Algeria: Stunts sentenced to prison for attendg 'gay weddg'

Contents:

• BEG GAY ALGERIA
• GAY PRI EVENTS ALGERIA
• GAY PRI ALGERIA
• BEG GAY ALGERIA TODAY
• BEG GAY ALGERIA: ‘I’LL NEVER LIVE WH THE ONE I LOVE’
• DOZENS OF STUNTS HAND PRISON SENTENC FOR THE ALLEGED ‘CRIME’ OF ATTENDG A ‘GAY WEDDG’
• SUMMER THE CY: A GAY MUNICH WEEKEND TRIP

BEG GAY ALGERIA

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. Out Loud is the first film om Lebanon wh a gay theme that sets a new standard for cema om the Middle East the midst of the Arab Sprg. 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.

GAY PRI EVENTS ALGERIA

Enuraged by Sandra, Ama lnch a blog lled “A Gay Girl Damasc, ” reprentg a margalized voice the Middle East on polics, relign, and sexualy. 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. In post-Fran Madrid where he lived an openly gay existence, his life rembled one long Almodóvarian y, full of excs and sexual taboo-breakg.

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.

A short documentary that tells the stori of Mashrou’ Leila, a Lebane rock band wh an outspoken gay sger, and Sarah Hegazy, an Egyptian activist. Between realy and animatn, the story of Nidhal is told, a young homosexual Tunisian who fend dividual eedoms Tunisia through his work rad. Homosexualy is currently illegal the Ain natn, wh people who are found guilty of same-sex acts facg up to three years prison and a fe of up to 10, 000 Algerian dars (approximately £60 or $75).

GAY PRI ALGERIA

As PkNews reported 2020, an Algerian urt sentenced more than 40 people to prison for attendg a “gay weddg” while a gay asylum seeker the UK faced ath threats om homophobic fay members. ’ The peculiar habs of sgers are part of the folklore of Algeria’s barets, rai mic venu wh a reputatn for alhol, prostutn and homosexualy that are tolerated as long as they rema on the margs of pole society. Some acce the Wt of seekg to export a ‘gay inty’ that don’t exist Algeria; this may enurage homophobic behavur by the thori and nservative elements of society (1) Last July, some Arabic media plaed when the Brish embassy Algiers raised an LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and trans) flag support of the Pri London para.

Slimane scribed why he had felt alone durg his teens: ‘I didn’t know any other homosexuals, so I thought I was the only one, and that was sry. Acrdg to Mariem Guellouz, a doctor of lguistics, ‘every word for homosexualy Arabic has negative nnotatns, other words the language self is systemilly hurtful and discrimatory. It’s very different for those born after the civil war (1992-2000); they are on new media all the time, and the offer a view of homosexualy that is not guilt-ducg, and posive role mols.

BEG GAY ALGERIA TODAY

Am, a universy stunt, joked, ‘The character Mar, Degrassi [a Canadian drama seri that als wh the teenage problems and issu a realistic way], changed my life: I realised that beg gay was a thg. The poort are the most vulnerable, bee when public spac are the only place where you n have sex, there are many dangers: the police, homophobic attacks, theft, and health risks if you don’t have a ndom. The hierarchy of the sex and the domance of men fluence even homoerotic relatnships;many men prent themselv as active toprerve their digny, and assert their virily by rejectg anythg that might be perceived as feme.

And if we had a functng enomy and labour market, wh accs to jobs and hog, and greater mobily, more people would accept that they are gay. Slimane’s reasong rembl that of John D’E, who saw the emergence of gay inty the US cidg wh enomic ndns that allowed (salaried employment and pennce om the fay) (5).

The ncepts of gay inty and sexual orientatn that have served as a basis for claimg rights sce the rebelln of the patrons of the Stonewall gay club New York 1969 have worked for some, like Slimane. Though Algeria do not have reprsn on a sle parable to some Sub-Saharan untri, those nvicted of homosexual acts are subject to a fe of 500 to 2, 000 dars ($4 to $17) and between two and 24 months prison (the penalti are heavier if one partner is a mor).

BEG GAY ALGERIA: ‘I’LL NEVER LIVE WH THE ONE I LOVE’

If the populatn together to fight agast the patriarchy and the relig taboos that (unequally) opprs the sexualy of all, then gay people will feel eer to assert their difference: 10 October has been LGBT Day Algeria sce 2007 (6), but is only celebrated on social works. In fact, I uld only terpret that as a mere pretext, sce the novel had received a good al of media attentn Algeria - not for the referenc to God that ntas, but rather for addrsg homosexualy the ntext of the revolutn; namely, the protagonist reprents a gay martyr the Algerian War of Liberatn.

A few months prr, I had been excsively attacked one of the largt natnal Arabic daili (ach-Chourouq) and on the ma Islamist pag Algeria, which picted the novel as g homosexualy to sult the revolutn and the image of fallen Algerians. The strong argument, which ultimately swayed public bate favour of my novel, was that I had dited to Jean Sénac, also known by his nom guerre Yahya al-Ouahrani, a proment Algerian rebel known for beg gay.

I knew om the start that raisg the subject of homosexualy the ntext of Algeria’s holit of holi (the War of Inpennce) would not go unchallenged.

DOZENS OF STUNTS HAND PRISON SENTENC FOR THE ALLEGED ‘CRIME’ OF ATTENDG A ‘GAY WEDDG’

Yet was still strikg to disver the official perceptn of homosexuals as send class cizens, even those who fell durg Algeria’s War of Liberatn and who were erased om llective memory until my novel Cy of the Whe Shadows forced the subject to the public bate. It draws on Algerian history - or rather, on a fake nceptn of the past, falsified to reprent homosexuals Algerian media, Arabic cema, and Islamic culture as ridiculo, idtic dividuals whose sole and only tert life is to engage sexual terurse. Th, explorg the field of the Algerian War and raisg this taboo of gay rebels was a slap the face of the over-sacralised treatment of the Algerian Revolutn, pecially as this was ctomarily bathed the mk of ttosterone and other pheromon of masculy and virily.

SUMMER THE CY: A GAY MUNICH WEEKEND TRIP

Only one among other neglected topics that rema unspoken, my novel addrsg homosexualy n break stereotyp and open up this subject to realistic, cril discsn and renewed study of this Revolutn’s history.

One way or another, the repeated wicked treatment of sexual mori Algeria, particularly of male homosexuals, has forced the groups to a sort of acceptance of send-class cizenship. Algerian law crimalis homosexualy and scrib as sexual viancy or unnatural behavur, spe the fact that Algeria is a member of the World Health Organisatn, which removed classifitn of homosexualy as a disease almost three s ago.