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.

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

LTLE PROTECTN FOR GAYS JORDAN

(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.

JORDAN ACTIVISTS TARGETED AFTER MP SAYS GAY PEOPLE UNWELE

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. Speakg on homophobia the sport a lengthy statement 2021, Henrson said: “My view on this is very much the same as on any other form of discrimatn the game, whether relat to race, relig tolerance, disabily or any other.

HistoryHomosexual activy ‘Ajlūn? Homosexual activy ‘Ajlūn 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. Public opn data shows that homosexualy is wily seen as marriage ‘Ajlūn?

LGBTQIA+ travellers are those who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, pl queer or qutng, tersex or asexual dividuals. Jordan is one of the most progrsive untri the Middle East relatn to LGBTQIA+ rights and homosexualy has been crimalised  Jordan for nsentg people over the age of 16 sce 1951. Homosexual activy ?

Homosexual activy is marriage ?

Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) dividuals Jordan face legal challeng and discrimatn not experienced by non-LGBT persons. However, Jordan remas one of few Arab untri where homosexual nduct is not crimalized.

74 of 1936) until 1951 when Jordan drafted s own penal which did not crimalise homosexualy, after havg gaed pennce 1946. [1] Homosexual nduct is legal Jordan. AMMAN, Jordan — When Hassan Zeid first told his fay that he was gay, the reactn was swift.

His mother promptly kicked him out of the hoe, tellg Zeid, “I am not gog to have a gay son. Zeid's stggl livg as a gay man Jordan are mon a eply nservative society and wh a ernment unwillg to take a more active stance on this taboo issue. Jordan is one of few untri the regn, along wh Bahra, Iraq and Israel, where homosexual acts are not crimalized.

The Jordanian ernment also tolerat a few f Amman that are wily nsired to be gay iendly. One parliament member, who sisted on remag anonymo due to the sensivy of this issue, told Al-Monor that if parliamentarians publicly fend gay rights, “they would lose their dience and supporters. Yet, even the law nnot protect gays and lbians om ocsnal arrt and harassment.

In Febary, the police arrted 10 homosexual men for havg a party east Amman. In the difficult s, Zeid reported some gay men rort to dire means.

Zeid would like to see the tablishment of an official gay anizatn. When scribg gays or lbians, the prs often the nscendg term "shath, " viant, stead of more ntral terms. After a group of Jordanians attempted to register a gay group wh the ernment, many media outlets ridiculed the move.