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Contents:

• NORTH LEBANON GAY TRAVEL
• DISVER THE 5 MOST GAY-IENDLY ARAB UNTRI
• GAY LIFE LEBANON: BOUNCE BACK BEIT
• GAY, STRAIGHT, OR JT LEBANE?

NORTH LEBANON GAY TRAVEL

(Beit) – Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people and their rights  Lebanon are part and parcel of the natnwi protts that began on October 17, 2019, Human Rights Watch said today a web feature. “I am gay, I am someone who exprs my sexualy general, and my sexual sir very strongly.

The lg follows siar judgments om lower urts that have cled to nvict gay and transgenr people of “sexual terurse ntrary to nature” four separate lgs between 2007 and 2017. It is the first such lg om an appeals urt and mov Lebanon further toward crimalizg homosexual nduct.

“This lg signals a new horizon for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people Lebanon, who have long been persecuted unr discrimatory laws, ” said Neela Ghoshal, senr rearcher on lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights at Human Rights Watch.

DISVER THE 5 MOST GAY-IENDLY ARAB UNTRI

This recent lg related to the 2015 arrt of ne people a suburb of Beit whom police spected of beg gay and transgenr. A crimal urt cled to nvict them of “unnatural offens” 2017, when the judge said that “homosexuals have a right to human and timate relatnships wh whoever they want, whout any terference or discrimatn terms of their sexual clatns, as is the se wh other people.

GAY LIFE LEBANON: BOUNCE BACK BEIT

While judg are not legally bound by the precent and may still nvict people of homosexual nduct unr article 534, Makhlouf told Human Rights Watch that they are likely to give ser nsiratn to the lg subsequent s. “Other urts uld still nvict people, but we’re very hopeful – we’re seeg that the trend now is not to crimalize homosexualy.

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GAY, STRAIGHT, OR JT LEBANE?

I'm nsired pretty "mascule" for a gay man.

He said I uld get beat up or hated for even showg the slightt b of my "gayns, " hahaha. ‘This is a real danger … [gay people] even if they do once … are to be killed’, Hassan Nasrallah, lear of the untry’s powerful Hezbollah, said. Hassan Nasrallah, who heads the Lebane Shie movement Hezbollah, has lled for the killg of gay people (ANWAR AMRO)The lear of Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah movement on Saturday stepped up his attacks agast the regn's long-margalised LGBTQ muny.

This is a real danger that is imment and has begun, " Hassan Nasrallah said a televised speech for the annual Ashura memoratn, among the most important Shie week, Nasrallah had said gay people, "even if they do once... Anti-gay remarks ma on Saturday by a Hezbollah lear Lebanon who has recently lled for anti-gay vlence sparked panic and terror among lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people. Hassan Nasrallah, the lear of Hezbollah Lebanon, scribed same-sex relatns as a “sexual perversn, ” and warned that gay people’s existence is a “threat to society.

Days before, on July 22, Nasrallah explicly ced vlence agast gay and lbian people. He lled for them to be killed, urged people to e rogatory terms to scribe gay people and to “llectively face this phenomenon [homosexualy], by all means necsary, whout any lims.

A gay man ridg Beit’s southern suburbs told me that, followg Nasrallah’s remarks, he received a threat on Grdr, which said: “We will fd you and expose you one by one. In November, followg a urt orr to spend the directive, al-Mawlawi issued a send directive banng any “nference, activy, or monstratn related to or addrsg homosexualy.

The Gay Travel Experience: North Lebanon. My vis to Lebanon was hontly one of the most unique gay travel experienc of my life. I learned an credible amount about Lebanon’s gay life and was able to meet the sweett gay lols.

Whout a doubt, I remend gay travelers go to Lebanon.