Gay UDA gunman: 'I hid my te self' | Northern Ireland | The Guardian

Contents:

• BACKLASH OVER 'IRA KNEEPPED GAYS' MENT - BUT SENATOR NORRIS STANDS BY CLAIM
• THERE'S THIS GAY IRA MAN, SEE...
• GAY UDA GUNMAN: 'I HID MY TE SELF'
• GAY IRANIAN MAN AD ALLEGED 'HONOR KILLG,' RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
• WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE GAY IRAN
• IRA BATHSATHENSMENULUXURY HOTELSMID-RANGE HOTELSON TODAYBARS + CAFDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSSNASSHOPSSERVICTOURSCY GUIATHENS PICTURGAY MAPIRA BATHS
• Y, THERE ARE GAY PEOPLE IRAN

BACKLASH OVER 'IRA KNEEPPED GAYS' MENT - BUT SENATOR NORRIS STANDS BY CLAIM

Whether you are gay or straight as spoal IRA is a specific type of retirement acunt for dividuals, which allows a workg spoe to ntribute to a nonworkg spoe’s retirement acunt. To help make this procs as seamls as possible, I remend people work wh the tax preparer and gay fancial planner when cidg to open and fund a spoal IRA. Once you know you are eligible to ntribute to a spoal IRA, your acunt n be opened at pretty much fancial stutns or wh your tsted gay fancial advisor.

Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer or qutng (LGBTQ+) people have seen many historil, societal, and legal chang recent years that grant them more equaly and protectn.

1994: “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is stuted, a policy that banned openly gay and lbian members of the ary om servg the U. 2010: The “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy is repealed, allowg gay and lbian people to serve openly the U. The Pntial report shows that gay men make $56, 936 on average, while straight men make $83, 469 on average.

THERE'S THIS GAY IRA MAN, SEE...

However, a report om the UCLA School of Law Williams Instute nclud that bisexuals tend to earn ls than gay or straight people. But, all the same, there are plenty of people—gay and straight—who choose not to be married, Hatch said. A claim the Provisnal IRA "kneepped people for beg gay" has been met wh an angry backlash, but the man behd the ment says he was "speakg the tth" to highlight how attus had changed over recent years.

Proment gay rights activist and Irish polician David Norris ma the claim at the lnch of the first LGBT History Ftival 'OUTg the Past' at Belfast Cy journalist Johnny Caldwell reported the Irish senator's reactn many rid the claim as "total fictn" wh some highlightg how gay activists had the past supported the republin Fe's Alex Maskey scribed the ments as "reprehensible". "I have had a lot of rpect for David terms of the urage he showed standg up for gay rights and whatever reason he has said this I jt fd crlo and I would have expected more om him.

GAY UDA GUNMAN: 'I HID MY TE SELF'

Senator David Norris has mpaigned for gay rights and was stmental the crimalisatn of homosexualy the Republic after takg a se through the domtic urts and all the way to the European Court of Human said he was speakg of the chang attus Ireland toward those the LGBT muny. "They wore badg, which said Irish 'gay liberatn' and they had been bullied, timidated and y kneepped. "Now, I don't know if those behd may have been actg as eelance but at that time the provisnal movement was very anti-gay.

He's also gay, and happier to rne wh his Prottant boyiend than wh his long-lost sister, or his former IRA mandg officer. McCrory was also one of two UDA lears chosen to meet Mo Mowlam 10 years ago her talks the Maze aimed at salvagg the loyalist now McCrory has bee the first paraary to publicly out himself as a gay man. The 43-year-old has swapped a life domated by direct volvement UDA assassatn squads Northern Ireland for one of gay activism his first terview, McCrory has also claimed he was the unlikely spiratn for a novel wrten by one of his former fo - ex-Sn Fe publicy director Danny Morrison.

The ia was to e a mix among the republin and loyalist mat, to provoke the IRA men to slaggg me about my gay lover Stland.

GAY IRANIAN MAN AD ALLEGED 'HONOR KILLG,' RIGHTS GROUP SAYS

He now attends Gay Pri ralli across Bra om Glasgow to Brighton, regularly viss Manchter's Gay Village and march gay rights monstratns across the untry.

WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE GAY IRAN

Asked if he would march si by si wh Irish republin gay rights activists, he said: 'I've already done that. SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola. "Uwu gay furri pwn you~ We'll be back aga soon to ntue our chaos and stctn!"Some news outlets, such as Them, raised ncerns that the group's actns uld expose random people to harm, not jt the targeted ernments.

The plight of Iraq's lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and qutng or queer (LGBTQ) muny returned to the spotlight last week when Kurdish secury forc Sulaymaniyah reportedly arrted several gay men. Members of the muny told VOA the arrts of at least eight gay men on April 1 stilled fear among them, particularly after secury forc reportedly attempted to force the men to unrgo physil examatns.

Durg s dranian le Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State terror group published vios showg s members killg gay men by throwg them off buildg rooftops. Ali Fazeli Monfared, a 20-year-old gay Iranian man, was allegedly killed an “honor killg” by some of his male fay members after they found out he was gay, acrdg to an LGBTQ rights group Iran and Monfared, who was known as Alireza by iends and fay, lived a cy southwt Iran. He had applied for an exemptn om pulsory ary service so he uld leave the untry and move to Turkey to live wh his close iend, Aghil Bayat, acrdg to 6Rang, the Iranian Lbian and Transgenr homosexual nduct is crimalized Iran, part of the ary exemptn law allows gay and transgenr people to receive a medil exemptn om service for their inty.

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The law stat, part, “a person n be eed om his ary service duti, if he is ‘mentally ill’ (homosexual). ”Fazeli Monfared received an exemptn rd the mail om the Islamic Revolutnary Guard Corps after disclosg his homosexualy, but one of his male relativ found and disvered he was gay, acrdg to 6Rang. “We thk that bee of his genr exprsn and his behavrs, they knew that he is homosexual, but was proof that shows he wants to leave the untry, and he is a gay man, ” Am said.

If Fazeli Monfared’s alleged killers had ught him havg sex wh a man, then they might receive lser punishments for his is one of an timated 11 untri where same-sex sexual acts are punishable by ath, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, and one of almost 70 untri where is crimalized, acrdg to Human Rights Watch, an ternatnal human rights group based New York. In Iran, punishments for homosexual nduct range om 31 to 100 lash to ath, acrdg to Human Rights Watch. Iranian Foreign Mister Mohammad Javad Zarif fend the untry’s ath penalty punishment for homosexual nduct durg a prs nference June 2019.

Y, THERE ARE GAY PEOPLE IRAN

"The are moral prcipl regardg the behavr of people general, ” he said at the time, acrdg to German broadster Dtsche are no statistics or rerds of the number of anti-LGBTQ “honor killgs” — which are perpetrated by relativ who feel the LGBTQ person has brought “dishonor” to the fay — that happen Iran or other untri that crimalize homosexualy, Tara Sepehri Far, who vtigat human rights ab Iran and Kuwa for Human Rights Watch, told NBC said Fazeli Monfared’s se highlights the importance of the role of the fay LGBTQ people’s liv when the state crimaliz who they are. “Exposg that to the very same thori who, theory, have the thory to arrt and prosecute you is very risky, ” she said other untri should prsure Iran to remove the law crimalizg homosexualy and the ath penalty “bee this is the reason why the fai, they allow themselv to have the right to vlate their children.

Sexual teractn between two women is punishable by vast majory of media reports about homosexualy Iran are based on acunts of torment and opprsn om gays and lbians who have fled the untry. And while their experienc are reprentative for some of Iran's homosexuals, they are hugely different om those of the people who choose to stay the untry, or don't have the opportuny to om lower class and ral areas, where stigmatizatn is often most severe, rarely have the abily to move out of the hoe before marriage, let alone leave the untry. There is generally ltle acceptance of homosexualy, but some middle- and upper-class Iranians have the means to create parallel liv, out of sight of their relativ or iends.