The Lesbian Fate in the Arab World

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In one such story – Menstruation by the Syrian writer Ammar Abdulhamid – a married woman explains her many lesbian affairs with other married women: ‘It’s because they need a change, you see,’ she says. ‘Many of their men had the chance to fool around before marriage. But these women have only had the opportunity to do so after marriage.’ Jati Belanda, Pohon Legendaris yang Menghiasi Tanah Air Hello Sobat Ilyas! Jika kamu pernah berjalan-jalan di taman kota atau di hutan belantara, pasti kamu pernah melihat pohon yang tinggi dan besar dengan daun-daun yang hijau dan rimbun. Pohon yang dimaksud adalah jati belanda. Jati belanda merupakan salah satu pohon legendaris yang banyak ditemukan di Indonesia.Asal Usul Jati BelandaJati… Felony – inducing or seducing a male or a female anyhow to commit illegal or immoral actions" is punishable by up to three years.

During the interview, they talked about how they met and what was like to be different in a country where same-sex relationships can carry the death penalty. Giovanni Antonio da Brescia, Two women. Italian Renaissance engraving. Statue of two ancient Egyptian women, Idet and Ruiu, depicted in a form typical of married couples, Museo Egizio. [1] Ira M. Lapidus; Lena Salaymeh (2014). A History of Islamic Societies. Cambridge University Press (Kindle edition). pp.361–362. ISBN 978-0-521-51430-9. The attitudes toward homosexuality in the Ottoman Empire underwent a dramatic change during the 19th century. Before that time, Ottoman societal norms accepted homoerotic relations as normal, despite condemnation of homosexuality by religious scholars. The Ottoman Sultanic law ( qanun) tended to equalize the treatment of hetero- and homosexuals. Dream interpretation literature accepted homosexuality as natural, and karagoz, the principal character of popular puppet theater, engaged in both active and passive gay sex. However, in the 19th century, Ottoman society started to be influenced by European ideas about sexuality as well as the criticism leveled at the Ottoman society by European authors for its sexual and gender norms, including homosexuality. This criticism associated the weakness of the Ottoman state and corruption of the Ottoman government with Ottoman sexual corruption. By the 1850s, these ideas were prompting embarrassment and self-censorship among the Ottoman public regarding traditional attitudes toward sex in general and homosexuality in particular. Dream interpretation literature declined, the puppet theater was purged of its coarser elements, and homoeroticism began to be regarded as abnormal and shameful. Dialmy, Abdessamad (13 May 2010). "Sexuality and Islam". The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care. 15 (3): 160–168. doi: 10.3109/13625181003793339. PMID 20441406. S2CID 1099061. Although many Middle Eastern countries have penal codes against homosexual acts, these are seldom enforced due to the difficulty to prove unless caught in the act. In the Middle East today many countries still do not have codification of homosexuality or queerness as an identification of sexual orientation. [63] In Saudi Arabia, gender segregation is practiced to uphold the purity of women, because this separation exists some women and men will openly seek homosexual companionship in open spaces like coffee shops, public bathrooms, their cars, and their households. To navigate their own sexuality many men who engage in homosexual acts in Saudi Arabia do not deem the acts to be homosexual unless they are a bottom, which is a sexual position deemed to be more feminine while a top is deemed to be masculine. [64]Banyak dari kaum lesbian Arab yang memilih untuk merantau ke negara-negara lain yang lebih terbuka dan menerima terhadap LGBT. Mereka mencari kebebasan dan kesempatan untuk hidup sesuai jati diri mereka tanpa harus merasa takut dan diskriminasi. Namun, keputusan untuk merantau juga tidaklah mudah karena harus meninggalkan keluarga dan lingkungan yang sudah familiar. Perjuangan Kaum Lesbian Arab 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. Many Islamic rulers were known to engage in, or at least tolerate, homosexual activity. For instance, Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid II was said to enjoy " al-talawut", an Arabic word for sex with other men. Abu Nuwas, one of the most prominent Arab poets to extensively produce homoerotic works, did so under the tutelage and protection of Harun al-Rashid. Harun al-Rashid's successor, Al-Amin, rejected women and concubines, preferring eunuchs instead. [27]

Lucian's Dialogues of the Courtesans contain an episode in which a woman named Megilla renames herself Megillus and wears a wig to cover her shaved head. She marries Demonassa of Corinth, although Megillus is from Lesbos. Her friend Leaena comments that "They say there are women like that in Lesbos, with faces like men, and unwilling to consort with men, but only with women, as though they themselves were men". [51] Megillus seduces Leaena, who feels that the experience is too disgusting to describe in detail. Leila J. Rupp writes in Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women: "Two things are significant in this depiction: the connection of an aggressive woman from Lesbos with masculinity and the portrayal of the seduced as a prostitute". [52]

LGBTQ+ Community In The Arab World

Wright, J. W. Jr. and Everett K. Rowson (editors). Homoeroticism in Classical Arabic Literature. Columbia University Press, 1997. Falaky, Fayçal (2018). "Radical Islam, Tolerance, and the Enlightenment". Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. 47: 265–266. doi: 10.1353/sec.2018.0026. S2CID 149570040. Meskipun konten film dan musik yang mengangkat tema lesbian Arab masih terbatas, tetapi ada beberapa karya yang berhasil menarik perhatian. Beberapa film seperti “I Exist” dan “A Secret Love” mengisahkan kisah cinta kaum lesbian Arab. Sedangkan dalam musik, ada beberapa artis seperti Mashrou’ Leila dan Aziz Maraka yang berani mengangkat tema LGBT dalam karya-karya mereka. Lesbian Arab di Luar Negeri Konservatif Adalah PengantarHello Sobat Ilyas! Konservatif adalah sebuah kata yang sering kita dengar dalam konteks politik. Namun, sebenarnya konservatif bisa merujuk pada berbagai hal dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Di artikel ini, kita akan membahas apa itu konservatif dan bagaimana hal itu dapat mempengaruhi kita.Arti KonservatifKonservatif secara harfiah berarti cenderung mempertahankan atau memelihara sesuatu…