a b "Palestine". Human Dignity Trust. Archived from the original on October 31, 2023 . Retrieved November 1, 2023. Work is another difficult area for lesbians in the Middle East. It goes almost without saying that any young woman who is not engaged or married will receive amorous attention from her boss. Giving him the brush-off by declaring a preference for women is a non-starter. ‘We don’t employ lesbians here,’ Laila was informed by one boss shortly before she walked out of her job. She had left several other office jobs for similar reasons. 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. Beirne, Rebecca and Samar Habib. "Trauma and Triumph: Documenting Middle Eastern Gender and Sexual Minorities in Film and Television" (Chapter 2). In: Pullen, Christopher. LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media. Palgrave Macmillan. 29 February 2012. ISBN 0230353517, 9780230353510. The law protects LGBT individuals; any violent crime motivated by sexual orientation is considered a hate crime. [81]

Shafiqa Ahmadi (2012). "Islam and Homosexuality: Religious Dogma, Colonial Rule, and the Quest for Belonging". Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. 26 (3): 557–558. Due to the illegality and stigma around people who identify as LGBT, there is a dearth in the quantity of credible data collected regarding violence and discrimination that LGBT individuals face on a daily basis. However, a report written by Outright International submitted to UNHRC regarding violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in Iraq has found that despite LGBT rights being protected by the law, there exists no feasible legal recourse for victims of such hate crimes. [86] Censorship [ edit ] Films [ edit ] Aviv, Yardena Schwartz/Tel. "What the U.S. Is Learning From How Israel Treats Transgender Soldiers". Time . Retrieved 2017-07-04. Egypt witnessed numerous transsexual cases that went public over the past three decades; however Faghly is considered the first case in which an Egyptian woman has come out as a lesbian to the public.Legal Status in the Palestinian territories". Birzeit University Institute of Law. Archived from the original on November 3, 2007. On 22 February 2022, Ubisoft announced to withdraw the Six Invitational 2022 tournament from being held in the UAE, days after its LGBTQ+ personnel, players and fan base protested against the selection of the country for the event. The event was officially moved from the UAE due to the acute criticism of its treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. The Rainbow Six Siege tournament is held thrice every year; a game that features LGBTQ+ characters. [101] Acceptance as a practice [ edit ] Is homosexuality an acceptable practice? Alwan is an online community for Arab lesbians, gay men, bisexual men and women, transgender persons and those who are interested in building bridges with the LGBT Arab community and participating in a progressive dialogue.

Marvel's Eternals banned in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwait for this reason?". The Indian Express. 5 November 2021. Audacity in Adversity | LGBT Activism in the Middle East and North Africa". Human Rights Watch. 2018-04-16 . Retrieved 2019-11-04.

In 2002 Lebanese police raided the home of a lesbian whose mother had filed a complaint accusing her of stealing the mother’s jewellery – and found her with another woman. 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’. Wright, J. W. Jr. and Everett K. Rowson (editors). Homoeroticism in Classical Arabic Literature. Columbia University Press, 1997. a b Abusalim, Dorgham (March 13, 2018). "The Real Oppressors of Gaza's Gay Community: Hamas or Israel?". Institute of Palestine Studies. Archived from the original on October 28, 2023 . Retrieved November 1, 2023. GayLawNet - Laws - Yemen". Gaylawnet.com. Archived from the original on 7 November 2021 . Retrieved 17 December 2017.

Ritman, Alex (6 December 2021). " 'West Side Story' Banned in Saudi Arabia, Other Gulf Nations". The Hollywood Reporter. Meskipun masih banyak tantangan yang harus dihadapi, tetapi kaum lesbian Arab tetap memiliki harapan untuk masa depan yang lebih baik. Mereka berjuang untuk mendapatkan hak-hak yang sama dan menghapus stigma dan diskriminasi yang selama ini dihadapi. Dengan dukungan dari keluarga, komunitas, dan masyarakat, mereka yakin bisa meraih kebebasan dan kesetaraan. Kesimpulan Birdal, Mehmet Sinan (2020). "The State of Being LGBT in the Age of Reaction: Post-2011 Visibility and Repression in the Middle East and North Africa". In Bosia, Michael J.; McEvoy, Sandra M.; Rahman, Momin (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Global LGBT and Sexual Diversity Politics. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190673741.013.16. ISBN 9780190673741. For married women, lesbian activity can be a safe way of adding spice to their sex life. The typical Arab husband jealously guards his wife from the attentions of other men, but the possibility that she might be having a fling with another woman hardly ever occurs to him. The wife, in turn, has no need to account to her husband for time spent with women. He will be satisfied just to know she is not spending her time with men.

Although homosexuality itself is technically legal since 2003, [44] [79] LGBT people can be charged under public indecency law 401. [44] Which penalizes anything contrary to public decency or morality with up to 6 months in prison plus fines. [80]