When "Mr Gay Syria" premiered at the Sheffield Film Ftival England this June, took viewers by surprise.
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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.
WHAT'S LIKE TO BE A GAY REFUGEE?
”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.
‘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.