Pakistan - GlobalGayz

Contents:

• GAY DATG PAKISTAN
• GAY PAKISTAN: WHERE SEX IS AVAILABLE AND RELATNSHIPS ARE DIFFICULT
• GAY PAKISTANI PORN VIOS
• MY STORY (GAY IN PAKISTAN)
• HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?
• “BEG GAY PAKISTAN, WHAT A MISERABLE AND HARD LIFE!”

GAY DATG PAKISTAN

Pakistan is not the kd of place that most people would associate wh gay liberatn.

But some say the untry is a great place to be gay - even scribg the port cy of Karachi as "a gay man's paradise". Unrground parti, group sex at shr and "marriag of nvenience" to members of the oppose sex are jt some of the surpris that gay Pakistan has to offer. Danyaal, as he's asked to be known, is a 50-somethg bsman who liv an affluent part of Karachi, and his smartphone to anise Karachi's gay party scene.

GAY PAKISTAN: WHERE SEX IS AVAILABLE AND RELATNSHIPS ARE DIFFICULT

"The days there are smartphone apps that e GPS to tell you how close you are to another gay person wh an onle profile.

There are thoands of gay men onle Pakistan at any one time. "If you want sex too, 's a gay man's paradise. "The vatn-only parti are a rare opportuny for gay men to be open about their sexualy.

GAY PAKISTANI PORN VIOS

"Gay men will make every effort to stop any vtment a same-sex relatnship bee they know that one day they will have to get married to a woman, " he says. For participants, 's anonymo group kd of behavur is, of urse, not ndoned by Pakistan's relig Pakistanis view homosexualy as sful.

The vast majory of clerics terpret the Qoranic story of Lot as a clear ditn that God nmns homosexual men. The shre is far om the only place Karachi where gay sex is eely is, for example, easy to buy om a malchi walah - a massr who offers massage and "extras" for the equivalent of £5, or $7. " Technilly, homosexual acts are illegal Pakistan.

"In almost all s charg will be dropped, Iqbal says, but the boys will be forced to get married by their ocsnally, though, Pakistani parents do rencile themselv to children enterg a long-term gay and Ali are one such uple who have ma thgs work, agast the odds. For many gay men Pakistan, a heterosexual marriage and a life of anonymo gropg is the long-term life n be even more difficult for gay women.

MY STORY (GAY IN PAKISTAN)

So how do gay women make their liv work? I know some gay guys and maybe we'll do a al so we put money together and they have one portn of the hoe and we'll have another portn. "Fatima, who ntribut to an vatn-only onle gay support group, believ 's only "a matter of time" before Pakistan begs to bate gay rights openly, and people clare their homosexualy wh pri.

"Gay rights Ameri me after women had basic rights. "I thk 's selfish for me to e out and mpaign for gay rights now. But there will still be private spac where gay Pakistanis n exprs their sexualy of the nam of the ntributors have been changed to protect their n hear more on this story on BBC Rad 4's Crossg Contents, on Thursday 29 Augt at 11:00am or on Assignment on the World Service on the same day.

HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?

What shocks the global dience is the jtifitn of dulgg sex wh a mor of the same genr even though Islam explicly prohibs homosexualy. As per a report The Inpennt, Afghanistan’s Pashtun culture do not see Bacha Bazi as an un-Islamic or homosexual act sce the men do not love the boy, but simply keep them for the sexual act. This page and other siar pag only enurage paedophilic and homosexual behavur.

Homosexualy is nsensual, whereas pedophilic boy play is peculiar child abe, which is also practiced by straight people wh fondns. I am Malik om Pakistan, I am gay and belongs to a nservative Mlim fay I was 14 when I disver that I have no sexual attractn towards girls, my male s mostly asked me about my likens my female s however I always says no and they thked that s bee of shyns. So, I am not out to them as I am aaid bee if I tell them that I am gay they will lock me to the hoe, take my phone om me and will do my marriage on spot.

And send me to Islamic school to get rid of homosexualy. The beleaguered muny watched neighborg India’s 2018 crimalizatn of nsensual homosexual relatns wh wistful joy.

“BEG GAY PAKISTAN, WHAT A MISERABLE AND HARD LIFE!”

Nowadays, the availabily of smartphon and certa applitns have ma possible to fd members of the same muny om distanc and plac not possible [*], a 33-year-old man, intifi as gay but is married to a woman. No matter our past divi, jt felt so good talkg to someone who got to experience life there after 2018, ” said Farooq, referrg to the date when India’s Supreme Court stck down a ban on gay sex. Sce Pakistan’s nceptn, regardls of new rearch or unrstandg, every hoehold and stutn has accepted a dichotomo terpretatn of both sexualy and genr and has duced that homosexualy is a s that means natnal and relig exists, however, a world unbeknownst to those who choose not to look, a world that liv only shadows.

Many report an unshaken belief that Allah ma LGBTQ+ dividuals viant bee of a past mised, while many believe to be an immoral viancy where they have no optn but to adhere to the norms of the society to get back on the straight (heterosexual) rults many homosexual men gettg married, by choice or force, to heterosexual women early age. “Unr the weight of homophobia, heteronormativy and genrism, they are forced to adopt a liftyle acrdg to society’s assigned genr rol and expectatns, ” wr child psychiatrist Hassan Majeed on how Pakistan fails s LGBTQ+ youth by enforcg straight norms unr the guise of Pakistan, the argument of moraly is extremely skewed, regardls of your genr or sexualy.