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.
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‘MR GAY SYRIA’: FILM DOCUMENTS LIV OF LGBTI SYRIAN REFUGE
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GAZIANTEP, Turkey — A Syrian father of a gay man says he hop his son will burn hell. And the day one young Syrian told his parents he was gay was the last time he spoke to anyone his untls fellow untrymen and women fleeg the civil war, many LGBTQ Syrians have lost their homeland, livelihoods and often hope self.
One nservative Syrian imam nfintly told NBC News that there are no homosexual Mlims and that the act was punishable by al-Essa me out as gay after he fled war-ravaged Syria and settled down Turkey 2017.
”He says he eventually worked up the urage to ll his parents who stayed Syria om Turkey — where is relatively safer to be openly gay — and “face them wh the tth. 6 ln people have fled Syria sce 2011 to pe the bloody civil are no exact figur on how many Syrian refuge who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer or qutng (LGBTQ) have left the untry vastated by years of numbers are not wily documented as even human rights anizatns, such as Amnty Internatnal and Human Rights Watch, have told NBC News they had been unable to do much work on LGBTQ issu Syria due to limed rourc on the ground.
WHAT'S LIKE TO BE A GAY REFUGEE?
‘No homosexual Mlims’Syria is majory Mlim, a relign that prohibs same-sex relatns.
Acrdg to Abo Abdulrahman al-Ansari, a nservative imam and member of the Shariah uncil the northwtern Syrian cy of Idlib, homosexualy is strictly forbidn.
“I n assure you that there are no homosexual Mlims, ” he said. ”The relig and societal stigma surroundg homosexualy Syria means that for many fai, havg a son or dghter who out after pg the untry n brg enormo Hassan’s son Ammar me out as gay after he fled to Germany 59-year-old broke down tears talkg about his son on the phone om Idlib Syria, where he liv wh his wife and other children. Both Motafa and Salem are gay, and they left Latakia bee they were outed.