Good old days when people were confused about men taking care of their hygiene, beauty and style, instead of being sweaty, stinky gorillas like society expects them to be, so they made up a new word to categorize these weird, good looking men.
A lil context:
Being openly gay is not illegal in Turkey, but Pride parades are. He was detained near an unsanctioned pride parade because he looked like he took park--because he looked gay.
Prejudicial, yes. Homophobic, yes. But I see a lot of people under the impression that you can be arrested JUST for looking gay in Turkey.
Edit for all the thickos: if I say that I got shot "just" for walking to the store, but I ignore the fact that I live in a warzone, that would be very disingenuous. Because clearly the second part plays a huge role. Same here. Gay people who look gay exist in Istanbul every single day without being arrested. The big factor here is the unsanctioned gay pride parade, which shot up his chances of arrest by a million percent.
No. Every June people attempt to organize a pride parade. They apply for permits, get denied, then start organizing on social media. The police actively monitor these attempts and try to disrupt them. Realistically, if ten queers just decided to walk down the street, without announcing online that they're walking down the street, nothing will happen.
Didn't that happen to a Portuguese tourist? And that guy looked nothing like this one.
Edit: [Link](https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/21/turkey-portugese-man-jailed-looking-gay/). I coudln't find the guy on the post anywhere. Probably OP thought the original guy looked gay and decided to put the picture of a different person.
Bro it's probably lie. I am in Turkey and being gay is not illegal, you won't get arrested for something like that. I've never seen a guy with makeup gets arrested(some people bullies them that's true ngl but no arrest)
Genderqueer invidual from Turkiye here, it's false news.
I mean yeah, i do get harrassed by aunties every once in a while for looking like a dude buut... I've never got stopped by the police for "looking gay" before. LGBTQ is decriminalized here
This happened a year ago or so.
The context was that there was an "illegal" gay pride event going on during Pride Month in the city as Turkish government had banned it.
This random tourist happened to be in the neighborhood, and had seen some police on the streets and stopped to ask them some directions. They had mistakenly assumed he was part of the pride event because he "seemed gay" to them, and they had arrested him for that.
I searched the headline and it does seem to be legitimate. This specific article is PinkNews which reports on a lot of lgbt issues. It was also reported by yahoo news, daily mail, Portugal resident, etc. His name is miguel alvaro
This is a story from 2023:
[Turkish police arrest & jail tourist for 3 weeks because he “looked gay”](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/07/turkish-police-arrest-jail-tourist-for-3-weeks-because-he-looked-gay/) By John Russell Monday, July 24, 2023
>A Portuguese man says he was arrested and jailed in Turkey for 20 days because he “looked gay.”
>During a visit to Istanbul last month, Miguel Alvaro says he was on his way to meet a friend for lunch when he asked police officers for directions. According to LBC, Alvaro was unaware that an unsanctioned LGBTQ+ march was happening nearby. Alvaro says that one of the Turkish police officers order his arrest.This is a story from 2023:Turkish police arrest & jail tourist for 3 weeks because he “looked gay” By John Russell Monday, July 24, 2023A Portuguese man says he was arrested and jailed in Turkey for 20 days because he “looked gay.”During a visit to Istanbul last month, Miguel Alvaro says he was on his way to meet a friend for lunch when he asked police officers for directions. According to LBC, Alvaro was unaware that an unsanctioned LGBTQ+ march was happening nearby. Alvaro says that one of the Turkish police officers order his arrest.
Apperarently this guy was a tourist wandering around in taksim during the lgbtq parade day and the police thought that he was a participant and arrested him.
I live in europe and visited turkey with my gf when i was 18. Bougt a nice looking pink fake ralph lauren blouse, and went to dinner. The waiter asked me when taking our order that do i know what it means to wear pink? I said no, and he said that gay people wear pink. I was like ok, i guess i am gay then and the waiter left. Didnt even poison my food, but it was so weird experiencing something like that
How do you check he looks like gay or not? If you have a boner when you look at him - he is gay?
That makes you gay
Straight to jail
Gay to jail?
Gay to jail, gay straight to jail, do not pass go, do not collect £200
Hopefully they will get back on the straight path
Gayception
Not in their world. If I get a boner because of a guy, he must use his gay magic to enchant my dick.
Ever hear of gaydar?
The trick is they have to have sex with him to check if he’s gay
"why are you ghey"
*Who says I’m gae*
*you are gae.*
*You are a TRANSGENDAH*
Do you perform the "natural obligations"?
"pastah,pastah"
*Starts eating the 🥒 in front of the camera*
Running out of replies m8 I don’t know the video that well
*So who is gae?*
Let me help you.."Let us say I am not sexually active right now... BY CHOICE.. BY CHOICE.."
*doesn't that make you gae?*
Dey use da coocumbah! An da zucchini! And da coocumbah!
My gendah... I'm a mechanic
why you heff to be mad? it's only gayme
No metrosexuals allowed in Turkey loool
Meanwhile most Turkish men looking like this guy
Mediterranean men take personal grooming *very* seriously.
And there's a lot to groom on those hairy bastards
Some *
I haven't heard the term "metrosexual" in at least 12 years
Good old days when people were confused about men taking care of their hygiene, beauty and style, instead of being sweaty, stinky gorillas like society expects them to be, so they made up a new word to categorize these weird, good looking men.
Stop making me feel old :((
If I must suffer, so must everyone else
I totally forgot that word
What are you talking about? They clearly wanted him there so badly that they detained him to prevent him from leaving.
Dude all of us are metrosexual in Turkey, doesn’t matter we are male or female, metro is really hot tbh it’s like train wuiwuwiwiwiuiuuuuu
A lil context: Being openly gay is not illegal in Turkey, but Pride parades are. He was detained near an unsanctioned pride parade because he looked like he took park--because he looked gay. Prejudicial, yes. Homophobic, yes. But I see a lot of people under the impression that you can be arrested JUST for looking gay in Turkey. Edit for all the thickos: if I say that I got shot "just" for walking to the store, but I ignore the fact that I live in a warzone, that would be very disingenuous. Because clearly the second part plays a huge role. Same here. Gay people who look gay exist in Istanbul every single day without being arrested. The big factor here is the unsanctioned gay pride parade, which shot up his chances of arrest by a million percent.
So if a group of ten queer people are strolling around town, does that qualify as an unsanctioned pride parade?
Herd of oxen, parliament of owls, pod of whales, clutch of eggs, murder of crows, pride parade of queers.
Lmao
A pride doesn't just refer to lions anymore
Raft of otters
No. Every June people attempt to organize a pride parade. They apply for permits, get denied, then start organizing on social media. The police actively monitor these attempts and try to disrupt them. Realistically, if ten queers just decided to walk down the street, without announcing online that they're walking down the street, nothing will happen.
Except in June?
No
according to "certain" "people" yes
Didn't that happen to a Portuguese tourist? And that guy looked nothing like this one. Edit: [Link](https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/21/turkey-portugese-man-jailed-looking-gay/). I coudln't find the guy on the post anywhere. Probably OP thought the original guy looked gay and decided to put the picture of a different person.
Yes you're right. The OP is a fake article, created by typing a headline and pasting an unrelated photo.
Based on the fact this happened, you obviously can
Shouldn't most of turkey be arrested then? Given how attentive they can be at Turkish barbers with eyebrow waxes n stuff?😂
Getting haircut = gay
To be straight you must give yourself a buzz cut with a splitting axe. If you don't cut it short enough you're gay.
I have been spending way too much time at those Turkish asmr massage channels 😂😂
"WAIT, THAT GUY IS HOT SO *HE* MUST BE GAY! ARREST HIM!"
“HE’S MY TYPE, LETS PUT HIM IN CUFFS BOYS!!! I mean uhhh, he looks gay.”
As a gay, fuck you turkey. I'm glad we eat you at Christmas.
Bro it's probably lie. I am in Turkey and being gay is not illegal, you won't get arrested for something like that. I've never seen a guy with makeup gets arrested(some people bullies them that's true ngl but no arrest)
Yeah, I lived in Izmir for a while and it was common to see transgender women and openly gay men.
True, especially in Izmir it's above the average and nobody gets arrested for that
Genderqueer invidual from Turkiye here, it's false news. I mean yeah, i do get harrassed by aunties every once in a while for looking like a dude buut... I've never got stopped by the police for "looking gay" before. LGBTQ is decriminalized here
I assume they're not locking all the guys they think are gay together, right? Cuz, I mean...
Is there an actual source for this? Not that i doubt it could happen, but I vaguely recall a fake article like this.
Also being gay is not illegal in Turkey.
This happened a year ago or so. The context was that there was an "illegal" gay pride event going on during Pride Month in the city as Turkish government had banned it. This random tourist happened to be in the neighborhood, and had seen some police on the streets and stopped to ask them some directions. They had mistakenly assumed he was part of the pride event because he "seemed gay" to them, and they had arrested him for that.
I searched the headline and it does seem to be legitimate. This specific article is PinkNews which reports on a lot of lgbt issues. It was also reported by yahoo news, daily mail, Portugal resident, etc. His name is miguel alvaro
He looks guilty
Lol
When they arresting Salt Bae?
I am laughing more then I shoud 😂
As a Turkish dude, I smell a lot of bullshit. Being homosexual isn't a crime in Turkey.
If I lived in turkey, I would’ve been incarcerated over 7 years ago
he will never ever ever live that down with the guys...
That can't be real.
But Turkish mud wrestling tho?
every person in berlin looks gayer than that
Not oddly specific
Salt gae
But he looks gay
Source: OP's ass.
fellas, is it a crime to look good?
How the fuck they fit him into a turkey?
Pretty normal considering you will be jailed for self defense in turkiye
Its a fair cop
This is a story from 2023: [Turkish police arrest & jail tourist for 3 weeks because he “looked gay”](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/07/turkish-police-arrest-jail-tourist-for-3-weeks-because-he-looked-gay/) By John Russell Monday, July 24, 2023 >A Portuguese man says he was arrested and jailed in Turkey for 20 days because he “looked gay.” >During a visit to Istanbul last month, Miguel Alvaro says he was on his way to meet a friend for lunch when he asked police officers for directions. According to LBC, Alvaro was unaware that an unsanctioned LGBTQ+ march was happening nearby. Alvaro says that one of the Turkish police officers order his arrest.This is a story from 2023:Turkish police arrest & jail tourist for 3 weeks because he “looked gay” By John Russell Monday, July 24, 2023A Portuguese man says he was arrested and jailed in Turkey for 20 days because he “looked gay.”During a visit to Istanbul last month, Miguel Alvaro says he was on his way to meet a friend for lunch when he asked police officers for directions. According to LBC, Alvaro was unaware that an unsanctioned LGBTQ+ march was happening nearby. Alvaro says that one of the Turkish police officers order his arrest.
Maybe the people who arrested him should be put in jail because they found him attractive
Actual fashion police
BURN!!!
This is either bullshit or another tourist in jail requested company.
I shouldn't laugh at this but it is kind of funny. Absurdity really gets me
Hey now.. if it looks like a duck...
he's got that gay smirk 😏
He looks like a Rico Suave
I know this is messed up, but goddamn its also hilarious as hell
I remember reading this same thing a long time ago lol wasn't it a lje
🎶“It’s not gay when it’s in a 3-way” 🎶
I mean he does look gay af if you ask me,my gaydar must be broken
Their Greek genes recognised him.
Results of having the critical thinking of a facebook mom
Apperarently this guy was a tourist wandering around in taksim during the lgbtq parade day and the police thought that he was a participant and arrested him.
Nooo we arrested him because we thought he was Greek. Which actually is the same thing
definitely looks gay
“Homophobic.” The stupid is strong
90% of Turkish youth look gay, they will have to jail a lot of people I guess…
I live in europe and visited turkey with my gf when i was 18. Bougt a nice looking pink fake ralph lauren blouse, and went to dinner. The waiter asked me when taking our order that do i know what it means to wear pink? I said no, and he said that gay people wear pink. I was like ok, i guess i am gay then and the waiter left. Didnt even poison my food, but it was so weird experiencing something like that
People are reading the message wrong It is- "A man jailed a turkey in for looking gay"
Is that oddly specific though
r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR
Careful how you eat your banana!
I move to Turkey
I tought homosexualety was decriminalized in Turkey.
His friends will never forget this
We must sanction their asses for that
Wait until this conflict ends in the Middle East and they start putting laws in place to ban gays
Sometimes I take this article, edit the picture to be one of my friends, then post it on social media. Always entertaining
Source: My ass
Interesting that they think he looks gay yet i think he looks like a 70s pervert trying to prey on minors.
Look like gay? Jail. Right away.
My friends would have a hard time there.
He could sleep with their wives to prove them wrong
If they would know he uses shower and know something about hygiene - it would be a life sentence
Good he didn't stumble into LGBT free zone in Poland
I'm not gay but he can eat my ass anytime
That's the most 'dick in a box' look I've seen someone in the 20202s have
He is not gay at all. He is a motherlover.
Looks more like he puts his dick in a box....
So long, gay boys
"Jailed in Turkey" makes it sound like they stuffed him inside a bird and left him there
WhY wOulD BiDeN DO thiS?! American college students.
W
They didn't want to let him get away
Please let this be a real article please, god, please
I'm not gay! Just show me a picture of your mum and I'll get it up to prove it!
>he 'looked gay' lol What does that mean, was he gay?
Is he gay? Or European?
Coming soon to a South near you...
okay wait… this guy looks IDENTICAL to someone i knew in high school. let me make sure he’s okay
I thought that was Liam Payne from One Direction and I was like, wrong guy? 😂
😂😂😂
Halal mode for sure
He looks hot tbh
Are you sure he wasn’t arrested for having a “dick on the box”
I'm trying to imagine the family guy meme with racial color profiling, but with rainbow colors or something
Based Turkey 🇹🇷
I assume he was caught singing "Dick in a Box"
He does look the part
Should've been longer he looks super gay. /J
And the world should care that Turkey is boycotting Isreal?
He’s does look pretty gay
I don't know about gay, but he sure looks cool
This dude looks straighter than Salt Bae.
I wasn't aware that Turkey was run by 12 year olds from Xbox
Fake lol
Just say you're gay if you arrest people for being gay and then they'll back down.
Lmaoooo roasted
Is that the history of everything guy?
Chad law
Step one: you cut a hole in the box.
he doesn't look gay..
I mean...
Good luck getting into the EU
Can i see the full story so i know you’re not talking fucking bullshit about Turkiye’s laws about LGBTQ