It’s hard to believe that any gay or transgendered person would risk going to most of the Muslim world as dangerous as such a place is for such a person. In Iran, gays are executed. In other Muslim countries they are arrested or imprisoned.

In largely secular Turkey (now ruled by a Muslim oriented political party) being gay is legal, but very highly disapproved of by police and authorities. The gay refugees from Muslim fundamentalist Iran fleeing for their very lives from likely execution if they remain in Iran, have a very hard time in Turkey. Those fleeing Iran I read are required to live only in small towns and cannot get work or education and without prospects of going to a friendlier third country or soon getting funds, find themselves eating out of their neighbors’ garbage etc. Israel is the only Middle Eastern land where domestic partnerships are available by law and Tel Aviv is likely the best place to be gay in all Israel.
So Turkey and Israel are only countries in the Middle East as well as Azerbaijan a Muslim Middle East style country to the north of Iran (and speaking a language related to Turkish) where being gay is legal but not really approved of. Same for the Christian lands of Armenia and Georgia bordering Turkey.

I know of a gay male couple who are going to visit Istanbul in northern Turkey, an OK place to go to a magnificent city and one of the few places in the Middle East I’d go to.

But nowhere in the Arab world places like very modern and cosmopolitan Dubai where otherwise not scenically beautiful were it not for the glitz and the modern architecture and where being gay is officially illegal, would I (being a western gay man) go.