The Lesbian Fate in the Arab World

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There are at least two other women poets who wrote in the style of Sappho: Erinna of Teos or Telos ( c. late 400s BC) and Nossis of Locri ( c. 300 BC). Erinna's Distaff and epigrams lament her childhood friend Baucis in a manner which "contains echoes of Sappho." [32] Nossis of Locri wrote three epigrams in a similar style, one of which bears striking resemblance to the floral eroticism found in Sappho's works. It reads as follows: [33] Di beberapa negara yang melegalkan pernikahan sesama jenis, ada beberapa pasangan lesbian Arab yang memilih untuk menikah secara resmi. Namun, di negara-negara konservatif seperti Timur Tengah, pernikahan sesama jenis masih dianggap tabu dan ilegal. Namun, banyak dari mereka yang tetap menjalin hubungan jangka panjang dan bahkan membentuk keluarga meskipun tidak secara resmi. Lesbian Arab dan Agama Felony – Men can be sentenced to up to seven years of imprisonment under Article 193 of Kuwait's Penal Code for same-sex relations.

Similarly, some find evidence in Plutarch that Spartan women engaged in homosexual activities, although Plutarch wrote many centuries after classical Greece. In Plutarch's biography of Lycurgus of Sparta, part of his Parallel Lives, the author claims that older Spartan women formed relationships with girls that were similar to the erastes/ eromenos relationships that existed between some older and younger male Greeks. [30] Historian Sarah Pomeroy believes that Plutarch's depiction of homosexual relationships between Spartan women is plausible. For instance, Pomeroy argues that homosexual relationships between the girls would have "flourished" in the girls' choirs that performed the partheneia of Alcman. [31] Listed below are a few ally organizations that aim to help and support LGBT people in the Middle East. Other organizations with the same goal exist as well; however, these are the organizations that have made the most impact in the regions thus far. Bergeson, Samantha (23 September 2022). "Billy Eichner's 'Bros' Will Not Premiere in Middle East Due to Gay Bans". IndieWire. The Gaza Strip and the West Bank are governed by different penal codes. There is no consensus as to whether Gaza still follows the 1936 British Mandate Criminal Code Ordinance, [55] [56] [57] [58] with provisions which punish homosexual conduct with prison sentences ranging from 10 to 14 years depending on the offense. [53] The West Bank on the other hand follows the Jordanian Penal Code of 1951, which, as previously stated, does not incriminate same-sex sexual acts.a b c d e Rowson, Everett K. (30 December 2012) [15 December 2004]. "HOMOSEXUALITY ii. IN ISLAMIC LAW". Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol.XII/4. New York: Columbia University. pp.441–445. ISSN 2330-4804. Archived from the original on 17 May 2013 . Retrieved 13 April 2021. Though lesbian sex in the Middle East is mostly illegal, there is less evidence of official persecution than in the case of gay men. The possibility is still there, though. Fargard VIII". The Zend Avesta: Part I – The Vendîdâd. (Müller's Sacred Books of the East). Vol.IV. Translated by Darmesteter, James. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1880. V: (31–32), pp. 101–102. (Series editor: F. Max Müller). They announced their relationship during a Valentine’s Day special on the TV show ‘Jaafar Talk’ which airs on the Arabic-language DW channel. There are different legal systems in Palestine. On September 18, 1936, the criminal code of Mandatory Palestine, British Mandate Criminal Code, which drew from Ottoman law or English law, [52] was enacted. Section 152(1)(b)(c) of the code states that any person who "commits an act of sodomy with any person against his will by the use of force or threats" or "commits an act of

The law protects LGBT individuals; any violent crime motivated by sexual orientation is considered a hate crime. [81] Ervad Behramshah Hormusji Bharda (1990). "The Importance of Vendidad in the Zarathushti Religion". tenets.zoroastrianism.com . Retrieved January 3, 2015. a b c d e Makarem, Ghassan (2011). "The Story of HELEM". Journal of Middle East Women's Studies. 7 (3): 98–112. doi: 10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.7.3.98. JSTOR 10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.7.3.98. S2CID 144448743– via JSTOR. During the interview, they talked about how they met and what was like to be different in a country where same-sex relationships can carry the death penalty. The homosexual nature of some spells has been erased. In a love spell for Nike, the name of the commissioner Pantous (or Paitous) could be male or female, but two feminine pronouns reveal that it refers to a woman. Franz Boll assumed that both pronouns were scribal errors, and made the spell heterosexual by substituting masculine equivalents in his 1910 edition of the text. The first edition to restore the homosexual reading was published in 1989, although its authors also argued for Boll's scribal error theory. [13] :90–96 Masculine pronouns remain in some translations published after 1989. [14]Arab and Muslim views of homosexuality as a purely "Western" creation have been explored in the film Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World. The starting line of the dialogue spoken by an as yet unseen gay Egyptian man stating "I was accused of being Westernized." [61] Falaky, Fayçal (2018). "Radical Islam, Tolerance, and the Enlightenment". Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. 47: 265–266. doi: 10.1353/sec.2018.0026. S2CID 149570040. The trouble with this, according to Iman al-Ghafari, of Tishreen university in Syria, is that it turns lesbianism into ‘a political choice, a means of escaping relationships as decided and controlled by men,’ and fails to recognise that lesbians can exist in their own right. There is a difference, she says, ‘between lesbian desire that stems from the body and the one that stems from feminist politics’.

Disney-Pixar movie Lightyear banned in several countries over same-sex kiss". ABC News. 14 June 2022. a b c Utah, The University of. "Global Justice Project: Iraq» Archive» Homosexuality and the Criminal Law in Iraq: UPDATED" . Retrieved 4 August 2017. Afsaneh Najmabadi (2008). "Transing and Transpassing across Sex-Gender Walls in Iran". WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly. 36 (3–4): 23–42. doi: 10.1353/wsq.0.0117. ISSN 1934-1520. S2CID 154350645. Mencari pasangan sebagai lesbian Arab juga tidaklah mudah. Banyak dari mereka yang harus bersembunyi dan tidak bisa membuka diri secara terang-terangan. Selain itu, stigma dan diskriminasi juga membuat banyak orang yang tidak mau terlibat dengan orang LGBT. Namun, dengan adanya komunitas lesbian Arab, mereka bisa saling mendukung dan membantu dalam mencari pasangan yang tepat. Mempertahankan Hubungan dalam Kondisi Sulit

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A lesbian couple from Saudi Arabia have defied their home county’s strict laws against homosexuality by proudly declaring their love for each other on an Arabic TV show. Meskipun hidup sebagai lesbian Arab tidak mudah, tetapi komunitas lesbian Arab tetap eksis dan berkembang. Mereka membentuk grup-grup kecil untuk saling mendukung dan berbagi pengalaman. Meskipun berbeda-beda negara, tetapi mereka memiliki kesamaan dalam menghadapi stigma dan diskriminasi yang dihadapi. Lesbian Arab di Media Sosial Meskipun konten film dan musik yang mengangkat tema lesbian Arab masih terbatas, tetapi ada beberapa karya yang berhasil menarik perhatian. Beberapa film seperti “I Exist” dan “A Secret Love” mengisahkan kisah cinta kaum lesbian Arab. Sedangkan dalam musik, ada beberapa artis seperti Mashrou’ Leila dan Aziz Maraka yang berani mengangkat tema LGBT dalam karya-karya mereka. Lesbian Arab di Luar Negeri In the fifth century CE, women at the White Monastery in Upper Egypt sometimes pursued same-sex relationships. A letter from Shenoute chastises two women, ⲧⲁⲏⲥⲉ, Taêse and ⲧⲥⲁⲛⲥⲛⲱ, Tsansnô, for running after each other "in friendship and physical desire". [15] :304 This phrase referred to homosexual advances, which were not uncommon. [16] It is unknown if the corporal punishment Shenoute prescribed for the women was administered. [15] :324 Early imperial China [ edit ] The decriminalization of homosexuality in Palestine is a patchwork. On the one hand, the British Mandate Criminal Code was in force in Jordan until 1951, with the Jordanian Penal Code having "no prohibition on sexual acts between persons of the same sex," which applied to the West Bank, while Israel stopped using the code in 1977. [58] On the other, the Palestinian Authority has not legislated either for or against homosexuality. Legalistically, the confused legal legacy of foreign occupation – Ottoman, British, Jordanian, Egyptian and Israeli – continues to determine the erratic application or non-application of the criminal law to same-sex activity and gender variance in each of the territories. [59] A correction issued by the Associated Press in August 2015 stated that homosexuality is not banned, by law in the Gaza Strip or West Bank, but is "largely taboo," and added "there are no laws specifically banning homosexual acts." [60]