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Contents:

• GAY DICTNARY ARABIC
• DISVER THE 5 MOST GAY-IENDLY ARAB UNTRI
• GAY ARABIC
• ARAB LGBT : MOVI, DOCUMENTARI AND SHORT FILMS OF TERT FOR A GAY AND LBIAN DIENCE OM ALGERIA AFGHANISTAN EGYPT IRAN IRAQ LEBANON MOROC TUNISIA + PAKISTAN AND TURKEY
• EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
• HOW DO YOU SAY GAY ARABIC?

GAY DICTNARY ARABIC

The movie tells the story of an Algerian-French heterosexual young man begng a soclogy study of gay islamic homosexuali and disverg gay love wh a young French steward.

A documentary by Peter Barbosa and Garrett Lenoir, I Exist giv a voice to gay and lbian Amerins om the Middle East, who often rema silent out of shame and fear. Filmed 12 untri and 9 languag, this documentary, directed by gay Mlim filmmaker Parvez Sharma, tells the lorful and varied stori of gay and lbian Mlims om all over the world. In this portra that is multi-layered both terms of form and ntent, a gay man nonts the ghosts of his past and explor hidn longgs, unrequed love and tormentg feelgs of guilt.

After beg tranged om his fay for his homosexualy, we observe a young Arab man over four seasons and om far away as he navigat his solu – all the while attemptg to rennect wh his mother. A short documentary that tells the stori of Mashrou’ Leila, a Lebane rock band wh an outspoken gay sger, and Sarah Hegazy, an Egyptian activist.

DISVER THE 5 MOST GAY-IENDLY ARAB UNTRI

As a child terrified about the very real repercsns that would e om beg found out as gay, Arab mic was my forbidn u at faial events, temptg me to reveal myself and th ensure my a kid, I was particularly obssed wh the mic of Umm Kulthum, the 20th-century Egyptian sger whose vols hypnotised the Arab world wh their yearng gravas. Out went the Umm Kulthum CD om the budget Walkman, and went the nsirably ls poetic I started htg gay clubs at 18, was the soundtrack of Madonna, Diana Ross and Lady Gaga that allowed me to move my body a more natural way, whout the fear of faial judgment.

Dpe beg nsired a crime and many s wh the ath penalty, some studi affirm that the separatn of sex and the srce heterosexual eedom, outsi of marriage and prostutn, greater homosexual dictnary clus posive neologisms ed at the end of the 20th century by profsnals psychology, soclogy, and journalists sce until that date there were only pejorative words. +Juniya MisliyaThe Arabic language did not have non-rogative exprsns to talk about sexual diversy, but at the end of the 20th-century profsnals om psychology, soclogy and journalists began g the exprsn Juniya Misliya as the Arabic equivalent of the word homosexualy, created a century earlier. +MibounMiboun is the name given to a homosexual man the same way that a prostute is a mibona, but the remblance do not end here sce, the untri where homosexualy is not accepted, heterosexual men are allowed to be the top part sex wh another man, bee he is almost like a prostute.

The words that pose are Misliya (مثلية), Misli (مثلي), Mozdawij (مزودج), and Moghayir (مغير), that is, Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr.

GAY ARABIC

Meet like-md members wh terts Gay Arabs, Gay Mlim Datg, Gay Mlims, Gay Arabic, Gay Iranians, Gay Egyptians, Gay Persians, Gay Armenians, Gay Afghans, Gay Iraqis. Through a haze of shisha smoke and somewhat stiflg sexual stigma, the Arab world unveils an unexpected realm of possibili for trepid gay travellers. If you n five the state-approved homophobia and are willg to act wh discretn while out and about, the Arab untri n reem themselv a thoand and one different ways, om the ancient centre of Petra to the glterg ephets of Bahra and to the serts beyond.

While by and large closeted kgdoms, the handful of gay clubs the progrsive cy of Beit n allow you to be your te self, while the luxury ternatnal hotels across the regn n ensure your privacy is rpected. Wh so much do see and do, Mt is bt seen by tour b, allowg you to hop off at untls mms, the Sultan’s Palace and the Mutrah Corniche wateront, before venturg further afield on day trips to the beach and turtle-filled lagoons for divg and of the slightly more tolerant untri the regn, Oman is said to have once had s own gay sultan – Sultan Qaboos b Said al Said – although the state prs is quick to ny this as a pric mour!

Neverthels, the unofficial gossip is that the former sultan leads a lavish gay liftyle wh his palace, divorced om his wife and enjoyg the ocsnal English lover. In realy, the laws are rarely upheld except high-profile s, however, and gay Oman remas a perfectly safe place to | Photo: Katera KerdiPetra, particular, is the crowng glory of Jordan, protected wh sandstone cliffs and offerg an unrivalled llectn of monuments, cludg the fg Siq to the Treasury on an ethereal sert se of red rock and dun known as Wadi Rum2. Now you, avid explorer of gay Arab worlds, get to see the antiqui all their majty, movg om Roman Amphheatre to Csar stle wh a samplg of early Christian art along the way.

ARAB LGBT : MOVI, DOCUMENTARI AND SHORT FILMS OF TERT FOR A GAY AND LBIAN DIENCE OM ALGERIA AFGHANISTAN EGYPT IRAN IRAQ LEBANON MOROC TUNISIA + PAKISTAN AND TURKEY

Jordan crimalised homophobia as early as 1951 and while there remas social stigma and ‘public moraly’ laws that hr LGBTQ+ eedoms, gay Jordan gas tractn thanks to s unrground gay muny (most active on Grdr! Gay Bahra legalised homosexualy 1976 though this means ltle as an LGBTQ crackdown is still force targetg those that supposedly vlate “public cency”, as Jordan.

Tunisian society is viewed posively among the Arab gay muny for s LGBT progrs, as the base for anisatns such as ‘Mawjoud’ which mpaigns for LGBTQ mory rights. On paper, Tunisian law still stat that homosexualy is illegal, yet wh an openly-gay printial ndidate recently nng and ongog activism, ’s lookg more and more likely crimalisatn will e. In a strange twist, one gay marriage beme legally regnised Tunisia and though that don’t say much for society as a whole, ’s a small w for gay Tunisia.

Avoid the occurrenc and Lebanon will she, thanks to s fantastic beach rorts not far om the pal as well as s mounta vistas, ancient s and more, all urteoly attend by kdly Lebane social stigma rgs te and the ft array of Arabian gays is likely to be found onle (hello Grdr, my old iend) gay Lebanon is perhaps one of the few Arab natns where a tentative gay scene tak shape real life.

EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI

As well as hostg the regn’s largt gay club, POSH, where gay Arabs and ternatnals n fally dance together whout fear of persecutn, gay Beit also hosts annual queer events such as the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia and Beit Pri. Upon meetg so many fellow Arab Amerins, and havg traveled much of the globe, I’ve e to realize the creasg number of Arab dividuals who intify as homosexual.

Wh my own Paltian muny, I have met many men and women who intify as gay, but stggle to live their life thentilly, fearg judgment and disapproval om fay members. Tradnal valu may assume that homosexualy is a choice, but if we know the homosexual populatn is the mory and sceptible to cricism, would be naïve to assume that beg gay is a choice. In addn to the specific terms, there are general slang exprsns that n be employed when referrg to someone who intifi as LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr/transsexual).

Due to cultural taboos around homosexualy and genr nonnformy wh most Arab societi, n be difficult for dividuals who intify wh the labels to fd acceptance and unrstandg om those around them.

HOW DO YOU SAY GAY ARABIC?

Acrdg to article 148, the ath penalty appli if the offense of homosexualy is repeated for the fourth time for women, and om the first time for men. In Tunisia, for example, they ed to rry out forced anal examatns to check whether a man had been sodomized, and th e them as evince to nclu that he is homosexual. In addn, Lebanon, for example, a person n ll the police to report seeg homosexual people engagg sexual practic so that they end up prison.

A Lebane judge has refed to prosecute a soldier acced of “homosexual activy” and believ that the article the penal nmng homosexualy is “om another time. This is the se Iraq, for example, where the LGBTQ muny should not display self too much public to avoid homophobic and discrimatory remarks and behavr. In Moroc, for example, there has recently been a so-lled “wch hunt”—a known fluential woman asked her followers to create fake acunts on gay datg s to unmask homosexuals.

Bee of this, many gay people have been forced to e out of the closet and face nsequenc such as ath threats, bullyg, and shunng by their fai. Trapped between European liftyl and Islamic roots, this film tells the stori of young, gay men on the path to attag a life of their own creatn while fightg agast a society that ref to see them. A group of Pakistani sexual mori, raise qutns about transgenr activism, relign, unrground gay life, social acceptance and llective faial ctoms of transgenr women urban Pakistan.