Gay night club dubai
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 verb 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 include a hard occasion gaining access, gaining that trust, but also because, even if people secure 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 research projects.”
These were indeed ‘parties’ [but] not bars identified as gay. Not a
Dubai Club Punished for Gay Night/ Network, April 4,
By Gregg Drinkwater
SUMMARY: "Fluff night" may have opened people&#;s eyes, but it also led to the closing of the club that hosted Dubai&#;s first publicly advertised gay night.
A nightclub in the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai hosted a gay night last week, only to be shut down by government officials, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported.
The Diamond Club&#;s gay "Fluff Night"&#;Dubai&#;s first publicly advertised gay club night&#;featured a transvestite DJ from Birmingham, England, and a "best-dressed transvestite" contest, according to the BBC.
Alerted to the gay event by the thousands of publicity flyers distributed by the party&#;s organizers, local authorities closed the club for "violating Islamic laws and indulging in immoral activities" according to a report from the Khaleej Times, an English-language newspaper published in Dubai.
The instruct to close the club, issued by Dubai&#;s Crown Prince, General Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, was also seen by those i
By Middle East correspondent Frank GardnerThe 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 universal gay night sent out 2, 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 secure , but for the hundreds who attended its gay darkness,
Dubai: Hot and Gay
By Mike Boisvert.
Booze flows freely here, but only in hotels; the Nad Al-Sheba track hosts the world's richest horse race, sans betting; and many of the women are covered from head to toe.
Their culture allows men to hold hands in public, and it's considered normal for men to have sex with other men before and during marriage. They don't consider there is anything gay about their actions but don't get caught since sexual activity between men is referred to by lawmakers as an "unnatural offense" and is punished up to fourteen years imprisonment. Remember when the U.S. had such laws not that long ago?
Nonstop flights from Fresh York on Emirates airlines is enticing ever more gay Americans to join in the fun: jet-skiing on the gulf's superheated waters, sand-surfing in the desert, and meeting sheiks, swank Euros, and GIs on leave from Iraq in bars.
Arab and foreign gays socialize together in Dubai's "scene," which consists of gay-frequented nightclubs, single-sex beaches, and male-only hotel saunas -- none officially gay. Adj spots inc