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• HOW LEBANON'S LGBTQ COMMUNY HAS BEEN FIGHTG FOR ACCEPTANCE RABOW STRAPS OF PRI WHISTL AMANI SHARIF FREELANCE WRER 17 AUGT 2017 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT RECENTLY THERE HAS BEEN LL FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS LEBANON AND MORE DIVIDUALS ARE EMBRACG WHO THEY ARE SPE SOME LOL BACKLASH ON THE PART OF TRADNALISTS. TO THIS END, BEIT HAS BEE A “BETTER OPTN” FOR MEMBERS OF THE LGBTIQ MUNY ACROSS THE REGN. VIEW ALL TRIPS LEGISLATIVELY, HOMOSEXUALY IS STILL AGAST THE LAW. ACRDG TO ARTICLE 534 THE LEBANE PENAL CO, RELATNSHIPS THAT “NTRADICT THE LAWS OF NATURE” ARE TO BE PUNISHABLE BY IMPRISONMENT FOR A YEAR. ONLY 2013 DID THE LEBANE NATNAL CENTER FOR PSYCHIATRY -CLASSIFY HOMOSEXUALY AS A MENTAL DISORR. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP SOUTH AI MOROC EGYPT BALI GREECE TURKEY ECUADOR INDIA MEXI JAPAN ICELAND CROATIA THAILAND SPA HOWEVER, LEBANON WAS THE FIRST ARAB UNTRY TO STOP LABELG HOMOSEXUALY AS AN ILLNS. THE SLOW PACE OF LEGISLATIVE CHANGE IS AN IMMEDIATE ISSUE WH MANY MEMBERS OF THE MUNY. THEY FEEL THE LAW NTRIBUT TO THEIR MARGALIZATN, ADDN TO RELIG BACKLASH. THE LAST UPLE OF YEARS, HOWEVER, THERE HAVE BEEN CHANG MA TOWARDS THE ACCEPTANCE OF GAY RIGHTS LEBANON. WOMAN AT A PRI EVENT DUBL | © FLICKR IN 2017, A LEBANE JUDGE UNTER-ARGUED ARTICLE 534 BY MENTNG ARTICLE 183 WHICH STAT THAT ANY ACT DONE WHOUT BRGG HARM ONTO OTHERS IS PERMISSIBLE. THIS MAK ARTICLE 534 A TECHNILY, BUT A GRAVE ONE. MANY MORN JUDG WILL NOT BE MOVED BY ARTICLE 534, SEEG AS A PRODUCT OF S TIME. ON THE OTHER HAND, THE LAW IS STILL APPLIBLE AND IS LEFT AS AN OBSTACLE TO BE SUMMONED BY AN UNSYMPATHETIC JUDGE. EPIC MOROCCO FROM ANCIENT CI TO THE SAHARA, EMBRACE CULTURAL RICH AND ENCHANTG LANDSP NORTH AI. VIEW TRIP IN 2016, THE COURT OF APPEALS BEIT GRANTED THE RIGHT TO CHANGE OFFICIAL PAPERS TO A TRANSGENR DIVIDUAL, UNR THE NDN OF HAVG SEX REASSIGNMENT SURGERY. THIS MA FOR A LOOPHOLE THE LAW FOR MANY TRANSGENR PEOPLE AND IS A STEP TOWARDS CHANGE FOR THEIR MUNY. JT THIS YEAR, BEIT PRI, AN EVENT AIMED TOWARDS TN ON THE RIGHTS OF THE MUNY, FACED LARGE ISLAMIC BACKLASH AND THREATS. THE EVENT WAS NOT A TYPIL PARA AS CLUD AN EXHIBN ON GENR FLUIDY AND A STORYTELLG ACTIVY ON THE PART OF PUBLIC MEMBERS OF THE LGBTIQ MUNY. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. MANY NIGHTCLUBS, NGO’S AND ARTISTS ME TOGETHER TO MAKE THE PARA POSSIBLE THROUGH THE IATIVE OF HADI DAMIEN. TO DAMIEN, THE PARA WAS NOT TO CHALLENGE LEGISLATN BUT TO START THE PROCS OF NORMALIZATN. HIS AIM IS TO PEACEFULLY END DISCRIMATN AND LABELG ON ACUNT OF SEXUALY. PRI, DERATN | © RENATA NASCIMENTO/ FLICKR DPE THE ACTIVE MOVEMENT, A BIG NUMBER OF THE PUBLIC STILL VIEW HOMOSEXUALY AND GENR FLUIDY AS TABOO: NOT TO BE APPROACHED OR TO BE FOUGHT AGAST. THE YOUNGER GENERATN IS SLIGHTLY MORE WILLG TO ACCEPT THIS DRASTIC CHANGE THE LEBANE MENTALY. OUTSI THE LAW, SOCIETAL DISCRIMATN IS STILL ALIVE LEBANON AS S SOCIETY HAS A CLOSED QUALY WH LTLE TOLERANCE FOR DIFFERENCE. MANY WOULD ARGUE THAT A NATURAL CHANGE AT THE MORE FUNDAMENTAL LEVEL IS MORE IMMEDIATE THAN THE LEGISLATIVE ONE. PEOPLE NEED TO ALTER THEIR PRENCEIVED NOTNS ABOUT THE LGBTIQ MUNY BEFORE ANY REAL CHANGE N BE MA. FOR MANY, THE CHANGE IS NOT ABOUT HATE TOWARDS THE LGBTIQ MUNY BUT A VIEW THAT OTHER ISSU ARE MORE IMMEDIATE. IN A UNTRY WHERE THERE ARE LOW WAG, NO 24-HOUR ELECTRICY AND A BAD ERNMENT, PEOPLE SEE THAT OTHER CHANG TAKE PRECENCE. LEBANON IS FACG A TURNG POT S HISTORY LIGHT OF ALL THE CHANGE NEED FOR THE UNTRY TO BREAK OUT OF S SECTARIAN SHELL. LGBTQ RIGHTS ARE ONE OF THE MANY PRSG ISSU LEBANE SOCIETY. VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
• NORTH LEBANON GAY TRAVEL
• EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
• CATEGORY ARCHIV: THE LEBANE GAY MUNY
• GAY COMMUNY THRIV LEBANON

HOW LEBANON'S LGBTQ COMMUNY HAS BEEN FIGHTG FOR ACCEPTANCE RABOW STRAPS OF PRI WHISTL AMANI SHARIF FREELANCE WRER 17 AUGT 2017 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT RECENTLY THERE HAS BEEN LL FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS LEBANON AND MORE DIVIDUALS ARE EMBRACG WHO THEY ARE SPE SOME LOL BACKLASH ON THE PART OF TRADNALISTS. TO THIS END, BEIT HAS BEE A “BETTER OPTN” FOR MEMBERS OF THE LGBTIQ MUNY ACROSS THE REGN. VIEW ALL TRIPS LEGISLATIVELY, HOMOSEXUALY IS STILL AGAST THE LAW. ACRDG TO ARTICLE 534 THE LEBANE PENAL CO, RELATNSHIPS THAT “NTRADICT THE LAWS OF NATURE” ARE TO BE PUNISHABLE BY IMPRISONMENT FOR A YEAR. ONLY 2013 DID THE LEBANE NATNAL CENTER FOR PSYCHIATRY -CLASSIFY HOMOSEXUALY AS A MENTAL DISORR. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP SOUTH AI MOROC EGYPT BALI GREECE TURKEY ECUADOR INDIA MEXI JAPAN ICELAND CROATIA THAILAND SPA HOWEVER, LEBANON WAS THE FIRST ARAB UNTRY TO STOP LABELG HOMOSEXUALY AS AN ILLNS. THE SLOW PACE OF LEGISLATIVE CHANGE IS AN IMMEDIATE ISSUE WH MANY MEMBERS OF THE MUNY. THEY FEEL THE LAW NTRIBUT TO THEIR MARGALIZATN, ADDN TO RELIG BACKLASH. THE LAST UPLE OF YEARS, HOWEVER, THERE HAVE BEEN CHANG MA TOWARDS THE ACCEPTANCE OF GAY RIGHTS LEBANON. WOMAN AT A PRI EVENT DUBL | © FLICKR IN 2017, A LEBANE JUDGE UNTER-ARGUED ARTICLE 534 BY MENTNG ARTICLE 183 WHICH STAT THAT ANY ACT DONE WHOUT BRGG HARM ONTO OTHERS IS PERMISSIBLE. THIS MAK ARTICLE 534 A TECHNILY, BUT A GRAVE ONE. MANY MORN JUDG WILL NOT BE MOVED BY ARTICLE 534, SEEG AS A PRODUCT OF S TIME. ON THE OTHER HAND, THE LAW IS STILL APPLIBLE AND IS LEFT AS AN OBSTACLE TO BE SUMMONED BY AN UNSYMPATHETIC JUDGE. EPIC MOROCCO FROM ANCIENT CI TO THE SAHARA, EMBRACE CULTURAL RICH AND ENCHANTG LANDSP NORTH AI. VIEW TRIP IN 2016, THE COURT OF APPEALS BEIT GRANTED THE RIGHT TO CHANGE OFFICIAL PAPERS TO A TRANSGENR DIVIDUAL, UNR THE NDN OF HAVG SEX REASSIGNMENT SURGERY. THIS MA FOR A LOOPHOLE THE LAW FOR MANY TRANSGENR PEOPLE AND IS A STEP TOWARDS CHANGE FOR THEIR MUNY. JT THIS YEAR, BEIT PRI, AN EVENT AIMED TOWARDS TN ON THE RIGHTS OF THE MUNY, FACED LARGE ISLAMIC BACKLASH AND THREATS. THE EVENT WAS NOT A TYPIL PARA AS CLUD AN EXHIBN ON GENR FLUIDY AND A STORYTELLG ACTIVY ON THE PART OF PUBLIC MEMBERS OF THE LGBTIQ MUNY. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. MANY NIGHTCLUBS, NGO’S AND ARTISTS ME TOGETHER TO MAKE THE PARA POSSIBLE THROUGH THE IATIVE OF HADI DAMIEN. TO DAMIEN, THE PARA WAS NOT TO CHALLENGE LEGISLATN BUT TO START THE PROCS OF NORMALIZATN. HIS AIM IS TO PEACEFULLY END DISCRIMATN AND LABELG ON ACUNT OF SEXUALY. PRI, DERATN | © RENATA NASCIMENTO/ FLICKR DPE THE ACTIVE MOVEMENT, A BIG NUMBER OF THE PUBLIC STILL VIEW HOMOSEXUALY AND GENR FLUIDY AS TABOO: NOT TO BE APPROACHED OR TO BE FOUGHT AGAST. THE YOUNGER GENERATN IS SLIGHTLY MORE WILLG TO ACCEPT THIS DRASTIC CHANGE THE LEBANE MENTALY. OUTSI THE LAW, SOCIETAL DISCRIMATN IS STILL ALIVE LEBANON AS S SOCIETY HAS A CLOSED QUALY WH LTLE TOLERANCE FOR DIFFERENCE. MANY WOULD ARGUE THAT A NATURAL CHANGE AT THE MORE FUNDAMENTAL LEVEL IS MORE IMMEDIATE THAN THE LEGISLATIVE ONE. PEOPLE NEED TO ALTER THEIR PRENCEIVED NOTNS ABOUT THE LGBTIQ MUNY BEFORE ANY REAL CHANGE N BE MA. FOR MANY, THE CHANGE IS NOT ABOUT HATE TOWARDS THE LGBTIQ MUNY BUT A VIEW THAT OTHER ISSU ARE MORE IMMEDIATE. IN A UNTRY WHERE THERE ARE LOW WAG, NO 24-HOUR ELECTRICY AND A BAD ERNMENT, PEOPLE SEE THAT OTHER CHANG TAKE PRECENCE. LEBANON IS FACG A TURNG POT S HISTORY LIGHT OF ALL THE CHANGE NEED FOR THE UNTRY TO BREAK OUT OF S SECTARIAN SHELL. LGBTQ RIGHTS ARE ONE OF THE MANY PRSG ISSU LEBANE SOCIETY. VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

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. It wasn’t until the Afghan Pajhwok news agency explaed how they might be misterpreted that the craze me to a sudn on the ter and you will also fd pi of the “Rabow Qur’an” for sale – an unnscly gay edn of the holy book wh tted pag of every hue and remend on one webse as “an ial gift for Mlims” there are two sis to this cross-cultural misunrstandg. Genr segregatn, which go to extreme lengths the more nservative Mlim untri, enurag homosocial behavur, creatg a suatn where men are often more fortable the prence of other men and where placg a hand on another man’s knee is a sign of iendship, not an vatn to sex.

Historilly, Mlim societi have often acknowledged this – toleratg to some extent even if they the 19th and early 20th centuri, men who had been persecuted for their sexualy Europe often sought refuge Moroc and, long before same-sex marriage was dreamed of the wt, male-on-male partnerships were regnised – and marked wh a ceremony – the remote Egyptian oasis of some Mlim untri, whole towns have bee the butt of jok about the supposed homosexualy of their habants. In Egypt, for example, an old law agast “bchery” is often laws have a tastrophic effect on the liv of people who are unlucky enough to get ught but, spe ocsnal crackdowns, the thori don’t, on the whole, actively seek out gay people to arrt them.

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In England 1952, there were 670 prosecutns for sodomy, 3, 087 for attempted sodomy or cent asslt, and 1, 686 for gross problem wh such laws, even if not vigoroly enforced, is that they signal official disapproval of homosexualy and, upled wh the fulmatns of relig scholars, legimise discrimatn by dividuals at an everyday level and may also provi an exce for actn by vigilant. Years before Isis began throwg allegedly gay men off the top of buildgs, other groups Iraq were attackg “un-manly” men – sometim killg them slowly by jectg glue to the reason for the paratively small number of prosecutns is the official fictn that gay people don’t exist to any great extent Mlim untri; homosexualy is regard primarily as a wtern phenomenon and large numbers of arrts would ll that to qutn. Some of the most btal Arab regim (Iraq unr Saddam Hse and Syria unr the Assads, for example) also showed ltle tert attackg gay people – probably bee they had other thgs to worry Syrian refugee Subhi Nahas wh the US ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, durg an rmal meetg on the persecutn of LGBT people by Isis.

EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI

For those ught, the effect on their liv is tastrophic but the law is not much of a terrent and for those who are discreet about their sexualy the risk of arrt is the vast majory who intify as gay, lbian or transgenr the attus of fay and society are a much bigger one issue that affects all gay people – everywhere – at some pot their liv is g out.

Also, ’s clear that the prophet Muhammad never specified a punishment for homosexualy; wasn’t until some years after his ath that Mlims began discsg what a suable punishment might nmnatns of homosexualy, like those Christiany, are based maly on the story about God’s punishment of Sodom and Gomorrah which is reunted the Qur’an as well as the Old Ttament. Although Mlim societi today n be scribed as generally homophobic, ’s a mistake to view homophobia as a self-ntaed problem: ’s part of a syndrome which the rights of dividuals are subsumed the perceived terts of the muny and – often – matag an “Islamic” ethos. “Transgenr” is a broad term which clus tersex people (whose blogil sex is unclear or was wrongly assigned at birth), those wh genr dysphoria (who feel like “a man trapped a woman’s body”, or vice versa) and may also clu others who simply get pleasure or satisfactn om police e a water nnon to disperse LGBT rights activists before a Gay Pri para central Istanbul, Turkey.

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There were also many who found the ncept of genr dysphoria difficult to grasp and some characterised her as a gay man who was tryg to game the affair rulted a fatwa om Muhammad Tantawi, Egypt’s grand mufti, which is still ced s across the regn today.

There are plenty of trans people who simply wish to be accepted as they are – whout surgery – and the Iranian system don’t really provi for, the difference between beg transgenr and gay is not well unrstood Iran, even wh the medil profsn, and there have been reports of gay men beg prsured to surgery as a way of “regularisg” their legal posn and avoidg the risk of executn. My Kali, a Jordanian magaze which aims “to addrs homophobia and transphobia and empower the youth to fy mastream genr bari the Arab world” has been published regularly sce far, no one has attempted to hold a Pri para an Arab untry, though there have been paras the Turkish cy of Istanbul sce 2003 (not whout opposn).

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Far om wng praise for exposg “the secret behd the spreadg of Aids Egypt”, the programme’s prenter was roundgly nmned and later ran to legal April, the thori Amman, Jordan, ncelled a ncert by Mashrou’ Leila, a popular Lebane rock band wh an openly gay sger, jt a few days before was due to take place. Such was the outcry on social media that the thori rcd their cisn 24 hours later – though too late to reanise the ncert as origally the relig ont, prevailg Islamic views of homosexualy have been challenged here and there, but not on a sle that is likely to make much difference. There are a handful of gay-iendly mosqu and a few openly gay imams – cludg Muhs Hendricks South Ai, Daayiee Abdullah the US, and Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, a French-Algerian, very noticeably, are the diaspora rather than the Mlim heartlands, but the diaspora is where Islam is forced to nont realy – not the untri where is protected and illtratn of where this n lead me Bra 2007 over the Sexual Orientatn Regulatns – a measure maly tend to prevent bs om discrimatg agast gay people.

Stand Wh Us would have everyone believe that the Paltian e is an unworthy one bee of the homophobia that exists wh Paltian society, as if homophobia do not exist elsewhere, and as if stggl for jtice are predited on some sort of herent "goodns" of the opprsed, rather than on the prcipl of eedom, jtice and equaly for everyone, everywhere. While Stand Wh Us is quick to pot out the opprsn of queer Paltians unr the Paltian Authory and Hamas, nveniently fets that those same queers are not immune to the bombs, blockas, apartheid and stctn wrought upon them daily by the Israeli ernment, and that Israel's multi-tiered opprsn hardly mak a distctn between straight and gay Paltians. For those who need further rmatn about her vis her theraptic webse For those who want further about Christiany and LGBT inti please refer to, note that LGCM (The Lbian and Gay Christian Movement) shows that is possible for Christiany to embrace homosexualy as a non-sful way of life.

In an attempt to flect accatns of homophobia, the term “reorientatn” is more monly ed, but fundamentalist Christians whose agenda is ls veiled, prefer “reparative therapy” (a term that suggts the prence of a clil syndrome, spe the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s (APA) removal of homosexualy om s register of illns).