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• HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?
• GAY PAKISTAN: WHERE SEX IS AVAILABLE AND RELATNSHIPS ARE DIFFICULT
• HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?
• HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?
• HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?, BBC THREE
• HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?
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HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?

BBC Three - How Gay Is Pakistan? Mawaan Rizwan asks what life is really like for gay people Pakistan, where homosexualy is illegal and nsired by some as a disease. In this revealg journey to the untry of his birth, Mawaan meets people livg gay and transgenr liv spe nstant fear of persecutn.

Durg his time the untry he's also offered a miracle herbal cure for his own homosexualy. The beleaguered muny watched neighborg India’s 2018 crimalizatn of nsensual homosexual relatns wh wistful joy.

Nowadays, the availabily of smartphon and certa applitns have ma possible to fd members of the same muny om distanc and plac not possible [*], a 33-year-old man, intifi as gay but is married to a woman. No matter our past divi, jt felt so good talkg to someone who got to experience life there after 2018, ” said Farooq, referrg to the date when India’s Supreme Court stck down a ban on gay sex. Sce Pakistan’s nceptn, regardls of new rearch or unrstandg, every hoehold and stutn has accepted a dichotomo terpretatn of both sexualy and genr and has duced that homosexualy is a s that means natnal and relig exists, however, a world unbeknownst to those who choose not to look, a world that liv only shadows.

GAY PAKISTAN: WHERE SEX IS AVAILABLE AND RELATNSHIPS ARE DIFFICULT

Many report an unshaken belief that Allah ma LGBTQ+ dividuals viant bee of a past mised, while many believe to be an immoral viancy where they have no optn but to adhere to the norms of the society to get back on the straight (heterosexual) rults many homosexual men gettg married, by choice or force, to heterosexual women early age. “Unr the weight of homophobia, heteronormativy and genrism, they are forced to adopt a liftyle acrdg to society’s assigned genr rol and expectatns, ” wr child psychiatrist Hassan Majeed on how Pakistan fails s LGBTQ+ youth by enforcg straight norms unr the guise of Pakistan, the argument of moraly is extremely skewed, regardls of your genr or sexualy. A Pew Rearch Center reported that 90 percent of Pakistan’s populatn believed homosexualy is morally wrong, while only 1 percent said is morally acceptable.

This outlook of immoraly, cludg wh the gay muny, leads to a plethora of issu cludg psychologil torment and sexual tratn, that turn lead to more societal problems such as sexual abe and privileged class, however, learns and approach life om a different perspective, one that reflects the liberal-progrsive thought of the Wtern natns and accepts the labels of LGBTQ+ and choos to intify as such. “I was happy for them, but that moment, I felt so sad and heartbroken that we [ Pakistan] will never get to experience that, ” said Sama, a 28-year-old self-intifyg non-bary person livg Lahore about the crimalizatn of homosexualy India. “You still n’t say the word ‘gay’ here, my parents might jt kill me the name of relign.

However, no news outlet or hoehold saw the legalizatn of gay relatnships as somethg to discs amongst one another or wh their children. 25-year-old Omar, an archect om Islamabad, talked about how he broke away om straight iends who through subtle ments ntued to make him feel guilty, shameful, and somehow rponsible for his homosexualy. Even if they say they support you, they barely regnize your stggl and make seem like your flt and uldn’t re ls if we died, ” Omar one of the hight rat of suicis the untry, Pakistan’s gay muny fac a nstant threat wh their hoeholds, let alone the outsi world.

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“Even if the law changed, which never will, tst me, the people are so brawashed to perceive the word ‘homo’ as the worst [of the ss] that they will burn you and then be reward for by hundreds of lns. He shared some of the abive experienc he has had at the hands of olr men over the past few years and how he is unable to report them jt bee of beg gay himself: “He threatened me sayg he’ll tell my father I was gay. Mahnoor, a 23-year-old woman, said, “I told my sister I am gay, and she jt lled me kafir [a sner] and gave me ath threats for posg on social media.

And they do not want to accept the gays simply bee this untry’s reliance on the so-lled fay stutn is the only thg left boostg the egos of straight men. However, he is somewhat volved the muny, has close gay iends, is sexually active, and advot for safe-sex practic wh his circl — all of which he do away om the public eye.

The Pakistani people have a lot to learn as they fight not jt the homophobia and ep-rooted patriarchy, but also the prevailg tn, extremism, fah, and even the are some who are challengg the stat quo and g out of the dark closets ways that have proven to be somewhat impactful. Pakistan is not the kd of place that most people would associate wh gay liberatn.

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But some say the untry is a great place to be gay - even scribg the port cy of Karachi as "a gay man's paradise". Unrground parti, group sex at shr and "marriag of nvenience" to members of the oppose sex are jt some of the surpris that gay Pakistan has to offer. Danyaal, as he's asked to be known, is a 50-somethg bsman who liv an affluent part of Karachi, and his smartphone to anise Karachi's gay party scene.

"The days there are smartphone apps that e GPS to tell you how close you are to another gay person wh an onle profile.

There are thoands of gay men onle Pakistan at any one time. "If you want sex too, 's a gay man's paradise.

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"The vatn-only parti are a rare opportuny for gay men to be open about their sexualy. "Gay men will make every effort to stop any vtment a same-sex relatnship bee they know that one day they will have to get married to a woman, " he says. For participants, 's anonymo group kd of behavur is, of urse, not ndoned by Pakistan's relig Pakistanis view homosexualy as sful.

The vast majory of clerics terpret the Qoranic story of Lot as a clear ditn that God nmns homosexual men.

The shre is far om the only place Karachi where gay sex is eely is, for example, easy to buy om a malchi walah - a massr who offers massage and "extras" for the equivalent of £5, or $7. " Technilly, homosexual acts are illegal Pakistan. "In almost all s charg will be dropped, Iqbal says, but the boys will be forced to get married by their ocsnally, though, Pakistani parents do rencile themselv to children enterg a long-term gay and Ali are one such uple who have ma thgs work, agast the odds.

HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?

For many gay men Pakistan, a heterosexual marriage and a life of anonymo gropg is the long-term life n be even more difficult for gay women. So how do gay women make their liv work? I know some gay guys and maybe we'll do a al so we put money together and they have one portn of the hoe and we'll have another portn.

"Fatima, who ntribut to an vatn-only onle gay support group, believ 's only "a matter of time" before Pakistan begs to bate gay rights openly, and people clare their homosexualy wh pri. "Gay rights Ameri me after women had basic rights.

"I thk 's selfish for me to e out and mpaign for gay rights now.

HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?

But there will still be private spac where gay Pakistanis n exprs their sexualy of the nam of the ntributors have been changed to protect their n hear more on this story on BBC Rad 4's Crossg Contents, on Thursday 29 Augt at 11:00am or on Assignment on the World Service on the same day. 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. Prenter Mawaan Rizwan sets out to disver what life is really like for gay people Pakistan.

HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?

Homosexualy is illegal Pakistan, even nsired to be a disease by some.

He also explor whether the fears of Pakistan’s gay muny are jtified. He disvers a fascatg world behd closed doors, where homosexualy is discsed and practised private more than he ever thought.

HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?

Durg his time the untry he’s also surprised to be offered a miracle herbal cure for his own homosexualy. 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. 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?

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.

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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?

) 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.

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“Big, brave steps” may be beg taken the gay muny there, but what a difficult, long journey li ahead.

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