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Others were also in legal limbo and physical peril as refugees in other countries, afraid to reveal their sexuality. Jobs in New York Add your job L. Homage: Queer lineages on video Wallach Art Gallery. He said this was why he did a film like Mr.

We Syrians are resilient. I mean, now we have the Hayat Tahrir Al Sham. Yet Hassino has no illusions and knows it will be difficult to return to Syria while the country remains unstable. At the same time, Hassino has regained contact with people who seemed to shun him, including unfriending or unfollowing on social media.

It is his very activism and public role as someone advocating for Syrian LGBT issues — whether through his writing, his magazine, or the movie Mr. Gay Syria, that leaves him too vulnerable.

Syria Human Dignity Trust :

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people in Syria face serious legal challenges which are not experienced by non-LGBTQ residents. In Ba'athist Syria (–), Article of the penal code of prohibited "carnal relations against the order of nature," and it was punishable with a prison sentence of up to three years.

Hassino might have fled Syria under difficult, dangerous circumstances inbut he still expressed nostalgia for his old life. Bronx Times. More from Around NYC. Brooklyn Paper. For some of them, this was a way to protect themselves from the Syrian secret police under Assad who used social networks to track down people for actual and perceived dissident actions.

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We managed to grab it somehow. They are like another version of Assad, with a Sunni twist. Caribbean Life. One of those individuals told Hassino he should return to Syria now. He is thinking of reviving it now as a German non-profit. View All Events….

LGBTQ rights in Syria : The conversation covered Hassino’s current work with refugees and migrants with disabilities in Germany and the challenges faced by LGBTQ+ individuals in Syria, especially with the risks of religious extremism post-Assad

{INSERTKEYS} [1][2] However, it is unclear whether this still. It is all rubble. But will the new regime be any better for LGBT people?. Even with the regime, they attacked us, but we managed, we had parties, and so what I want people to know is that for queer Syrians, life was happening, and nobody could take away our joy of life.

A gay Syrian man who was brutally tortured by the group that toppled Bashar al-Assad has said he and many other LGBTQ+ Syrians are still celebrating regime change in Syria – despite their fears. The Assad family’s year dictatorship of Syria is over.{/INSERTKEYS}