Riz Ahmed, Eugene Lee Yang, and the filmmakers behd 'Nimona' open up about the film's gay kiss and queer reprentatn animatn.
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FACT CHECK IS RIZ AHMED GAY? MEET HIS WIFE FATIMA FARHEEN MIRZA
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He is gay, a nvert to Christiany and a member of the Hazara ethnic mory – three groups that have been historilly persecuted by the Taliban.
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Riz ahmed gay sparked after The actor spoke up about his support on LGBTQ muny via an Instagram. * ahmed is gay *
Ahmed felt he’d be safer as a gay man the sprawlg Afghan pal.
In public statements July, one Taliban judge said there were only two punishments for homosexualy – stong or beg cshed unr a toppled wall. “He was threateng to jump off a buildg bee he thought would be a ls paful way to die than gettg ught and behead by the Taliban as a gay man.
Ahmed’s younger brother is 26 and not gay. “The Taliban is well known to have executed many LGBTQ people when was power and there have been reports of gay men beg murred sce took over Augt this year, ” said Aws Jubair, director of the Aman Project, a Turkey-based group that advot for the LGBTQ muny the Middle East.
Jam Corn's performance as a gay man "The Prom" was lambasted, but Ewan McGregor's turn "Halston" has been acclaimed. * ahmed is gay *
But while the Netherlands, which 2001 beme the first untry to legalize gay marriage, has paved the wave for a queer royal to officially wear the crown, LGBTQ people have long been dog so unofficially. (The term “cut sleeve” remaed a Che phemism for male homosexualy for centuri. The liph’s sexualy has been the source of some bate: Acrdg to the French medievalist Évariste Lévi-Provençal, the phrase “hubb al-walad, ” found 16th-century historian Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari’s pendium "Nafh at-Tib" reference to Al-Hakam II, translat as a “preference for boys, ” though other scholars mata refers to paternal Medieval Europe scholar Francis Prado-Vilar wrote that knowledge of Al-Hakam’s homosexualy the urt of Córdoba “enuraged the ambns of the factns gathered around his much younger brother, Prce al-Mughira.
”“In his youth his lov seem to have been entirely homosexual, ” queer studi scholar Louis Crompton wrote “Male Love and Islamic Law Arab Spa.
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