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

Indonia’s Island of the Gods has long been touted as one of Asia’s top gay statns, but even Bali is not immune om the natn’s spreadg anti-LGBT sentiment. * bali gay community *

Her scriptn of the island as a welg place for LGBT travellers was among the ments they, a Hdu-majory island and a tourist statn that attracts gay travellers, is nsired more open-md than other areas of Indonia, where discrimatn agast LGBT people is rife. Photograph: Firdia Lisnawati/APLGBT rints on the island, however, do not enjoy the same privileg as visors, said Arya, a program manager at Gaya Dewata Foundatn, an NGO that provis health and tnal servic for LGBT people.

Last year, thori announced they were vtigatg a villa that had marketed self as a statn for gay travellers, wh one official statg at the time that “here Bali we don’t regnise that culture”. ”Homosexualy is legal Indonia, except Aceh provce, but LGBT people lack legal rights and face wispread prejudice.

Exorcism and nversn therapy ntue to be imposed upon people, while the Indonian Psychiatrists Associatn (PDSKJI) classifi homosexualy, bisexualy and transsexualism as mental disorrs that n be cured through proper treatment. A study by Pew Rearch Center published 2020 found that only 9% of Indonians agreed that homosexualy should be accepted by has nied any wrongdog relatn to her bs activi, statg that she had not ma money Indonian piah Indonia.

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS BALI

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Gay rights Bali have terrated recent years, but Bali remas somethg of an oasis.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

It has a gay scene but ’s discrete.

Gay travelers need to rema alert.

CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

Bali is fely the most welg part of Indonia for gay travelers. LGBTQIA+ travelers are those who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, pl queer or qutng, tersex or asexual dividuals. Although homosexualy is legal most parts of the untry, there is still polil tensn and revisns to the untry's crimal are currently beg nsired which uld potentially crimalize gay sex and same-sex relatnships.

SEMYAK VILLA GO VIRAL FOR ALLEGEDLY TERG TO GAY MEN, LOL THORI EXPRS DISAPPROVAL

Gay datg apps and media portrayg queer behavr as “normal” have also been banned.

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