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Contents:

• LEBANON: BAN ON GAY DATG APP GRDR A BLOW FOR SEXUAL RIGHTS AND EEDOM
• GRDR BANNED IN LEBANON: LIST OF COUNTRI THAT PROHIB GAY DATG APP
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• NORTH LEBANON GAY TRAVEL
• BT GAY DATG APPS FOR HOOKUPS, RELATNSHIPS, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN

LEBANON: BAN ON GAY DATG APP GRDR A BLOW FOR SEXUAL RIGHTS AND EEDOM

Rpondg to a cisn by Lebanon’s Telemunitns Mistry to block accs to the app, Grdr, which is maly ed by gay and trans men, Amnty Internatnal’s Middle East Rearch Director Lynn Maalouf said:.

As well as beg a flagrant asslt on the right to eedom of exprsn, this move will serve to entrench and legimize homophobic views wh the untry. Instead of blockg apps ed by the gay muny, the Lebane thori should immediately revoke this ban and foc their efforts on endg their crackdown agast LGBTI people.

GRDR BANNED IN LEBANON: LIST OF COUNTRI THAT PROHIB GAY DATG APP

Jt over a year ago, Internal Secury forc also banned a seri of activi anized by LGBTI activists to mark the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and Transphobia, cg secury ncerns. Lebanon has reportedly banned people om accsg Grdr, a gay datg mobile app, on the untry’s public, a Lebane NGO that works toward empowerg people, reached out to Touch, one of the untry’s top mobile works, after several ers nfirmed the app beg blocked. Grdr, lnched 2009, has bee the world's largt datg app for the gay muny.

Though the pany stat is a social workg app for the LGBTQ muny, is primarily ed as a datg app by gay and bisexual men. Is dangero to e gay chattg apps lebanon?

Remember a se egypt where they arrted peoole who were on a gay chattg app.

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage". They had met onle, part of a growg muny of gay Egyptians g servic like Grdr, Hor, and Growler, but this was their first time meetg person.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Targets meet a iendly stranger on a gay datg se, sometim talkg for weeks before meetg person, only to fd out they’re beg targeted for a bchery se. The most recent wave of arrts started last September after an dience member unfurled a gay pri flag at a rock ncert, somethg the regime took as a personal sult. Homosexualy isn’t illegal Egypt, but the LGBTQ muny has bee a eful spegoat for the el-Sisi regime, and the General Directorate for Protectg Public Moraly is beg ed to jail and prosecute anyone perceived as mtg a transgrsn.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

Raids on bars, hoe parti, and other gay spac have bee mon. Both apps were built amid a thrivg, sex-posive gay culture.

In plac where the gay muny has been driven unrground, datg apps are often the only way to reach them — somethg that’s led a number of nonprofs to seek out Grdr as a rearch tool. “So many guys will get on Grdr who have never told anyone they’re gay, ” says Jack Harrison-Qutana, the director of Grdr’s social-good divisn, Grdr For Equaly.

NORTH LEBANON GAY TRAVEL

Lebanon is seen as one of the bt plac to be gay the regn, even though homosexualy is still illegal there. “It’s much more difficult to create an app that functns well for gay men the Middle East, ” Kayyali told me.

“In untri where ’s unsafe to be gay, where there are no gay bars, no clive sports teams, and no queer performance spac, the Grdr app provis our ers wh an opportuny to fd their muni, ” Qutana-Harrison told me. “Gay men will not go back to the closet.

BT GAY DATG APPS FOR HOOKUPS, RELATNSHIPS, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN

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