Man jailed Turkey for 20 days jt bee he 'looked gay'

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• MAN JAILED TURKEY FOR 20 DAYS JT BEE HE ‘LOOKED GAY’

MAN JAILED TURKEY FOR 20 DAYS JT BEE HE ‘LOOKED GAY’

Miguel Alvaro was locked up for nearly three weeks after beg arrted by Turkish police bee he “looked gay”. A gay Portugue man claims he was arrted Istanbul, Turkey and jailed for 20 days, jt bee he “looked gay”. “They thought I would participate an unthorised LGBTI+ march that was gog to take place nearby bee I looked gay, ” he said.

It isn’t illegal to be gay Turkey, but the untry has bee an creasgly hostile place for queer people wh senr policians, relig lears and retailers lnchg attacks on the LGBTQ+ muny. Then there’s the appallg tale of Fabien Azoulay, a French Jewish gay man harassed, beaten and burned wh boilg water a Turkish jail by homophobic mat. I have participated gay pri Istanbul sce 2009.

23, 2022, 2:46 PM UTC / Source: The Associated PrsISTANBUL (AP) — The 25-year-old translator by day and trans drag performer by night felt overwhelmg panic and anxiety when several thoand monstrators gathered and marched Sunday  Turkey to mand a ban on what they nsir gay propaganda and to outlaw LGBTQ Big Fay Gatherg march the nservative heart of Istanbul attracted parents wh children, natnalists, hard-le Islamists and nspiracy theorists. The Europe branch of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn ranked Turkey send to last, ahead of only Azerbaijan, s most recent 49-untry legal equaly x, sayg LGBTQ people endured “untls hate crim. ”Sunday’s march was the biggt anti-LGBTQ monstratn of s kd Turkey, where civil rights for a muny more monly referred to here as LGBTI+ — lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex and other genr inti and sexual orientatns — have been unr asslt the years sce an timated 100, 000 people celebrated Pri Istanbul 2014.

Before the 2002 electn that brought the Jtice and Development Party (AKP) he -found to power, a younger Erdogan said at a televised mpaign event that he found mistreatment of gay people humane and legal protectns for them Turkey a “mt. ” In 2020, Erdogan fend the head of relig affairs after he claimed homosexualy “brgs disease and the generatn to y. 19, Hamra / APGay activist Umut Rojda Yildirim, who works as SPoD’s lawyer, thks the anti-LGBTQ sentiments on view Sunday aren’t domant across Turkish society, but that the mory exprsg them seem “lour when they have ernment funds, when they’re supported by the ernment watchdog.

This is a siar suatn to gay right Indonia and Malaysia and shows no signs of lettg up.

Unfortunately, this is havg a very real and visible effect on LGBT rights Turkey that gay travelers to the area should take to acunt when planng a trip.

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