Lebanon's LGBTQ crackdown not a local issue but a global one
The crack down on Lebanon’s LGBTQ+ community is not just a local issue but speaks to a wider wave of anti-LGBTQ actions around the world.
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The crack down on Lebanon’s LGBTQ+ community is not just a local issue but speaks to a wider wave of anti-LGBTQ actions around the world.
The LGBTQ+ community in Lebanon is facing an increasingly hostile crackdown by the country's political and religious leaders.
The victim of an anti-LGBTQ+ bar attack in Beirut has told of their fear and uncertainty they would make it out of the situation alive.
Responding to the violent attack by Jnoud El-Rab, a far-right Christian group, against an LGBTI-friendly bar in Beirut yesterday, Aya Majzoub, Amnesty International’s deputy regional director for the Middle East & North Africa, said: “Last night’s attack on Madame Om, a bar considered to be a safe space for the LGBTI community, marked an alarming escalation in the attacks against LGBTI people that have followed troubling remarks by high-level politicians and religious figures. The authorities