Beg Gay Algeria Today

Contents:

• « TENTEN » EN ALGéRIE : 9E GAY PRI SUR LE WEB POUR FAIRE éVOLUER LA PERCEPTN L’HOMOSEXUALé
• BEG GAY ALGERIA
• TENTEN, LA GAY PRI ALGéRIENNE EN TOUTE DISCRéTN
• ALGéRIE : L GAY PRIS
• BEG GAY ALGERIA: ‘I’LL NEVER LIVE WH THE ONE I LOVE’
• GAY PRI
• BEG GAY ALGERIA TODAY
• GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE
• LGBTQ+ NIGERIANS ARE CELEBRATG PRI MONTH DEFIANCE OF ANTI-GAY LAW

« TENTEN » EN ALGéRIE : 9E GAY PRI SUR LE WEB POUR FAIRE éVOLUER LA PERCEPTN L’HOMOSEXUALé

Pour la nvième année nsécutive, l’anisatn Alouen, nsacrée à la défense s dros LGBT – lbienn, gays, bisexuels et trans – appelle l Algériens à manifter lr solidaré envers cette munté le 10 octobre soir.

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Car en Algérie, l articl 333 et 338 du pénal rennt passible « tout upable d’un acte d’homosexualé » et « toute personne qui a mis un outrage public à la puur » d’une pee prison pouvant aller jqu’à trois ans d’emprisonnement.

TENTEN, LA GAY PRI ALGéRIENNE EN TOUTE DISCRéTN

(Beit) – An Algerian urt on September 3, 2020 sentenced 2 men to prison terms and 42 others to spend terms after mass arrts at what the police alleged was a “gay weddg, ” Human Rights Watch said today. An Algerian lawyer volved the se told Human Rights Watch that the urt ed police reports scribg the ratns, flowers, and sweets ditive of a weddg celebratn, and the men’s supposedly gay appearance, as evince of guilt.

“Algerian thori’ attack on personal eedoms is nothg new, but arrtg dozens of stunts based on their perceived sexual orientatn is a flagrant gement on their basic rights, ” said Rasha Youn, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights rearcher at Human Rights Watch. Acrdg to a 2019 analysis by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Intersex Associatn (ILGA), laws regulatg nonernmental anizatns Algeria make virtually impossible for anizatns workg on issu of sexual orientatn and genr inty to legally register. ’ The peculiar habs of sgers are part of the folklore of Algeria’s barets, rai mic venu wh a reputatn for alhol, prostutn and homosexualy that are tolerated as long as they rema on the margs of pole society.

Some acce the Wt of seekg to export a ‘gay inty’ that don’t exist Algeria; this may enurage homophobic behavur by the thori and nservative elements of society (1) Last July, some Arabic media plaed when the Brish embassy Algiers raised an LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and trans) flag support of the Pri London para. The poort are the most vulnerable, bee when public spac are the only place where you n have sex, there are many dangers: the police, homophobic attacks, theft, and health risks if you don’t have a ndom.

ALGéRIE : L GAY PRIS

The hierarchy of the sex and the domance of men fluence even homoerotic relatnships;many men prent themselv as active toprerve their digny, and assert their virily by rejectg anythg that might be perceived as feme.

The ncepts of gay inty and sexual orientatn that have served as a basis for claimg rights sce the rebelln of the patrons of the Stonewall gay club New York 1969 have worked for some, like Slimane.

BEG GAY ALGERIA: ‘I’LL NEVER LIVE WH THE ONE I LOVE’

Though Algeria do not have reprsn on a sle parable to some Sub-Saharan untri, those nvicted of homosexual acts are subject to a fe of 500 to 2, 000 dars ($4 to $17) and between two and 24 months prison (the penalti are heavier if one partner is a mor).

If the populatn together to fight agast the patriarchy and the relig taboos that (unequally) opprs the sexualy of all, then gay people will feel eer to assert their difference: 10 October has been LGBT Day Algeria sce 2007 (6), but is only celebrated on social works.

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Chaque année, elle t célébrée le 10 octobre – d’où son nom "TenTen" (10/10) – jour anniversaire la naissance du sultan ottoman Sélim Ier (1470-1520), qui, dans s écrs, a fa le réc son homosexualé.

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L’article 338 du Co pénal, qui qualifie l’homosexualé "crime ntre l bonn mœurs", stipule asi: "Tout upable d’un acte d’homosexualé t puni d’un emprisonnement ux mois à ux ans et d’une amen 500 à 2 000 DA (dars algériens)". >> À lire ssi: À Washgton, Barack Obama dénonce l’adoptn lois anti-gays dans certas pays et Pour l gays en Aique, c’t souvent la se prisonDans un tel ntexte, on ra pris que la discrétn t mise, chacun craignant s représaill si son homosexualé vena à être révélée. Unr Algerian law, Amelle* is crime: a sexual preference for orr to avoid the risk of a fe or prison sentence, the 27-year-old long ago cid to renounce her right to a love, a gay rights associatn Algeria, marked the seventh nsecutive “LGBT day” on Thursday, October 10, llg for Algerians at home and abroad to light a ndle support of homosexuals the North Ain untry.

So, like many gay Algerians, Amelle is planng a “rabow marriage” – the term ed to scribe a unn between a gay man and a lbian that allows them to avoid spicn of their te sexual preference, brg an end to fay prsure, and pursue same-sex sexual relatnships if they so choose. Gay Pri typilly volv a seri of events and is often pped by a para volvg marchers and lourful floats om the LGBTQ muny and s the Stonewall rts, LGBTQ dividuals had generally not broadst their sexual orientatn or inty, but the event galvanized the gay muny and sparked greater polil activism (see gay rights movement). In 1970, on the first anniversary of the rts, several hundred monstrators marched along Greenwich Village’s Christopher Street, which ns past the Stonewall, what many nsir the first Gay Pri march (though other memoratns were also held that year).

GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE

The uprisg beme a talyst for an emergg gay rights movement as anizatns such as the Gay Liberatn Front and the Gay Activists Alliance were formed, moled after the civil rights movement and the women’s rights movement.

In 1978, artist and signer Gilbert Baker was missned by San Francis cy supervisor Harvey Milk – one of the first openly gay elected officials the US – to make a flag for the cy’s upg Pri celebratns. ”“Wh all of the black and brown activism that’s worked to addrs racism the Gayborhood over the past year, I thk the new flag is a great step for the cy to show the world that they’re workg toward fully supportg all members of our muny, ” the statement ntued. Bear pri flagThe bear pri flag celebrat a subculture of the LGBTQ muny that refers to gay or bisexual men who have facial and/or body hair and embrace fortably wh masculy and their bodi, acrdg to Montclair State Universy.

LGBTQ+ NIGERIANS ARE CELEBRATG PRI MONTH DEFIANCE OF ANTI-GAY LAW

Même si cette mobilisatn rte limée et moraire, elle marque une pture avec le déni agrsif l’inté homosexuelle qui prévala jqu’alors, dans l ix religix naturellement, mais ssi dans l cercl soi-disant « progrsist ». Partout, ell s’opposent x mpagn officiell diffamatn qui associent la supposée « perversn » homosexuelle à un plot l’étranger (p avant la présintielle algérienne décembre 2019, le mistre l’Intérir a asi accé l nttatair d’être s « traîtr, homosexuels et mercenair »).