'We live here': fears tourist tweets on gay liftyle may backfire on Bali's LGBT muny | Bali | The Guardian

Contents:

• 'WE LIVE HERE': FEARS TOURIST TWEETS ON GAY LIFTYLE MAY BACKFIRE ON BALI'S LGBT MUNY
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS BALI
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS BALI
• BALI · GAY BEACH
• BALI GAY BARS & CLUBS

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

Tips for Gay and Lbian Travelers Bali. In Bali you will fd a relatively rich gay scene although not one that is openly flnted.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS BALI

While homosexualy is accepted, any public display of romance, whether straight or gay, is owned upon. The Indonian legal age of nsent for straight and gay sex is 16. Bali is now a gay-iendly place, and is unlikely that gays will enunter any problems while on holiday, pecially the touristy areas of the south.

The bt place to base yourself is Semyak, wh s open gay scene and plenty of gay-owned and gay-iendly acmodatns, bars, and nightclubs. There is also a fabulo gay cisg area north of Petenget beach.

For up-to-date rmatn on the bt plac to stay and Bali's gay scene check out the followg webs:;;;; and Lombok, a Mlim island, owns upon homosexualy and you will fd difficult to fd suable acmodatns and acceptg people. "Therefore, the laws do place risks for members of the LGBT muny, bee gay marriage is illegal Indonia.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS BALI

"Apart om the sex outsi marriage provisn, there's also a provisn that prohibs habatn, so that also mak possible that gay upl that live together Indonia n be arrted. 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.

BALI · GAY BEACH

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”.

BALI GAY BARS & CLUBS

”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.

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