
A Lebanese nongovernmental organization, Helem (Arabic for ‘Dream‘), which fights for the rights of homosexuals, has recently begun publishing Barra Magazine (Arabic for ‘Out’), the first quarterly Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersexed and Queer magazine in the Arab world.
[Via: Sabbah’s Blog]
heey im an arabic gay.. why not.. we need something like this stand up for our rights..
It's about time that the tuti-fruits of the arab world will come out of the closets. That applies from elmaghrib to elachrak. Hommosexuality is so flagrant among some arab men/women (lez/bi women, and gay/bi men). They are so sugar-coated that they attract bees, and claim that they are flies.
Henceforth, once that pandora's box is open, it can't be shut.
"my apology if some of you might get offended"
hey someone, are you a guy or a girl????
ONE WORD...PATHETIC! stakfarallah!
goood for you:) atleast now they are being recognized!!!! thats really great :)
All the bad trends start in lebanon where we have a large majority of christians...Muslims cant be gay and still claim to be muslims since islam doesnt accept gays.
regarding the above comment,are you saying that muslims can not be gay.are you lying to yourself or others.just because it is against religion,it does not mean it does not happen.i know a lot of muslims who are gay.for your information it is against the christain religion as well.it freaks me out myself, i do not think it is natural.however live and let live.do not enter religion into everything.
WTF!!!!
reallly pethatic!..
Next thing you know they'll be making arab porn movies. Like they haven't done that before.
Once again pathetic and once again the arabs have gone down so low as to copy other societes.
And as for SOMEONE, what rights do u think u have?!? To display this to young children and teach them about this?!?
to jjj@jj.com,
You are so right. All bad trends do tend to start in lebanon. And Kuwait too.
in also in dubai where there is a big european community
To jjj@jj.com and to anon
Don't u ever ever ever talk about Lebanon like that and espacially abou CRISTIANS
Have Islam tought u how to disrespect others
That's pathetic !!!!!
And for this subject we don't have nothing to do with others
There are free to do whatever they want although i'm against it
But leave them to God so He judges them
what a shame
disgustting
pathetic
real shame
hey am an arabic lesbian ..is it wrong ?? mish bi 2ide :S may anyone help me plz ?
i dont think its wrong, but dont u think its kinda weird??! i think so! i know alot of gay guys and lesbians, and i dont see anything wrong with them! but it kinda gets weird around them tho!
be_ur_self, where do live? and how old r u?
is ur family ok with it? how did u figure out that u were a lesbian?
Astgfiroulah al3adeem!!
my family ?! they don't know and am not ready to tell them akeed 100%.. i figured out when i loved a girl ..she was my best friend ..i thought that this love is natural ya3ne as any 2 friends love each other ..but mine was not natural.. i loved her really ..ya3ne i can't express more.. may u give me ur email.. better maybe ?? it's personal shway
hey be_ur_self...
i no what ur talking bout...i no EXACTLY how u feel
im 17..and i think i might feel the same..i dont no what to do either..and its not like i want to be...it just..happend...i couldnt help it..its sooo weird
Nadine, me too i don't like to be like that !! but it's out of my hand now.. i donno what to do ..i can't tell my friends also to help me.. omg ! it's harsh .. look am sure that many people face this problem (some of them don't consider it as a problem maybe) but they don't tell it.. but this is love and we can't stop ourselves from loving !!!
omg be_ur_self i soo agree with u..what can we do..its the way it is..even tho its haram..but its not like we can go with it...we have to hold ourselves..and thats so hard..cuz when i see a pretty girl..i have to look hahaha ;)
well i agree with both of u guys, but i'm straight, sometimes i looked at pretty girls, i say they are pretty, but i'm not sure what you girls feel! be_ur_self my email is malooky13@hotmail.com. i'll try to help u as much as i could!! oh i have a question... when u see a really hotttt guy what do u feel??? Nadine u can answer too lol
heey!! im an arabic gay guy.. it's not shameful that im gay, I'M REALLY PROUD OF BEING GAY.. i have a b.f we have fun together and do other stuff (A)...
and i hope people here will just stop look down to gays.. l2no HAD AL2SHI msh b2ede.. I WAS BORN GAY THE YOU DAY YOU WERE BORN STRAIGHT..
and enough y3ni!!!! it's not disgusting, it's not pathetic..
im 19 yrs old.. and even im a muslim.. plz stop saying stuff like this "muslims cant be gay".. coz l2no habal.. there are thousands and even millions of gays in the arab world.. why should we escape from the reality.. u need to face it!!!!!
byye..
i live in australia,and i have a lot of friends who are homosexuals,they are gorgeous human beings,they have their good and bad points.believe me ,most of them are arabs and muslims.i hear they are everywhere in the arab world,especially in egypt and saudi arabia.i do not think you should involve religion into everything.they should be given a voice.fanatics are given a voice,why not them.if a trend starts in lebanon,you do not have to follow it.people are not blind and stupid,hypocracy is so rife in the arab world.
PPL, all we are saying is that muslims who are gay should stop claiming that Islam accepts gayism, cause islam clearly stands against it.
I am not saying that there arent trash in the arab world that picks on trends in the western world. But remember, the arab world is muslim and it should always be guided by islam regardless of the minorities that live under its fences and the pressures from the non-muslim world.
The non believers will never be happy till we become like them: materialistic and secular. Those who are on the wrong path do not like to see anyone on better grounds than them.
lol leb ppl need help wtf is dis
to lil mo, you are so gay.deny it all you can but these people are present.at least we do not put them in cells like animals.i think you probably wish you had access to the magazine.gay gay gay!!!
In all religions being gay is forbidden because it is not natural. You should consider it an illness instead of being proud. Publishing a magazine like this is ridiculous, pathetic, and sooo lebanese. If a magazine is published about rape, murder, and other things that are WRONG does it make them right? Or is it just cool to be gay? ALLAH YISHFEEKU. Its ramadaan have a little respect. I feel sick.
is insulting the lebanese your idea of respect,i thought in ramadan you should feel a bit tolerance.these people exist with or without the magazine,in other arab countries more than lebanon.respect us .there is no comparing bthis to rape, no one is forcing you to be homosexual unless you are inclined that way.that is your problem
TO NIMO,you made me laugh,since when did the arab world become non materialistic.i was born with the saying,you are worth the amount of money you have(or something like that)homosexuality is not the biggest problem we have,it has always existed.no one is forcing you to read the magazine.it is in lebanon,after all,i am sure it will not be distributed anywhere else.next time you will be blaming lebanon for poverty,illiteracy,human rights abuses and all crimes existant in the arab world.now that is the pathetic thing,not homosexuality which exists with or without magazine.
i still wait for anyone to explain what's shameful, disgusting and pathetic with being gay?? NOTHING..i'm a muslim ( i fast , pray and read quran) is it my fault that god 5al2ni gay and love men?? is it my fault?? ..and plz i don't wanna hear anyone say we are sick. coz i'm not. shwet a7tram y3ni yali bt2olo ramdan w absr sho.. i was born gay and i can't control myself.. hadya ashe b dami that i love men..is it my fault that when i felt im gay ( almost when i was 13 yrs old i was sleeping at night and had a nightmare.. dunno i was falling and a guy saved me).. but to be honest it really hurted me im gay, i spent hours and hours crying, i felt that i differ from other and even less... but now what should i do?? should i say naah i'm not gay and i love womens?? my whole life will be a big lie..i will only live in dreams..i should live with the fact i'm gay and love men i don't feel anything when i look at a pretty girl.. and for your information there are millions of gay in the arab world...
you should face it!!
btw im ready to talk with anyone here.. just leave me ur msn and i will add u if u wanna..
waiting for your comments (sorry my english is realy bad).
to someone,they will not explain,because they do not know.they just know it is against religion.you could do what they do,marry a woman,lie to her and yourself,and have an affair in secret.that is the arab world they talk about,do everything in hiding and pretend you a moral person in puplic.i am waiting for someone to convince me otherwise.HYPOCRACY
hmmmm...OK...when i see a HOTTT guy...i look, sure...there Hot loool
wow .. just as u feel ;) hehe
umm by the way, sweetprincess and Nadine where do u live and what's ur age?? Nadine i've added u to my list but i hope ur email is not wrong :)
and to Someone tanish sho badak feyon ..ya3ne law keno bi our place ma keno 7ako hek am sure. So kil wa7ad yi7tirim 7alo w yi7tirim ghayro w keef bifakro !!
what's that..nobody and i mean NOBODY is born gay, god created us in one way, allah didn't creat stright people and gay people,we're all the same,but to be gay or not is something u control, u choose the path u want to go,and i think that most gay people are victims of the society, most of them didn't choose actually, but maybe thier families did(not on purpose), or thier friends. but "if there's a will there's a way" if u don't want to be gay u CAN be straight, but if u want, then u'll have to accept the fact that u'll be rejected and outcasted from alot of people, cuz its just not normal. and as u all know bothchristianity and islam don't accept this at all, and if u're going to say"well,i'm a muslim and i'm gay.HA!?" , then u'll be fooling urself, cuz if u're a muslim or christian and gay, then u're not doing what ur relegion asked u to do. so if u're a muslim and gay and u're fine about relegiously then it seems to me that u haven't read the Quran yet, and u'll be a muslim by name only.(same thing 4 christians)
thank you
and i mean by"families" is that they don't know whats going on with thier child's lives, so then the child will just go and learn by himself. and if the parents don't give thier child space to express to them how he/she feels, so if there might be some wrong feelings that the child didn't translate well, then time will go by and its gonna be too late to correct what has gone wrong.
thank you
the need 4 aspirin ..yo totally wrong coz biology says different from what are u saying !!
okay,and biology says that..........................................??
convince me
say it ... it says what ................ ????????
am i missing something here or what, i think that you (n-life) started the biology thing, so what i meant by "........??" is that i'm waiting 4 u to inlighten me with ur knowlege.
haha la2..ya haram..be_ur_self..my e-mail..hahah@yahoo.com..is wrong..i dont put my real e-mail :( haha sorry habibti..but if u want..give me ur e-mail..if u have msn.and i will add u..im lebanese, and im 17..to answer ur question ahaha...and i live in Canada..but i might be visiting Beirut soon:) haha yallah hope to talk to u soon
Waleg... Id like to say...could you not have mentioned this sick magazine after ramadan. Ya3nee haram. I feel sick just like LKM. Waleg please can you remove this topic its not intellectual and is degrading. Thank you
FIFI...sorry but if u dont like it..than dont look at it..dont read it..read other topics on WALEG...WALEG is meant for everyone..not just only you..i dont want to be mean..but read the topics that appeal to you
seriously, u cant be born gay.. im scared of u ppl, go read quran.. ro7oo 5ali 7ada yihdikom because judgement day is coming soon
"n-life" i'm waiting 4 the biological explaination or proof or whatever it is..anwirni
i'll send u the biology book hehe
well,that's what i thought u would say"hehe".next time don't say anything you don't know about or atleast not sure,if u're gonna say something,prove it.
i agree with u, the need 4 aspirin, btw how old r u??