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WHAT'S LIKE TO BE A GAY REFUGEE?
We asked Mahmoud Hasso, a Syrian journalist and gay blogger who works at a refugee shelter Berl, what 's like to be a gay refugee. * gay refugee meaning *
Mahmoud Hasso, a Syrian journalist and gay blogger who works at a refugee shelter Berl, answers the qutn.
I started bloggg 2006, an effort to help Iraqi lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) refuge. That's when I set up my Arabic onle gay magaze, Mawaleh. In 2015, the German gay rights anisatn Schwulenberatung Berl started a Queer Refuge Project, and I got a job their day centre.
THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A GAY REFUGEE GERMANY
Is there anythg about beg gay the Middle East that would surprise people? I have been out sce 2003, although I never adopted the mastream Wtern ia of a 'gay liftyle'.
Livg as an openly gay person a untry where homosexualy is crimalised was hard. Most Syrians knew about homosexualy, but they tend to avoid speakg about openly. It's bee impossible for LGBT Syrians to pe wh the homophobic attacks, vlatns, and murrs perpetrated by all sis of the nflict.
What was like to grow up gay the Middle East? I actually wnsed the public beheadgs of two gay men when I was 15. In the 1990s, Aleppo was a great cy, where I met many gay men.