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Contents:

• BT GAY BARS BALI
• 'WE LIVE HERE': FEARS TOURIST TWEETS ON GAY LIFTYLE MAY BACKFIRE ON BALI'S LGBT MUNY
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• THE BEST KUTA GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS KUTA
• BALI · GAY BEACH
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

BT GAY BARS BALI

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.

Gay datg apps and media portrayg queer behavr as “normal” have also been banned. There are que a few queer-iendly bars, rtrants and rorts  Bali, and also an (unofficial) gay strip on Jalan Camplung Tand Road Semyak at the southern end of the island. Here you'll fd a number of trendy gay bars, rtrants, drag shows and queer-iendly beach bars.

Overlookg the street, this popular Bali gay bar has seen regular fac gather and new iends ma every night.

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

Known as the unofficial gay beach, Batu Belig Beach is a good place to vis for LGBTQIA+ travellers. While there is no longer a gay-owned fe, is still a queer area. Mixwell is a vibrant gay bar loted the heart of Bali’s gay district Semyak.

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.

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

The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple. They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando.

THE BEST KUTA GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS KUTA

Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients. In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office.

He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group. He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic.

To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church. “I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om.

BALI · GAY BEACH

Batu Belig Beach was home to a small gay-popular fé that had most of s astcture stripped down by the lol thori. The gay-popular beach area is close to the W Bali hotel and about 20 metr om the Grand Balisani Su rort.

8Audience RatgBased on 23 votLast updated on: 8 Aug 2023Last updated on: 8-Aug-2023Double Six Beach (Pantai 66)4Audience RatgBased on 24 votLoted near the ont of Hotel Kumala Pantai, the Double Six Beach area ed to be a popular spot wh gay sunbathers, particularly after the sun went down. Today, the 'gay beach' sectn and the rabow flag are all gone. Gay & Lbian Communy!

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

While Bali is one of the most tolerant and gay-iendly statns on the pla, you will not fd much the way of open gay liftyle except the touristic southwt astal area. Open gays you enunter will ually e om Java or other islands. That said, homosexualy is certaly not a ser matter or one requirg a moral judgement.

Murals The Hall of Jtice the Taman Gili luridly pict the punishments of hell, reprent a wi range of ss -- om ct and btialy to gossipg and fartg -- but no proscriptns agast homosexualy are rerd. Not surprisgly, Bali has been a famo haven for homosexuals, and a number of s renowned foreign rints lead fortable, open liv here. In mid-2012, two Indonian ISPs, IndoSat and Telkom, began blockg webs wh gay ntent.