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Contents:
- 'I WAS BEATEN UP BY TURKISH POLICE AND JAILED BEE I 'LOOKED GAY''
- TURKEY: PORTUGUE TOURIST SAYS HE WAS JAILED FOR LOOKG GAY
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
- US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
- GAY TURKEY
- VERY VERY GAY IENDLY HAMAM - DAVUTPASA ISKELE HAMAMI
'I WAS BEATEN UP BY TURKISH POLICE AND JAILED BEE I 'LOOKED GAY''
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Miguel Alvaro was solo holidayg Istanbul last month when he went out to meet a iend for lunch and beme lost, so asked policemen for directns before sudnly he was taedMiguel told Portugue outlet P3 that one of the officers orred him to be arrted immediatelyA Portugue man claims he was arrted Turkey and kept a squalid prison for nearly three weeks bee he "looked gay". He asked police for directns but unbeknownst to him there was a gay rights para nearby, which was unsanctned by thori. "They thought I would participate an unthorised LGBTI+ march that was gog to take place nearby bee I looked gay.
TURKEY: PORTUGUE TOURIST SAYS HE WAS JAILED FOR LOOKG GAY
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" Homosexualy is legal Turkey but many parts of the untry are socially nservative and have bee an creasgly hostile place for queer people. Print Recep Tayyip Erdogan vilified gay people durg his re-electn mpaign, llg them a threat to society and rallyg nservativ agast them - sayg gay people would never "filtrate" his erng party. In April, his terr mister, Suleyman Soylu, also falsely claimed that gay rights would allow humans to marry animals.
A 34-year-old Portugue man was arrted by the police while vatng Turkey bee he "looked gay", Portugue media reported.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
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US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
In tradnal Ottoman practice, the termology of “gay” and “straight” was largely absence om disurse, as explaed by scholar Serkan Görkemli.
There, zenn equently perform (whout a sexual element) for straight-intified male dienc says filmmaker Mehmet Bay, whose 2012 feature Zenne Dancer explor the iendship between an Istanbul zenne dancer, a German photographer, and a gay “bear” om the nservative Urfa provce. Back when Bay and his llaborator Caner Alper started rearchg zenne 2006, they saw as a “vanishg culture” – found only ral areas and a few unrground gay clubs Istanbul. Even among Istanbul's sizable gay muny, for whom zenne dancg might have particular ronance, “people would rather watch drag shows or go-go boys.
But the past half-, zenne dancg Istanbul has gone mastream: bolstered by the media attentn paid to Bay and Alper's film as well as the succs of gay crossover clubs like Chanta: which ter their zenne shows to a largely heterosexual, female clientele. When he was 15 or 16, a iend enuraged him to start dancg publicly, but the only work he uld fd was a seedy gay nightclub Istanbul's Aksaray district. Like many gay Turkish men, Segah found a gree of eedom Istanbul – wh s active, out gay muny – that do not necsarily exist outsi the cy.
GAY TURKEY
While the Turkish ernment do not crimalize homosexualy – nor do provi LGBT dividuals wh any formal protectn om discrimatn – cultural attus toward homosexualy are largely negative; acrdg to a 2011 poll nducted as part of the World Valu Survey, a full 84 percent of Turks intified gays and lbians among their least sirable neighbors. And although Istanbul particular has beg creasgly welg to gays – Istanbul's annual Gay Pri para is the largt any majory-Mlim untry -- the risg thread of Islamism the Turkish ernment is slowg progrs for LGBT rights. In 2013, Turkey’s prime mister at the time, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, cricizg the adoptn of a Turko-Dutch boy by a Dutch lbian uple, publicly lled homosexualy a “sexual preference, which is ntrary to the culture of Islam.
The Turkish ary's approach to homosexualy reflects this cultural ambivalence.
Out gay men are nsired exempt om mandatory ary service on the grounds of mental illns.
VERY VERY GAY IENDLY HAMAM - DAVUTPASA ISKELE HAMAMI
In practice, they are often forced to provi gradg pornographic imag of themselv or be subject to a rectal examatn to “prove” their homosexualy.
“They realize [that I'm gay]”, he says but 's not somethg they ever openly talk about.