Gaydar: 5 Arab stars who might be hidg the closet! | Al Bawaba

Contents:

• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• RENNTRE GRATUE GAY ALGéRIE
• IS RUDY GAY A GOOD F?
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• WHAT HAPPENED WHEN FOUR GAY GUYS FROM TEL AVIV TOOK A VATN TO DUBAI
• GAYDAR: 5 ARAB STARS WHO MIGHT BE HIDG THE CLOSET!
• DUBAI NIGHTLIFE FOR GAY MALE TOURISTS - DUBAI FOM
• THE TOP LGBTQ+ DATG S AND APPS: 14 BT GAY DATG S
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• PM'S APOLOGY FOR PAST GAY BAN WELED BY SHROPSHIRE VETERAN
• ONLY 5% OF PALTIANS AND 6% OF LEBANE ACCEPT GAY RELATNSHIPS
• ARAB GAYS FACE HORMONE TREATMENT, PRISON

A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

” The edian Bill Maher said on his show that by 2054, if we follow what he se as the current trajectory, “we will all be gay, ” addg that the rise the number of younger people intifyg as transgenr seemed spic.

Bee of the fluence of Schorr put siarly Natnal Review: “To suggt that social suggtibily uld be playg a role the skyrocketg numbers of young girls’ exprsg their sire to bee mal, for example, is not of urse to say that gay and transgenr people would not exist whout the topics’ beg discsed the public square. It is important to note that the same-sex soc-sexual behavr observed the study is distct om homosexual behavr bee s motivatn and purpose are social, said Jean-Baptiste Le, who studi primate behavr at the Universy of Lethbridge Canada and was not volved the new rearch. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.

RENNTRE GRATUE GAY ALGéRIE

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

IS RUDY GAY A GOOD F?

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.

The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage". Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23.

Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

Her discharge om the ary over her homosexualy had turned her to an Tob/The New York Public LibraryPublished July 19, 2023Updated July 23, 2023Lilli Vcenz, who beme a gay rights activist the hhed, reprsive era before the Stonewall rebelln of 1969, when such a ncept srcely existed, makg a mark as a newspaper edor, documentary filmmaker and psychotherapist voted to L.

WHAT HAPPENED WHEN FOUR GAY GUYS FROM TEL AVIV TOOK A VATN TO DUBAI

She was ath, at a re facily, was nfirmed by a niece, Julia Bo, who did not specify a Vcenz’s journey to promence the nascent gay rights movement of the mid-1960s began after a personal llisn wh tolerance. In 1963, she was servg the Women’s Army Corps when a roommate outed her as gay, leadg to her discharge after only ne months took that rejectn as an opportuny to beg a fight agast jtice that would gui her for s. Vicenz beme, by most acunts, the first lbian to picket the Whe Hoe support of equal rights for gay people as a member of the Mattache Society of Washgton, an early gay rights prott — the first of s kd, acrdg to the Library of Congrs — and others that followed were small but brought visibily to a movement s fancy.

Vcenz beme the first out lbian to appear on the ver of a natnal gay magaze, The Ladr, a publitn produced by the untry’s first lbian-rights group, the Dghters of Bilis, acrdg to a retrospective on her life and reer by Lillian Farman, a historian of lbian and gay her scbbed, all-Amerin looks, Dr. Vcenz looked like “every mother’s dream dghter, ” as Barbara Gtgs, The Ladr’s edor, put Vcenz also ntributed to the e on the other si of a mera, makg two 16-limeter films that were later hailed as signifint artifacts of the early gay rights first, tled “The Send-Largt Mory, ” documents a Mattache Society prott ont of Inpennce Hall Philalphia on July 4, morn ey, the black-and-whe film, roughly seven mut, seems anythg but seismic. It was Washgton — not Bethda, Md., where is we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 20 of the New York edn wh the headle: Lilli Vcenz, a Trailblazer the Gay Rights Movement, Di at 85.

GAYDAR: 5 ARAB STARS WHO MIGHT BE HIDG THE CLOSET!

As a child terrified about the very real repercsns that would e om beg found out as gay, Arab mic was my forbidn u at faial events, temptg me to reveal myself and th ensure my a kid, I was particularly obssed wh the mic of Umm Kulthum, the 20th-century Egyptian sger whose vols hypnotised the Arab world wh their yearng gravas. Out went the Umm Kulthum CD om the budget Walkman, and went the nsirably ls poetic I started htg gay clubs at 18, was the soundtrack of Madonna, Diana Ross and Lady Gaga that allowed me to move my body a more natural way, whout the fear of faial judgment.

One such piece — and a highly-predictable one, at that — is veteran forward Rudy Gay, who was recently waived by the Oklahoma Cy Thunr, after beg ed as filler two different offseason tras: first when the Utah Jazz shipped him to the Atlanta Hawks the John Colls al, and then when the Hawks sent him to the Thunr the Patty Mills tra. Not only have they played (and ached) agast him for years, but Gay was teammat wh Steph Curry and Klay Thompson on the Team USA squad that won gold at the 2014 FIBA World Cup, and also teammat wh Curry (and Andre Iguodala) on the gold medal-wng 2010 team.

DUBAI NIGHTLIFE FOR GAY MALE TOURISTS - DUBAI FOM

It’s easy to make the se for Gay, sce the Warrrs rotatn seems pretty set as is, wh an 11-player rotatn of Curry, Pl, Thompson, Wiggs, Green, Kumga, Moody, Kevon Looney, Gary Payton II, Dar Šarić, and Cory Joseph.

As I was relaxg on a direct flight I took wh three of my iends to Dubai Internatnal Airport, I uldn't help but wonr: Would we be able to meet gay men the seasi Emirati cy whout gog unrground? Jt Then, Flights From Israel to Dubai Began' A Mlim Woman and a Gay Jewish Man Are the Perfect Couple This Show Visg Dubai Is Like Standg on the Sil of a Gang Rape We found a real drag kgdom at a rooftop bar on top of a central hotel which has a gay lp every Friday night.

Durg the nversatn, enhanced wh genero quanti of alhol, the picture beme clear: Immigrants to Dubai, particularly the gays among them, are often fleeg Arab or Eastern European untri where they had a much harr time. Now image if that person was a celebry; even the thought of would be Arab LGBT muny might be fightg s own battle the nservative ME, but the majory of tradnal, relig dividuals still aren't ready to accept gays, lbians and trans as "normal people. That might be te, fans have their own spicns that a few select stars bat for the other si, and attempt to show their "te selv" through their work, looks and personal views on social are 5 Arab stars spected of beg gay (by social media ers):()1.

THE TOP LGBTQ+ DATG S AND APPS: 14 BT GAY DATG S

Alas, the future, make sure you ask about payment polici up ont to protect to Roxane Gay at Gay is an endowed profsor of media, culture and femist studi at Rutgers, the thor of the forthg “Opns” and a ntributg Opn wrer.

She is thought to be the first openly gay prime mister the was an active unnist her nearly 10 years workg as a flight attendant, acrdg to the Council of Women World Lears, a work of female heads of state. ”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported. “Hopefully this will blow over three or four days, and then I won’t be known as the gay mister, ” she told The Associated Prs at the Varadkar Prime Mister of Ireland (2017-20, 2022-prent)Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar Bssels on June 30.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

Ms Macdonald said she had been ma to feel "shame" the 40 years Sunak ma the statement Parliament after a report to service personnel's treatment remend they be given a fancial reward and the PM should publicly lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 and Ms Macdonald was one of thoands of veterans thought to be ptn, Ms Macdonald joed at 19 and was a lance rporal the Women's Royal Army CorpsAfter hearg the statement, Ms Macdonald told BBC Rad Shropshire she had "lots of different emotns" and add: "It's such a historic day and 42 years on I never, ever dreamed that this would happen. For every queer Arab who has formulated their sense of self by watchg ‘Will and Grace’ and ‘Paris is Burng’ are untls others who do not feel is unual to engage same-sex practic and rema unnnected to the word ‘gay’. Even amongst those who may feel at home their gay inty, the notn of publicly g out rgs hollow a culture where who you share your bed wh is a private everywhere else the world, sexual inti the Middle East tersect wh class, genr, and the plex terplay of private and public, makg impossible to speak of a sgular ‘queer Arab’ experience.

PM'S APOLOGY FOR PAST GAY BAN WELED BY SHROPSHIRE VETERAN

Tryg to wre about a sgular gay Arab experience would be, as one Lebane gay rights activist put , the equivalent of “wrg a story about gay life the US, and jt terviewg someone om the Wtboro Baptist Church, a closeted teenager Nebraska, and Adam Lambert. Imag and stori of opprsed Afghan women drove the ll to war 2001, and the more recent footage of ISIS throwg gay men off towers and enslavg Yezidi women stoked the fir of terventn Arabs face a dual stggle: we are battlg opprsive forc wh our own muni, and we are also ristg the global narrative that tri to e our “opprsn” for broar ary or polil qutn then be: who owns queer Arab bodi?

ONLY 5% OF PALTIANS AND 6% OF LEBANE ACCEPT GAY RELATNSHIPS

Meanwhile, anti-imperialist crics like Joseph Massad argued that wasn’t the same-sex sexual practic the Egyptian ernment was attackg, but rather “the soc-polil intifitn of the practic wh the Wtern inty of gayns.

“The are hardly maniftatns of gay pri or gay liberatn, ” he 52 men, their fac vered whe cloth, were further obscured as their liv beme polil srg rds: for thorarian regim, Islamists, wtern human rights groups and anti-imperialist amics. Neher the police nor the media paid any attentn to the multu of gay bars the more upsle neighbourhoods of rponse to the raids, Lebane gay activists released pictur of the host of the TV programme partyg a gay nightclub Mykonos.

I left bee I was tired of fdg ways to jtify why I had to keep my gay inty hidn, and I felt that my sexualy was beg yet another weapon that uld be ed agast me: if someone veloped a personal ventta agast me; if I spoke out of le; if I engaged the wrong kd of polics; if I was not a good cizen who shut up and took . A survey published for BBC News Arabic reveals shockg rat of homophobia across the Middle East and North study was nducted by the Arab Barometer rearch work on June 24, durg LGBT Pri month. ”US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell – who is the admistratn’s most high-profile openly gay official – told the Post Febary, “71 untri crimalize homosexualy and eight will put you to ath for beg gay.

ARAB GAYS FACE HORMONE TREATMENT, PRISON

” Grenell is spearheadg the ternatnal effort to stop the persecutn of the LGBT muny untri that impose crimal penalti – cludg the ath penalty – on Post reported January that Iran’s regime publicly hanged a man based on accatns of homosexualy.

Acrdg to a 2008 Brish Wikileaks ble, the Islamic Republic of Iran executed 4, 000-6, 000 gays and lbians sce the untry’s 1979 radil Islamic a prs nference wh German Foreign Mister Heiko Maas June, Iranian Foreign Mister Mohammad Javad Zarif said his untry execut gay people bee of “moral prcipl. And what was more surprisg was where his work was beg displayed: the Arab Amerin Natnal Mm, which was focg for the first time on a gay artist’s exploratn of Moa, 51, is among a small but growg number of L.

Known as Accs, the group opened the Natnal Mm 2005 to promote Arab-Amerin June 2016, the mm examed the subject of gay discrimatn wh the Lebane band Mashrou’ Leila, whose lead sger, Hamed Sno, intifi as queer. Zar add that even among cultural stutns the Uned Stat that feature artists of Arab scent, “the tenncy is to do survey exhibns that lump artists together” by natnaly but rarely explore issu of sexual the Arab world, openly gay, lbian and transgenr people face persecutn. Men acced of beg gay have also experienced adly vlence regns of Syria and Iraq ntrolled by the Islamic not all Arabs are Mlim, Quranic terpretatn of homosexualy n impact the broar Arab view.

”The Los Angel County Mm of Art, the New Mm and the Metropolan Mm of Art say they have exhibed the work of Arab and Mlim artists who are gay but choose not to rporate their inty to their art, or make their sexualy known Wagstaff, head of the partment of morn and ntemporary art at the Met, said she prefers the work speaks for self.

”Several gay or lbian artists workg both the Wt and the Middle East said they did not wish to be terviewed for this HelluAmong those the 2015 Llie-Lohman exhib was the Lebane artist Omar Mismar.