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"Meet me at Arafat Square,” my gay Paltian iend Najeeb texted me, “I’ll take you to one of the queer fés Ramallah.”

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GAY PALTIAN AHMAD ABU MARHIA BEHEAD WT BANK

The Paltian Authory’s vlent treatment of the gay muny unr s le offers a gloomy remr of this muny’s difficult suatn most Mlim untri. * gays in palestine *

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Paltian Authory’s vlent treatment of the gay muny unr s le offers a gloomy remr of this muny’s difficult suatn most Mlim untri.

Paltian policemen not only forcibly prevented the gatherg but issued a harsh and threateng warng to members of the gay muny.

WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY GAZA: MEETG ISRAELIS ON DATG APPS, EVADG HAMAS AND PLOTTG ESPE

In a Society Where Homosexualy Could Be Punishable by Death, Gay Gazans Keep Their Inty Secret * gays in palestine *

There are dozens of s of gay Paltians om the PA, and even om the wir Arab and Mlim world, who have sought refuge Israel om persecutn they suffered their own untri. Gay rights Arab and Mlim untri are not much different om those of women and prisoners those lands, meang they don’t have any. Not a sgle Arab untry rpects the rights of the gay muny, though the level of tolerance and persecutn differs om untry to untry.

BTAL MURR OF PALTIAN GAY MAN IS A REMR TO ALL LGBT PEOPLE

Four Gay Men and One Woman Tell Haaretz What Life Is Really Like a ‘Homophobic Society’ Where Pretendg to Be Straight Is Often a Matter of Survival * gays in palestine *

In untri such as Iran, Mrania, Pakistan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Sudan, Somalia, and Nigeria, the penalty for homosexual activy is ath.

NOWHERE TO RUN: GAY PALTIAN ASYLUM-SEEKERS ISRAEL

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In 2005, two teenagers, aged sixteen and eighteen, were publicly hanged for beg homosexual, and 2012, seven men were executed on the same charge. In some s Iranian homosexuals are arrted and murred whout trial, while the policians and clerics ny or ignore the phenomenon. In one of the most ridiculo statements ever ma on this subject, Iran’s then-print Mahmoud Ahmadejad, durg a speech at Columbia Universy September 2007, nied that homosexuals were executed Iran wh the claim that “In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals.

EXPLORG GAY PALTE

” On June 10, 2019, durg a vis to Germany, Iranian FM Javad Zarif fend the executn of homosexuals as a moral measure tend to safeguard the prcipl and valu of the Islamic Republic. In Kuwa, Article 193 of the Penal Co stipulat up to six years’ imprisonment for homosexual ntact, while Article 198 stipulat eight years’ imprisonment for anyone who imat a member of the other sex (i.

In 2013, Kuwa barred entry to foreign workers who were spected of beg homosexual, and appoted a mtee to vet each g worker.

MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE

Bee of the World Cup soccer tournament schled to be held Qatar 2022, legislatn agast the gay muny that untry was halted, as were arrts and punishments of s members. In recent years, wh the advent of relative openns on this and other issu, Sdi Arabia has stopped executg homosexuals. ” In Lebanon, Tunisia, and Moroc, the treatment of homosexuals is ls vlent, possibly bee of the fluence of the Wt (particularly France) on those untri.

The Qur’an mak no reference to the punishment or executn of homosexuals, but many Mlim clerics neverthels regard homosexualy as a crime.

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