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| Gay and Muslim in Berlin on NYear Eve |
| 2008-01-02 |
| ... 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 club’s 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.” “I’m 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 |
| #2 No, I mean they would kill me And their you have it. |
| Posted by: Thomas Woof 2008-01-02 17:19 |
| #1 Meanwhile, in Egypt, male belly dancing is making a comeback... He clanged metal castanets, magically converted his hips into pistons and twirled his head around like a centrifuge. The crowd seated at tables lining a dirt alley clapped rhythmically. Young men in jeans jumped up to wiggle along. maybe mhw. or it could be: If I'm gay I might get caught and killed. If I give up islame i will get caught and killed - rolling with that thought it could be that any minor questioning/betrayal of religious practice could give him up: "What's the matter with Hasan, he just doesn't seem to bang his head into the ground as ferverantly as usual?" "I don't know, lets follow him and find out what is bothering him." what is that snark on one of the other posts, "Questioned and Arrested for not being able to produce an acceptable batshit crazy hatred of the joooos." |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-01-02 15:01 |