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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.
For example, there were people who risted the e of the word ‘gay’ altogether Pakistan. Today, gay Pakistanis and Indians wh a reasonable e radi of each other e datg apps to form cross-borr relatnships. When he has shown this work, he also plements wh an terview he nducted wh a gay Iraqi migrant, the sound of the man’s voice eerily transposed over the vio of his penis black and whe.