#gay iraqi

[7th-gate]

#gay #yaoi #animeboy #bl manga #gay bulge #gayhot #gayboy #mind games #hentxi #gay art #gay Iraqi #مثليين #music #Spotify

[yourdailyqueer]

Zhiar Ali

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 2 September 1999

Ethnicity: Iraqi - Kurdish

Occupation: Activist, singer, songwriter, journalist

Note: On 16 June 2023, Ali published a redesign of the Kurdistan Pride Flag on Twitter. The design combined elements of the Kurdish flag with the LGBT flag, aiming to celebrate the intersectionality of identities and provide visibility to LGBTQ+ Kurds.

#Zhiar Ali #qmoc #qpoc #lgbt #lgbtq #male #gay #1999 #iraqi #kurdish #poc #asian #middle eastern #activist #singer #songwriter #journalist #popular #popular post

[queerism1969]

#iraq #iraqi #lgbtq #lgbtq community #lgbt pride #lgbtqia #lesbian #nonbinary #sapphic #iraq war #nonbinary lesbian #gay girls #queer #middle east #syria #lebanon #united nations #same sex marriage #same sex relationships #same sex wedding #same sex couple #same sex love #homosexuality #homosexuell #homosexual

[violexides]

you know what everything is already falling apart I may as well just say it. White people who make jokes about 9/11 saying that it helps you cope I wanna ask you what you’re coping with. What are you coping with? 

because as far as I’m concerned you’re a little sad you have to sit down for 30 minutes watching CNN videos in your history class about it instead of talking to your friends. you’re sad because one of your cousins was so racist that my brother couldn’t participate in a culture day at his school after the event. when he was 7 and crying and pleading to my mom who has never denied him anything because he just wanted to hang with his friends and didn’t know what to tell the teacher when they asked why he opted out. you’re sad because you wanna finally PARTICIPATE in something edgy and funny and you need a new joke to latch off of! you’re sad because I made a 9/11 joke once when all my friends told me it was funny and only stupid fucking snowflakes didn’t and now i’m being all angy at you :/ you’re sad because america sucks grr grr grr Why does America suck? I don’t disagree but tell me your reasons. how many of them did you observe yourself. 

if you’re gonna joke about the event that is a major reason why the american press only talks about the middle east like its a lost cause, the reason why ive had so many jokes made about me, the way that talking about my culture feels like asking too much of anyone who is listening to me -- at least fucking tag it. or maybe think about why you’re doing it. 

and hey if you change your mind and you want a new dark joke to talk about, you can always talk about how your uncle idolizes Bush! and how that makes family dinners soooooo awkward :/ 

#ides.txt #HAHA ! <3 #omggg gay blorbo ship hit the towers :/ you know the ones that killed millions of people and caused my people to #live in fear to this fucking day #oh isn't that so funny . so funny #you cried more when your OTP died then when millions of Iraqis and Muslims and Middle Easterners got killed

[sangfielle]

i guess "if you've never actually been put under the scrutiny of a government organization like that you are more likely to think of them as a positive force than otherwise" would logically hold true for most things like that though lol

#i have a pretty markedly negative opinion of. well. a lot of them. bc of this #being a mentally fucked up abused iraqi-american gay muslim kid is actually going to run you afoul of #most. of them. smile #personal

[totallyhussein-blog]

Reasons to have pride in Manchester

Since the late 1980s, fundraising events have been held over the August bank holiday weekend in Manchester, England, in a bid to raise money for LGBTQ+ causes.

Back then, homophobia was rife and in 1988 an anti-Section 28 protest was held in Manchester, against the Governments law that prohibited the “promotion of sexuality”.

Manchester Pride kicked off on Friday 25th, the annual Pride parade was held on Saturday 26th and celebrations concluded on Monday 28th August 2023.

#manchester #london #uk #liverpool #hussein al-alak #baghdad #scotland #iraqi #iraq #usa #happy pride 🌈 #pride month #gay pride #lgbtqia #trans pride #pride #lgbtq #uk news #photography

[todaviia]

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#ive spent the entire day doing volunteer legal help for refugees who cant afford lawyers #and theres something so INSANELY fucking alienating #about spending hours writing an appeal for a gay man whos asylum claim got denied #BC HE DIDNT CONVINCE THE ASYLUM AGENCY THAT HE SPENT SUFFICIENT TIME AND EFFORT TRYING TO LIVE AS A GAY MAN IN IRAQ #(from his very asylum hearing on he described his homosexuality being discovered #by his family member and how he could flee the house in the time it took his father to get his shotgun #and the physical violence he suffered from another family member #and how one of his uncles took ~pity on him bc he was only 18 #and gave him money to leave the country #under the condition that he would never return or contact the family again) #and seeing all these dehumanising and heartbreaking things in his file #including super out of line questions etc #and then go out and see the buses and trams of public transport all have these like cute rainbow flags #like i cant imagine how it must feel like for him #(or all the other lgbt afghans iraqis ugandans etc that i know) #but it literally makes my fucking blood boil #like actually one of the biggest arguments that get used against lgbt iraqis #(and other non-western lgbt ppl) #is the argument that lgbt rights are just a ~western degeneracy #and then these people come here #(the ones that manage and don't die either in their home countries or on the way) #and then they realise that yeah we're all so proud of our lgbt rights #its not just legal - it's also an advertising gimmick and a state sponsored party #except for people like them #we're completely comfortable sending them back to their deaths #and like his chances for appeal are actually quite good #but it's literally down to volunteers to even write that #and there are SO MANY cases like that

[sams-special-space]

2023 Reads: The Sky Blues by Robbie Couch

Genre: Fiction: Contemporary  Age Level: Young Adult  Format: Novel

Summary: Sky Baker is going all out for prom, and has a list of promposal ideas on his wall in his room. He plans to ask out his crush, Ali- because even though he's tried to keep himself invisible, he's determined for his senior year to end with a bang.

But then someone leeks a picture of his wall, and sends out a e-blast that's equal parts homophobic and racist. And now it's up to Sky, Ali, and the rest of their friends to figure out who did it before the countdown till prom ends.

Thoughts: I was surprised by how much I loved this one! Outing narratives are pretty hit or miss for me(though Sky isn't outed, the premise is similar), and the book summary didn’t pull me in. But after a bit of a rough start(I just wasn’t interested at first), I was able to get really into it, and I think this is probably one of my favorite reads of the year. Sky is such a sweet teenager and I loved his heart. His struggle with the question of if his dead dad would have supported him being gay hit me really close- I adored how that plot line was concluded.

All the characters felt full of heart, and I loved the eventual romance Sky had. I also love how he didn’t get with his crush at the beginning, but instead fostered a close friendship with him! I appreciate the handling of racism as well, and the solidarity shown between different minorities. I think it’s just a really cute read! The plot threads were wrapped up nicely too. Sky my beloved <3

Rating: 5/5  Trigger warnings: Homophobia, racism(specifically anti-Iraqi), past car accident, and past death of a parent.  Rep: Gay MC, mlm romance, Black SC, Iraqi SC, trans SC, autistic SC, and gay SCs.

#novel #contemporary #the sky blues by robbie couch #book reviews #queer rep #gay rep #side iraqi rep #side poc rep #this is so cute :) #fiction #side trans rep #2023 reads #side autistic rep

[hjarta]

just found out that one of my iraqi childhood friends is also gay on instagram and i’m losing my mind 😭💗

#i don’t feel so alone anymore

[7th-gate]

more pics of me :3

#gay #animeboy #gay bulge #gayhot #gayboy #mind games #gay art #gay iraqi #مثلي #مثليين #عراق #شعر شعبي عراقي #عراقي #گي

[yourdailyqueer]

Joe Balass

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: Born 1966

Ethnicity: Iraqi Jewish

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Director, producer, screenwriter

#Joe Balass #lgbt #qpoc #lgbtq #jumblr #male #gay #1966 #Iraqi Jewish #Iraqi #jewish #canadian #director #producer #screenwriter

[corvidkidletsfandomsofinterest]

[Image ID: A digital drawing of Martin Blackwood and Jonathan Sims from The Magnus Archives standing together with their foreheads touching in front of a light green background. It is using line art from @sarcasticscribbles #tmaeyeball series.

Martin Blackwood is a large ginger-haired white man with light freckles on his face, neck, and hands. He has blue painted nails, and is wearing a teal suit with matching pants, a dark green vest, a white dress shirt, circular glasses, and a blue-green bowtie. His hand right hand is placed on top of Jon's with his palm up. He has a content smile on his face and his eyes are closed.

Jonathan Sims is an Iraqi man with long wavy dark brown hair with light grey streaks in it tied up in a bun. He has a short beard. He is wearing a full olive suit with tails, a green vest, and a dark tie. He is also wearing half-moon glasses with a chain containing a green glass eye charm halfway down. He has a content smile on his face and his eyes are closed. He is holding Martin's hand gently in his left, with his palm up.

Both men have short neat beards and moustaches. /End ID]

Alrighty, heres the next one. love these little fools and their dramatic disaster gay vibes

#tma #the magnus archives #martin blackwood #jonathan sims #jonmartin #sarcasticscribbles #tma fanart #partially my art #tmaeyeball #image id #alt text

[gatheringbones]

[“I began to read deeply, pulling on the threads, getting more and more furious at a system that allowed people to leverage money directly into influence and power—to basically manipulate the population into making a decision. The more I read, the more radical I became. I found Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. I wanted more. I burrowed deeply into queer history, into protest. (I hid the books in my locker.) I read Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution, by David Carter; articles about Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson; websites on the Compton’s Cafeteria uprising; Transgender History, by Susan Stryker. I watched The Times of Harvey Milk, Rob Epstein’s documentary about the life of the assassinated San Francisco supervisor, and the subsequent White Night uprisings following the acquittal of his confessed assassin. I learned the mantra “Queers, don’t be quiet, Stonewall was a riot.” There was all this history that no one had ever taught me, that didn’t fit neatly into the liberal-establishment version of gay rights.

Meanwhile, the financial crisis deepened. It gripped everyone I knew. I watched my family’s retirement accounts evaporate. The small mutual fund where I had deposited my twenty-thousand-dollar enlistment bonus—my literal investment in the system—plummeted in value. I was looking for explanations.

On a rainy afternoon, days after the election, I took a Trailways bus to Syracuse for my first-ever protest. (It’s legal for soldiers to attend protests out of uniform.) Join the Impact had planned events in four hundred cities that day, with an estimated million people in worldwide attendance. I’d read about the protest on Facebook and reached out to the local organizers—a lesbian student and an older gay man—to see what I could do to help. Even with the nasty weather, nearly two hundred people showed up at city hall—mostly younger queers, but a few older couples too. We had rainbow flags and posters that read no h8 and married with pride. I carried a sign that said, in rainbow lettering, equality @ the house, @ the workplace, @ the battlefield. Seeing other people feeling just as hurt as I did restored my sense of being recognized as fully human. But as I counted the crowd, I suddenly thought of the insurgency and counterinsurgency tactics I spent all day studying. Peaceful protest got the Iraqis nowhere. Our soldiers would more or less laugh at the Iraqis who tried civil disobedience. The people with the signs could just be mowed down; they were docile. It was the people who fought back, who refused to move, who even pushed the crowd out of the way as a way of taking a stand and showing political agency—those were the ones who concerned the military. As one major (who worked in operations, not intelligence) had succinctly explained at the base: “We don’t negotiate with protesters—but we sure as hell negotiate with mobs.”]

chelsea manning, from readme.txt

#chelsea manning #trans literature #currently reading

[enden-k]

Sharing ideas moment: I always thought Haitham would better fit as a vulture, specially when the old world ones are depicted as good birds in cultures like the Egyptian, Hindu or Persian ones, even when now the vultures are considered ugly and very dangerous. Just the only idea that many people has fear or sees the scribe in a bad way, but then Kaveh comes in and marks the difference (in his own way), to make a curious couple between a vulture and a bird-of-paradise. It just melts my heart <3

the concept itself is cute (danger and beauty) but just a reminder that (since i see it often) al haitham is not connected to vultures in any way. hes iraqi arab and falcons are a big part of arab culture; everything about him is inspired/connected to falcons from his name to his constellation (the og cn name "sky falcon" and not whatever english translation has going on) so yea. no connections to vultures at all

just mentioning it again bc there was some drama about ppl claiming haitham is gay coded bc of (non existent) vulture/greek symbols and completely ignored what actual arabs had to say

(while btw hes implied through the way he interacts with kaveh. its that easy)

apart of the cultural aspect, personally i just think falcon is perfectly fitting for him already. falcons possess extraordinary speed, strength and vision and theyre really intelligent too. so i think falcons are plenty dangerous too to pair cutely with beautiful birds of paradise. looks cute too, seeing the grey, simple looking bird next to that mass of color <3

#pls dont feel like im lecturing u there this is just general info #reply

[akajustmerry]

What's happening in Palestine truly brought out the worst in people. I've been blocking people left and right. Folks try to give positive examples of rebellions from the past like the end of apartheid and the Haitian Revolution,some ghouls respond by saying "Well,those are not good examples because look how poor and corrupt those countries are now", annoying white homonationalist gays don't shut up about how it's bad to root for Palestinians because they "push gay people off roofs and behead them" (Pinkwashing really worked on their pea sized brains,some of them even went on sponsored trips to Tel Aviv 🤮)even f*cking radfems found the video of a 13 year old girl who gave interviews twice in three years and say "Well why is she wearing a hijab now????I won't root for people who put a hijab on a kid!!!" The genocidal ghoul who is unfortunately the president of the USA says "I mean civilians die in wars it's inevitable and idk if Palestinians are telling the truth so idk the numbers of dead people" while dumbass USamerican liberals STILL talk about "harm reduction" I mean,how do these people not hear how repulsive they sound? How can anybody's support for people who are the target of a literal GENOCIDE be conditional? My god I knew westerners were drowning in racism and Islamophobia but the depth of their hatred really is vomit inducing. I pray we all get to see a free Palestine and the fall of all war mongering capitalist empires that funded not only Palestinian,but also Afghan, Iraqi, Yemeni, Libyan,Syrian and so many more people's suffering in our lifetime. I pray it won't be exhausting to just exist as people from SWANA in the future. I pray they all thrive and not just survive in the future. I have hope because how can I not when Palestinians themselves still do,and it feels shameful to momentarily lose hope when I'm just a privileged woman following updates from the comfort of my home.

You articulated so much of what I'm feeling too. I think what makes it worse is how so much of the propaganda we're seeing is the same kind of propaganda the West used to justify the invasion of Iraq, Iran and Syria. All of it has been debunked. Yet people fall for it again and again and again and SWANA people die for that. The truth is right in front of people but they refuse to see it because they've become so comfortable not seeing Brown and Black bodies as human. It feels crazy. And yeah it is utterly strange to see people you share a culture with being massacred day in day out and to feel utterly destroyed by that, only for people to claim it's a lie, and then to also rmr what we feel is trivial to what people in Palestine are enduring. And as you said, they have hope and rage and so must we.

#anon #palestine #swana tag

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Daniel Villarreal at LGBTQ Nation:

The Iraqi Parliament has passed a law punishing homosexuals with 10 to 15 years in prison; transgender, gender-nonconforming people with one to three years in prison; and anyone who “promotes” homosexuality with seven years. The law has been criticized by the U.S. State Department and LGBTQ+ advocacy groups. Parliament passed the “Law on Combating Prostitution and Homosexuality,” an amendation of a 1988 anti-sex work law, on April 27, with 170 out of 329 members of Parliament supporting the law. Most supporters were from highly conservative Shia Muslim parties, The Star Observer reported. An earlier version punished homosexuality with the death penalty, but that provision was removed after strong opposition from the U.S. and European nations.

In addition to criminalizing same-sex acts and “promoting” homosexuality, the new provisions criminalize individuals who undergo gender-affirming healthcare as well as medical professionals who provide such care. It also criminalizes “wife swapping” and those who dress in a way deemed to be “imitating women.” [...] Previously, Iraq had no laws criminalizing homosexuality. However, authorities there regularly entrap, arrest, and detain LGBTQ+ individuals on vague, trumped-up “morality,” “debauchery,” “prostitution,” and “cybercrime” charges. In jail, they’re interrogated; denied access to lawyers, visitors, or medical care; physically and sexually abused; and forced to sign confessions, often being extorted and blackmailed afterward, Human Rights Watch reported.

Iraq's parliament passes heavy-handed anti-LGBTQ+ extremist law that would imprison gay men with 15 years jail, trans, nonbinary and gender nonconforming people with 1-3 years, and any promoter of LGBTQ+ rights with 7 years. It also criminalizes who have undergone gender-confirmation surgery.

Previously, Iraq technically had no laws criminalizing LGBTQ+ expression; however, authorities there regularly entrap, arrest, and detain LGBTQ+ individuals on vague, trumped-up “morality,” “debauchery,” “prostitution,” and “cybercrime” charges.

See Also:

PinkNews: Iraq’s criminalisation of same-sex relationships and LGBTQ+ people an ‘attack on human rights’

#World News #Iraq #LGBTQ+ #Anti LGBTQ+ Extremism #Middle East #Arab World #Iraq's Antigay Laws #Anti Trans Extremism #Human Rights #Criminalization of Trans Health #Gender Confirmation Surgery