Exploring Morocco’s hidden gems: Attitude’s Travel Editor and his boyfriend travel to Tangier and beyond

“Before coming to Tangier, one should say goodbye to all friends — one might never see them again. People had come here for a brief holiday, to settle down and let the years go by,” wrote Truman Capote of how the city on Morocco’s northern coast captivated its foreign visitors.

Capote summered in Tangier in 1949. Still in his twink era at 25 years old, he had just published his first novel.

A young Truman Capote (Image: Wikipedia)

He was just one of a number of queer literary giants to spend time in the city. It also played host to Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs, who wrote Naked Lunch while high on heroin in the Moroccan city in the early 1950s.

Tangier, which looks across to Spain

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