The official fictn, Brian Whaker explas, is that gay people don’t exist the Middle East. They do – and for many of them, attus of fay and society are a bigger problem than fear of beg persecuted
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 world. * gay arab brutality *
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.
‘BARBARIC’ VLENCE AS GAY MAN BTALLY GANG-RAPED BY 3 MEN IN BRAZIL
In the Middle East, today’s unrstandg of gay relatnships as abnormal or unnatural reli on ncepts vented ls than a century ago. * gay arab brutality *
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.
SDI GAY SCENE: 'FORBIDN, BUT I N'T HELP IT'
A 22-year-old gay man Brazil was attacked by three armed men and forced to rve homophobic slurs to his legs. * gay arab brutality *
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.
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.
DISVER THE 5 MOST GAY-IENDLY ARAB UNTRI
Samir, like many gay men the Arab world, guards his sexual orientatn wh a paranoid secrecy. To feel ee he tak long vatns to Thailand, where he has a boyiend, and spends weekends Lebanon, which he regards as havg a more gay-tolerant society. But at home Sdi Arabia, he is vigilant. Samir's parents don't know of his liftyle. He says his mom would kill herself if she found out. They nstantly set him up wh women they nsir potential wiv. At work, Samir watch his words, reful not to aroe the spicn of lleagu. * gay arab brutality *
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.
EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
Disver our selectn of the most welg Arab untri for gay travellers: Oman, Jordan, Bahra, Tunisia and Lebanon. * gay arab brutality *
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.