Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people and their rights Lebanon are part and parcel of the natnwi protts that began on October 17, 2019.
Contents:
- LEBANON URT L THAT GAY SEX IS NOT A CRIME
- 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
- THE DARKER SI FOR GAYS LEBANON
LEBANON URT L THAT GAY SEX IS NOT A CRIME
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(Beit) – Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people and their rights Lebanon are part and parcel of the natnwi protts that began on October 17, 2019, Human Rights Watch said today a web feature. The lg follows siar judgments om lower urts that have cled to nvict gay and transgenr people of “sexual terurse ntrary to nature” four separate lgs between 2007 and 2017. “This lg signals a new horizon for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people Lebanon, who have long been persecuted unr discrimatory laws, ” said Neela Ghoshal, senr rearcher on lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights at Human Rights Watch.
This recent lg related to the 2015 arrt of ne people a suburb of Beit whom police spected of beg gay and transgenr. A crimal urt cled to nvict them of “unnatural offens” 2017, when the judge said that “homosexuals have a right to human and timate relatnships wh whoever they want, whout any terference or discrimatn terms of their sexual clatns, as is the se wh other people.
While judg are not legally bound by the precent and may still nvict people of homosexual nduct unr article 534, Makhlouf told Human Rights Watch that they are likely to give ser nsiratn to the lg subsequent s. “Other urts uld still nvict people, but we’re very hopeful – we’re seeg that the trend now is not to crimalize homosexualy.
5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
Homosexualy is one of the topics you would fd on the black list of any Middle East ernment and almost all of s societi and cultur.
THE DARKER SI FOR GAYS LEBANON
And while the prence of homosexualy n be spotted every untry the regn, ernments and societi are still tolerant to such life style. Lebanon stands out as a more tolerant space for homosexualy the regn pared to Sdi Arabia for example where homosexualy is often punished by floggg, life imprisonment and even beheadg. Lebanon’s homosexuals enjoy the first associatn for gay people the Middle East, lled the Helem Foundatn.
Mazaj at Majaz75 wrote about homosexualy the Middle East and the role of relign , exprsg his personal opn on the matter:. Some scriptur of the Quran, the Holy Book of Islam, were taken out of ntext, add to a Hadh** not rrectly reported to Prophet Muhammad, and nveyed to Mlims by ignorant Sheiks to form a general look at homosexualy as a s that is agast the nature tend by god for humans.