Wterners shouldn't be wrg the Arab LGBT+ "narrative", activists said on Friday, even while appldg Luxembourg's gay prime mister's nontatnal remarks at a summ between European Unn and Arab League lears.
Contents:
- WAS OMAN'S LATE SULTAN THE 'ONLY GAY MONARCH' THE WORLD AND WHY DO PEOPLE CARE?
- GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE
- A GAY IMAM'S STORY: 'THE DIALOGUE IS OPEN ISLAM – 10 YEARS AGO WASN'T'
- LUXEMBOURG PM TAK ARAB LEARS TO TASK ON GAY RIGHTS AT SUMM
- THE ONGOG BATTLE FOR GAY RIGHTS THE ARAB WORLD
- MAJORY OF AMERIN MLIMS NOW SUPPORT LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE
- GAY ARABS
WAS OMAN'S LATE SULTAN THE 'ONLY GAY MONARCH' THE WORLD AND WHY DO PEOPLE CARE?
Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed has risked anger and jury to further the e of gay Mlims. Ten years after he tablished Europe's first clive mosque, he explor what has changed. * gay arab leaders *
Even though many onle mentators scribe the Omani Sultan's sexual inty as an 'open secret', homosexualy remas illegal the nservative gulf Sultanate and is punishable by law. Some activists argued that the Sultan's sexualy should have phed him to e out publicly, as his wealth and polil power uld have helped efforts to crimalize homosexual relatnships the Middle East.
GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE
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In the old days Mlims were que tolerant of homosexualyFOR DECADES regim the Middle East have alleged that homosexualy is both morally unacceptable and a Wtern import. Back then, “you uld be wh a man or a woman, ” says the transgenr founr of north Ai’s first gay movement, the Abu Nawas Associatn, named after a great Arab poet, who was gay.
In a regn where at least 15 natns crimalize homosexualy and those that don’t, there’s a “don’t ask, don’t tell culture, ” queer Arab muni may have been forced to the shadows but they unniably exist. Jahshan, who was raised a Christian hoehold, says he found “a lot of unrlyg Islamophobia and racism” the reportg of how those perceived to be gay were hurled om rooftops and stoned for engagg what the extremist group referred to as “sexual viance.
A GAY IMAM'S STORY: 'THE DIALOGUE IS OPEN ISLAM – 10 YEARS AGO WASN'T'
Remarks about gay marriage were greeted wh "icy silence om some, quiet joy om others," acrdg to a tweet by a German journalist who attend the meetg at Egypt's Red Sea rort. * gay arab leaders *
“Whenever I tell people I’m gay and I support ee Palte, stantly I’m told why don’t you try beg gay [there] and see if Hamas throw you off a rooftop, ” says Jahshan.
LUXEMBOURG PM TAK ARAB LEARS TO TASK ON GAY RIGHTS AT SUMM
For most people the Wt life the Arab world for gay people is hard to fathom. It is, like many other parts of life this regn, plited. * gay arab leaders *
Khalid Abl-Hadi In his say, “My Kali – Digisg a Queer Arab Future, ” Khalid Abl-Hadi, a Jordanian artist and the founr of a pan-Arab queer magaze My Kali, shar a harrowg acunt of beg outed as gay by natnal media 2007, when he was 16.
BEIRUT (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Wterners shouldn’t be wrg the Arab LGBT+ “narrative”, activists said on Friday, even while appldg Luxembourg’s gay prime mister’s nontatnal remarks at a summ between European Unn and Arab League Bettel, speakg a closed ssn, lled out homophobia the Arab world by tellg the legat that his marriage to a man uld lead to his executn some of the natns reprented Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, this remarks were greeted wh “icy silence om some, quiet joy om others, ” acrdg to a tweet by a German journalist who attend the meetg at Egypt’s Red Sea relatnships are illegal across most of the Middle East and North Ai, and gay people often risk f, jail and even the possibily of ath, acrdg to the chary Human Rights Zeidan, executive director of Lebane LGBT+ rights group Helem, said is posive that LGBT+ issu the Arab world were beg talked about at big event - but he do not believe a Wterner should be leadg the nversatn.
THE ONGOG BATTLE FOR GAY RIGHTS THE ARAB WORLD
Growg up gay Bahra, I was thrilled by the mp potential of Arab mic – but terrified of the reactn if I gave and danced the way I wanted to. Years later, a field London, I let myself go * gay arab leaders *
“The ia that his remarks will make thgs worse for the LGBT muny the Arab world and for plac like Egypt is ludicro, bee thgs are credibly bad already, ” he Egypt, homosexualy is not explicly crimalised, but LGBT+ people have long been targeted unr laws on “bchery”, an Egyptian LGBT+ activist who cled to e her real name for safety reasons, was happy that Bettel took the opportuny to nont Arab lears at an event the global spotlight. A gay Qatari man, who cled to be named for reasons of safety, said the Arab lears should be held liable for their treatment of LGBT+ people, but Wterners, and Wtern lears should not be “drivg the narrative”.
MAJORY OF AMERIN MLIMS NOW SUPPORT LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE
As a gay, Arab Amerin Mlim, was sry for Hse Ayoub to be so relig as a young man and at the same time be somethg that is damned by God. * gay arab leaders *
Islamic and nservative figur Arab society have also entered the discsn as never before, leadg to homophobic talk and attacks on members of the muny all over the untry. Luxembourg’s prime mister, Xavier Bettel, has nonted Arab lears over the reprsn of gay rights, tellg them his same-sex marriage would nmn him to ath some of their nference room at a summ of EU and Arab stat fell silent when Bettel ma his statement, acrdg to a German TV journalist. Other untri the regn prohib same-sex acts, cludg Algeria, Moroc, Oman, Tunisia, Syria, Kuwa and some of the Uned Arab, which is spend om the Arab League, was not reprented at the ’s pot is unrsred by the treatment of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny Egypt, the untry that hosted the summ.
After the Egyptian print, Abl Fatah al-Sisi, me to power a up 2013, he “appeared to embrace persecutn of gays and trans people as a polil strategy” acrdg to a report by Human Rights lears said they raised human rights wh their Arab unterparts. Wterners shouldn't be wrg the Arab LGBT+ "narrative, " activists said on Friday, even while appldg Luxembourg's gay prime mister's nontatnal remarks at a summ between European Unn and Arab League Bettel, speakg a closed ssn, lled out homophobia the Arab world by tellg the legat that his marriage to a man uld lead to his executn some of the natns reprented Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, this remarks were greeted wh "icy silence om some, quiet joy om others, " acrdg to a tweet by a German journalist who attend the meetg at Egypt's Red Sea relatnships are illegal across most of the Middle East and North Ai, and gay people often risk f, jail and even the possibily of ath, acrdg to the chary Human Rights Zeidan, executive director of Lebane LGBT+ rights group Helem, said is posive that LGBT+ issu the Arab world were beg talked about at big event - but he do not believe a Wterner should be leadg the nversatn.
GAY ARABS
"In my untry, the police raid that spired the birth of queer anizg and the creatn of Helem, the Arab World’s first LGBTQ rights anizatn, occurred a totally different untry – after the raid on the Queen Boat Cairo, Egypt 2001, " he said an terview wh the se Gay Star News.