Palte and gay rights

Contents:

• SHOCK, QUTNS AFTER GOME KILLG OF GAY PALTIAN
• EXPLORG GAY PALTE
• GAY PALTIANS
• PALTIAN AUTHORY BANS ACTIVI BY GAY RIGHTS GROUP

SHOCK, QUTNS AFTER GOME KILLG OF GAY PALTIAN

Homosexualy⚢Vari by RegnGay Marriage⚭✖ UnregnizedCensorshipVari by RegnNon-bary genr regnnUnknownDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsDonatg Blood✖ Banned (fe ferral)Conversn Therapy✖ Not bannedAge of ConsentVari by Regn. HistoryHomosexual activy Palte? Homosexual activy Palte is vari by by Regn Mixed Legaly:.

Unregnized In the areas admistrated by the paltian thory and the Gaza strip, Gay Marriage is unregnized, however, Unregistered Cohabatn and Same sex Marriage is Legal for Israeli cizens the Occupied Wt Bank. Blood donatns by MSMs Palte is banned (fe ferral) (fe ferral) Illegal, homosexuals n't donate blood palte (except. Lbian, gay, bisexual, & transgenr (LGBT) people Palte face a prer suatn due to a lack of civil rights legislatn aimed at tacklg discrimatn.

EXPLORG GAY PALTE

JERUSALEM (AP) — The severed head and pated torso of a 25-year-old Paltian were disvered on the si of a road the occupied Wt Bank, police said Friday, nfirmg gome tails of a killg that shocked Paltian acunts that the victim, Ahmad Abu Murkhiyeh, was a gay man who feared persecutn for his sexualy and had sought asylum Israel two years ago turned the terrible crime to a socially and polilly explosive se. Homosexualy remas eply taboo the Paltian terrori, where tradnal norms play a proment role social and polil life.

GAY PALTIANS

LGBTQ anizatns and emergency shelters helpg gay asylum seekers said they knew he was gay and sperate to pe the Paltian terrori, where he was a target. Ra Petrenko, founr of Al Ba Al Mokhtalef, an Israeli gay rights anizatn terg to the Arab muny, said Abu Murkhiyeh’s fear was distct when they met 2020. “The suatn was horrible for all of them, ” said Ibtisam Mara’ana-Menuh, an Arab member of the Israeli Knset who petned the Supreme Court to grant gay Paltian asylum seekers work equently promot s tolerance on issu of sexual orientatn, spe the rejectn of homosexualy ultra-Orthodox Jewish muni.

But Tel Aviv is proud of s reputatn as a top statn for gay and lbian travelers. Paltian Authory police 2019 barred gay and transgenr rights group om holdg events the Wt Bank and threatened to arrt participants. Gay people wh Israel’s Arab mory have also faced vlence and ostracism their Bank Paltians like Abu Murkhiyeh have long have crossed to Israel to live openly.

“Meet me at Arafat Square, ” my gay Paltian iend Najeeb texted me, “I’ll take you to one of the queer fés Ramallah. Admtedly, I arrived the Wt Bank wh certa expectatns of homophobia, xenophobia, and even vlence. Acrdg to Troy Masters, origally om Nashville and currently livg New York as the -founr and associate publisher of Gay Cy News.

PALTIAN AUTHORY BANS ACTIVI BY GAY RIGHTS GROUP

Troy reunts a story of g across a small group of gay and l- bian Paltians Ramallah who, “after spottg me as gay, ved me to their table and offered me ffee. ” Many other gay travelers I met the Wt Bank reunted siar stori of hospaly.

Gay Perspectiv Palte. Another gay Paltean I met Ramallah, Sam, says that homosexualy is generally not accepted Palte, but there are spac Ramallah where you n “be whatever you want. Though there are no laws the Wt Bank that crimalize homo-sexualy, neher are there laws that protect LGBTQ persons om discrimatn.

Gay polics Palte are plited by a nvo- luted history of legal s, cludg Ottoman, Brish, Jordanian, Egyptian, and Israeli occupatn. In Gaza, for example, homosexual acts between men are still illegal unr the Brish Mandate Crimal Co Ordance of 1936. (For more rmatn on LGBTQ rights Palte, I suggt readg through the publitns of the Paltian gay rights group lled alQaws.