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Gay and Muslim in Berlin on NYear Eve
... most of the people filling the dance floor on Saturday at the club SO36 in the Kreuzberg neighborhood were gay, lesbian or bisexual, and of Turkish or Arab background. They were there for the monthly club night known as Gayhane, an all-too-rare opportunity to merge their immigrant cultures and their sexual identities....Hasan, a 21-year-old Arab man, sitting at a table in the clubs quieter adjoining cafe, declined to give his last name, saying: They would kill me. My brothers would kill me. Asked if he meant this figuratively, he responded, No, I mean they would kill me. Im living one life here and the other one the way they wish me to be, Hasan said, referring to his parents. He said he still planned to marry, but when he turned 30 rather than right away, as his parents wished. I have to have children, to do what Islam wants me to do, he said. I would stop with everything in the homosexual life. I would stop it. [as I understand it, almost all homosexual muslims stay loyal to their homophobic religion despite everything - they can't get past the denial phase] Posted by: mhw 2008-01-02 |
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