This paper investigates the various ethical frames and emotions that gay men in Jordan draw upon when responding to internal conflicts and governmental interventions that occur in queer spaces in Amman. By visualizing queer spaces and places through the prism of ethics and emotion, it becomes possible to study how gay Ammanis understand, cope with, and harness personal and political tensions, both as individuals and as a community, across multiple scales. Based on a year and a half of ethnographic fieldwork between 2022 and 2023, including 20 formal interviews and numerous informal interactions, this paper explores the ways in which gay men in Jordan employ and transgress the ethic of “safety” as they seek to “protect” the queer community at large from government intrusion. Safety measures include, for example, ostracizing other queers, especially those identifying as trans or gender non-conforming, because their presence increases government surveillance and intervention. However, it is also not uncommon for gay men to intentionally transgress boundaries of safety as way to retaliate against other members, thereby deliberately risking the safety of community members and the spaces in which they meet. As such, by extrapolating the uses and meanings of “safety,” this paper extends the often-bifurcated research on ethics and emotion. By using safety, I show how an emotion can function simultaneously as an ethical framework and how emotio-ethical decisions subtend queer spaces across Jordan.