Can sways to a throbbing electro beat in one of Istanbul’s most popular gay clubs. He and Emre have travelled here from their small hometown in the east of Turkey to get a taste of gay nightlife and to live, if only for a few days, as openly gay.
“We can’t do this at home,” Can says. Emre nods in agreement.
Together they revel in the space, as if to squeeze as much of themselves out into the world before they head back home to small towns and secret lives.
Like Can and Emre, thousands of LGBT people from across Turkey and in the region flock to Istanbul and other large cities for Click image here to go to full story.
Joti Heir 