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Contents:

• MR GAY SYRIA
• ‘MR GAY SYRIA’: FILM DOCUMENTS LIV OF LGBTI SYRIAN REFUGE
• MR. GAY SYRIA
• FDG 'MR GAY SYRIA': NEW FILM HIGHLIGHTS ABE OF LGBTQ SYRIANS
• MR GAY SYRIA - FILM SCREENG
• MR GAY SYRIA
• MR. GAY SYRIA
• AYşE TOPRAK ON HER GROUNDBREAKG DOCUMENTARY MR. GAY SYRIA

MR GAY SYRIA

Gay Syria follows two gay Syrian refuge who are tryg to rebuild their liv. He is a barber Istanbul, livg a double life between his nservative fay and his gay inty... He is a barber Istanbul, livg a double life between his nservative fay and his gay inty.

‘MR GAY SYRIA’: FILM DOCUMENTS LIV OF LGBTI SYRIAN REFUGE

8EOBe the first to reviewContribute to this pageSuggt an ed or add missg ntentWhat is the English language plot outle for Mr Gay Syria (2017)?

"Mr Gay Syria, " a documentary about the liv of Syrian LGBTI refuge Turkey premiered England at the Sheffield Film Ftival this June.

MR. GAY SYRIA

Director Ayse Toprak follows two gay Syrian refuge, who fd humor and iendship tryg tim. When “Mr Gay Syria” premiered at the Sheffield Film Ftival England this June, took viewers by surprise. For starters, the documentary revolv around a ltle-spoken of muny: gay Syrian refuge.

Married wh a child, 24-year-old Sabat liv Istanbul where, unlike Syria, homosexualy isn’t outlawed – the UNHCR timat 1, 900 LGBTI refuge are harbored Turkey – but the muny is still vulnerable.

Hasso, meanwhile, is a Syrian refugee and LGBTI activist livg Berl on a missn to send the first Mr Gay Syria to Mr Gay World 2016, to raise awarens of LGBTI issu Syria.

FDG 'MR GAY SYRIA': NEW FILM HIGHLIGHTS ABE OF LGBTQ SYRIANS

But nontg LGBTI issu isn’t the only way that “Mr Gay Syria” surpris.

The Mr Gay Syria and Mr Gay World pageants were really ed as a narrative thread to talk about the (LGBTI) issu and the liv of the characters. One of the first thgs he said was: “I’m gay.

I learned later that he is a big LGBTI activist Syria – and he had this dream to take LGBTI Syrian men to an ternatnal ntt lled Mr Gay World.

MR GAY SYRIA - FILM SCREENG

He knew that unls he did somethg outrageo, like takg the first Syrian to Mr Gay World, no one would listen to his e. Jt bee they’re gay don’t mean they aren’t refuge – they all share a mon sty wh lns of Syrian refuge, alg wh nflict beyond their ntrol and fdg new hom where they n feel like they belong. He’s young, his early 20s, and livg a double life between his very nservative fay on the outskirts of Istanbul and his gay life the middle of the cy.

What he’s gog through as a gay man – married to a woman, livg a nservative world, and what that woman is gog through as well – is so mon the Arab world. He appli for Mr Gay Syria and, his terview, the (judg) ask him: “Is out of urage or spair that you’re attendg this ntt?

MR GAY SYRIA

And Mr Gay Syria gave that to them.

We know our way around Turkey, so filmg isn’t so hard, but we didn’t advertise to the police that we are filmg a gay story. I don’t know what would have happened if we told them was a gay film.

MR. GAY SYRIA

The gay pri para, for example, ed to have more than 100, 000 people jo, om all walks of life. That’s why Mr Gay Syria is such a powerful muny. Gay World ntt promis two gay Syrian refuge Istanbul an pe om their liv and an answer to visibily.

From arrts to honor killgs to ld-blood murrs, when Mahmoud Hasso saw the rights of Syria's lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny trampled the btal civil war, he wanted to fd a way to tell the the midst of war, Hasso set out to fd Syria's "Mr Gay" to send to an ternatnal bety pageant. Hasso, a Syrian journalist and gay rights mpaigner, saw LGBTQ people targeted by all sis Syria's six-year-old nflict.

A scene om the new documentary "Mr Gay Syria"L Films D'Antoe/Co Film/Toprak Film"Wh the war, genr-based vlence reached a peak, " said Hasso, 42.

AYşE TOPRAK ON HER GROUNDBREAKG DOCUMENTARY MR. GAY SYRIA

"His qut to fd "Mr Gay Syria" is now the subject of a documentary directed by Ayse Toprak, a Turkish journalist for whom Hasso worked as a documentary, to be screened at the Sheffield documentary ftival Bra on Tuday, picts the liv of gay and bisexual Syrians Istanbul as they pete for a place the Mr Gay World JUST ISLAMIC STATEWhen anti-ernment protts started ci across Syria 2011, Hasso hoped one of the out would be more eedom for LGBTQ uprisg sparked hop of more rights for mori a untry where homosexualy is illegal, and people started g out about their sexual orientatn, talkg about gay rights and women's rights, Hasso the first few months of the civil war that ensued, seemed as though Hasso's hop had e te. In the most notor example, rights groups have acced Islamic State ants Syria and Iraq of killg dozens of gay men by throwg them om buildgs or stong men Syria n face arrts, "honor killgs" at the hands of fay members, or murr by Islamic State and other ant CONTESTHasso, who had worked Syria wh Iraqi sexual and genr mori, cid to shed light on the ab by sendg a Syrian to the Mr Gay World bety pageant Malta last year.

"I had the ia of tryg to create a media buzz around the suatn which also highlights the Syrian LGBT refugee problem, " Hasso though the petn's wner, He, did not make to the event bee of visa rtrictns, Hasso himself traveled to Malta to raise awarens of the persecutn gay Syrians says the film will document their experienc for future generatns. Lotn: Hastgs Muum and Art GalleryTo Celebrate Refugee Week and June PRIDE Month, The Refugee Buddy Project: Hastgs, Rother and Wealn together wh HMAG are lighted to offer an eveng at the cema wh some marvello tradnal Syrian Gay Syria follows two gay Syrian refuge who are tryg to rebuild their liv.

Will the dream e te or will the refugee crisis and the harsh nsequenc of beg gay the Mlim world shatter to piec? This screeng will be followed by a panel discsn hosted by Lbians and Gays Support the Migrants, and cludg Lra Clarke, -Founr and Director of EggTooth as well as one of our project participants Basil who has direct experience of the them of film.