Diplomatic tensn reportedly risg between Uned Stat and Jamai over gay Amerin diplomat

Contents:

• GAY JAKARTA, JAVA
• KOH SAMET BEACH THAILAND | MOST POPULAR GAY ISLAND UPDATE 2020!
• INDONIA'S GAY MUNY DRIVEN UNRGROUND AFTER POLICE RAIDS
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
• SPA & TERAPI SPHXJAKARTAMENUHOTELDISKON HOTELBAR & KLUBPIJATTOKOTOURCY GRATISPETA GAYSPHX SPA & THERAPY
• GAY R JANEIRO
• THE BT GAY BEACH EUROPE

GAY JAKARTA, JAVA

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INDONIA'S GAY MUNY DRIVEN UNRGROUND AFTER POLICE RAIDS

3), a gay-popular Bellag Boutique Mall fé/rtrant, serv French-style cuise; by most nights but pecially on weekends. Ostensibly straight, had a weekend gay subtext among the younger guys. Jakarta has several gay male-oriented sna/massage parlors and several more hotel facili, outwardly straight but discreetly cisy spots for lols and visors to mix; the hotels Meridien, Millenium, Mulia and Sultan among them.

Millennium Hotel Sirih (Jalan Haji Fachd 3, Jalan Thamr District), small but good facili mastream hotel, popular wh gay men; sna and steam room, gym, outdoor pool, body scbs and massage servic. Swiss-Belhotel Mangga Bar (Jalan Karti Raya 57), North Jakarta mastream hotel wh gym, large door pool, steam room, dry sna, spa and massage servic; popular wh lol gay men. Life for gay men Jakarta beme more difficult 2017 as police raid the Atlantis Sna one Sunday eveng last May, and taed over 140 male staff and ctomers, cludg four foreigners.

Homosexualy per se is not illegal most of the natn, and there are long-standg tradns of same-sex bondg. Even before events of this year, the prev two years had seen closgs of some gay bs and webs, and the removal of sexually suggtive imagery by those that remaed.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

Print Joko Widodo had said to the BBC that "there should be no discrimatn agast anyone, " but ments by other officials enuraged discrimatn agast, and physil attacks on gay men by both law enforcement officials and lol vigilant.

The fense mister, Ryamizard Ryacudu, has lled homosexualy a natnal secury threat; part of a "proxy war" waged by foreign stat. The webse of Appolo, the gay nightclub is down, their twter is ozen, and the club was reported to be closed a November 2017 Travel Gay Asia review. The facebook page of T1, the other gay sna which reopened after Ramadan, still works low-profile mo whout recent updat, but may also have closed.

For two long reads on both tradnal and changg attus the untry, see: the May 2017 paper by Mirna Nadia: Shiftg Boundari and Contentns: The Regulatn of “Victimls Crim” Indonia; and the Wikipedia article, Homosexualy Indonia. Other recent articl: Indonia’s Crackdown on Gay Men Mov From Bars Into the Home by Jefey Hutton, ©The New York Tim, Dec 20, 2017.

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GAY R JANEIRO

This beach is home to the famo Tub Tims Rorts and is always popular wh Gay Samet-ers durg the day. JAKARTA (Rters) - When an angry mob of Islamists threatened to burn down a place hostg a gay and lbian film ftival Jakarta 2010, Indonian police me to protect those stagg PHOTO: An Indonian man is publicly ned for havg gay sex, Banda Aceh, Aceh provce, Indonia May 23, 2017. Indonia’s Islamists have long sought to crimalize gay sex.

Film ftival Jakarta, has prevly broken up what they said were gay parti and then urged the police to ta the men. But what is sendg a new chill through the gay muny is that police seem to have taken on the vice patrol role themselv. In May, officers taed 141 men a raid on the Atlantis sna, accg them of volvement a gay prostutn rg a part of Jakarta that is also home to many heterosexual “spas”.

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CONGRESSIONAL LETTERWh the exceptn of the ultra-nservative Aceh provce northern Sumatra, where Islamic law is enforced and two men were publicly flogged last month for gay sex, homosexualy is legal Indonia, the world’s most populo Mlim nied targetg the LGBT police raid the Atlantis and the Surabaya hotel bee the gathergs there had ed “turmoil the muny”, natnal police spokman Rikwanto said. Congrs sent a letter to the Indonian ernment last week, statg their ncern over the reports of possible human rights ab targetg the gay muny. Print Joko Widodo last year gave qualified support for the gay muny, tellg the BBC “there should be no discrimatn agast anyone”, but noted homosexualy is not popular his untry.

Homosexualy remas a taboo topic wh the public, which is why the gay muny gathers away om the public eye snas and unrground parti. A Pew Rearch Center poll 2013 found 93 percent of rponnts Indonia disagreed that “society should accept homosexualy” ON SOCIAL MEDIAActivists say ntroversial anti-pornography laws, unr which offenrs n face up to 15 years’ jail, were beg mised agast some of those round up durg the recent raids Jakarta.

He cled to give his full name or place of work, but nohels pledged he would not be terred om visg gay bars Jakarta. Amnty Internatnal said the police raids were further evince of an “creasgly hostile environment” for the gay muny, fueled over the past year by “reckls, flammatory and accurate statements ma by public officials apparently unr the guise of ‘fendg public moraly’. ”Vice Print Juf Kalla last year asked the Uned Natns Development Programme to stop $8 ln of fundg of LGBT-related activi Indonia, while Defence mister Ryamizard Ryacudu has suggted homosexualy was part of a “proxy war” waged by foreign stat.