Gay eastern
A gay 'information office for the Eastern Bloc'?
The Information Office was founded at a time whentrans, gay, lesbian and bisexual people were becoming increasingly clear, especially in the USA, Australia and Western Europe. In their fight for equal rights, activists in the 1970s used high-profile strategies such as the "redefinition of coming out as part of socio-political transform "4. The resulting increase in the social visibility of queer queer The term queer, which was already used at the complete of the 19th century as an insult to homosexuals, has been reinterpreted since the 1990s, when those who were supposed to be offended by it reclaimed the word for themselves as an initiative of empowerment, thus giving it a positive connotation. Today, the term gender non-conforming no longer only refers to gay desire, but also to people of various sexual or gender identities, as well as to lifestyles, cultural practices and politics that move outside of or oppose what is socially understood as the "norm(al)" and are consequently also confronted with social inequality, legal discrimination and aggression. Queer is to be understood as an ambiguous designation that eludes
The Ultimate Guide to LGBTQ Travel in Eastern Europe
Though organism gay is technically legal in all of the countries we are looking at in this guide, the truths on the basis might make you question this. The largely conservative populations of Eastern European countries aren’t always open-minded, and many people have never been exposed to queer folx. But this is modifying — albeit very slowly — and LGBTQ visibility in these countries may just further the cause for equality.
General advice for commute in this region
My personal advice is to be a little more subtle. If being modest is something you can’t stomach, it might be worth sticking to the most gay amiable places in Eastern Europe on the list. In most major cities, you’re unlikely to include issues sharing a double room with your same-sex significant other or friend, but in smaller towns and villages, you may come across issues. Public displays of affection between same-sex partners — especially two males — would most likely attract unwelcome attention, even in larger cities. And in certain countries — Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Georgia and rural Hungary — LGBTQ travelers should
Middle East
State
Domestic law[*]
Penalty
Ratified International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)[†]
Ratified Optional Protocol to ICCPR[†]
Afghanistan
BOOK TWO SECTION TWO CHAPTER EIGHT: Adultery, Pederasty, and Violations of Honour
Article 427
“(1) A person who commits adultery or pederasty shall be sentenced to elongated imprisonment.
(2) In one of the following cases commitment of the acts, specified above, is considered to be aggravating conditions:
a. In the case where the person against whom the crime has been committed is not yet eighteen years old. …”
In Afghan legal terminology “pederasty” appears to refer to intercourse between males regardless of age.
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Egypt
Article 98(f):
“Detention for a period of not less than six months and not exceeding five years, or paying a satisfactory of not less than five hundred pounds and not exceeding one thousand pounds shall be the penalty inflic
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