By Kilian Melloy
Dancing cheek to cheek with a handsome swain is a dream that, for many gay Arabs, carries with it the implicit risk of violence, even death, back home. But in America, homophobia and anti-Arab sentiment notwithstanding, it’s a dream that can come true.
As reported by a June 17 article in the Village Voice, gay Arabs--the subject of the recent documentary A Jihad for Love by filmmaker Parvez Sharma--may find that they need to flee their home countries due to systematic, often forceful, repression of homosexuality by the state. Read more ...
Dancing cheek to cheek with a handsome swain is a dream that, for many gay Arabs, carries with it the implicit risk of violence, even death, back home. But in America, homophobia and anti-Arab sentiment notwithstanding, it’s a dream that can come true.
As reported by a June 17 article in the Village Voice, gay Arabs--the subject of the recent documentary A Jihad for Love by filmmaker Parvez Sharma--may find that they need to flee their home countries due to systematic, often forceful, repression of homosexuality by the state. Read more ...
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