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‘No Longer Alone’: LGBT Voices from the Middle East, North Africa Videos, Report Highlight Issues of Identity, Activism https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/04/16/no-longer-alone-lgbt-voices-middle-east-north-africa Beirut, April 16, 2018) – Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activists from Arabic-speaking countries in the Middle East and North Africa are defying state-sponsored repression and social stigma, Human Rights Watch and the Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality (AFE) said in a video series issued today, accompanied by a new report by Human Rights Watch. In the 75-page report, “ Audacity in Adversity: LGBT Activism in the Middle East and North Africa ” and video series,  “No Longer Alone,”  activists tell their stories and describe how they are building their movements. To confront myths and counteract the isolation of many LGBT people in the region, Human Rights Watch and AFE teamed up to produce the videos featuring Arabic-speaking LGBT activis...

Comment:  This provides yet another example of how idiotic can a dictator become, instructing his citizens about their private sexual practices and shows how the States can control and suppress bodily rights. We should do the best we can to stop stupid people from reaching power https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/04/16/oral-sex-yoweri-museveni-uganda-president-says-mouths-are-for-eating/ Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni says his people don’t have oral sex The president of Uganda has said that “outsiders” are trying to get people in his country to engage in oral sex. Speaking in public, President Yoweri Museveni said the sexual act was “wrong” and not what the mouth is for.  Museveni has clamped down on LGBT people ever since taking charge of the country more than three decades ago. In 2014, he signed the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Act. he law called for repeat offenders to be sentenced to 14 years in prison and to make it a criminal of...