Gay-Bashg Jordan—by the Government | Human Rights Watch

Contents:

• GAY-BASHG JORDAN—BY THE GOVERNMENT
• LTLE PROTECTN FOR GAYS JORDAN
• JORDAN ACTIVISTS TARGETED AFTER MP SAYS GAY PEOPLE UNWELE

GAY-BASHG JORDAN—BY THE GOVERNMENT

Gay Marriage⚭✖ UnregnizedCensorship✖ Imprisonment as punishmentChangg Genr✖ Legal, but requir surgeryNon-bary genr regnnUnknownDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsMilary✖ Don't Ask, Don't TellConversn Therapy✖ Not banned. Suggt Public Opn DataPublic OpnAcceptance of homosexuals as neighbors? 8%) Mentned homosexualsDid not mentn homosexuals (6.

LTLE PROTECTN FOR GAYS JORDAN

2%)Jtifiabily of homosexualy? Acceptance of Homosexualy (Arab untri)?

JORDAN ACTIVISTS TARGETED AFTER MP SAYS GAY PEOPLE UNWELE

(93%) No / Unsure / Did Not Answer"Should society accept homosexualy?

HistoryHomosexual activy Jordan? Homosexual activy Jordan is Homosexual activy has been legal Jordan sce 1951, however, the Penal Co clus vague provisns around "moraly" and "cent acts" that uld be ed to target LGBTQ+ people. In 2014, for example, Jordan thori arrted 10 gay men and women who were holdg a receptn at a party hall.

Public opn data shows that homosexualy is wily seen as marriage Jordan?

EqualSet age of nsent and homosexly is legal.

State actors Jordan have unrmed lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people’s right to privacy wh digal targetg, namely entrapment on social media and datg applitns, onle harassment and “outg, ” onle extortn, monorg social media, and reliance on illegimately obtaed digal evince prosecutns. Nasser*, a 23-year-old who moved to Jordan about a year ago and intifi as a homosexual, has experienced beg asked to leave an tablishment for displayg affectn publicly.

In 2015, rmal LGBT activists and the Jordan-based LGBT-clive magaze anized a small event central Amman for the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT), where members of several European embassi and the US embassy unofficially attend the event as a show of support, sparkg nmnatn of the US ambassador by Jordanian thori. However, homosexualy is still not accepted socially.

The fact that homosexualy is not illegal do not make Jordan a gay-iendly untry.

People lose privileg when they are intified as gay bee ’s a patriarchal society, but ’s also really nnected to genr and mostly class. At least, om what I know and what I hear, no one has been killed for beg gay Jordan. At least there is a space for gay people there, the art scene notably bee they n spread msag whout havg to preach to people, and they have the magaze It is posive to have a space like this.

“We are often perceived as a ntroversial publitn, which wasn’t liked by gay activists until 2015, when we started to talk about important thgs, like genr and femism, and velop our ntent stead of jt the look of , ” Abl-Hadi told Fanack.

Now, our ntent is often ed for people to send to fay members and iends orr to start the nversatn or check what their reactn would be to homosexualy. “The media were sayg ‘vil worshipers’, then ‘perverts’ and now they e more ‘homosexuals’, which is a good sign, ” he said. High-level Jordanian officials have ed a recent quiry to the legaly of a Jordanian onle magaze to issue statements agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people.

In his letter, the terr mister, Ghaleb al-Zu’bi, wrote, “Jordan has not and will never endorse any charter or protol acknowledgg homosexuals—known as the LGBT muny—or grantg them any rights as is nsired a viatn om Islamic law and Jordanian nstutn. And both 2016 and 2017, Jordan banned Mashrou’ Leila, a Lebane band wh an openly gay lead sger, om performg Jordan.