41 Rare Gay Erotic Photographs of the Arab World by Munir Abdallah

Contents:

• SDI MASS EXECUTN – FIVE BEHEAD VICTIMS WERE GAY LOVERS URT DOCS CLAIM AMID FEARS THEY WERE TORTURED TO TERROR NFSNS
• ‘BARBARIC’ VLENCE AS GAY MAN BTALLY GANG-RAPED BY 3 MEN IN BRAZIL
• SDI GAY SCENE: 'FORBIDN, BUT I N'T HELP IT'
• DISVER THE 5 MOST GAY-IENDLY ARAB UNTRI
• EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI

SDI MASS EXECUTN – FIVE BEHEAD VICTIMS WERE GAY LOVERS URT DOCS CLAIM AMID FEARS THEY WERE TORTURED TO TERROR NFSNS

Lebane queer artist Munir Abdallah mounted the first nu gay photography exhibn the Arab Abdallah's exhib of gay erotic photographs of Arab men at ArtLab Beit Cy Lebanon is over. But the impact of the notable first show of gay eroti the Arab world still lgers -- and giv hope for more open exprsn this new, born 1964 Beit, is a Tai Chi stctor and a photographer. The send was the anti-gay rhetoric offered December by former Egyptian football player Mohamed Aboutrika on the Qatari pan-Arab TV channel beIN Sports, which he urged Mlim soccer players to boytt the English Premier League’s Rabow Lac reactn to the cints, hashtags, mem, fake news and fierce bat flood Arab social media, wh participatn om hundreds of thoands of ers.

While both those for and agast homosexualy participated this nversatn, the bate self, like many other social media ntroversi, unfold wh echo chambers where no party is exposed to or terted engagg wh opposg arguments. In her study “The Phenomena of Shudhudh Jsi the Arab World: Cs, Effects, and Solutn Mechanisms, ” profsor Nuha Qaterji propos that the first tool to bat homosexualy the Arab regn is to “strs on g the term shudhudh when talkg about this sexual activy and the refal to e the more ntral and scriptive term mhlyah, which lacks any moral judgment that prohibs and rejects this activy.

This is why proponents ll for endg the e of this term, bee is rogatory, and opponents ll for g stead of mhlyah, bee is more thentic and ls nciliatory to Wtern before the 20th century, Arabs and Mlims never ed shudhudh jsi to scribe homosexualy. For more than a lennium, many learned el, cludg relig scholars, lguists and poets, discsed all kds of sexual relatns, cludg what they lled “liwat” and “sihaq” (which refer to male and female sexual acts rpectively), that were close to our morn unrstandg of homosexualy, whout g terms like viant, abnormal or unnatural.

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Rather, was the origal term that earlier Arab translators chose for homosexualy, ed at the same time as the term shudhudh and wh the same movement of translatg morn European psychologil and sexologist lerature. It then took more than three s for shudhudh to bee a synonym of homosexualy and the favore term the anti-homosexualy Arab on pre-morn Arabic dictnari, is clear that shudhudh has only recently been ed to scribe homosexualy.

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One of them is “shadh, ” fed as a hadh that differs om a more reliable hadh that is told by a more tsted ’s not only that pre-morn Arab-Islamic thought never ed shudhudh reference to homosexualy; also had no term for the ncept of homosexualy as unrstood today.

But this has changed wh the rise of the term homosexual, which, he add, beme “a person who has a past, se history, childhood, nature, and style of life, an exterr appearance and a llectn of acts. ” This shift om the illegal sexual act to the homosexual clatn of love, actns and character means that we are alg wh two different, albe ternnected, surveyed the pre-morn Arab-Islamic culture. ” Needls to say, the pre-morn scholarly views were not necsarily shared by addn to the absence Arabic or Islamic terms that nvey the morn meang of homosexualy, this same culture is filled wh same-sex love.

As for homosexualy, al-Qawsi ed the term mhlyah — the very term that ntemporary Arab anti-homosexualy disurse nsirs a recent novatn to replace shudhudh and normalize same year, another pneer Arab psychology, Sabri Jirjis, published his book “The Problem wh the Psychopathy Behavr, ” which also clud an appendix of translated terms.

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The most important text this field, published 1886, was “Sexual Psychopathy: A Clil-Forensic Study, ” which the Atro-German psychiatrist and forensic expert Richard Von Krafft-Ebg tegorized homosexualy as antipathic sexualy, a sexual perversn, among others, that did not lead to also popularized the term “homosexualy, ” which was ed, acrdg to historian Jonathan Ned Katz, 1868 by the Atro-Hungarian natnalist and reformer Karl Maria Kerpentry. Kerpentry ed the word two pamphlets addrsed to Pssian Mister of Jtice Adolph Leonhardt, which he advoted for the crimalizatn of homosexualy the German penal was Sigmund Frd who took the theori to another level, leadg him to nclu that homosexualy should no longer be nsired a pathologil sexual viancy.

Th, by clarg that sexual stct has no natural object, homosexualy ceased to be unnatural and th not pathologil ’s send cril ntributn was that sexual stct is posed of a number of ponent stcts, which he specifi two ways. In this theoretil amework, is not possible for homosexualy to be pathologil viance sce is not a rult of the Oedip parallel to the velopments psychology, there were other velopments another new field lled sexology.

Instead, he a French term when he says that there are many kds of sexual shudhudh: “One of the kds is Homosexualé, which clus mal and femal where the sexual relatnship is between two people of the same sex … and another kd is masturbatn. The limatn of Frd’s theory beme evint when we disver that … nflicts that a child stggle wh, which Frd explaed by sexual tratn and envy, are nothg but products of a person’s teractn wh social forc and years after El Saadawi’s transformatn of the shudhudh phenomenon om a psychologil to a social one, Egyptian thor and journalist Muhammed Jalal Khk reprented the send transformatn, when he claimed that homosexualy is basilly a civilizatnal issue. For him, homosexualy reprents the extreme exprsn of dividualism and th the extreme form of rejectn of what he nsirs an imperative moral rponsibily to one’s civilizatn and future generatns.

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In this way, Khk explas the growg visibily and regnn of homosexualy the Wt as a sign of the begng of the Wt’s support his theory, he go back to two Mlim cultural moments: the Abbasid era and Mlim Andalia.