What Part of the Middle East is a Great Gay Dtatn

Contents:

• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
• THE REAL STORY OF THE GAY MIDDLE EAST
• EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
• WHAT PART OF THE MIDDLE EAST IS A GREAT GAY DTATN?

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

In some untri, such as Egypt, where homosexualy is not an explic offence, vaguely word “moraly” laws are neverthels wily ed to persecute those who are acced of “promotg sexual viancy” and the, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism the 1980s cid wh that of the gay-rights movement Ameri and Europe, harng cultural differenc.

THE REAL STORY OF THE GAY MIDDLE EAST

Last year Hassan Nasrallah, the lear of Hezbollah, an Islamist polil group based Lebanon, acced the Wt of exportg homosexualy to the Islamic world, echog Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei’s warng a year before of “ravagg moral y” om the Wt. Though executns for nsensual same-sex activy are difficult to track, several gay men have been hanged on qutnable grounds there, such as beg acced of rape and not beg given a fair trial, as recently as 2016. In Lebanon, between 2007 and 2017 four judg refed to crimalise homosexualy on the ground that the nstutn, which punish “unnatural sex” wh up to one year prison, do not apply to nsensual same-sex relatns.

Acrdg to the kgdom’s relig police, the school was fed 100, 000 riyals ($26, 650) for displayg “the emblem of the homosexuals” on s buildg, one of s admistrators was jailed and the offendg parapet was swiftly repated to match a blue rabow-ee se of the gaily pated school shows how progrs one part of the world n have adverse effects elsewhere and serv as a remr that there are plac where the nnectn between rabows and LGBT rights is eher new or yet to be Afghanistan, only a few years ago, there was a craze for ratg rs wh rabow stickers – which Che factori were only too happy to supply. It wasn’t until the Afghan Pajhwok news agency explaed how they might be misterpreted that the craze me to a sudn on the ter and you will also fd pi of the “Rabow Qur’an” for sale – an unnscly gay edn of the holy book wh tted pag of every hue and remend on one webse as “an ial gift for Mlims” there are two sis to this cross-cultural misunrstandg.

EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI

Genr segregatn, which go to extreme lengths the more nservative Mlim untri, enurag homosocial behavur, creatg a suatn where men are often more fortable the prence of other men and where placg a hand on another man’s knee is a sign of iendship, not an vatn to sex.

WHAT PART OF THE MIDDLE EAST IS A GREAT GAY DTATN?

Historilly, Mlim societi have often acknowledged this – toleratg to some extent even if they the 19th and early 20th centuri, men who had been persecuted for their sexualy Europe often sought refuge Moroc and, long before same-sex marriage was dreamed of the wt, male-on-male partnerships were regnised – and marked wh a ceremony – the remote Egyptian oasis of some Mlim untri, whole towns have bee the butt of jok about the supposed homosexualy of their habants. In Egypt, for example, an old law agast “bchery” is often laws have a tastrophic effect on the liv of people who are unlucky enough to get ught but, spe ocsnal crackdowns, the thori don’t, on the whole, actively seek out gay people to arrt them. In England 1952, there were 670 prosecutns for sodomy, 3, 087 for attempted sodomy or cent asslt, and 1, 686 for gross problem wh such laws, even if not vigoroly enforced, is that they signal official disapproval of homosexualy and, upled wh the fulmatns of relig scholars, legimise discrimatn by dividuals at an everyday level and may also provi an exce for actn by vigilant.