Lebanon this week be the first Arab untry to celebrate gay pri but the openg event a landmark n of ftivi was nceled after Islamists threatened vlence.
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Lebanon was the latt natn to jo the crackdown, wh Interr Mister Bassam Mawlawi issug a letter a week ago to Lebane secury forc orrg them to break up any events that "promote" letter, labelled "very urgent, " said that "after the spread of lls on social media to anize parti and events promotg homosexualy Lebanon… and nsirg the negative nsequenc brought by this phenomenon on dividuals and society" police and secury forc should "take the necsary measur to ban any celebratns, meetgs or gathergs aimg to promote this phenomenon and to report the rults back. The Mistry of Commerce posted a vio (below) on social media showg officials seizg rabow-lored products, cludg toys, handbags and accsori, which they said rried "symbols and nnotatns that enurage homosexualy and ntradict nature.
"The Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn's 2020 report on "State Sponsored Homophobia" around the world noted that Kuwa, Sdi Arabia and Lebanon were among 69 natns that have laws banng homosexual Arabia, the report noted, was among six Uned Natns member stat where "the ath penalty is the legally prcribed punishment for nsensual same-sex sexual acts.
Frank Schaefer, pastor of Zn Uned Methodist Church of Iona, was restated after beg ocked, as a rult of him officiatg at his gay son's weddg, and beme a mor natnal celebry. Lebanon Valley College Annville has also flown the gay pri flag and has celebrated genr and sexual diversy through a variety of iativ. Pri Month honors the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg—a watershed moment for the Gay Rights Movement—and regniz LGBT people who have ma ntributns to history.
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“The gay people every cy, we’re still fightg, ” explaed Turner.
Romanoff, Turner and Esposa all have stori of what was like for them growg up gay. But society’s attu toward gay people is changg, they said. “Back the ‘90s jt wasn’t ol to be around people who were assumed to be gay, ” explaed Romanoff.
“And I was that person who had no social life bee I was gay.