Is It “Really” Illegal to be Gay in Libya?
We don’t have a law but we have a culture that is strongly opposed to liberties such as women’s freedoms and premarital sex. The country’s criminal code prohibits all sexual activity outside of a lawful marriage. Under Article 410 of the Libyan Penal Code, Private homosexual acts between consenting adults are illegal. Article 407(4) criminalises […]
Protectors of The Queer Community
Tazir If we acknowledge a lack in the literature focusing on queers in Libya, then we must agree that the information about lesbians and bisexual women in particular are extremely scarce, as Al-Nihoum noted: “our society is men society,” in which men are the center of interest of the collective mind, and on the other […]
The Libyan Queer Community.. The Victim and The Oppressor
The Queer community in the Middle East and North Africa is fighting heroically against patriarchal authority, which imposes heterosexuality in all social spaces.. “Different” people are punished by criminalization, arrest, ill-treatment and other violations, regardless of those countries’ international obligations. These violations are accompanied by popular support from the public, the clergy, and the various […]
Sexuality and mental health.. What not being comfortable with your sexuality can lead to
Have you ever lived a life where you had to double face it in order to fit or blend in with the expectations of your society? Have you ever thought about the consequences of denying your sexuality can destroy your ability to love? The term sexuality refers to a person’s sexual attractions, experiences of the […]
Intersex
There are thousands of individuals with dual genetic characteristics, who live among us, how do they live? What is their destiny and how will their future lives, which everyone aspires, be shaped? In this article, we will look at this category that the binary system falls short of placing it in one of its forms, […]
Corrective rape… “legitimate” rape
Corrective rape is a term named by, South African women’s and women’s rights activist, Berndette Mutin, in an interview with Human Rights Watch. It is a criminal act in the eyes of many laws and all concepts of human rights, but its application is overlooked, especially in countries suffering from the persecution of homosexuality, and […]
Hijabi Queers: Between Religion and Pride
“I have been queer as long as I can remember and have never isolated this part of my identity from my Muslim identity,” say Muslim queer individuals. In our community, we have many religious people, some struggling with their identity and some comfortable with it. Some haven’t been freed from the internalized fear and homophobia […]
Marsha P. Johnson “POWER TO THE PEOPLE”
As she was marching her rights and her people’s rights, which people? All people. But particularly queer people, street people, activists, artists, trans women, drag queens, sex workers, the poor, the homeless, and those who struggle with mental illness, at a time when being any of those things might land you in jail or in […]
