A man and a trans woman are ctody for holdg a 'gay' weddg Pakistan. Malik Muhammad Iqbal is acced of marryg a trans woman known only as Rani a ceremony Phawar last week.
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PAKISTAN JAILS UPLE OVER GAY MARRIAGE ALLEGATN
Unr Sectn 377 of Pakistan’s penal , homosexualy is not explicly mentned, but “rnal terurse agast the orr of nature” is punishable by a fe and/or imprisonment for two years to life.
Whereas unr Pakistan’s Sharia law, homosexual acts are punishable by rporal punishment (whippg), imprisonment, or ath. The beleaguered muny watched neighborg India’s 2018 crimalizatn of nsensual homosexual relatns wh wistful joy. Nowadays, the availabily of smartphon and certa applitns have ma possible to fd members of the same muny om distanc and plac not possible [*], a 33-year-old man, intifi as gay but is married to a woman.
PAKISTANI TRANS UPLE LOCKED UP FOR ‘GAY’ WEDDG
No matter our past divi, jt felt so good talkg to someone who got to experience life there after 2018, ” said Farooq, referrg to the date when India’s Supreme Court stck down a ban on gay sex. Sce Pakistan’s nceptn, regardls of new rearch or unrstandg, every hoehold and stutn has accepted a dichotomo terpretatn of both sexualy and genr and has duced that homosexualy is a s that means natnal and relig exists, however, a world unbeknownst to those who choose not to look, a world that liv only shadows. Many report an unshaken belief that Allah ma LGBTQ+ dividuals viant bee of a past mised, while many believe to be an immoral viancy where they have no optn but to adhere to the norms of the society to get back on the straight (heterosexual) rults many homosexual men gettg married, by choice or force, to heterosexual women early age.
“Unr the weight of homophobia, heteronormativy and genrism, they are forced to adopt a liftyle acrdg to society’s assigned genr rol and expectatns, ” wr child psychiatrist Hassan Majeed on how Pakistan fails s LGBTQ+ youth by enforcg straight norms unr the guise of Pakistan, the argument of moraly is extremely skewed, regardls of your genr or sexualy. A Pew Rearch Center reported that 90 percent of Pakistan’s populatn believed homosexualy is morally wrong, while only 1 percent said is morally acceptable. This outlook of immoraly, cludg wh the gay muny, leads to a plethora of issu cludg psychologil torment and sexual tratn, that turn lead to more societal problems such as sexual abe and privileged class, however, learns and approach life om a different perspective, one that reflects the liberal-progrsive thought of the Wtern natns and accepts the labels of LGBTQ+ and choos to intify as such.
“I was happy for them, but that moment, I felt so sad and heartbroken that we [ Pakistan] will never get to experience that, ” said Sama, a 28-year-old self-intifyg non-bary person livg Lahore about the crimalizatn of homosexualy India. “You still n’t say the word ‘gay’ here, my parents might jt kill me the name of relign. However, no news outlet or hoehold saw the legalizatn of gay relatnships as somethg to discs amongst one another or wh their children.