elysium, which protects the rights of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr dividuals, told Balkan Insight that spe the law agast discrimatn, many gay men and lbians face abe and prejudice. This abpt openg and closure of a pneerg gay-iendly venue Prista has highlighted the embattled stat of this margalised muny. The media furor surroundg the rapid openg and closure of Kosovo’s first gay bar has exposed the prer posn of the gay muny this eply nservative, maly Albanian land.

GAY LIFE KOSOVO

The Pure Pure Club briefly h the limelight September when an onle news portal revealed that was beg advertised on a popular gay webse as “Prista’s first gay iendly bar”. But the venue closed soon after this unwanted publicy and is now beg renovated unr a new name, leavg Kosovo’s beleaguered gay muny feelg more isolated than ever.

But while the trendy youngsters dream of visa liberalizatn and of easier travel to the EU, young gays Kosovo have nowhere to go out and share dreams wh potential iends and partners. “The ls effemate a homosexual man Kosovo is, the ls he is likely to end up a suatn.

GAY CLUBS/BARS - KóS FOM

Most homosexuals Kosovo meet each other through social works aimed such as Gaydar or Gayromeo, anizg secret parti, often private rinc. But September, a member of Gayromeo announced the openg of a gay bar and rtrant near Prista’s football stadium lled the “Pure Pure Lounge Bar”.

While there was no attack on the bar, the publicy did attract unwanted attentn and a barrage of homophobic abe onle. A waer at the Lg bar, oppose the now funct Pure Pure, told Balkan Insight: “I heard that was a gay bar but I never went si. Another waer at the same bar said a former lleague had worked at Pure Pure and had waed durg a birthday party that doubled up as a gay event.

The publicy surroundg the bar’s stat not only led to a flurry of homophobic onle ments but also angered the lol gay muny. “Gays are a margalized group, so you know the nsequenc that those people may face – some of whom have fai. Civil society groups workg the field of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr rights say they rema margalised and stigmatised society.

GAY HOLIDAYS GREECE & THE ISLANDS

Acrdg to LGBT activist Sarah Maliqi, “Bee of the high level of homophobia this tradnal society, which homosexualy is nsired shameful and a taboo, the groups are often forced to hi their sexual inty. As far as broar civil rights for gays were ncerned, however, Krasniqi said that “the ernment supports the law agast discrimatn, which clus discrimatn agast them”. D, a gay-rights activist London, whose fay om Kosovo, says gays Kosovo rema ught a Catch-22 dilemma.

“The problem is that for a homosexual to sue his offenr, he would first have to openly adm that he was homosexual, ” he said. This also has a major impact on the abily of gay people to ‘e out, ’” she explaed.

REMEMBERG LGBT HISTORY: HOW WORLD WAR II CHANGED GAY AND LBIAN LIFE AMERI

“I know already what my parents thk of homosexualy, ” he said. Soclogist Lda Gia, om the Universy of Prista, says homophobia is a reflectn of Kosovo’s tradnal, patriarchal society but the suatn is changg. For now, unrstandg of homosexualy remas fairly limed among the general public, cludg the younger generatn.

Armend, a 22-year-old om Prista, reflects the homophobic views exprsed by many others. “As long as they don’t n around spreadg homosexualy they n do whatever they want their hom, ” he add. Bnik, 24, om Mrovi, believ gay people are ntamatg society wh their imported valu.

JEFF SHARLET GO TO RSIA FOR GQ TO INVTIGATE GAY LIFE: IT'S GRIM

“They thk homosexualy did not exist here before and that the ternatnal muny brought , ” he said. “They thk homosexualy jt ‘happens’ to people who are sexually experimentg wh the same sex and that for some be a mental issue and they end up beg gay. But he said he would still feel wary about the ia of beg iends wh someone who was clearly gay.

“It is simply the fact that people might mistake me for beg gay if they saw me wh someone who is, ” he said.