Tonight two new
parties open their doors for gays and lesbians of Beirut and
beyond! RGB, an extraordinary and pulsating party just relocated
from Amman to Beirut and has its
By Dan Littauer, Editor and
AT, Beirut correspondent of Gay Middle East
29.10.2010
It has been over a month and Acid, Beirut’s famous LGBT
night club, has remained firmly shut. “AT”, our Beirut
correspondent, has received an unconfirmed (with the owners,
who could not be reached) report that the club, in fact, has
unfortunately been shut for good. According to the report,
upon its closure in early September, about 10 people were
detained for drug possession. It remains unclear, however,
if charges were brought forward against some or any of
them. If this report is true then indeed this seems very
uneven handed, why target Acid and not the many other...
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Forced
closure of Beirut’s popular LGBT club Acid!
By Dan Littauer,
Editor of Gay Middle East - 13.9.2010
Lebanon’s popular gay blogger, BeirutBoy, thought he and a friend
were about to have a fabulous night out in one of his favourite
clubs in town: Acid Night Club (Sin El Fil). But to their
disappointment they received a phone call informing them the club
was closed just before their arrival...
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Beirut is
launched as a LGBT destination with the first ever gay
familiarization tour of Lebanon!
28.7.2010
GME News
San
Francisco, Barcelona, Sydney, and … Beirut? As surprising as it
sounds, the Lebanese capital is fast becoming a popular gay
destination. In fact, The New York Times dubbed Beirut as "the
Provincetown of the Middle East" in a 2009 article, while the
Dutch
Winq
magazine named it "the (gay) party capital of the Middle
East."
Bertho Makso, the International Gay
and Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) ambassador to
Lebanon, is directing the first familiarization tour and
symposium to Lebanon for professionals who work in the LGBT
travel market...
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Lebanon: Owners of several movie theaters
was arrested
17.9.2009
BEIRUT: General Security said Wednesday that
Lebanese authorities had arrested the owners of several
movie theaters. The men were arrested in the Bourj Hammoud
and Nabaa suburbs of Beirut for screening pornography, in
addition to “facilitating homosexual encounters” inside
those theaters, a statement said. Those arrested were handed
over to the Judiciary.
Beirut: Hundreds attend
launch of book by lesbians
Monday,
June 01, 2009
BEIRUT: Hundreds of people gathered at Beirut's
Medina Theater on Saturday for the launching of "Bareed Mista3jil,"
(or "Mail in a Hurry"), Lebanon's first ever book about the
experiences of gay women and transgenders. A collection of 41
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Lebanon: First gay protest in
Beirut -
23.2.2009
Lebanon is often presented as the exception in the Middle
East -- liberal, multi-confessional...
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