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Contents:

• GAY LIFE SYRIA: AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY 'REFUGEE'
• THE DOUBLE THREAT FOR GAY MEN SYRIA
• IS IT ILLEGAL TO BE GAY IN SYRIA?
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• UNR ISIS: WHERE BEG GAY IS PUNISHED BY DEATH

GAY LIFE SYRIA: AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY 'REFUGEE'

One gay man’s rponse has been to abandon his native Syria and s current upheaval state and live Turkey where he fds support om the LGBT muny but still leav him a man whout a untry. He is currently a man whout a untry, forced om Syria by a dangero revolutn, fay disagreements as well as ary threats, not so much for his beg gay but for tryg to make a polil statement of fiance toward the Assad regime that’s currently slghterg thoands of own cizens. Adad’s views beme known through his two psdonymo web blogs which advote for human and gay rights agast the ernment treatment of gays as well as the btaly and rptn of the currently lears.

” A gay fay member was ually upsettg at first but life had more important thgs that mattered–food, secury, safety, earng e, children’s school lsons and not drawg attentn to yourself or your fay. But then a new police chief felt the need to prove his effectivens, not agast wispread rptn the ernment or the civil service, but agast the meager gay muny for imaged immoral behavr agast the natural orr.

THE DOUBLE THREAT FOR GAY MEN SYRIA

However, that fervent actn only lasted for a few months late 2010 when thgs went back to normal “tolerance wh reason” and gay iends ntued to meet and greet each other certa f and private small parti. When Adad was taed by the police a send time the officer charge, probably tryg to timidate him, displayed a large rmatn book wh nam and photos taken om onle social work webs of allegedly gay people Syria (and elsewhere) along wh their profil and iends. When asked if he has had any trouble om namg gay venu on his webse he said “no, as long as there is not trouble stirrg we are mostly ee to go about our own affairs but they still try to sre and warn agast any big parti or public showgs.

Asked where he would want to live: “of urse I want to live my home culture near my fay but that will not happen any time soon; perhaps a untry where gay people are given some feelg of rights and equaly, like France or Germany. Soon after the short-lived police gay party bts and tentns end December 2010, (why they end is a mystery to Adad; perhaps anticipatn of bigger thgs to e), the ‘Arab Sprg’ reached Syria as the mostly unarmed populace rose up agast the heavily armed ernment. Curly, however, Adad reported that even after the revolutn started the gay muny seemed to be left alone and not specifilly targeted as a moral or secury risk, even as the ernment vilified the opposn forc as ‘homosexual revolutnari’ needg to be put down.

Beg gay has always been a reason for firg someone om their job and that is creased now out of fear; the thori may spect an otherwise nocent employer if he is found to have a gay person workg for him. One uple, intified as gay based on text msag between them, were beaten, referred to pejoratively as “tante” (ntie) and for 10 nights were forced to strip and have sex wh each other ont of their Syrian army terrogators, who ed chalk to make up their fac. A 26-year-old told of beg bldfold and handcuffed to a ceilg by unintified men who said they were affiliated wh al-Qaeda and who tried to get him to reveal the nam of his gay iends.

IS IT ILLEGAL TO BE GAY IN SYRIA?

In addn to this abe, perpetrated by all parti to Syria’s nflict, more than half the gay Syrians whom Human Rights Watch terviewed told paful stori of fay rejectn, rangg om ostracism to vlence — and, five stanc, ath threats. In at least two s Human Rights Watch documented, gay men were subjected to anal exams by the Lebane Internal Secury Forc — spe lls om the Lebane doctors’ syndite and the jtice mister 2012 to abolish that practice, which amounts to torture. Homosexualy⚢Vari by RegnGay Marriage⚭✖ UnregnizedCensorship✖ State-enforcedNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsMilary✖ Don't Ask, Don't TellDonatg Blood✖ Banned (fe ferral)Conversn Therapy✖ Not bannedAge of ConsentVari by Regn.

Servg openly ary Syria is don't ask, don't 't Ask, Don't Tell Homosexualy is illegal Syria, but no laws specify homosexualy as a dishonorable discharge or prohibn om ary donatns by MSMs Syria?

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

This report is based on terviews Human Rights Watch nducted Lebanon wh 40 gay and bisexual men and transgenr women—some of whom were perceived by perpetrators to be gay men—and non-bary dividuals, as well as 4 heterosexual men. This report foc on the experienc of gay and bisexual men and transgenr women who are survivors of nflict-related sexual vlence Syria orr to highlight the specific vulnerabili surroundg real and perceived sexual orientatn and genr inty. Like cisgenr people, transgenr people may intify as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or asexual; that is, they may be attracted to people of the oppose genr, the same genr, both genrs, or neher.

To the ntrary, is part precisely bee of the potential negative effect of imputg a ‘gay’ inty or ‘homosexual’ behavr to the victim that male-male sexual vlence n be psychologilly and emotnally damagg…. [26] Heterosexual male survivors of sexual vlence may qutn their masculy (and therefore their societal power) and sexualy, part of which is driven by stigma agast homosexualy. However, evince suggts that gay and bisexual men and transgenr dividuals are more vulnerable to this type of vlence bee they are targeted for vlence, wh or whout nflict, based on their sexual orientatn and/or genr inty.

Torture and ill-treatment of persons on the basis of actual or perceived sexual orientatn or genr inty is rampant armed nflict and perpetrated by State and non-State actors alike, wh rape and other forms of sexual vlence sometim beg ed as a form of ‘moral cleansg’ of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr persons.

UNR ISIS: WHERE BEG GAY IS PUNISHED BY DEATH

Siarly, a 2019 report, the UN Secretary-General regnized “that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex dividuals are sometim specifilly targeted wh sexual vlence nflicts” and remend:.

[M]ore nsistent monorg and analysis of and reportg on vlatns agast lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex dividuals, and the review of natnal legislatn to protect lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex victims. Cas that Human Rights Watch documented show that although men and boys are stopped at checkpots regardls of their sexual orientatn and genr inty, gay and bisexual men and transgenr dividuals were often sexually and verbally harassed and sexually abed on the basis that they were “soft lookg. Apart om beg targeted by Syrian forc at checkpots, tentn centers and wh the Syrian army, gay and bisexual men and boys and transgenr dividuals have also been targeted and executed by the Islamic State (ISIS), areas unr ISIS ntrol.

In addn to beg targeted by state and non-state armed groups, gay and bisexual men and transgenr women told Human Rights Watch that LGBT dividuals Syria are rejected, ostracized, and subject to vlence by their fay members.