Strip clubs, gay venu nearby, London landmark buildg to be turned to mosque - India Today

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• #THENEWEASTISQUEERALL POSTSNEWSPOLANDUKRAINERUSSIAHUNGARYBULGARIACZECHIASERBIAGEORGIAAZERBAIJANALBANIAKAZAKHSTANKOSOVOROMANIAUZBEKISTANSEARCHAZIS: BULGARIA'S GAY, NON-BARY, ROMA POP STAR
• #THENEWEASTISQUEERALL POSTSNEWSPOLANDUKRAINERUSSIAHUNGARYBULGARIACZECHIASERBIAGEORGIAAZERBAIJANALBANIAKAZAKHSTANKOSOVOROMANIAUZBEKISTANSEARCHAZIS: BULGARIA'S GAY, NON-BARY, ROMA POP STAR
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• AARON AZIZ TAK UP GAY CHARACTER CHALLENGE
• 20 GAY-MARRIAGE JOK THAT ULTIMATELY HELPED LEGIMIZE
• SAN FRANCIS ACH JENNIFER AZZI OUT AS GAY

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Its hard to image that one or Bulgaria's biggt mil stars is actually gay, flamboyant and also ethnilly Roma, but 's te.

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However, the cisn to build the mosque has also sparked a bate, wh crics qutng s lotn, also known for s bars, nightclubs, gay venu and strip jots.

The area is also known for s ncentratn of bars, nightclubs, gay venu and strip jots – all of which are nsired sful Islam.

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

As a rult, young gay, trans, queer, and non-bary cizens are creasgly fortable wh g out — if not to their parents, then to their peers. "A lot of gay young people wre to me and tell me that I am their spiratn to e out to their parents, " he says. "I don't thk there's anywhere the world where gay people of lor are tly accepted or have an easy life.

AARON AZIZ TAK UP GAY CHARACTER CHALLENGE

"Beg both gay and Roma has allowed Azis to bee the most extreme chalga mician of his generatn.

"There's no le that says that jt bee you're gay you have to be 50kg, effemate and vulnerable, " he says reference to his new look. "You n look like a bodyguard and still be gay! When Abdullah Qurhi returned to Pakistan after studyg the UK, he found many people the LGBTQ muny did not necsarily intify as ‘gay.

20 GAY-MARRIAGE JOK THAT ULTIMATELY HELPED LEGIMIZE

’ Dcribg his six years studyg art London as “an explorative phase for me, where I was generally lookg at issu of genr and sexualy, ” Qurhi nonted the challenge of intifyg his sexualy Pakistan, a Mlim-majory untry, where members of the queer muny practice their liv secret, face discrimatn om society, and endure a strict penal om the lonial era, which threatens to punish homosexualy wh prison. But while relig clerics nmn homosexualy and uphold the tradnal stutn of fay Pakistan, private spac persist where queer people n ngregate and exprs themselv, cludg creative spac like fashn, smetics, and the arts.

For example, there were people who risted the e of the word ‘gay’ altogether Pakistan. Today, gay Pakistanis and Indians wh a reasonable e radi of each other e datg apps to form cross-borr relatnships.

SAN FRANCIS ACH JENNIFER AZZI OUT AS GAY

When he has shown this work, he also plements wh an terview he nducted wh a gay Iraqi migrant, the sound of the man’s voice eerily transposed over the vio of his penis black and whe.

“A lot of gay men were beg rejected om the LGBT clubs [ Helski] and over time beme clear was bee they were Iraqi [migrants], ” Qurhi said.