A group of relig nservativ Pakistan nmns as "cultural terrorism" a recent event hosted by the US embassy Islamabad support of gay rights.
Contents:
- PAKISTAN'S FIRST GAY PRI CELEBRATN SPARKS ONLE BATE
- GAY PAKISTAN: WHERE SEX IS AVAILABLE AND RELATNSHIPS ARE DIFFICULT
- TOP GAY DTATNS: PAKISTAN
- PAKISTAN: RELIG GROUPS NMN US EMBASSY GAY EVENT
PAKISTAN'S FIRST GAY PRI CELEBRATN SPARKS ONLE BATE
The US Embassy's hostg of Pakistan's first lbian, gay bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) 'Pri Celebratn' has spurred a bate the virtual world, where is saft to air views on the taboo subject. | World News * gay pride in pakistan *
The beleaguered muny watched neighborg India’s 2018 crimalizatn of nsensual homosexual relatns wh wistful joy. 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. A Pew Rearch Center reported that 90 percent of Pakistan’s populatn believed homosexualy is morally wrong, while only 1 percent said is morally acceptable. This outlook of immoraly, cludg wh the gay muny, leads to a plethora of issu cludg psychologil torment and sexual tratn, that turn lead to more societal problems such as sexual abe and privileged class, however, learns and approach life om a different perspective, one that reflects the liberal-progrsive thought of the Wtern natns and accepts the labels of LGBTQ+ and choos to intify as such.
GAY PAKISTAN: WHERE SEX IS AVAILABLE AND RELATNSHIPS ARE DIFFICULT
Pakistan is not the kd of place that most people would associate wh gay liberatn - but some say Pakistan is a great place to be a gay man. * gay pride in pakistan *
“I was happy for them, but that moment, I felt so sad and heartbroken that we [ Pakistan] will never get to experience that, ” said Sama, a 28-year-old self-intifyg non-bary person livg Lahore about the crimalizatn of homosexualy India. “You still n’t say the word ‘gay’ here, my parents might jt kill me the name of relign. However, no news outlet or hoehold saw the legalizatn of gay relatnships as somethg to discs amongst one another or wh their children.
25-year-old Omar, an archect om Islamabad, talked about how he broke away om straight iends who through subtle ments ntued to make him feel guilty, shameful, and somehow rponsible for his homosexualy. Even if they say they support you, they barely regnize your stggl and make seem like your flt and uldn’t re ls if we died, ” Omar one of the hight rat of suicis the untry, Pakistan’s gay muny fac a nstant threat wh their hoeholds, let alone the outsi world.
“Even if the law changed, which never will, tst me, the people are so brawashed to perceive the word ‘homo’ as the worst [of the ss] that they will burn you and then be reward for by hundreds of lns.
TOP GAY DTATNS: PAKISTAN
Walkg briskly through the Sadar market downtown Karachi, 46 year-old Wajid Ali looks no different to any other man the market. But Wajid is gay and if the people around him knew, (...) * gay pride in pakistan *
He shared some of the abive experienc he has had at the hands of olr men over the past few years and how he is unable to report them jt bee of beg gay himself: “He threatened me sayg he’ll tell my father I was gay.
Mahnoor, a 23-year-old woman, said, “I told my sister I am gay, and she jt lled me kafir [a sner] and gave me ath threats for posg on social media. And they do not want to accept the gays simply bee this untry’s reliance on the so-lled fay stutn is the only thg left boostg the egos of straight men. However, he is somewhat volved the muny, has close gay iends, is sexually active, and advot for safe-sex practic wh his circl — all of which he do away om the public eye.
The Pakistani people have a lot to learn as they fight not jt the homophobia and ep-rooted patriarchy, but also the prevailg tn, extremism, fah, and even the are some who are challengg the stat quo and g out of the dark closets ways that have proven to be somewhat impactful. Jul 03, 2011 02:17 PM IST The US Embassy's hostg of Pakistan's first lbian, gay bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) 'Pri Celebratn' has spurred a bate the virtual world, where is saft to air views on the taboo subject.
PAKISTAN: RELIG GROUPS NMN US EMBASSY GAY EVENT
Countri om the Uned Stat to Uganda have passed legislatn targetg gay and transgenr rights sce Pri Month last year. * gay pride in pakistan *
The US Embassy's hostg of Pakistan's first lbian, gay bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) 'Pri Celebratn' has spurred a bate the virtual world, where is saft to air views on the taboo subject. Why would anyone their right md choose to be gay a society that persecut anythg different?
I am gay". Some bloggers took exceptn to Pakistan's opposn to the first rolutn passed by the Uned Natns last month to endorse the rights of gay, lbian and transgenr people. That homosexuals do exist Pakistan and that we mand our rights to love people of our own genr or even change our genr when we feel necsary to do so, " read Manto's post on a blog.
In a related post elsewhere, a gay rear noted that the 'Pakistan Queer Communy' had been asked to shut up "but don't mean we will stop speakg up for our personal eedoms". Manto, a post for an Indian gay magaze, dwelt on the life of a gay person Pakistan.
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"Beg a lbian, gay, bisexual or trans-sexual person is a nsired a taboo vice Pakistan and gay rights are close to non-existent. "Acrdg to law, homosexualy has been illegal Pakistan sce 1860. Unlike neighbourg India, the law has yet to be repealed, " reads the statement of the group vg all gays to jo.
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".