Maher Ahmad remembers startg Northwtern’s first gay rights group

Contents:

• GAY PALTIAN AHMAD ABU MARHIA BEHEAD WT BANK
• ARAB LGBT : MOVI, DOCUMENTARI AND SHORT FILMS OF TERT FOR A GAY AND LBIAN DIENCE OM ALGERIA AFGHANISTAN EGYPT IRAN IRAQ LEBANON MOROC TUNISIA + PAKISTAN AND TURKEY
• STAR TREK’S FIRST GAY COUPLE THAT WASN’T
• FIGHTG FOR LIBERATN FOR 50 YEARS: MAHER AHMAD REMEMBERS HIS TIME WH THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT
• THE DRS CO WAS ‘FLY AND GAY’
• BENNY MEDA MARRIED, WIFE, GAY, RUMORS, ETHNICY, NET WORTH, B
• MAHMOUD AHMADEJAD: OK, WE MAY HAVE A FEW GAYS BUT WE STILL HATE ISRAEL
• THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS
• KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• STRAIGHT MAN EARNS $1500 PER HOUR AS ‘GAY FOR PAY’ RT
• FIGHTG FOR LIBERATN FOR 50 YEARS: MAHER AHMAD REMEMBERS HIS TIME WH THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT
• LIBYA: GAY MEN SPEAK OUT ABOUT ABDUCTNS AND BEATGS BY ISLAMIC IA

GAY PALTIAN AHMAD ABU MARHIA BEHEAD WT BANK

LGBTQ groups Israel, where Ahmad Abu Marhia was seekg asylum, say he had received threats bee he was gay. Homosexualy is rejected wh the most socially and religly nservative parts of both Paltian and Israeli societi but gay people Israel n eely lead their liv.

This is a msage to the LGBTQ Ahmadis om a fellow gay Ahmadi who asked me to post on his behalf:.

ARAB LGBT : MOVI, DOCUMENTARI AND SHORT FILMS OF TERT FOR A GAY AND LBIAN DIENCE OM ALGERIA AFGHANISTAN EGYPT IRAN IRAQ LEBANON MOROC TUNISIA + PAKISTAN AND TURKEY

It’s heartbreakg that we still have to fight for our own existence 2020, spe livg wtern untri where gays are protected by the law and enjoy eedom. I am gay too and have been through a rough journey, acceptg myself and beg accepted by others.

He nnot jo redd due to work mments so any gay Ahmadi who wants to ntact him n DM me and I will put them touch wh him. And then there is Raouf Bey who is gay and fell love wh him. A look at the sexualy and self image of gay men Lebanon, a untry where the penalty for homosexualy is still imprisonment.

STAR TREK’S FIRST GAY COUPLE THAT WASN’T

Trapped between European liftyl and Islamic roots, this film tells the stori of young, gay men on the path to attag a life of their own creatn while fightg agast a society that ref to see them.

This timate documentary I AM GAY AND MUSLIM follows a number of young Morocn gay men their exploratn of their relig and sexual inty. A group of Pakistani sexual mori, raise qutns about transgenr activism, relign, unrground gay life, social acceptance and llective faial ctoms of transgenr women urban Pakistan. A Lebane gay uple cis to take a road trip to Ramallah.

FIGHTG FOR LIBERATN FOR 50 YEARS: MAHER AHMAD REMEMBERS HIS TIME WH THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT

In a workg class neighborhood Casablan, Abllah, a homosexual teen, tri to build his own life wh his big fay, ught between an thorarian mother and an olr brother, who he ador. This documentary talks about the double life of two gay men Lebanon. After a trmatic enunter, a young, gay Egyptian jos the LGBT rights movement.

THE DRS CO WAS ‘FLY AND GAY’

Gay Syria follows two gay Syrian refuge who are tryg to rebuild their liv. He is a barber Istanbul, livg a double life between his nservative fay and his gay... Focg on homosexualy wh the Tunisian society, this documentary brgs three stori of LGBT upl, who cid to take up the challenge of revealg their inti and their sexual tennci to the mera.

In the middle of chaotic Beit, two gay men ci to live openly their sexualy. Then mors start circulatg that Umut is gay. A polil refugee France returns to his fay Iraqi Kurdistan and troduc them to a young gay man stgglg for acceptance.

BENNY MEDA MARRIED, WIFE, GAY, RUMORS, ETHNICY, NET WORTH, B

Gay Paltian Ahmad Abu Marhia behead Wt Bank. So why did DS9’s producers ci to take such a huge risk wh a gay uple on their new show?

MAHMOUD AHMADEJAD: OK, WE MAY HAVE A FEW GAYS BUT WE STILL HATE ISRAEL

Creator Gene Rodnberry promised that there would be gay characters, and wrer David Gerrold even wrote a script to fulfill that promise for TNG’s first season. They axed the script wh two gay men; when Gene proposed showg same-sex upl the background, they told a wrer to ignore him.

Years later, shownner and wrer Ira Steven Behr would exprs remorse at their failure to plumb those pths, and said that he wished they’d had Garak e out as gay so they uld have explored the relatnship further. Courty of Maher AhmadIn 1970, the Gay Liberatn Front sent a ntgent to march on Washgton prott of the Vietnam War. It said, “GAY LIBERATION: Men and Women terted formg a gay liberatn movement at N.

THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS

Ahmad soon dialed the number, and the two men unofficially began the Gay Liberatn Front — Northwtern’s first gay rights advocy group and what is now known as the Rabow Alliance. A classified ad The Daily Northwtern recg members to jo the Gay Liberatn Front. And In 1969, revolutnary rts epted at the Stonewall Inn when police raid a gay club New York Cy.

“This whole sire to throw off the strictur of the system… that was reprsive so many different ways was the air, and gay rights were a part of that, ” Maher said. The two men began recg others to jo the Gay Liberatn Front, puttg classified advertisements The Daily Northwtern. The Gay Liberatn Front wanted be regnized as a mp anizatn, so they drafted a letter to faculty outlg their primary goals:.

KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

(1) “to te the heterosexual muny about homosexualy, ”.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

(2) “to secure equal rights for all homosexual men and women, ” and. (3) “to provi social and tellectual activi for the homosexual stunt. Maher Ahmad and Wiliam Dry wrote a letter to Northwtern faculty explag the goals of the Gay Liberatn Front and askg faculty to support the anizatn.

The letter end wh the Gay Liberatn Front askg for faculty’s public support.

Faculty support wasn’t unanimo — one partment returned the envelope of undistributed letters, addrsed to “Miss William Dry” — but the Gay Liberatn Front’s requt was approved, and they were officially regnized on mp. Bee there were no gay social events, Ahmad wanted to plan somethg special for the gay stunts on mp: a dance.

STRAIGHT MAN EARNS $1500 PER HOUR AS ‘GAY FOR PAY’ RT

Wh the money, the Gay Liberatn Front rented the Patten Gym. The Gay Liberatn Front held Northwtern’s first gay dance on mp.

“We prted up the leaflets, we set the date, and stead of beg jt, 20 or 30 gay people that were brave enough to… go to a public dance, we packed the gym! Although the Gay Liberatn Front origated as a gay advocy group, the group also advoted for racial equaly, boyttg gay bars wh racist practic.

The Normandy was one of the largt gay bars Chigo. The Gay Liberatn Front piled a list of mands.

FIGHTG FOR LIBERATN FOR 50 YEARS: MAHER AHMAD REMEMBERS HIS TIME WH THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT

Maher Ahmad took this photograph of a gay uple. The stunt on the left was active the Gay Liberatn Front. But the Gay Liberatn Front boytted the bar that Friday.

The group boytted aga the next weekend, and the Normandy fally agreed to meet once more wh the Gay Liberatn Front once more. Ahmad remembers the bright, fluorcent lights shg down on the Gay Liberatn Front as they faced off wh reprentativ om the Normandy.

It was like six scffy gay boys and then two mafso typ ti and sus stuffed between the return arm and the back of the chair negotiatg wh . The owners of the Normandy agreed to all of the mands put forward by the Gay Liberatn Front.

LIBYA: GAY MEN SPEAK OUT ABOUT ABDUCTNS AND BEATGS BY ISLAMIC IA

The text was acpanied by a photograph that Ahmad had taken of a gay uple.

“I would hate to get stuck on a eeway Los Angel bee a whole bunch of gay rights activists or (Black Liv Matter) activists sat down and closed up, but if the people are willg to s the eeway, be arrted, go to jail, fight the arrt, pay the fe, get released and do aga, more power to them.