Lead Sger and Gay Activist Hamed Sno Said Bans on Band Performg Led to 'Fstratn and Helplsns Among the Band Members and the Fans'
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- LEBANE BAND MASHROU’ LEILA AND ITS GAY LEAD SGER ARE SMASHG MIDDLE EASTERN HOMOPHOBIA
- GAY LEBANE SGER WH 'FREDDIE MERCURY' EDGE ONTS BAND
- GAY LIFE LEBANON: BOUNCE BACK BEIT
- MASHROU' LEILA: JORDAN BANS LEBANE ROCK BAND WH GAY SGER
- JORDAN BANS LEBANE ROCK BAND WH GAY LEAD SGER OM PERFORMG
LEBANE BAND MASHROU’ LEILA AND ITS GAY LEAD SGER ARE SMASHG MIDDLE EASTERN HOMOPHOBIA
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Happy 10th birthday to Mashrou’ Leila, one of the most revolutnary bands history — thanks large part to s darg lead sger, a gay man named Hamed Sno.
GAY LEBANE SGER WH 'FREDDIE MERCURY' EDGE ONTS BAND
An openly gay man onts Lebanon's Mashrou' Leila – and when fans waved rabow flags at a show outsi Cairo, the arrts soon followed * lebanese gay singer *
Throughout their rise to fame, Sno mataed proment as a rare openly gay entertaer Lebane culture. Are you a fan of Mashrou’ Leila and openly gay lead sger Hamed Sno?
The announcement on the Lebane podst ‘Sar After Dner’ ed a huge stir on Arab media and the band’s fans exprs their disappotment wh the, who is openly homosexual and an LGBT activist, tablished Mashrou’ Leila together wh a fellow stunt while studyg at The Amerin Universy of Beit. “It was very difficult, and I felt guilty for a long time, I felt that I didn’t want to make mic, ” Sno Israeli shelters gay Paltian naways. In return, 'he tak their soul'Lebanon's LGBTQ muny suffers setback amid enomic clampdownIsrael's gay-bag homophob are fightg a losg battleAfter beg banned Jordan and Egypt, the band was pulled om the Byblos ftival Beit 2019 followg claims that some of the words the song “ibn el Leil” were offensive to Christiany and enuraged vil worship.
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"The workshop quickly morphed to somethg really special, but after realizg how much time took away om studi, the group sifted down -- om 10 to seven, then to today's five members: lead sger Sno, vlist Haig Papazian, keyboardist and guarist Firas Abou Fakher, bassist Ibrahim Badr, and dmmer Carl has been lled one of the most proment gay micians the Arab world, yet, spe the band's obv msagg of tolerance and eedom, Sno adms the msage "is not very nsc" on s part. " But such solidary isn't always wele the of the band's songs, "Tayf" ("Ghost"), was a tribute to a Beit gay bar that was shut down 2013 by Lebane thori. "Right now this specific moment time when we see the world is so adverse to globalism, when everyone's retirg to the tired, herently bigoted, homophobic, patriarchal natnalisms, " he says boldly.
An openly gay man onts Lebanon's Mashrou' Leila – and when fans waved rabow flags at a show outsi Cairo, the arrts soon followed. Durg the show, fans were photographed wavg a rabow flag – the universal symbol of gay pri – solidary wh the group. Sger Hamed Sno is openly gay, and the band has long been outspoken about LGBTQ issu their mic and public statements.
MASHROU' LEILA: JORDAN BANS LEBANE ROCK BAND WH GAY SGER
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The lol micians’ syndite banned Mashrou’ Leila om playg the untry, and Egyptian thori lnched what activists and human rights observers are now sayg is the worst-ever crackdown on the untry’s gay muny, arrtg dozens on “bchery” charg. “My life spent wh rights mortgaged off to your sentiments / My history erased om our books like they were yours to claim, ” Sno sgs their song “Tayf” (“Ghost”), a solemn but fiant tribute to a Beit gay bar that was shut down by Lebane thori 2013.
As the ernment secured ntrol over the untry, police began to crack down on the gay muny, lnchg a seri of raids and arrts while pro-ernment media outlets stoked public sex sndals.
Homosexualy isn’t illegal Egypt, but LGBT people are typilly charged unr bchery and prostutn laws. Acrdg to Dalia Abl Hameed, genr and women’s rights officer at the Cairo-based Egyptian Iniative for Personal Rights, gay men specifilly are often targeted entrapment schem through datg apps like Grdr. For Sno, all of this mak him reflect on his role as an openly gay artist makg mic the Middle East and North Ai – feelg a sense of rponsibily towards LGBTQ fans, while also feelg the need to be an artist and person on his own terms.
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— Haaz Sleiman (@haazsleiman) Augt 22, 2017Lebane-Amerin actor Haaz Sleiman me out publicly as gay a viral social media post earlier this year. Sharg a vio via his official social media channels, the star of Nurse Jackie and The Visor boldly said: “I am a gay Mlim Arab Amerin man...
Not only am I gay, but I’m also a bottom, ” Sleiman said. — am el gamal (@amelgamal) May 9, 2017The child of Egyptian immigrants to the Uned Stat, Am El Gamal intifi proudly as Mlim Arab and gay.
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Abllah Taia (Moroc)Abllah Taia is nsired to be the first openly gay Morocn wrer. Born Salé, Moroc, 1973, Taia was forced to leave his hometown after he me out as a "proud gay Mlim man, " an terview wh TelQuel.
"Although was really sry and I knew that there would be many nsequenc, I had to do , " he told Sampsonia was rejected by his fay after g out, so he penned a letter 2009 explag to them that he is "normal" and that homosexualy isn't an illns. Gay people are normal, " he said.