LONDON, November 17, 2007 – A new webse, Somali Gay Communy, has been lnched to serve the small gay Somali muny London – and beyond
Contents:
- GAY LIFE SOMALILAND AND SOMALIA
- GAY LIFE SOMALILAND AND SOMALIA
- ‘DON’T E BACK, THEY’LL KILL YOU FOR BEG GAY’
- GAY SOMALI REFUGE FACE ATH THREATS
- GAY SOMALIA: THE PRICE OF BEG SOUL MAT
- GAY SOMALI REFUGE FACE ATH THREATS
- GAY SOMALI IS KHANIIS OR FARAXSAN OR SOO JIIDASHO LEH.
GAY LIFE SOMALILAND AND SOMALIA
by Holly Peterson | | Lavenr Magaze Nasir Abdi-Omar, a queer Somali-Amerin who liv Mneapolis, has experienced this tch-22 first-hand. “I’ve had to al wh ignorance on both sis,” he explas, “Beg a queer Somali person the Tw Ci sometim n be alienatg…I’m too wtern for Somalis and too eastern for whe, gay Ameri.” Abdi-Omar’s Somali… * gay somalis *
They have also done terviews wh LGBTQ Somali folks, cludg a discsn wh Imam Nur Warsame, Atralia’s first openly gay Imam.
Mali, havg lived Mogadishu, Somalia for roughly three years, discsed his experience livg as a queer man a untry that crimaliz homosexualy and other LGBTQ inti. Hassan remembers watchg his iend was 2013, and Hassan’s 25-year-old iend had jt told his fay that he was gay.
On the one hand, homophobia and transphobia plague the Somali-Amerin muny.
GAY LIFE SOMALILAND AND SOMALIA
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Theirs are all stori of rilience, and of fdg strength each other amidst wav of terviewee stood outsi a popular gay bar Mneapolis and saw gay whe men ll Somali taxi drivers “goatfuckers”. It’s expected, ” Hassan said of homophobia and transphobia his Somali-Amerin muny. Even though Mneapolis’ LGBTQ muny is large and visible, many of the dividuals terviewed for this piece say has largely met them wh hostily – an extensn of the overt racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia boilg the US at asked about LGBTQ Somali-Amerins beg further tegrated wh Mnota’s larger LGBTQ muny, Michelle, a 29-year-old Somali gay woman who me to Mnota seven years ago, said: “I don’t really foree that happeng this untry.
”“We have now a suatn that tells that we are not Amerin, overtly, ” said Hse, a 24-year-old gay Somali-Amerin man. “In Somalia, [gay people] only exist social media, not real life, ” said Ali, a 28-year-old gay Somali-Amerin man.
He me to Mneapolis several years ago wh his parents, who do not know he is gay and routely prsure him to get married.
‘DON’T E BACK, THEY’LL KILL YOU FOR BEG GAY’
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I don’t thk I n have that nversatn wh them bee of how they view homosexual people. ”“[Homophobia] is eply woven to our culture, and ’s eply woven to ntemporary terpretatns of Islam, ” Hassan said. “At the same time that Islam is a eply homophobic relign, there is an credible amount of muny and nnectedns that helps facilate.
I know might be kd of hard to terpret, but if I believed God a ltle b more, I thk that homophobia, for me, would be a small enough price to pay to still be a part of that muny.
GAY SOMALI REFUGE FACE ATH THREATS
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“I’ve had to al wh ignorance on both sis, ” he explas, “Beg a queer Somali person the Tw Ci sometim n be alienatg…I’m too wtern for Somalis and too eastern for whe, gay Ameri.
GAY SOMALIA: THE PRICE OF BEG SOUL MAT
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Dpe that, “there are plenty of openly gay Somalis the Tw Ci [and] more that are unfortable g out. Hello guys, hope everyone is safe out there durg the challengg tim, I wanted to ask you how you feel about homosexualy? Includ civil issu of urse are laws which ern homosexual activy.
It’ s no surprise that homosexualy is illegal the untry and is punishable by imprisonment. Unr Article 410 of the Somali Penal Co, an addnal secury measure may acpany sentenc for homosexual acts, ually g the form of police surveillance to prevent “re-offendg”. (1) The followg mentary about Somali Culture and Homosexualy om the webse lled.
GAY SOMALI REFUGE FACE ATH THREATS
LGBT Rights Somalia: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * gay somalis *
Gay Life of the Somali People. Somali Gay Communy was tablished 2005 by a small group of Somalian guys who, apart om sharg the same culture and background, acknowledge the fact that they are homosexuals livg the UK.
The aim of startg the group was to create a space and medium for Somalian gays and lbians to accs rmatn, share experienc and velop support works. Dpe the current suatn, Somalis nsir themselv to be one homogeno people and not a natn of multiple cultur or fahs.
GAY SOMALI IS KHANIIS OR FARAXSAN OR SOO JIIDASHO LEH.
by Holly Peterson | | Lavenr Magaze Nasir Abdi-Omar, a queer Somali-Amerin who liv Mneapolis, has experienced this tch-22 first-hand. “I’ve had to al wh ignorance on both sis,” he explas, “Beg a queer Somali person the Tw Ci sometim n be alienatg…I’m too wtern for Somalis and too eastern for whe, gay Ameri.” Abdi-Omar’s Somali… * gay somalis *
It is the startg pot of the Somali fay stcture and anizatn, th homosexualy is nsired by many to be uls and a mortal s.
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However, we at Somali Gay Communy do not nsir love and rpect between two dividuals, whether straight or gay, as uls.