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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 566

homosexuality

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah (left) addresses a crowd during the holy day of Ashoura, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Oct. 24, 2015 (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File). Margot Robbie (right) in a scene from "Barbie."(Warner Bros. Pictures via AP, File)
August 9, 2023, 9:27 pm
Lebanon seeks to ban ‘Barbie’ movie for ‘promoting homosexuality’
Anti-LGBTQ campaign is being spearheaded by Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, although the movie doesn’t have an overt queer theme
By AFP
A man wearing a t-shirt reading "Save Ukraine" runs on the pitch waving a rainbow LGBT flag on the pitch during the Qatar 2022 World Cup Group H football match between Portugal and Uruguay at the Lusail Stadium in Lusail, north of Doha on November 28, 2022. (Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)
November 29, 2022, 2:39 pm
Man who invaded World Cup pitch with rainbow flag released from custody
Gay rights and the use of supportive symbols have been a simmering issue at the soccer tournament in Qatar, where homosexuality is illegal
By AFP
A screenshot taken from the cinematic trailer of the animated film "Lightyear," releasing on June 17. (YouTube/Pixar)
June 13, 2022, 1:31 pm
UAE bans Pixar’s new animation ‘Lightyear’ over same-sex kiss scene
Feature reportedly includes two women kissing; LGBT relations in country can lead to a lengthy prison sentence
By Jon Gambrell
A thirty-year-old Dutch demonstrator displays a sign that reads: "Glad to be Gay" during a gay people march in Frankfurt, Germany on July 28, 1979. (AP Photo/Rolf Boehm)
June 8, 2022, 5:20 pm
Germany extends compensation deadline for homosexuals prosecuted under Nazi law
Nazi legislation remained in force until 1969, when Germany decriminalized homosexuality; applicants may be entitled to 3,000 euros per conviction
By AP
Illustrative: Demonstrators hold a Tunisian flag during a protest in Tunis, on June 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)
December 16, 2021, 7:00 pm
Appeal against jailing of two men in Tunisia seeks to decriminalize homosexuality
Petition could set a legal precedent in the North African country, where those found guilty of consensual same-sex acts can currently be imprisoned for 3 years
By AFP
Illustrative: In this picture taken April 16, 2011, and released by the semi-official Mehr News Agency, a blindfolded man convicted of armed robbery, kidnapping and slaying of two policemen waits to be hanged in public. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hadi Khosravi)
November 7, 2021, 1:00 am
Iran sentences couple to death for adultery
Man’s wife presents video evidence to police, but asks court to spare the capital punishment; judges instead uphold her father’s demand
By AFP
The IRGC's Gen. Mostafa Izadi (screenshot)
March 1, 2020, 5:45 pm
Iran general on Pete Buttigieg: ‘Sad’ that gay man has chance at US presidency
Revolutionary Guards commander says Democrat’s candidacy shows ‘crisis, decadence’ of West
By ToI Staff
Justice Minister Amir Ohana speaks at the Knesset on September 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 11, 2020, 10:29 pm
Justice minister blasts education minister’s ‘backwards’ remarks on LGBT couples
Responding to Rafi Peretz suggesting that gay marriages aren’t natural, mayors of three cities instruct schools to open Sunday’s classes with lesson on acceptance of the other
By Jacob Magid
Education Minister Rafi Peretz attends a Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, December 23, 2019. (Flash90)
January 10, 2020, 8:19 pm
Education minister slammed for suggesting gay marriage is unnatural
Rafi Peretz also defends partnership with extreme-right politician Itamar Ben Gvir, saying the Kahane-disciple is ‘a very soft person, relaxed, humane’
By ToI Staff
Saudi human resources professional Mashael al-Jaloud, right, walks in Western clothes past women wearing niqabs and abayas, an Islamic dress-code for women, at a commercial area in the Saudi capital Riyadh on September 3, 2019. (Fayez Nureldine/AFP)
November 13, 2019, 12:44 pm
Saudi Arabia backpedals on video labeling feminism ‘extremism’
‘Feminism is not criminalized,’ says kingdom’s Human Rights Commission; retracted video also decried homosexuality and atheism, which are both punishable by death
By AFP
Magnus Hirschfeld in New York City, early 1930s (public domain)
November 11, 2019, 1:16 am
100 years ago, Germany’s ‘Einstein of Sex’ began the gay rights movement
Although he never became a household name like Freud, sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld fought to decriminalize homosexuality and improve LGBTQ healthcare
By Matt Lebovic
Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Shlomo Amar speaks at the 15th annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group, on February 12, 2018. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90/ File)
July 24, 2019, 9:24 am
ADL condemns Jerusalem chief rabbi’s ‘hateful comments’ on homosexuals
Jewish organization calls on Shlomo Amar to apologize for saying gay people can’t be religious and that homosexuality ‘can be overcome’ through fearing God
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Shlomo Amar, right, during a seminar in Ashdod,July 19, 2019. (Kan public broadcaster)
July 23, 2019, 1:32 pm
Jerusalem chief rabbi: Gay people cannot be religious, shouldn’t pretend to be
LGBT community fumes after Shlomo Amar tells seminar that homosexuality is a ‘wild lust’ that can be overcome with simple fear of God
By Stuart Winer
Naomi Wolf. (YouTube screenshot)
May 26, 2019, 1:47 pm
Naomi Wolf critiqued for apparent misunderstanding at heart of her new book
Historians say author misinterpreted law and thus made false assessment that dozens of men were executed in Victorian England for sodomy; publisher ‘discussing corrections’
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative photo of a gallows (raw206; iStock by Getty Images)
January 30, 2019, 10:38 am
Iranian man publicly hanged over charges of gay sex, abduction of boys
31-year-old executed in south of country, local citizenry said to ‘express satisfaction’
By ToI Staff
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