How Gay is Pakistan? - BBC Three - 2015 - ArchivePK

Contents:

• HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?, BBC THREE
• HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?
• HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN? BBC3 - TV REVIEW: THE ONLY OFFENSIVE THG HERE WAS THE IMAM'S OUTDATED VIEWS
• “BEG GAY PAKISTAN, WHAT A MISERABLE AND HARD LIFE!”
• HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?, BBC THREE
• HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN? - BBC THREE - 2015
• THERE IS PLENTY OF GAY SEX KARACHI, PAKISTAN

HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?, BBC THREE

As a YouTube ic Mawaan Rizwan is clearly at ease on screen, and right at the begng of How Gay Is Pakistan? He was tellg about g out as gay to his fay last year: was “the worst news ever for Pakistani parents”. The well-off exist a world which homosexualy has an accepted, if mostly unspoken place – a scene staed by social media – wh clubs taken over by gay men and women for dancg that, Rizwan remd more than once, felt like Soho.

HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?

I know we keep beg told how small BBC Three’s dience is, but you mt wonr how long that anonymy is gog to the other extreme, the labourer muni of Lahore, the ncept of gayns hardly existed: stead was MSM – men sleepg wh men – not bee of sexual preference, but bee they uldn’t afford women prostut.

HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN? BBC3 - TV REVIEW: THE ONLY OFFENSIVE THG HERE WAS THE IMAM'S OUTDATED VIEWS

Their dream was to be married South Ai by an Imam who apparently endors homosexual marriage wh Islam. Rizwan vised a number of very articulate profsnals, om lawyers – Pakistan’s anti-gay legislatn is a direct hand-over om the legal system of the Brish Empire – to health-workers. “For ’s normal, by the way, ” was the tellg ment om the ’s vis to a revered Imam for advice was revealg, though ls so for the medice that he was prcribed to “cure” his homosexualy.

What wasn’t touched on here – for that, ’s worth listeng to Mobeen Azhar’s 2013 Rad Four Crossg Contents programme Insi Gay Pakistan – was the hypocrisy volved on all onts.

That programme told that the natnal language, Urdu, don’t even have a rpectful, objective word for “homosexualy”. Language How Gay Is Pakistan?

“BEG GAY PAKISTAN, WHAT A MISERABLE AND HARD LIFE!”

) Where Azhar disvered how gay life often ntu wh the fabric of marriage, Rizwan spent more time wh the Hijra transgenr-transsexual muny, quasi-fay uns that adopt and to some extent une those vilified by society: each group has s own gu, and if Shahzadi was to proceed wh stratn, would be agast the advice of hers (closg tl revealed that she had chosen that path). “Not as bad as I expected, ” wasn’t exactly Rizwan’s ncln – and ’s probably not a slogan which the Tourist Board is gog to adopt – but he me away nvced that Pakistan, as a society, was actually que gay, as well as very glad that he was g back to life London’s Zone Two. “Big, brave steps” may be beg taken the gay muny there, but what a difficult, long journey li ahead.

SummaryReturng for a vis as an openly gay man, Mawaan Rizwan asks what is like to be gay Pakistan and fds a stgglg but excg and diverse unrground LGBTQ muny. Tle: How Gay Is Pakistan? Keywords: AIDS and fectns, gay and lbian movement, gay muni, gay rights, genr inty, health servic accsibily, homophobia, homophobic asslt, homosexual men, homosexual relatnships, homosexual sex, homosexualy, Islam, Islamic culture, LGBT, LGBT issu, LGBT movement, LGBT workers, Pakistan, ral areas, Safe sex, Sexually transmted disease screeng, Sexually transmted diseas: preventn, transgenr discrimatn, transgenr movement, transgenr rights, transgenred persons.

How Gay is Pakistan? At least that was the fdgs of gay Brish YouTuber Mawaan Rizwan on his return to his untry of birth. Comg out to his fay was “the worst news for Pakistani parents to hear”, but such a fundamentalist untry he disvered gay sex ns, unrground LGBT parti and muni of transgenr women livg together.

HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?, BBC THREE

Homosexualy is illegal Pakistan, where is viewed as an offence agast Islamic law. Rizwan bravely admted he was gay ont of an imam, whose blunt rponse was: “The hole ma for the human body is for waste, is not for sex. ” Convced he uld cure the prenter of his homosexual “illns”, he prcribed a urse of meditn after feelg Rizwan's pulse, om which he magilly nclud his liver was overheated, g his “ure to mix wh semen”.

Beg gay Pakistan is no lghg matter, but Rizwan did a good job jectg some humour to what uld have been a worthier-than-thou documentary. From talkg to uple Sid and Kami about their plans for a “Big Gay Mlim Weddg”, to admtg he wanted to “curl up and go back to zone two London”, he was easy to relate to.

Furthermore, he untry’s pennce hered many Brish Era laws cludg Article 377: the most petned agast gay men. Bee the entire society is heavily fluenced by relign, homosexualy remas a taboo. All the major sects of Islam have pletely forbidn homosexualy but the existence of an homosexual populatn nnot be nied Pakistani society.

HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN? - BBC THREE - 2015

Haseeb Rathore is a young gay man om Lahore, Pakistan who “regnized himself” and felt different om others at a very young age, but was not allowed to exprs his feelgs.

Like other gay boys, Haseeb tried his bt to be accepted but nothg ever worked for him. This is when Il Gran Colibri learned about Haseeb’s story and took the opportuny to terview him about his inty as a gay Mlim om Pakistan. What do mean to be gay the Islamic Republic of Pakistan?

How do gay men Pakistan spend their life? Most gay men spend their life guilt, rryg a burn of ss.

THERE IS PLENTY OF GAY SEX KARACHI, PAKISTAN

It is really dangero to e out as gay ont of a lleague or a iend. Can you scribe gay bullyg Pakistan?