#lbgtq

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Am I an otter?

I’m a gay man, I have a slim body, and I’m generally very hairy(when I don’t shave my upper lip, legs, armpits, and arms)

I mean I fit all the boxes…

Please comment to help 🙏

[skooodles]

The back cover of Lou Reed’s Transformer has this Fonzie looking dude with a giant boner. Ever notice?

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"Queers for Palestine"

The problem with “Queers for Palestine” is not merely that its activists claim to care about Palestinian civilians while promoting a vision of “liberation” that would leave those civilians under Hamas’s oppressive rule.

It is that they seem to care even less about queer Palestinians - the people most directly endangered by that outcome.

Their solidarity requires them to deny what life is actually like for queer people under Hamas, the Taliban, the Islamic Republic of Iran and other authorities that criminalize homosexuality.

So much for solidarity.

Hamas persecutes even its own:

Sex between men remains punishable by up to ten years in prison in Gaza. But the lived danger extends far beyond the statute.

Hamas’s treatment even of its own members demonstrates the system: accusations of homosexual conduct become matters for surveillance, interrogation, secret detention and punishment.

In 2016, Hamas’s armed wing executed commander Mahmoud Eshtewi after holding him secretly for more than a year. The accusations against him included a same-sex relationship and “behavioral and moral violations”. His family said he was suspended from the ceiling, beaten repeatedly with a hose and forced to confess.

Documents recovered in Gaza also contained a Hamas list of 94 recruits deemed “unacceptable” for alleged morality violations, including “homosexual conversations” and sodomy.

Testimony from gay Gazans describes the same machinery outside Hamas’s ranks. One man, known as Abdul, said Hamas first imprisoned him at 17 after catching him with his boyfriend. Over the following five years, he said he was repeatedly abducted, deprived of food and sleep, beaten on the soles of his feet and eventually forced to swear on the Qur’an that he would never “be gay again.”

He escaped Gaza.

These are not isolated stories. 

And it is not only Gaza

Queer and gay Palestinians also report threats, blackmail, family violence and social persecution in the Judea and Samaria (the West Bank). Some have fled into Israel because remaining within Palestinian society placed their lives in danger.

Ahmad Abu Murkhiyeh was one of them.

He was gay and had been living under temporary protection in Israel after reporting that relatives and others in the West Bank wanted to kill him because of his sexuality. Israeli authorities determined that returning him would be dangerous.

In 2022, while awaiting resettlement abroad, he returned to Hebron. Some accounts suggest that he went back to resolve personal, medical or legal matters. Friends suspected that he had been lured or abducted.

The exact circumstances remain unresolved.

What happened next does not.

He was found beheaded.

At the time, nearly 100 LGBT Palestinians were reportedly living in Israel under temporary protection. Many believed the real number was substantially higher.

So what happens to them if “Queers for Palestine” get their way?

What happens if Israel - the only place in the Middle East prepared to shelter many of them - is dismantled or replaced by another Palestinian government hostile to homosexuality?

Where do they flee?

Who protects them?

Hamas?

The Palestinian Authority?

The activists chanting thousands of miles away?

Queer and gay Palestinians are not props to be sacrificed for someone else’s revolutionary fantasy. They are not yours to throw under the bus.

Meanewhile in Afghanistan, under the Taliban, homosexual conduct can bring imprisonment, judicial lashings or death. LGBT Afghans have reported beatings, rape, detention, death threats and being hunted by Taliban members or betrayed by their own families.

Then there is *bacha bazi* - the sexual enslavement of young boys by warlords, commanders and wealthy patrons.

Young boys are dressed as female dancers, held by powerful men and subjected to sexual abuse. Yet consenting gay adults are treated as criminals, along with the exploited boys who may themselves be punished or stigmatized for what was done to them.

The hypocrisy is not difficult to understand.

Then there is Iran.

At first glance, Iran can appear surprisingly liberal on transgender issues. Gender-reassignment surgery is legal and officially recognized following a fatwa by Ayatollah Khomeini.

But that policy exists beside the criminalization of homosexuality.

Consensual same-sex activity can be punished with flogging and, in some circumstances, death. Gay and lesbian Iranians who do not identify as transgender have reported being pressured toward irreversible treatment or surgery so the state can redefine their relationships as heterosexual.

That is not tolerance of transgender people. It is the coercive use of transition to erase homosexuality.

The religious roots are not obscure.

The Qur’an repeatedly condemns the men among Lot’s people for desiring men instead of women. It describes their conduct as a grave transgression, although it does not establish a specific earthly criminal sentence.

The death penalty emerged more explicitly through hadith attributed to Muhammad, including a command to kill both participants in male homosexual intercourse.

Classical Islamic jurists generally treated *liwat* - male same-sex intercourse - as a serious crime. They disagreed over evidence, legal classification and punishment. Some prescribed death or stoning; others favored corporal or discretionary punishment. No one, though, thought that a pride parade was in order.

Enforcement varied across Islamic states and historical periods. The underlying legal and religious condemnation remained.

Modern Islamist governments did not invent this doctrine. They inherited it, codified it and continue to enforce it.

Today, even modern Muslim countries send the same message.

During the 2025 Global Sumud Flotilla, Tunisian queer activist Saif Ayadi’s presence provoked a furious dispute. A regional coordinator resigned after accusing organizers of concealing LGBT participation. Other supporters complained that queer activism violated their religious and social values.

The queer activist was useful to the flotilla - until his queerness became visible.

In July 2026, an LGBTQ cruise carrying approximately 2,000 passengers was refused permission to dock in Turkey because their presence supposedly violated the country’s “moral values”.

Egypt then refused the same ship entry to Alexandria.

These passengers simply wanted to visit historical sites and spend money.

Their existence was enough to make them unwelcome.

And then there is Israel.

Israel recognizes same-sex marriages. Same-sex couples receive extensive legal recognition. Gay people live openly, and large Pride parades take place in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

It is the only country in the Middle East where same-sex marriages receive national legal recognition and LGBT public life exists openly on this scale.

Yet this is the country “Queers for Palestine” reserve their greatest fury for.

Hamas tortures gay people.

The Taliban lashes and kills them.

Iran flogs them or pressures them to change their bodies.

Queer Palestinians flee into Israel for protection.

And Western activists conclude that Israel is the principal obstacle to queer liberation.

This is not merely hypocrisy. It has consequences for actual gay people.

If Western queer activists are willing to risk entering Gaza and testing Hamas’s tolerance personally, that is their choice. But they have no moral right to volunteer queer Palestinians for the same experiment.

The Western activist can play white savior, wave a flag, take photographs and return to safety.

The queer Palestinian must live under the government that remains.

Palestinian civilians do not need to pass a progressive-values test before deserving life, food or safety. Caring about them does not require pretending Hamas is progressive - or sacrificing the Palestinians whom Hamas would persecute first.

So ask “Queers for Palestine”:

What happens to queer Palestinians under your preferred “liberation”?

What happens to those hiding in Gaza?

What happens to those fleeing the West Bank?

What happens to those currently protected inside Israel?

Where will they go when the refuge you are trying to destroy no longer exists?

If your politics empower their persecutors, erase their testimony and remove their escape route, you are not supporting queer liberation.

You are supporting gay oppression and calling it "progressive".

Queer and gay Palestinians are not symbols.

They are people.

And they are not yours to sacrifice.

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Gay marriage abroad help please ???

So, me and my same sex partner want to get married, and the closest country with legalised gay marriage is slovenia. We are from a country that has a Bilateral Agreement with Slovenia. The question I want to ask is how long would it take to get married, or rather is it possible for us to have a "walk-in wedding" (meaning we don't plan to have a ceremony there, simply getting eloped) and how long it would take for us to have the license made if it is possible since we are on a bit of a time pinch once we get there, but have time to plan in advance. We are also wondering if we would need to have a court translator for certain papers since we are also from a Slavic speaking country. We found the most information on this site: https://expatonboarding.si/getting-married-in-slovenia/ but just want to get some more local opinions.

[gender-thief2]

guy who’s trying to soft launch being a masochist: hit me…

his gay ass boyfriend who thinks they’re doing karaoke: -BABY ONE MORE TIME!

[schwenbartz]

God being lbgt+ is SO TIRING becuz wdym I went through 739 labels in the past week?! 😭

anyways here are my labels (for now it might change duh) also ask what these mean if u dont know.

[roushens-world]

If you're wondering why mequot is there, it's because I saw a drawing of a person with the pizzadebet ship and mequot as their child. So I wanted to pretend I was my OC's brother... 👀

And sorry for disappearing like that, as I said, I'm having problems at home and it's difficult for me because I'm a sensitive person. But everything's alright with my heart... I guess.