Tunis gay
Many Faces of Same-sex attracted in Tunisia
In Tunisia gay life has many faces: from secretive post-marital same-sex-not-gay quickies among vertical husbands, to uninterrupted pre-marital youth same-sex-not-gay with friends, to totally gay friendship networks among other age peers, to monogamous boyfriend couples to discrete liaisons from the internet. It is not easy to label the &#;scene&#; here because it is not organized, not open, not admitted, yet it&#;s cruisy, sexy, internet-connected and quite populous. There is no LGBT organization or office.
During my visit I chatted with two very different homosexual men, one a young student at a local university and the other a retired Italian resident of Tunis now self-employed. Their gay worlds are similar and different.
A Youthful Student With a Long Future
Ari, a university pupil studying architecture, and I met at tea time and had creamy stout hot chocolate at a trendy contemporary coffee shop and later went for pizza across the street.
Ari is a gregarious gay youth of 20 maturing out of his twink years. Thoughtful, expressive, verbal (4 languages), in
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LGBTQ situation in Tunisia
Is Tunisia safe for gay travellers? A complex question. This is Northern Africa and as such will never be the best place to be openly lgbtq+. In reality, homosexuality i
Gay Guide Tunisia
According to article , homosexuality is illegal in Tunisia and can be punished with up to three years of imprisonment. Compared to other Muslim countries, convictions of homosexuals are less frequent, but the figures for recent years are still alarming: while 56 people were convicted in , were convicted in At the beginning of , one case caused international attention: A fresh student who reported rape by two men who allegedly robbed him of his possessions was finally sentenced to eight months' imprisonment for homosexual acts. Even tourists are not safe from the commandment, so be careful, especially when it comes to sex for sale: vile blackmail attempts could be the consequence. In a TV interview in , the Tunisian Minister of Human Rights rejected the demand for the abolition of article - on the grounds that release of expression had its limits and "perverse" homosexuals needed medical treatment. Homosexuals are subject to grave discrimination and physical aggression in the country. But there is progress: in the first official LGBT organisation in the state, Asso
At a café on the street, for two dinars or so (equivalent to $) one can while away a whole afternoon reading a newspaper, sipping a Coke, and perusing the passing crowd as if one were a local. Given the history of North Africa, Tunisians perform not have a single, known “look,” and some of my fair-haired, blue-eyed students—people of Berber extraction—are sometimes mistaken by other Tunisians for Westerners. (The Berber presence predates the Arab conquest of North Africa.) In deference to my hosts and as an attempt to “pass,” I never drank alcohol in general, just as I never wore shorts or T-shirts, and I learned a few words of Tunisian Arabic. However, I was never mistaken for a local. Something about my appearance—or perhaps it was the fact that I drank “cola-light”—always gave me away, though generally people assumed I was French rather than American.
What I almost never saw from my seat at my favorite haunt—the Café de Paris, chosen because, not attached to a hotel, it always attracted more Tunisians than tourists—were any signs of a visible, easily identifiable gay or lesbi