BEIRUT: Nour never felt entirely safe as a queer person Lebanon. But the past few years, the 25-year-old pharmacist had begun lettg his guard down, meetg wh iends lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT)-iendly spac Beit and even performg drag shows. He now opts to stay
Contents:
- RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
- NORTH LEBANON GAY TRAVEL
- ONLY 5% OF PALTIANS AND 6% OF LEBANE ACCEPT GAY RELATNSHIPS
RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
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“We want to topple homophobia; mt go! To the left, graffi clarg ‘homophobia is a crime’ is spray-pated above the slogan ‘down wh sectarianism. Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights, once nsired taboo and exclud om the polil terra, have entered the mastream as a pillar of ristance for the first time.
“No Homophobia. “Gay.
NORTH LEBANON GAY TRAVEL
I am gay, I am someone who exprs my sexualy general, and my sexual sir very strongly.
“For gay people, we will not stay silent; For trans women, we will chant the streets, ” she sgs. ” Over time, this rponse to homophobic chants gaed tractn and beme an effective unter-narrative, a way of rrectg the public rerd and shamg those who perpetuate homophobia and transphobia. [Homosexualy] is a s fatal to the body and soul, " one of them rag.
Unacceptable, homophobic cisn by the Interr Mister to ban queer events bee they are agast #Lebanon’s “tradns” & relign.
ONLY 5% OF PALTIANS AND 6% OF LEBANE ACCEPT GAY RELATNSHIPS
They played a part ncellg a 2019 ncert of Lebane group Machrou Leila, whose sger Hamed Sno is openly gay. Others choose to fly to Cyps or Turkey to say "I do" Lebanon, Article 534 of the penal still crimalis "any unnatural sexual act", and prohibs same-sex unns, wh a maximum sentence of one year 2007, only 18% of Lebane were favour of legalisg homosexualy their untry, acrdg to a Pew Rearch Center study. 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" homosexualy.The 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."Helem (Arabic for Dream), an NGO that works support of LGBTQ people across North Ai and Southwt Asia, said a statement that was "perplexg why, a untry whose cizens have no electricy, no meditn, no accs to clean water, and no social secury, and 30% unemployment the mister thought to prrize LGBTQ events as the biggt threat to natnal secury.".