Articles
Aug 30th, 2010 |
By Athena |
Category: Personal Stories
So you really want to take this girl out on a date. Like really really.
She says yes.
You’re off to plan your first date. What do you ask yourself?
Which restaurant serves the best steak?
Which place plays the best music?
What would say fun and cool?
Not really.
*Shoos away the heteronormative (and rather boring) person typing*
Where would we be [...]
Tags: beirut, Gay, humor, queer, society Posted in Personal Stories |
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Aug 23rd, 2010 |
By Mimiscule |
Category: Personal Stories
Bi nhar ma fiyo daw amar (nhar ktir tabi3e), re7et 3al jem3a ta etsajjal bi tene semestre ele.Ana w natra bel couloir, bchouf 7ada tali3 3al daraj w jeye sawbe… 7ada ma bye5las ad manno tawil. 7ada… eh 7ada, mich chabb w wala benet, la2anno hayda l 7ada men la7zit yalli chefto 3eneleh kel chi bi [...]
Tags: Homophobia, love, personal story, self-discovery Posted in Personal Stories |
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Aug 22nd, 2010 |
By Guest Contributor |
Category: Reports
شو عندك ب تموز؟
ما شي. ليه؟
تروحي ع فرنسا؟
من مين الدعوة؟
الدعوة من: Ueeh: Universités d’Eté Euro-méditerranéennes des Homosexualités
هي منظمة تطوعية مخصصة لإنشاء المكان والزمان للنشطاء ومثليي ومثليات الجنس ومتحولي الجنس الذين يرغبون في جمع وتبادل الافكار والمعلومات والفنون.
هالمنظمة كل سنة بتقوم بمدرسة صيفية لمدة عشرة ايام في فرنسا وتحديداً بمدرسة الفنون الجميلة بمرسيليا. والهدف [...]
Tags: activism, Arabic عربي, france, Gay, homosexuality, marseille, meem, queer, society Posted in Reports |
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Aug 16th, 2010 |
By Guest Contributor |
Category: Personal Stories
في حياتي محطات ككلّ النّاس، وفيها مواقف أثّرت بي، بَنَت نَفسي، أعطتني
عنوانا.
الموقف الأوّل في صغري، خلالَ سَنوات عمري الأولى، حين كنتُ أرى الفتيات حولي
يَتباهَيْنَ بشعورهنَّ الطّويلة، وفساتينهنّ الزّاهية، وحقائب اليد الملوّنة
أيّام الأعياد. كان من المفترض أن أكون كذلكَ، أو هكذا افترض الجميع، ولّما لم أكن
مثلهنَّ قالوا :أشعر بما لا يشعرون.
الموقف الثّاني كان أيّام مراهقتي التّعسة،
Tags: growing up, identity, personal story, struggle, thoughts Posted in Personal Stories |
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Aug 16th, 2010 |
By Guest Contributor |
Category: Reports
في العدد السابق من “بخصوص”، نشرنا الجزء الأول من هذا المقال الذي يتحدث عن المواد القانونية المجحفة في الدستور اللبناني بحق المواطنين والمواطنات وحرياتهم/ن الشخصية بشكل عام مهما اختلفت ميولهم الجنسية وطوائفهم (لقراءة الجزء الأول ). وفي هذا العدد، ننشر الجزء الثاني:
ولكن المادة 534 ليست المادة الوحيدة التي تمس بحريات مثلييّ/ات الجنس والمواطنين/ات اللبنانيين/ات بشكل عام، لكنها المحرك الأكبر والدافع الذي من خلاله يطال القانون حريات المواطن/ة اللبناني/ة لاسيما مثليي/ات الجنس ، حتى الحريات الأكثر طبيعية والأكثر بديهيّة منها.
Tags: Arabic عربي, Article 534, beirut, gay rights, homosexuality, law, private liberties, queer, حقوق المثليين, مثلي, مثلية Posted in Reports |
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Aug 8th, 2010 |
By Guest Contributor |
Category: Personal Stories
I am in Lebanon for the first time in my life, and being here is a step toward living wholly in my body and spirit. These are some of the things that divide my self: body hatred and fat-phobia, internalized sexism and homophobia, having white skin privilege in a white supremacist world, and, not least [...]
Tags: family, homosexuality, lebanon, personal story, society, thoughts Posted in Personal Stories |
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Aug 2nd, 2010 |
By Emcee |
Category: Personal Stories
Can one long for a fantasy?
Can one crave a ghost?
Can one grab on to an illusion?
Won’t that hurt the most?
I saw my mystery woman in my dreams yesterday… I seemed to know her; I seemed to know her quite well; yet I never saw her face… she didn’t have one. Yet the memory remains vivid, [...]
Tags: dream, love, wanting Posted in Personal Stories |
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Jul 25th, 2010 |
By Emcee |
Category: Featured Articles, Matare7, Personal Stories
Into a city tainted with a collective form of Dissociative Identity Disorder (if such a diagnosis can ever exist), a society embodying the epitome of double standards, encouraging a young girl to adopt a boy’s stereotypical gender role, into Beirut, I was born. In an environment where positive, active, progressive and liberal values are often [...]
Tags: beirut, family, Gay, gender, homosexuality, identity, lebanon Posted in Featured Articles, Matare7, Personal Stories |
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Jul 5th, 2010 |
By Guest Contributor |
Category: Featured Articles, Personal Stories
I spent 13 years of my life in an all-girls private Islamic school.
I was raised in an Islamic home, and taught of my Islamic background and history, taught to follow and obey it.
I spent 13 years walking down those school halls feeling alienated… I had no one to turn to, no one to talk to, [...]
Tags: growing up, homosexuality, Islam, lesbian, religion Posted in Featured Articles, Personal Stories |
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Jun 20th, 2010 |
By Guest Contributor |
Category: Reports
Assiut – In the realm of sexual taboos in Egypt, the issue of “intersex individuals” – or those born with “ambiguous genitalia” – is certainly somewhere near the top of the list. While medical professionals take an impartial approach to treatment and surgical operations, social and cultural factors pose a challenge for affected individuals and [...]
Tags: egypt, hermaphrodite, intersex, sex change Posted in Reports |
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