Gay middle east sex
Call Number: HQ75.8.A424 A3 2021
ISBN: 1787384659
Publication Date: 2021-09-01
When Madian Al Jazerah came out to his Arab parents, his mother had one question. 'Are you this?' she asked, cupping her hand. 'Or are you this?' she motioned with a poking finger. If you're the poker, she said, you aren't a homosexual. For Madian, this opposition reveals not who he is, but patriarchy, power, and society's actions to fit us into neat boxes. He is Palestinian, but wasn't raised in Palestine. He is Kuwaiti-born, but not Kuwaiti. He's British-educated, but not a Westerner. He's a Muslim, but can't welcome the Islam of today. He's a gay dude, out of the closet but still living in the shadows: he has left Jordan, his house, three times in dread of his life. Madian has searched for acceptance and belonging around the world, joining new communities in San Francisco, Modern York, Hawaii and Tunisia, yet always finding himself pulled
Which countries impose the death penalty on gay people?
Around the world, queer people continue to tackle discrimination, violence, harassment and social stigma. While social movements have marked progress towards acceptance in many countries, in others homosexuality continues to be outlawed and penalised, sometimes with death.
According to Statistica Research Department, as of 2024, homosexuality is criminalised in 64 countries globally, with most of these nations situated in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. In 12 of these countries, the death penalty is either enforced or remains a possibility for private, consensual queer sexual activity.
In many cases, the laws only apply to sexual relations between two men, but 38 countries possess amendments that include those between women in their definitions.
These penalisations represent abuses of human rights, especially the rights to freedom of utterance, the right to develop one's retain personality and the right to life.
Which countries enforce the death penalty for homosexuality?
Saudi Arabia
The Wahabbi interpretation of Sharia law in Saudi Arabia maintains that acts of homosexuality should be disciplined in the sa
19/07/2023
Written by Zineb Khelif
Translated by Bertille Fitamant
If homosexuality remains a taboo in most contemporary societies, the relationship to it in the Arab-Muslim world is particular. Out of twelve countries where homosexuality is punishable by death, six are Middle Eastern countries (Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Afghanistan, United Arab Emirates, Brunei, Iran) and it is illegal in all the other countries in the area. Local particularisms in fact diversify the study of the subject in each of the countries, but the option made on the territory ranging from Morocco to the Arabian Peninsula is linked through Muslim and Arab tradition and by models of similar hegemonic masculinities on many points, such as virility and the position of patriarch, i.e. of a dominant. This patriarchal reality is not unique to this area but it is one of the common denominators among the unlike cultures found there. The other similar aspect is the mark of colonisation, whose struggle for independence on diverse scales continues to shape the various political and social landscapes. As a result, this part of the earth has rigidified its laws and its relationship to homosexuality over the last few
Middle East
State
Domestic law[*]
Penalty
Ratified International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)[†]
Ratified Optional Protocol to ICCPR[†]
Afghanistan
BOOK TWO SECTION TWO CHAPTER EIGHT: Adultery, Pederasty, and Violations of Honour
Article 427
“(1) A person who commits adultery or pederasty shall be sentenced to lengthy imprisonment.
(2) In one of the following cases commitment of the acts, specified above, is considered to be aggravating conditions:
a. In the case where the person against whom the crime has been committed is not yet eighteen years old. …”
In Afghan legal terminology “pederasty” appears to refer to intercourse between males regardless of age.
24 Jan 1983
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Egypt
Article 98(f):
“Detention for a period of not less than six months and not exceeding five years, or paying a satisfactory of not less than five hundred pounds and not exceeding one thousand pounds shall be the penalty inflic