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HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?
LGBT and MlimBoth Islamophobia and homophobia have been stoked the wake of the U. When Abdullah Qurhi returned to Pakistan after studyg the UK, he found many people the LGBTQ muny did not necsarily intify as ‘gay.
’ Dcribg his six years studyg art London as “an explorative phase for me, where I was generally lookg at issu of genr and sexualy, ” Qurhi nonted the challenge of intifyg his sexualy Pakistan, a Mlim-majory untry, where members of the queer muny practice their liv secret, face discrimatn om society, and endure a strict penal om the lonial era, which threatens to punish homosexualy wh prison.
But while relig clerics nmn homosexualy and uphold the tradnal stutn of fay Pakistan, private spac persist where queer people n ngregate and exprs themselv, cludg creative spac like fashn, smetics, and the arts.