LGBT people in anti-gay countries are sharing their stories with the #WhereLoveIsIllegal hashtag

[Sally]

Sad that people can't treat them as human beings. They are not hurting anyone.

LGBT people in anti-gay countries are sharing their stories with the #WhereLoveIsIllegal hashtag


Jimmy Nsubuga for Metro.co.ukSaturday 1 Aug 2015 7:08 pm
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Sometimes it’s easy to forget how lucky we are in the UK when it comes to lesbian, gay, bi and transgender rights.

A new social media campaign called #WhereLoveIsIllegal is reminding us by telling the stories of LGBT people living in ‘anti-gay’ countries.

Transgender woman Jessie, from Lebanon, doesn’t even feel safe around her own family.


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[aris2chat]

shame there is still so much prejudice and ignorance in this day and age.

 

[Sally]

shame there is still so much prejudice and ignorance in this day and age.

shame there is still so much prejudice and ignorance in this day and age.

So true. I honestly think that part of the problem is that it makes men uncomfortable because they feel they might have homosexual tendencies. I remember in a psychology class in college the professor saying that one in nine men are either homosexuals or have homosexual tendencies. That's a lot of men. These days more and more people are coming out of the closet so they don't have to hide what they are anymore.

Can you imagine the problem this transgender must have with his family?

How a transgender man tries to honor his Muslim faith
He walked unsteadily across the tattered green carpet inside the mosque. Out of habit, he stepped for a moment toward the women's section. Then he made his way to the front, where the men pray.

Alex Bergeron wears his father's kaffiyeh around his neck in San Francisco. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
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He walked unsteadily across the tattered green carpet inside the mosque. Out of habit, he stepped for a moment toward the women's section. Then he made his way to the front, where the men pray.

In one sense, everything felt familiar after a childhood spent in Islamic Sunday school every week: the smell of strong cologne worn by so many of the men, the low murmur of Koran recitations.

"Can they tell?" Alex Bergeron recalls asking himself as he knelt for prayer.

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How a transgender man tries to honor his Muslim faith - LA Times