The Cambridge History of Gay and Lbian Lerature - November 2014
Contents:
GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE
Lebane queer artist Munir Abdallah mounted the first nu gay photography exhibn the Arab world. * gay islamic art *
The movie tells the story of an Algerian-French heterosexual young man begng a soclogy study of gay islamic homosexuali and disverg gay love wh a young French steward. A documentary by Peter Barbosa and Garrett Lenoir, I Exist giv a voice to gay and lbian Amerins om the Middle East, who often rema silent out of shame and fear. Filmed 12 untri and 9 languag, this documentary, directed by gay Mlim filmmaker Parvez Sharma, tells the lorful and varied stori of gay and lbian Mlims om all over the world.
WHAT DO ISLAM SAY ABOUT BEG GAY?
* gay islamic art *
In this portra that is multi-layered both terms of form and ntent, a gay man nonts the ghosts of his past and explor hidn longgs, unrequed love and tormentg feelgs of guilt. After beg tranged om his fay for his homosexualy, we observe a young Arab man over four seasons and om far away as he navigat his solu – all the while attemptg to rennect wh his mother.
And what was more surprisg was where his work was beg displayed: the Arab Amerin Natnal Mm, which was focg for the first time on a gay artist’s exploratn of Moa, 51, is among a small but growg number of L.
Known as Accs, the group opened the Natnal Mm 2005 to promote Arab-Amerin June 2016, the mm examed the subject of gay discrimatn wh the Lebane band Mashrou’ Leila, whose lead sger, Hamed Sno, intifi as queer.