Gay Arabic – mhli (مثلي) – How to say Homosexual

Contents:

• HOW DO YOU SAY GAY ARABIC?
• GAY DICTNARY ARABIC
• LEBANE ARABIC: GAY/HOMOSEXUAL
• ARABIC WORDS FOR 'GAY' NEED TO BE BETTER THAN 'PERVERT' OR 'DEVIANT'
• GAY ARABIC
• TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH–ARABIC DICTNARY

HOW DO YOU SAY GAY ARABIC?

How Do You Say Gay Arabic? A brief lguistic history of Middle Eastern homosexualy. Gay-pri protters Lebanon 2010.

GAY DICTNARY ARABIC

The Arabic subtl for the film The Bt Exotic Marigold Hotel translate the word gay to the Arabic equivalent of pervert, acrdg to an article by Steve Clemons the Atlantic. A pair of Arabic speakers told Clemons that Arabic don’t have a rpectful word for gay, except for the recently ed word mhli.

When did the Arabic-speakg world regnize the existence of homosexualy? In Michel Fouult’s 1976 book The History of Sexualy, the French philosopher claimed that although homosexual acts are prehistoric, Europeans and Amerins didn’t regnize homosexualy as a tra until the 19th century.

Several lguists backed Fouult’s claim, argug that many Wtern languag had words for homosexual acts, but not for homosexualy, until very recently.

LEBANE ARABIC: GAY/HOMOSEXUAL

Classil Arabic texts have several words for homosexuals and homosexualy datg back to the nth century.

Luti is ually translated as sodome and is wily nsired rogatory, but some gay Arabic wrers have recently -opted the term the way gay anglophon reclaimed the word queer the 1980s. (Like the translators of The Bt Exotic Marigold Hotel, Google ed an accintal stir 2006 when a er noticed that s software translated gay to luti.

ARABIC WORDS FOR 'GAY' NEED TO BE BETTER THAN 'PERVERT' OR 'DEVIANT'

It typilly refers to receptive gay male sex, but acrdg to gay-studi scholar Stephen O.

The eighth- and nth-century wrers Abu Nuwas and Al-Jahiz ed the word latah for homosexuals, and the latter wrer even referred to ghulat al-latah, or ultra-homosexuals.

Abu Nuwas also provid one of the more betiful medieval Arabic referenc to homosexualy, askg “Would I choose seas over land?

GAY ARABIC

Many of the words referrg to homosexualy the Islamic world eventually fad to dise, replaced by vague and rogatory terms.

In Arabic, sadj, meang peculiar, is now a mon label for a homosexual person.

TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH–ARABIC DICTNARY

Shudhudh jsi, which means sexual perversn, beme shorthand for homosexualy.

Amics have led the recent movement to velop ntral terms for gay people. Arabic translators of Sigmund Frd’s work are creded wh g mhli, and a Morocn magaze for gay people has taken the name.