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GAY ARAB ART Queer * gay arab artists *
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And what was more surprisg was where his work was beg displayed: the Arab Amerin Natnal Mm, which was focg for the first time on a gay artist’s exploratn of Moa, 51, is among a small but growg number of L. Moa’s gay inty is clearly regnizable a large work that replac an Amerin flag’s field of stars wh the Human Rights Campaign’s bold “=” symbol. But when you really look at , people like me who are gay or people of lor, we are substandard.
Known as Accs, the group opened the Natnal Mm 2005 to promote Arab-Amerin June 2016, the mm examed the subject of gay discrimatn wh the Lebane band Mashrou’ Leila, whose lead sger, Hamed Sno, intifi as queer. Zar add that even among cultural stutns the Uned Stat that feature artists of Arab scent, “the tenncy is to do survey exhibns that lump artists together” by natnaly but rarely explore issu of sexual the Arab world, openly gay, lbian and transgenr people face persecutn. The penalty some untri is imprisonment; even where there are no laws on the books, gay people may still be prosecuted.