Gay rights e to the fore as Lebanon prepar to vote | CNN

Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS IN LEBANON
• GAY RIGHTS E TO THE FORE AS LEBANON PREPAR TO VOTE
• EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
• GAY LEBANON

GAY RIGHTS IN LEBANON

Homosexualy⚢✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)Gay Marriage⚭✖ UnregnizedCensorship✔ No censorshipChangg Genr✖ Legal, but requir surgeryNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsDonatg Blood✖ Banned (fe ferral)Conversn Therapy✖ Not banned.

Public OpnRearch atttus towards LGBTQ+ issu Lebanon have intified a strong opposn to LGBTQ+ rights, reflectg unrlyg homophobic sentiments.

GAY RIGHTS E TO THE FORE AS LEBANON PREPAR TO VOTE

Lebanon Surveys Of Lebane between 15 and 80 years had severe homophobic on Homosexualy of Lebane people thk homosexualy is never jtifiableHistoryHomosexual activy Lebanon? Illegal (imprisonment as punishment) Acrdg to Lebane Law, homosexualy is met wh up to 1 year prison acrdg to article 534 of the Lebane Penal .

When to gay rights, Lebanon is known as one of the more liberal untri the Middle East – yet homosexualy has had a plited legal stat. “The life of a Lebane gay man Beit is siar to that of any other Lebane cizen based Beit, addn to exprsns of hate and discrimatn based on our sexual orientatn, ” says Hadi Damien, iator of Beit Pri, which was held for the first time 2017. “The people behd (the Arabic translatn) are motivated by their homophobia based on their misunrstandg of sacred scriptur and based on their prenceived ias about homosexualy, ” he adds.

EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI

Four ndidat who publicly backed the LGBTQ muny won seats the electn – though Azzi says is not known whether their support for gay rights played a role their victory. It was a place where gay people, mostly men, were able to make out wh each other a public place an Arab longt-nng gay bar Beit is Bardo, a bar that wouldn’t look out of place East London or Hell’s Kchen.

At Mashrou' Leila gigs Lebanon, you’ll see gay fans the dience holdg up rabow the distant days of the Ottoman Empire, the Wt perceived the East to be more nt and sexually permissive. Gay men have reported that they have had their phon searched at route checkpots, often endg arrts and beatgs for havg gay datg apps such as Grdr.

GAY LEBANON

WhatsApp has end-to-end encryptn on all s msag, and basic digal secury such measur as a screen lock are all sential for gay travelers and lols ’ll fd a vibrant gay scene Beit, but discretn is advised. Posh is a great gay club and ’s always packed at weekends, but the management keep thgs unr the radar to plate the thori.

Gay culture is there but 's hidn, as was the Wt until was Lord Byron who wrote of "marble palac of sherbet and sodomy" the Ottoman Empire. The difference this time around: For the first time Lebane history, electoral ndidat are promotg gay rights, markg the most high-level endorsement of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr protectn the Arab world.

The vio featurg Rhayem and others like direct viewers to a webse that lists ndidat who have publicly lled for the crimalizatn of homosexualy, as well as those who have e out agast the move. But that announcement was preced by an endorsement of gay rights by one of the untry’s olst polil parti, the Kataeb party of Lebanon.

The ndidat’ endorsement of gay rights is the clost the Arab world has gotten to mastream polil bate on the issue, activists say. It jt weeks after Human Rights Watch released a 36-page report tailg an upsurge gay-rights activism sce the so-lled Arab Sprg. “(LGBT activists) are tellg their stori, buildg allianc, workg across borrs, velopg natnal and regnal movements and fdg creative ways to bat homophobia and transphobia, ” the April 2018 report, tled “Audacy Adversy, ” says.

Arab stat are predomantly hostile to gay and transgenred people, but the report tails “cremental change” brought on by regn-wi activism.