Gay night club dubai

Jack Kenworthy( Queer Travel Specialist )

Queer travel expert Jack Kenworthy turns 250+ metropolis adventures into your reference for safe, vibrant, and inclusively fabulous global journeys.

Dubai is a magnificent experimentation in combing intense Islamic traditions with a ruthlessly futuristic vision, all amidst an exquisitely desolate desert landscape.

Dubai is sleek rooftop terraces, vast shopping complexes, a world-class skyline, lavish infinity pools, scorching beach clubs and, well, just an excessive amount of wealth and gold. Many would argue this grand experiment has been a supreme success, but for the LGBT community, this leap into modernity is very much a facade.

So let’s be clear here…

As forward-looking and multi-culturally diverse as Dubai is, the absolute monarchy rulers here are definitely cherry-picking which parts of progress and modernity they long to embrace. In Dubai, and across the Joined Arab Emirates, it is still illegal to be gay.

As Islamic Sharia Law is applied, all sexual relations outside of a heterosexual marriage are considered a crime. The maximum penalty for a person convicted of homosexuality is ten years i

How can a sense of belonging be forged in a setting where one’s existence is forbidden? That is the question that LSE’s Dr Centner and his co-author Harvard’s Manoel Pereira Neto explore in their groundbreaking research into Dubai’s expatriate gay men’s nightlife.

But it was not an easy topic to research. Dr Centner explains: “It's an illegal, or criminalised, identity and arrange of behaviours and practices, so in a very general sense, it's a taboo. And taboo subjects are very often under-researched, sometimes because people own a hard time gaining access, gaining that reliance, but also because, even if people gain that access, there could be significant repercussions for themselves as researchers, or for the people who are the research participants.

“As two queer researchers, we were able to enter the worlds of relatively privileged Western gay expatriates. Secrecy is often the norm, but the field was familiar to us, through previous visits and analyze projects.”

These were indeed ‘parties’ ...[but] not bars identified as gay. Not a single venue’s webpage uses the word ‘gay’ or related euphemisms, nor act they hint at targeting

By Middle East correspondent Frank Gardner
The authorities in Dubai have shut down a nightclub for hosting a gay night featuring a transvestite DJ from Britain.
The Diamond Club was closed on the orders of Dubai's Crown Prince, General Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum, after thousands of flyers alerted the authorities.
The closure demonstrates how the Gulf states still take a tough public stand against homosexuality.
Even by Dubai's racy standards, the ''Fluff Night'' at the Diamond nightclub was too much.
The organisers of Dubai's first public queer night sent out 2,500 flyers, inviting residents of the Gulf emirate to come out of the closet.
Taboo broken
They offered a prize for the best-dressed transvestite, and the evening itself was hosted by a British transvestite DJ from a nightclub in Birmingham.
Like all the Gulf Arab states, Dubai officially frowns on homosexuality.
So, when government officials went to the club to watch, they closed the evening down and filed a report.
The Diamond Club has now been shut, but for the hundreds who attended its gay nighttime, a taboo has been broken.
Dubai is home to thousands of British expatriates, and it is attract

Hi!

The gay-scene in Dubai is really setting off now and tolerance is very high. (maybe not necessarily by the authorities, but by the general universal, bars & nightclubs - no problem)

You will watch many (especially Asian men) holding hands in Dubai. They have left their families in their abode countries, work here and send money to them... after many years of only seeing their wives once a year, I assume they turn to each other for comfort & companionship. So it's nothing new here.

The modern thing is, however, to see the Western queer community in full swing at parties all over town. It's not a problem, as long as you respect the similar rules that go for all other couples: this is a Muslim land and public shows or affection (kissing, groping, etc.) are not appreciated... they can even get you thrown out-of bars (me - guilty as charged... >cheeky grin) or in trouble with the police if it get's too "raunchy".

Some nightclubs that contain (an involuntary) yet happening gay-scene are
Jules Lock - Airport Meridien Hotel (gay Philipino band & singers)
Peppermint Club - Fridays @ Fairmont Hotel (stylish, chic, the place to be seen)
Carter's @ Wafi City (all clubs & bars in Wafi Town are

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