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Contents:

• GAY INDONIA TRAVEL GUI
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• THE BEST INDONIA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS INDONIA
• 'WE LIVE HERE': FEARS TOURIST TWEETS ON GAY LIFTYLE MAY BACKFIRE ON BALI'S LGBT MUNY
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

GAY INDONIA TRAVEL GUI

Advot have nceled a regnal gatherg of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) activists Indonia’s pal, Jakarta, rponse to harassment and ath threats om Mlim nservativ. Text 'GAYTRAVEL' to 1-800-GAY-TRAVEL (1-800-429-8728). — Travel Guis wh a Gay Perspective.

Gay Indonia. It will be a glor month to be a gay fan. Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23.

A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021. While I wish each gay-iendly bar Semyak n well anf acodate people to have life, I thk MixWell vt more on s sound system and s playground. Dédé Oetomo has been the founr and tstee of the GAYa NUSANTARA Foundatn, which has been mpaigng for the equaly and welfare of genr and sexual mori Indonia sce 1987.

Before that, he was active Lambda Indonia, which he scribed as “the first gay anisatn” the untry. The lecturer and scholar, who has been openly gay for about 40 years, says most Che Indonians were now “more or ls” ee but other forms of discrimatn persist.

” The legislatn would force gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people to unrgo rehabilatn at a seri of religly-based treatment centers that would hypothetilly be opened across the nservative archipelago.

THE BEST INDONIA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS INDONIA

If they do not readily subm to rehabilatn, their fay members would be pelled to report draft bill also claims that LGBTQ people are a “threat” to the nuclear fay and likens homosexualy to ct and Mujahid, a supporter of the legislatn and a member of the Gerdra Party, reerated those assertns ments to the Indonian media outlet Jakarta Post. ”“The practice of homosexualy, " she said, "do not dispt the future of mankd on a fay basis?

”De Oetomo, -founr of the Indonian LGBTQ group Gaya Nantara Foundatn, believ the legislatn is merely another attempt on the part of lawmakers to target LGBTQ people after the failed attempt to crimalize homosexualy two years ago.

Acrdg to Oetomo, the ernment's goal is to “create a moral panic” Indonia, which historilly tolerated gay people until the ernment began phg anti-LGBTQ bills a few years ago.

'WE LIVE HERE': FEARS TOURIST TWEETS ON GAY LIFTYLE MAY BACKFIRE ON BALI'S LGBT MUNY

Unlike neighborg Malaysia, Indonia’s crimal s — a relic of the lonial era — do not mentn homosexualy, although nservative provc like Aceh have their own punishments unr lol Shariah laws.

“I have actually e across young mothers who are aaid their children will be transgenr, gay or lbian, ” Oetomo said. In October 2017, an timated 51 people were arrted a stg operatn on a sna Jakarta popular wh gay men, while a mob anized by the Islamic Defenrs Front raid the headquarters of an HIV preventn group last year.

Last year, Mahyeldi Anshallah, mayor of Padang, the pal of Wt Sumatra, personally supervised a seri of forced exorcisms on a group of 10 women who were arrted and charged wh homosexualy. “Except for the rabidly homophobic provc like Aceh, Wt Sumatra and Wt Java, life actually go on as ual.

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

Homosexualy is legal most of Indonia, but attacks on the muny have been on the rise recent years. Cred: PixabayIn Jakarta, on the eveng of Augt 29, 2020, a 31-officer police un raid a private “gay party” of 56 men a hotel, arrtg and chargg ne, the alleged event anizers. ” Homosexualy is legal Indonia, apart om the nservative provce of Aceh, but attacks on the muny om policians, police, nservative thk tanks, and Islamist and other relig groups have been on the rise recent years.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Rpondg to a strg of “gay-bashg mpaigns” by policians, the Jakarta Post published an edorial statg the untry “is wnsg the emergence of ‘Tmpism, ’ where spng hate is beg the new norm Indonian polics. ”“The list of ernment officials or policians makg cendiary statement agast the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny, which is clearly fensels a natn that tends to simplify homosexualy as a s, is already lamentably long, ” read the edorial. The 2008 Law on Pornography prohibs the “creatn, dissematn or broadstg of pornography ntag viant sexual terurse, ” which stat clus sex wh rps, sex wh animals, oral sex, anal sex, lbian sex, and male homosexual sex.

Between September and December 2017, seven men were found guilty unr the law and sentenced to between 18 and 30 months prison; 58 people were arrted at a popular gay club Jakarta; and a further 141 people were arrted at a sna, wh 10 of the men ultimately beg sentenced to between two and three years prison. All members of the gay muny should be able to travel where they want and enjoy the experienc Indonia has to give, but ’s important to be aware of the suatn before travelg.

The Legal Suatn In Gay Indonia. As stands, same-sex sexual activy is still legal most provc although there is a strong movement to crimalize gay sex and is currently beg discsed ernment.

An anti-pornography law that also forbids sex parti and ‘viant sexual acts’ are often over-broadly terpreted and ed to target LGBT people; this is ed as the exce behd the growg number of police raids on meetg pots for the Indonian gay muny. Islamic anizatns have put a lot of prsure on the ernment to crack down on the gay populatn, and sce 2016 there has been a rise anti-LGBT rhetoric g om policians and public figur, as policians try to e moral issu to w vot. Tradnally Indonian society, there was a fair amount of tolerance towards gay people, provid they stayed discreet and quiet about their private liv.

A lot of the gay scene happened unrground, and gay upl would rarely be publilly livg together or a relatnship. There have been creasg numbers of police raids and asslts on the gay muny, forcg the closure of gay bars and clubs (outsi of Bali). In 2017 Jakarta’s last remag gay club closed down.

Over time, however, as the public discsn around homosexualy has bee more ght and there have been high-profile sndals volvg celebri and homosexual misnduct, the natnal broadstg missn troduced a policy banng programm om portrayg LGBT behavr as ‘normal.