The Lesbian Fate in the Arab World

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The " Ladies of Llangollen", Eleanor Butler (1739–1829) and Sarah Ponsonby (1755–1831), were two upper-class Irish women whose relationship scandalised and fascinated their contemporaries. The pair moved to a Gothic house in Llangollen, North Wales, in 1780 after leaving Ireland to escape the social pressures of conventional marriages. Princess Isabella of Parma found more fulfillment in her relationship with her sister-in-law, Archduchess Maria Christina, than with her husband. [114] Colonial America and the United States [ edit ] There are also mentions in the Code of Hammurabi ( c. 1700 BC) of a sal-zikrum. This term may translate to "woman-man" and refer to a gender-nonconforming individual, "perhaps a female functionary, attached to a temple." [6] The word is regularly treated as grammatically feminine, [6] but a sal-zikrum was allowed to marry women, [7] and she inherited the same amount as her brothers. [8] :34 It is possible that a female transgressor of gender boundaries was regarded as a "woman-man" because of her social behavior (i.e., relationships with other women). [ citation needed] The term sal-nu-bar, according to a disputed belief, referred to women who were allowed to marry but not to have children, and so "brought another woman with them to bear children" [8] :33 Fad and Nanz now live in London on asylum. They shared their story during a Valentine’s Day special on the show “Jaafar Talk,” which airs on the Arabic-language DW channel. Women's sexuality in ancient Mesopotamia is not well documented. Stephanie Lynn Budin, writing on love magic, argues that "there remains no evidence for lesbianism in this regard (or any other from Mesopotamia)." [2] However, there are at least two pieces of textual evidence for Mesopotamian lesbianism. [3] One is a divinatory text which mentions female same-sex activity, [4] while another, more explicit text remains unpublished. [5]

Richards, Dell (1990). Lesbian Lists: A Look at Lesbian Culture, History, and Personalities (1sted.). Alyson Publications. ISBN 155583163X. Greenberg, David F. (2008). The Construction of Homosexuality. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226219813.

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Gibson, Michelle A.; Meem, Deborah T.; Alexander, Jonathan (14 February 2013). Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies. ISBN 9781452235288. Archived from the original on 12 April 2023 . Retrieved 19 March 2023. Dover, Dalton James (1978). Greek Homosexuality. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p.171. ISBN 978-0-7156-1111-1. Sebutan untuk Kepulauan Indonesia Hello Sobat Ilyas, Indonesia adalah negara kepulauan terbesar di dunia dan memiliki lebih dari 17.000 pulau. Setiap pulau di Indonesia memiliki keunikan tersendiri dan masyarakat yang berbeda-beda. Selain itu, setiap pulau juga memiliki sebutan atau julukan yang unik. Berikut ini adalah beberapa sebutan untuk kepulauan Indonesia yang mungkin belum kamu… Issurei Bi'ah 21:8–9" (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on November 30, 2011 . Retrieved November 26, 2014.

a b c Numun, Wanna (2012). "Significance of Homosexuality in Thai Society". Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. 8 (2): 160. Watt, Diane; Giffney, Noreen; Sauer, Michelle M., eds. (2011). The Lesbian Pre-modern. Palgrave. ISBN 978-0-230-61676-9. Craft-Fairchild, Catherine (2006). "Sexual and Textual Indeterminacy: Eighteenth-Century English Representations of Sapphism". Journal of the History of Sexuality. 22 (3): 413. doi: 10.1353/sex.2007.0025. PMID 19238765. S2CID 44802282. Eventually, Saudi authorities called the couple in for questioning. That’s when they knew they had to leave the country if they wanted to continue their relationship. As Nanz repeatedly turned down potential suitors, her family began to express doubts about their daughter’s sexuality. The couple began to attract suspicion, and when one day they were called in for questioning by Saudi authorities, they knew the time had come to flee.

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The apocryphal Apocalypse of Peter describes the punishment of both male and female homosexuals in Hell: [54] Meskipun hidup sebagai lesbian Arab tidak mudah, tetapi banyak dari mereka yang tetap bertahan dan berjuang untuk mendapatkan hak-hak yang sama. Mereka berjuang untuk mendapatkan pengakuan dan perlindungan dari pemerintah, serta menghapus stigma dan diskriminasi yang selama ini dihadapi. Lesbophobia di Timur Tengah Dover, Kenneth James (1978). Greek Homosexuality. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p.174. ISBN 978-0-7156-1111-1.

In 1974, Maureen Colquhoun came out as the first lesbian MP for the Labour Party in the UK. When elected she was in a heterosexual marriage. [137]

Other references to same-sex practices between women before the Edo period are more ambiguous. In the Kojiki the sun goddess Amaterasu is lured out of a cave by Ame no Uzume dancing and removing her clothes. [60] [61] Dildos dating from as early as the Nara period may have been used for masturbation rather than lesbian sex. [58] Europe [ edit ] References to love between women are sparse. Phaedrus attempts to explain lesbianism through a myth of his own making: Prometheus, coming home drunk from a party, had mistakenly exchanged the genitals of some women and some men. Phaedrus remarks: "Lust now enjoys perverted pleasure." [47] Bennett, Judith M. (2000). " "Lesbian-like" and the Social History of Lesbianisms". Journal of the History of Sexuality. 9 (1): 18–19. Although the text goes on to include other unflattering descriptions of a woman who has sex with other women, "the invective against the homosexual woman is much less strident against the homosexual man". [88] Kimball adds that the first line of this excerpt "may refer to a woman who violates the sex-role stereotype, or it may have some other reference, at present not yet understood". [89] Rupp, Leila J. (2009). Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women. New York University Press. p.30. ISBN 9780814775929.