Pakistan Queer Movement - Gaylaxy Magaze

Contents:

• BEG GAY PAKISTAN: WHERE ANTI-GAY SERIAL KILLERS ARE APPLD
• PAKISTANI SAYS HE KILLED 3, USG GAY SE TO LURE THEM
• GAY SOCIAL NETWORK IN PAKISTAN
• GAY DATG PAKISTAN
• FOR SOME GAYS ABROAD, SOCIAL WORKG POS RISK
• GAY CHAT ONLE
• GAY CHAT ONLE

BEG GAY PAKISTAN: WHERE ANTI-GAY SERIAL KILLERS ARE APPLD

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PAKISTANI SAYS HE KILLED 3, USG GAY SE TO LURE THEM

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GAY SOCIAL NETWORK IN PAKISTAN

“Fally, gay personals that treat you like a person, ” the se says. BigJock has a long way to go before n pete wh the heavyweights above, but anythg is possible and there are clearly niche approach unrway throughout the gay male social workg market. LAHORE, Pakistan — Stg at a ffee shop a posh Lahore neighborhood, two young men hold a heated bate over the serial killer ught killg gay men their cy last month.

“Gay rights are human rights, ” says one, argug that gays have the right to live openly here. In late April, a young man named Muhammed Ejaz nfsed to killg three gay men over the past two months bee he wanted to send a warng about the “evils” of 28-year-old paramedic om Lahore said he had lured his victims through a gay social workg se and killed them followg a sexual enunter their own, a father of two, said his hatred agast gays sprgs om his beg abed by an olr man when he was 10.

"By killg the men, I wanted to warn them to stay away om this evil of homosexualy.

GAY DATG PAKISTAN

”In Pakistan, where homosexualy is illegal, the killgs have set off panic the already closeted gay muny. "You’ll fd many people who would buy to his philosophy that homosexualy is an evil.

”Gay people Pakistan n’t go to gay clubs: They don’t exist.

“In the absence of any type of gay hangouts, we only rely on the datg s, mobil apps and groups to make iends but wh this cint even that has bee unsafe, ” said, this nservative, Mlim untry where any kd of sex outsi marriage is taboo, gay partners some s receive ls scty than unmarried heterosexual upl.

FOR SOME GAYS ABROAD, SOCIAL WORKG POS RISK

"I don’t thk is hard to be gay Pakistan, at least works for me. ”Still, Butt, who is also an active morator on, another gay social se, says the gay muny feels creasgly threatened bee the hate-crim are generally appld by the society.

“I stand wh Ejaz and the urage he has showed to wipe the vils off om our holy land — Islam don’t approve of homosexualy so who are we to let the people live among , ” says Mohmmad Naeem 35-year-old roadsi vendor Ata, a 22-year-old stunt of law Karachi agre. “We n’t blame the killer for his acts, is illegal to dulge any homosexual activy and the ernment has failed to stop such obsceny, " he said.

GAY CHAT ONLE

” Persecutn is a nstant threat to the gay muny, members say, even as all but the most egreg cints rema unreported or out of the 2003, three Pakistani men were arrted Lahore for engagg homosexual acts after one of their relativ turned them followg a private party. Another cint 2005 volved the nuptial rual of a gay uple, 42-year-old Liaqat Ali and Markeen a 16-year-old Afghan refugee the untry. The pair had nducted a tradnal tribal ceremony — gay marriage is not regnized Pakistan, and this pair was reportedly the first to even hold a ceremony.

A tribal uncil their regn of Khyber Pakhtunkwa north Pakistan told the uple to leave the area the north or face ath bee they had broken relig and tribal Hafiz-ur-Rehman, a 60-year-old cleric based Kahuta, Punjab an open statement December 2007 said, “Homosexuals mt be killed — ’s the only way to stop them spreadg. Soclogists note the most recent serial killer se has highlighted another troublg aspect of the public discsn of homosexualy, and which ntribut to the animosy towards the gay muny. “For me is problematic how (the alleged killer) has nfed child abe wh homosexualy, ” says Asma Imran, an Islamabad-based soclogist.

GAY CHAT ONLE

"Y, there will always be some our society who’ll nsir homosexualy a disease and would not accept that ’s a matter of orientatn, " says Raheel, 35, om Faisalabad, near Lahore. "Till that acceptance , we will see many like Ejaz who will kill gays. AdvertisementSKIP Ali/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagApril 28, 2014LAHORE, Pakistan — The arrt of a nfsed serial killer who ed the Inter to lure his victims has ed alarm among gay men and lbians Pakistan, where social media has been quietly ed to win eedoms a untry where homosexualy is officials the eastern cy of Lahore said the man, a paramedic named Muhammad Ejaz, was unr arrt on spicn of killg three men he had met on Manjam, a social workg webse for gay men that has thoands of members Pakistan.

Speculatn about the murrs had been ursg through gay circl Lahore sce mid-March, when the first killg took place. “People are que ightened, ” said one gay man, speakg on the ndn of anonymy bee of the law agast homosexualy.

“Some of my iends leted their profil bee they were worried, ” he Ejaz nied police claims that he had had sex wh his victims before killg them, claimg stead that sexual abe he had suffered as a teenager had driven him to his arrt removed a secury worry for some gay men and lbians, also raised fears that hostile news media verage uld lead to rtrictns on the e of workg s. “The reportg has a very moralistic tone, ” another gay man said.