Award-wng Pakistani LGBTQ short film tak unflchg look at gay life South Asia - Attu

Contents:

• GAY BRISH PAKISTANI (GBP) MEETUP GROUP
• GROWG UP GAY A PAKISTANI HOEHOLD, 'MY BETIFUL LNDRETTE' GAVE ME HOPE
• AWARD-WNG PAKISTANI LGBTQ SHORT FILM TAK UNFLCHG LOOK AT GAY LIFE SOUTH ASIA
• GAY PAKISTAN: WHERE SEX IS AVAILABLE AND RELATNSHIPS ARE DIFFICULT
• GAY DATG PAKISTAN
• PAKISTANI KILLER MURRED 3 GAY MEN AFTER HAVG SEX WH THEM
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• HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?

GAY BRISH PAKISTANI (GBP) MEETUP GROUP

The P Word is a new play wrten by and starrg Waleed Akhtar which explor the experience of gay Pakistani men the UK and the stggle of LGBTQ+ asylum seekers. Spl to two halv, the first act we meet Billy (Akhtar), a gay Pakistani man who has faced discrimatn om all sis and spends his days on Grdr. We also meet gay asylum seeker Zafar (Esh Alladi), who fled Pakistan when his father tried to kill him, only to be met wh a hostile Home Office.

The P Word talks about the gay muny general, and how there n be problematic spac wh that as well. I waed until after she had gone to bed, and I watched wh a sense of amazement that a mastream film about a gay Pakistani immigrant fallg love wh a handsome, Brish gang member even existed.

It was 2005, and my teenage years were spent watchg gay men take leadg rol on televisn for the first time shows like Will & Grace and Queer as Folk, as well as watchg openly gay Graham Norton and Pl O’Grady host primetime talkshows. It is this lovemakg that transforms the former dilapidated social club to somethg the film, Omar’s , who he was expected to marry, intifi his homosexualy, but mak no fs of .

GROWG UP GAY A PAKISTANI HOEHOLD, 'MY BETIFUL LNDRETTE' GAVE ME HOPE

” As a self-nsc, semi-closeted gay who traed himself to look wh sire but never touch, is here I was remd of the power and vulnerabily admtg a need for physil ’s the moment when Omar embrac Johnny outsi the newly renovated lndrette, to an dience of Johnny’s right-wg extremist gang members, when Johnny secretly licks Omar’s neck, that shows My Betiful Lnrette at s headit. Exclive: Director Iqran Rasheed tells Attu he hop his work will help move forward the nversatn untri where remas illegal to be gay.

Aadat (‘Hab’), om Pakistani film-maker Iqran Rasheed, tak an timate and unflchg look at the reali of gay life South Asia, a regn where LGBTQ life remas largely relegated to the shadows.

Homophobic people e relign to fend their hatred towards an already vulnerable muny. Homosexualy remas illegal Pakistan and punishable wh jail time.

AWARD-WNG PAKISTANI LGBTQ SHORT FILM TAK UNFLCHG LOOK AT GAY LIFE SOUTH ASIA

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

GAY PAKISTAN: WHERE SEX IS AVAILABLE AND RELATNSHIPS ARE DIFFICULT

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 DATG PAKISTAN

"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.

PAKISTANI KILLER MURRED 3 GAY MEN AFTER HAVG SEX WH THEM

"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 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.

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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.

HOW GAY IS 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.

So how do gay women make their liv work?