No Place for Gays Yemen | Inter Prs Service

Contents:

• ALAA JARBAN: ONE OF YEMEN'S FIRST OPENLY GAY MEN
• GAY LIFE YEMEN--AN INTRODUCTN
• 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
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• TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021
• GAY LIFE YEMEN: ONE MAN'S STORY OF DTY AND CHOICE
• 1ST PUBLIC GAY MARRIAGE YEMEN DRAWS RAGE
• FOR YEMEN’S GAY MUNY SOCIAL MEDIA IS A SAVUR
• NO PLACE FOR GAYS YEMEN
• WILL YEMEN’S GAY COMMUNY SURVIVE THE IRAN-BACKED MILIAS TRYG TO TAKE OVER?
• 4 MURRS OF GAY MEN YEMEN

ALAA JARBAN: ONE OF YEMEN'S FIRST OPENLY GAY MEN

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Illegal (ath penalty as punishment) Even though the Yemeni Law says that only married Mlim man n be punished wh the ath penalty if the man is ught havg a homosexual activy.

Image ptn, Alaa Jarban's "I'm Queer" post has provoked a backlashThe issue of homosexualy is wily taboo the Middle East, cludg Yemen where the penalty for beg gay n be severe.

GAY LIFE YEMEN--AN INTRODUCTN

"In his post, Mr Jarban revealed timate thoughts and reflected on a perplexed and isolated perd of adolcence growg up as a gay boy a nservative society.

5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)

But while for some that is a good thg, for others rerc the ia that Yemenis need to prerve their tradns orr to fight off this creepg so-lled "Wtern morny" prospect of acceptg homosexual people seems distant a untry that do not acknowledge their existence. "I asked iends where is the gay muny, and people said there are no gays Yemen, " wrote a girl who was aaid to share her real inty on Alaa's blog, which has bee a platform for ntributors om the LGBT [lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr] muny.

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"When the protts reached Yemen, I cid to take part the hope of fdg a new si to my untry, a si I uld fally relate to, " said Mr that hope began to wane as he watched the limed impact the revolutn had on tradnal Yemeni life and attus - spe the otg of a print who had led for 32 ptn, Kamal al-Solaylee says his cisn to e out as a gay Yemeni enuraged othersKamal al-Solaylee - thor of Intolerable: A Memoir of Extrem, a book about the trials he faced g out as member of the Yemeni diaspora - scribed Mr Jarban's cisn as brave, pecially for a man so young. Acutely aware of those nsequenc, Mr Solaylee is nearly 50 and liv his book was published, gay Yemeni men sought him out, eager to share experienc and embrace their sexual inty an acceptg Yemeni Solaylee was luged wh emails and letters.

"I beme the godfather of gay Yemeni men, " he feels protective of Mr Jarban and wants to help him, but there is ltle he n do if the 23-year-old cis to stay Yemen. In Yemen, homosexualy is both bee no one is willg to speak or wre about public or the media, spe the evable prence of a gay unrground that is kept well hidn om the scty of the moraly thugs and vlent thori.

TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021

In more than a of rerdg thoands of news and reports about LGBT life around the world, GlobalGayz has only found eight reports about homosexualy Yemen. The official posn is that there are no gays Yemen, yet Yemeni law that stipulat severe punishment for homosexual activy acknowledg s existence. Only three Mlim natns (Sdi Arabia, Iran and Afghanistan) are known to have rried out the ath penalty for alleged homosexual acts recently years (1990-2010).

GAY LIFE YEMEN: ONE MAN'S STORY OF DTY AND CHOICE

However, the homosexual ‘liftyle’ was outed 2010 when om a safe distance Paris the Yemeni thor and filmmaker Hamid Aqabi published a review of an Egyptian film, “Heena Maysara” (“Till thgs get better”), which ntas a lbian love scene.

1ST PUBLIC GAY MARRIAGE YEMEN DRAWS RAGE

In his ments he noted that homosexualy was “part and parcel of our society” and went so far as to ll on the parliament to extend more rights to gay people and suggted that the Yemeni ernment nsir allowg gay marriag, as the Wt. There is no evince of the law beg enforced by the ernment recent years, however reports have suggted that ant groups have executed men spected of beg gay areas they ntrolled.

FOR YEMEN’S GAY MUNY SOCIAL MEDIA IS A SAVUR

In Augt, was reported that eight men had been killed on the streets for beg gay by spected Al-Qaeda members, who at the time exerted ntrol over parts of Yemen and implemented their own terpretatn of Sharia law, unr which the ath penalty appli for same-sex sexual activy. “Homosexualy is the ntact of one man to another through his posterr; both sodom whether mal or femal are punished wh whippg of one hundred strok if not married.

In an attempt to help terme the worst plac for gay travelers, the duo created the 2019 LGBTQ+ Danger Inx, rankg the world’s most dangero—and saft—untri for gay travelers.

The journalists looked at the top 150 most-vised untri the world by the number of g tourists, then ranked them g eight factors, cludg laws agast gay relatnships, legal protectn agast discrimatn and more. “In 2018, India managed to annul Sectn 377, a Brish lonial-era law prohibg ‘unnatural acts, ’ orr to legalize nsensual gay sex, ” says Fergson, who pots out that ancient Indian lerature such as the Mahabharata and Ramayana have many referenc to LGBTQ+ hero cludg transgenr warrrs and two queens who ma love orr for one queen to get pregnant wh an heir for their kgdom.

NO PLACE FOR GAYS YEMEN

“Long story short, this pots to the fact that was likely the Brish fluence that largely led to Indian homophobia the first place, ” she says. “We found this to be a b ironic as the reason for many of the harsh homophobic laws untri throughout the world is largely leftover om laws created durg Brish le, ” says Fergson.

Ci like Lisbon and Porto have the bt gay scen the untry and Portugal is hopg to host the 2022 Europri, the world's biggt event celebratg gay pri Europe. Wh an overall natnal attu that is relaxed and acceptg towards homosexualy, Belgium is known for havg a vibrant gay and lbian scene, particularly Bssels, ” says Fergson. It was ranked so highly largely due to the extreme penalti for simply beg gay, which clu up to 14 years prison and the ath penalty stat unr Sharia law, ” says Fergson.

WILL YEMEN’S GAY COMMUNY SURVIVE THE IRAN-BACKED MILIAS TRYG TO TAKE OVER?

“This oil-rich Middle Eastern untry enforc up to three years prison, floggg and the ath penalty unr Sharia law for any acts of homosexualy. “Sdi Arabia is another of the untri on our list which implements the ath penalty for nsensual homosexualy unr their terpretatn of Sharia law, ” says Fergson.

“In Tanzania, any homosexual acts rult 30 years to life prison, and there has been a recent ernment crackdown on LGBT activy wh the untry.

4 MURRS OF GAY MEN YEMEN

“Iran ma #6 on the x, due part to s extreme punishments for homosexualy, which clu 100 lash for homosexual terurse or the ath penalty, and 31 lash for same-sex acts other than terurse, ” says Fergson. “Publicly, homosexualy is a taboo topic, so LGBTQ+ travelers choosg to vis Sudan should proceed wh utn and rema discreet wh regards to their sexualy.

“Historilly, Barbados and some other Caribbean islands have had poor anti-LGBTQ+ legislatn and practic, largely left over om the Brish occupatn which put the laws place and rerced anti-gay attus. Unfortunately, imposed punishment for homosexualy is severe and the existence of gay people Malaysia was nied by their tourism mister as recently as March 2019, ” says Fergson. That said, the LGBTQ+ muny is margalized this untry and there are heavy nsequenc for beg homosexual, which clu seven years to life prison for any same-sex act, ” says Fergson.

Unfortunately, thgs may soon be gettg even worse for the LGBTQ+ muny, as the Ugandan ernment has recently lled to retroduce an anti-homosexualy bill, which would clu the ath penalty for same-sex acts, the midst of the recent murr of a gay Ugandan activist. “In the Paltian terrori of Gaza and the Wt Bank, the anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment is taken very serly, wh homosexual acts rultg up to 10 years prison, ” says Fergson. “Groups advotg for LGBTQ+ rights are threatened by the erng thori Palte, who nsir homosexualy to be ‘a blow to, and vlatn of, the ials and valu of Paltian society.