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Contents:
- EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
- LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
- MEET THE MAN HOPG TO BEE THE MLIM WORLD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT
- WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY AND MLIM
- GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE
- MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM
- WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY AND MLIM AMERI
EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
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 * famous gay muslims *
The movie tells the story of an Algerian-French heterosexual young man begng a soclogy study of gay islamic homosexuali and disverg gay love wh a young French steward. But when Waleed sudnly dumps him to marry a woman, Rami mt face the realy of life as a gay man Egypt. The batn of beg back his hometown, this prsure om his mother and his homosexualy him to have equent panic attacks.
LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
* famous gay muslims *
Out Loud is the first film om Lebanon wh a gay theme that sets a new standard for cema om the Middle East the midst of the Arab Sprg. Abllah, a young gay man, is tryg to fd his way through the difficult sexual, polil and racial climate of Moroc.
MEET THE MAN HOPG TO BEE THE MLIM WORLD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT
A documentary by Peter Barbosa and Garrett Lenoir, I Exist giv a voice to gay and lbian Amerins om the Middle East, who often rema silent out of shame and fear. Filmed 12 untri and 9 languag, this documentary, directed by gay Mlim filmmaker Parvez Sharma, tells the lorful and varied stori of gay and lbian Mlims om all over the world. This timate documentary follows a number of young Morocn gay men their exploratn of their relig and sexual inty.
For a gay filmmaker, filmg Sdi Arabia prents two ser challeng: filmg is forbidn the untry and homosexualy is punishable by ath. Enuraged by Sandra, Ama lnch a blog lled “A Gay Girl Damasc, ” reprentg a margalized voice the Middle East on polics, relign, and sexualy. In 2015, he me out as gay on Facebook, makg him the first openly gay man om Sudan, this a massive outrage the Sudane muny.
WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY AND MLIM
In this portra that is multi-layered both terms of form and ntent, a gay man nonts the ghosts of his past and explor hidn longgs, unrequed love and tormentg feelgs of guilt. In post-Fran Madrid where he lived an openly gay existence, his life rembled one long Almodóvarian y, full of excs and sexual taboo-breakg. After beg tranged om his fay for his homosexualy, we observe a young Arab man over four seasons and om far away as he navigat his solu – all the while attemptg to rennect wh his mother.
GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE
A short documentary that tells the stori of Mashrou’ Leila, a Lebane rock band wh an outspoken gay sger, and Sarah Hegazy, an Egyptian activist.
MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM
Between realy and animatn, the story of Nidhal is told, a young homosexual Tunisian who fend dividual eedoms Tunisia through his work rad.
WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY AND MLIM AMERI
The Ottoman Empire, the seat of power the Mlim world, didn’t view lbian or gay sex as taboo for centuri. But go back to the begng, and you’ll see there is far more homosexualy Islam than you might have ever thought before. ‘It wasn’t exactly how we would fe homosexualy as we would today, was about patriarchy, ’ Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, a gay imam who liv Marseill, France, told GSN.
‘If you look at the tradns some e to jtify gay killgs, you fd much more evince – clear evince – that Muhammad was very clive. While the Ottoman Empire risted European culture at first, hence gay sex beg allowed 1858, natnalizatn soon won out.
Acrdg to the kgdom’s relig police, the school was fed 100, 000 riyals ($26, 650) for displayg “the emblem of the homosexuals” on s buildg, one of s admistrators was jailed and the offendg parapet was swiftly repated to match a blue rabow-ee se of the gaily pated school shows how progrs one part of the world n have adverse effects elsewhere and serv as a remr that there are plac where the nnectn between rabows and LGBT rights is eher new or yet to be Afghanistan, only a few years ago, there was a craze for ratg rs wh rabow stickers – which Che factori were only too happy to supply.