We asked Mahmoud Hasso, a Syrian journalist and gay blogger who works at a refugee shelter Berl, what 's like to be a gay refugee.
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WHAT'S LIKE TO BE A GAY REFUGEE?
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GAZIANTEP, Turkey — A Syrian father of a gay man says he hop his son will burn hell. And the day one young Syrian told his parents he was gay was the last time he spoke to anyone his untls fellow untrymen and women fleeg the civil war, many LGBTQ Syrians have lost their homeland, livelihoods and often hope self.
One nservative Syrian imam nfintly told NBC News that there are no homosexual Mlims and that the act was punishable by al-Essa me out as gay after he fled war-ravaged Syria and settled down Turkey 2017. ”He says he eventually worked up the urage to ll his parents who stayed Syria om Turkey — where is relatively safer to be openly gay — and “face them wh the tth.
6 ln people have fled Syria sce 2011 to pe the bloody civil are no exact figur on how many Syrian refuge who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer or qutng (LGBTQ) have left the untry vastated by years of numbers are not wily documented as even human rights anizatns, such as Amnty Internatnal and Human Rights Watch, have told NBC News they had been unable to do much work on LGBTQ issu Syria due to limed rourc on the ground.
Stigmatised gay, bisexual and transgenr Syrian refuge who survived sexual vlence war are stgglg to get medil or mental health re, human rights groups said on Wednday. * lgbt syrian refugees *
Acrdg to Abo Abdulrahman al-Ansari, a nservative imam and member of the Shariah uncil the northwtern Syrian cy of Idlib, homosexualy is strictly forbidn. ”The relig and societal stigma surroundg homosexualy Syria means that for many fai, havg a son or dghter who out after pg the untry n brg enormo Hassan’s son Ammar me out as gay after he fled to Germany 59-year-old broke down tears talkg about his son on the phone om Idlib Syria, where he liv wh his wife and other children. [3]Sample: 70 LGBTQ+ Syrians, aged 22-36 years old, ridg Turkey, Europe, and Canada, cludg 50 homosexual mal, 18 transgenr women, 2 homosexual women.
Syria’s legal and reprsive polil system crimalise homosexualy and outlaw most forms of LGBTQ+ activism and mobilisatn (see: the sectn on Challeng below. [10]Hannah Lucda Smh, “How Jihadists are blackmailg, torturg, and killg gay Syrians, ” (2013):. A/HRC/29/23, 4 May 2015; Graeme Reid, “The Double Threat for Gay Men … Contue readg The documented ab clu forced nudy, rape, and anal or vagal “examatns” rried out by Syrian Government forc (and by armed groups), often as a tool of ercn or punishment tentn facili.