1st public gay marriage Yemen draws rage | Al Bawaba

Contents:

• GAY LIFE YEMEN--AN INTRODUCTN
• ALAA JARBAN: ONE OF YEMEN'S FIRST OPENLY GAY MEN
• 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
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• 1ST PUBLIC GAY MARRIAGE YEMEN DRAWS RAGE
• GAY LIFE YEMEN: ONE MAN'S STORY OF DTY AND CHOICE
• 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
• NO PLACE FOR GAYS YEMEN
• FOR YEMEN’S GAY MUNY SOCIAL MEDIA IS A SAVUR
• TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021
• 4 MURRS OF GAY MEN YEMEN

GAY LIFE YEMEN--AN INTRODUCTN

In Yemen, homosexualy is both bee no one is willg to speak or wre about public or the media, spe the evable prence of a gay unrground that is kept well hidn om the scty of the moraly thugs and vlent thori. In more than a of rerdg thoands of news and reports about LGBT life around the world, GlobalGayz has only found eight reports about homosexualy Yemen. The official posn is that there are no gays Yemen, yet Yemeni law that stipulat severe punishment for homosexual activy acknowledg s existence.

Only three Mlim natns (Sdi Arabia, Iran and Afghanistan) are known to have rried out the ath penalty for alleged homosexual acts recently years (1990-2010). However, the homosexual ‘liftyle’ was outed 2010 when om a safe distance Paris the Yemeni thor and filmmaker Hamid Aqabi published a review of an Egyptian film, “Heena Maysara” (“Till thgs get better”), which ntas a lbian love scene. In his ments he noted that homosexualy was “part and parcel of our society” and went so far as to ll on the parliament to extend more rights to gay people and suggted that the Yemeni ernment nsir allowg gay marriag, as the Wt.

ALAA JARBAN: ONE OF YEMEN'S FIRST OPENLY GAY MEN

Image ptn, Alaa Jarban's "I'm Queer" post has provoked a backlashThe issue of homosexualy is wily taboo the Middle East, cludg Yemen where the penalty for beg gay n be severe. "In his post, Mr Jarban revealed timate thoughts and reflected on a perplexed and isolated perd of adolcence growg up as a gay boy a nservative society.

But while for some that is a good thg, for others rerc the ia that Yemenis need to prerve their tradns orr to fight off this creepg so-lled "Wtern morny" prospect of acceptg homosexual people seems distant a untry that do not acknowledge their existence. "I asked iends where is the gay muny, and people said there are no gays Yemen, " wrote a girl who was aaid to share her real inty on Alaa's blog, which has bee a platform for ntributors om the LGBT [lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr] muny. "When the protts reached Yemen, I cid to take part the hope of fdg a new si to my untry, a si I uld fally relate to, " said Mr that hope began to wane as he watched the limed impact the revolutn had on tradnal Yemeni life and attus - spe the otg of a print who had led for 32 ptn, Kamal al-Solaylee says his cisn to e out as a gay Yemeni enuraged othersKamal al-Solaylee - thor of Intolerable: A Memoir of Extrem, a book about the trials he faced g out as member of the Yemeni diaspora - scribed Mr Jarban's cisn as brave, pecially for a man so young.

Acutely aware of those nsequenc, Mr Solaylee is nearly 50 and liv his book was published, gay Yemeni men sought him out, eager to share experienc and embrace their sexual inty an acceptg Yemeni Solaylee was luged wh emails and letters. "I beme the godfather of gay Yemeni men, " he feels protective of Mr Jarban and wants to help him, but there is ltle he n do if the 23-year-old cis to stay Yemen. Homosexualy⚢✖ Illegal (ath penalty as punishment)Censorship✖ Imprisonment as punishmentNon-bary genr regnnUnknownDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsConversn Therapy✖ Not banned.

5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)

Illegal (ath penalty as punishment) Even though the Yemeni Law says that only married Mlim man n be punished wh the ath penalty if the man is ught havg a homosexual activy. In an attempt to help terme the worst plac for gay travelers, the duo created the 2019 LGBTQ+ Danger Inx, rankg the world’s most dangero—and saft—untri for gay travelers.

The journalists looked at the top 150 most-vised untri the world by the number of g tourists, then ranked them g eight factors, cludg laws agast gay relatnships, legal protectn agast discrimatn and more. “In 2018, India managed to annul Sectn 377, a Brish lonial-era law prohibg ‘unnatural acts, ’ orr to legalize nsensual gay sex, ” says Fergson, who pots out that ancient Indian lerature such as the Mahabharata and Ramayana have many referenc to LGBTQ+ hero cludg transgenr warrrs and two queens who ma love orr for one queen to get pregnant wh an heir for their kgdom. “Long story short, this pots to the fact that was likely the Brish fluence that largely led to Indian homophobia the first place, ” she says.

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“We found this to be a b ironic as the reason for many of the harsh homophobic laws untri throughout the world is largely leftover om laws created durg Brish le, ” says Fergson. Ci like Lisbon and Porto have the bt gay scen the untry and Portugal is hopg to host the 2022 Europri, the world's biggt event celebratg gay pri Europe.

1ST PUBLIC GAY MARRIAGE YEMEN DRAWS RAGE

Wh an overall natnal attu that is relaxed and acceptg towards homosexualy, Belgium is known for havg a vibrant gay and lbian scene, particularly Bssels, ” says Fergson. It was ranked so highly largely due to the extreme penalti for simply beg gay, which clu up to 14 years prison and the ath penalty stat unr Sharia law, ” says Fergson.

GAY LIFE YEMEN: ONE MAN'S STORY OF DTY AND CHOICE

“Sdi Arabia is another of the untri on our list which implements the ath penalty for nsensual homosexualy unr their terpretatn of Sharia law, ” says Fergson. “Iran ma #6 on the x, due part to s extreme punishments for homosexualy, which clu 100 lash for homosexual terurse or the ath penalty, and 31 lash for same-sex acts other than terurse, ” says Fergson.

“Publicly, homosexualy is a taboo topic, so LGBTQ+ travelers choosg to vis Sudan should proceed wh utn and rema discreet wh regards to their sexualy.

“Historilly, Barbados and some other Caribbean islands have had poor anti-LGBTQ+ legislatn and practic, largely left over om the Brish occupatn which put the laws place and rerced anti-gay attus.

13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH

Unfortunately, imposed punishment for homosexualy is severe and the existence of gay people Malaysia was nied by their tourism mister as recently as March 2019, ” says Fergson. That said, the LGBTQ+ muny is margalized this untry and there are heavy nsequenc for beg homosexual, which clu seven years to life prison for any same-sex act, ” says Fergson.

Unfortunately, thgs may soon be gettg even worse for the LGBTQ+ muny, as the Ugandan ernment has recently lled to retroduce an anti-homosexualy bill, which would clu the ath penalty for same-sex acts, the midst of the recent murr of a gay Ugandan activist. “In the Paltian terrori of Gaza and the Wt Bank, the anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment is taken very serly, wh homosexual acts rultg up to 10 years prison, ” says Fergson.

“Groups advotg for LGBTQ+ rights are threatened by the erng thori Palte, who nsir homosexualy to be ‘a blow to, and vlatn of, the ials and valu of Paltian society. Currently, Kenyan law stat that same-sex terurse between mal rults 14 years prison, while all other homosexual acts between mal are punished wh five years imprisonment, ” says Fergson.

NO PLACE FOR GAYS YEMEN

In fact, Jamai was lled ‘the most homophobic place on Earth’ by Time magaze 2006 and LGBTQ+ people are sadly still the victims of homophobic vlence today.

Another vio was also shared on Sunday showg one of the sheikhs, rryg a Kalashnikov weapon, at a lol tribal meetg, mandg that the lol thori execute the two gay men. Introductn: The followg story was sent to GlobalGayz by a thoughtful Yemeni gay man who was willg to share his observatns and feelgs about gay life his untry.

This story is not a cheerful one for a gay person but the wrer seems to be strong and wise and able to manage some satisfactn his daily livg, thanks no small part to LGBT iends he has found onle. I ed to have dreams of livg somewhere outsi Yemen where I n live as a ee gay, but I am more mature now, and I want to have my own fay wh my parents.

FOR YEMEN’S GAY MUNY SOCIAL MEDIA IS A SAVUR

Beg gay do not fe me, I am still a human beg who wants to love and be loved, earn rpect by my ethics and morals, re about others and help the unfortunate; I dream and work to achieve my goals.

The future is unknown and I n’t build a future life as a gay person bee neher my parents nor my relign will accept me, and I want to have all.

Standg on the street alone like a prostute is beg a trend nowadays; is hard to say if the are really gay and lookg for sex or if they are unrprivileged teenagers lookg to make money dog that. In my se, I wasn’t aware of my homosexualy and I had a very strong Islamic fluence so I didn’t have any sexual exploratn until I was 16 years old. I have never seen or wnsed any gay sndals, but I heard stori about gays who were thrown out of rtrants, cloth shops, ter f and ffee shops bee they were actg feme or gay.

TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021

(Please unrstand that my rmatn may not be wholly accurate bee I have never wanted to get ep the gay world here Yemen, sce ’s very dangero and dark. My advice for any gay who is thkg to vis Yemen is to be discreet and secretive about their sexual orientatn and if he is lookg for an adventure that clus sex then datg webs like are a way to fd gays here, but he should make sure they are ted and cent. After several weeks of fierce nmnatn by world lears, the sultanate announced wouldn’t enforce the ath penalty for people engagg homosexual acts.

Whether Bnei will keep s word remas to be seen, but the small untry on the island of Borneo near Malaysia is not the only natn where gay men and women are beg sentence for the crime of beg gay some untri is rooted the terpretatn of Sharia law, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn’s (ILGA) report on state-sponsored, which means “path, ” is not so much a legal system as a gui for helpg people fd life’s answers through Islam, as people unrstand acrdg to tradnal and early terpretatns.

4 MURRS OF GAY MEN YEMEN

D., after the ath of the Prophet ath penalty for gay acts is rived om people’s terpretatns of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, and the Hadh, or the acunts of the saygs of the Prophet Muhammad. An creasg number of Islamic scholars are re-examg what the two guis are teachg about same-sex Islamic untri mete out the ath penalty for crim other than homosexualy.

On a more posive note, the are the untri where same sex marriage is officially intify the untri where beg gay is still legally punishable by ath, 24/7 Tempo reviewed var reports on human rights and homophobia by non-prof anizatns providg help and legal advice to mori, cludg members of the LGBTQ muny across the world. YemenIn Yemen, the law stat that unmarried gay men will be punished wh 100 whip lash or one year prison, but married gay men face ath by stong. In 2007, then-Print of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadejad famoly said durg a vis to Columbia Universy: "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like your untry.