The official fictn, Brian Whaker explas, is that gay people don’t exist the Middle East. They do – and for many of them, attus of fay and society are a bigger problem than fear of beg persecuted
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EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
“The film is the first time you n watch a movie that three gay Arabs are the hero and not the victims” * lgbt in the middle east *
In many untri the Middle East, homosexual behavr is crimalized. Some untri even nsir homosexualy punishable by ath. In a untry like Sdi Arabia, you n be executed for simply beg gay.
This means that transgenr dividuals are jt as much danger too if not more, bee the anti-gay cultural norms extend to the entire LGBT muny. It’s very sad to me that 16 of the 18 untri the Middle East crimalize homosexualy at some level. Prsure your policians to fight for worldwi crimalizatn of homosexualy.
Spread awarens to iends and fay that people are gettg arrted almost daily the Middle East jt for beg gay, some of them have been murred by mobs or executed by the ernment jt for tryg to be themselv.
THE REAL STORY OF THE GAY MIDDLE EAST
As an openly gay man, I want to e my platform to discs issu related to the LGBT muny an effort to spread awarens about important topics. Saleem Haddad’s prize-wng but novel sets the story of Rasa, a gay man ught between his lover and his fay, agast the backdrop of the Arab Sprg. Origally wrten French, An Arab Melancholia tells the story of openly gay Morocn wrer and filmmaker Abllah Taïa, om his childhood Moroc to his life Cairo and Paris.