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MAN JAILED TURKEY FOR 20 DAYS JT BEE HE ‘LOOKED GAY’
A gay Portugue man claims he was arrted Istanbul, Turkey and held for 20 days jail, jt bee he “looked gay”. * turkey gay news *
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.
Several thoand anti-LGBTQ monstrators gathered Istanbul Sunday to mand a ban on gay "propaganda" and LGBTQ anizatns. * turkey gay news *
”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.
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” 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.