Refworld | Pakistan: Suatn of homosexuals, cludg the applitn of laws towards homosexuals, the number of prosecutns of homosexuals and their out; whether any regns have an open and active gay muny

Contents:

• HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?, BBC THREE
• HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?
• 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
• “BEG GAY PAKISTAN, WHAT A MISERABLE AND HARD LIFE!”
• THERE IS PLENTY OF GAY SEX KARACHI, PAKISTAN
• PAKISTAN: SUATN OF HOMOSEXUALS, CLUDG THE APPLITN OF LAWS TOWARDS HOMOSEXUALS, THE NUMBER OF PROSECUTNS OF HOMOSEXUALS AND THEIR OUT; WHETHER ANY REGNS HAVE AN OPEN AND ACTIVE GAY MUNY

HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?, BBC THREE

As a YouTube ic Mawaan Rizwan is clearly at ease on screen, and right at the begng of How Gay Is Pakistan?

HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?

He was tellg about g out as gay to his fay last year: was “the worst news ever for Pakistani parents”. The well-off exist a world which homosexualy has an accepted, if mostly unspoken place – a scene staed by social media – wh clubs taken over by gay men and women for dancg that, Rizwan remd more than once, felt like Soho. I know we keep beg told how small BBC Three’s dience is, but you mt wonr how long that anonymy is gog to the other extreme, the labourer muni of Lahore, the ncept of gayns hardly existed: stead was MSM – men sleepg wh men – not bee of sexual preference, but bee they uldn’t afford women prostut.

5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)

Their dream was to be married South Ai by an Imam who apparently endors homosexual marriage wh Islam.

Rizwan vised a number of very articulate profsnals, om lawyers – Pakistan’s anti-gay legislatn is a direct hand-over om the legal system of the Brish Empire – to health-workers. “For ’s normal, by the way, ” was the tellg ment om the ’s vis to a revered Imam for advice was revealg, though ls so for the medice that he was prcribed to “cure” his homosexualy.

“BEG GAY PAKISTAN, WHAT A MISERABLE AND HARD LIFE!”

What wasn’t touched on here – for that, ’s worth listeng to Mobeen Azhar’s 2013 Rad Four Crossg Contents programme Insi Gay Pakistan – was the hypocrisy volved on all onts. That programme told that the natnal language, Urdu, don’t even have a rpectful, objective word for “homosexualy”. Language How Gay Is Pakistan?

) Where Azhar disvered how gay life often ntu wh the fabric of marriage, Rizwan spent more time wh the Hijra transgenr-transsexual muny, quasi-fay uns that adopt and to some extent une those vilified by society: each group has s own gu, and if Shahzadi was to proceed wh stratn, would be agast the advice of hers (closg tl revealed that she had chosen that path). “Not as bad as I expected, ” wasn’t exactly Rizwan’s ncln – and ’s probably not a slogan which the Tourist Board is gog to adopt – but he me away nvced that Pakistan, as a society, was actually que gay, as well as very glad that he was g back to life London’s Zone Two.

THERE IS PLENTY OF GAY SEX KARACHI, PAKISTAN

“Big, brave steps” may be beg taken the gay muny there, but what a difficult, long journey li ahead.

SummaryReturng for a vis as an openly gay man, Mawaan Rizwan asks what is like to be gay Pakistan and fds a stgglg but excg and diverse unrground LGBTQ muny. Tle: How Gay Is Pakistan?

PAKISTAN: SUATN OF HOMOSEXUALS, CLUDG THE APPLITN OF LAWS TOWARDS HOMOSEXUALS, THE NUMBER OF PROSECUTNS OF HOMOSEXUALS AND THEIR OUT; WHETHER ANY REGNS HAVE AN OPEN AND ACTIVE GAY MUNY

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