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LGBTQI concerns
21-5-2018
In its continuous reporting of LGBT news and activities, L’Orient Le Jour addressed the issue during the closing evening of the LGBT exhibition ’Letters of Love to Gay and Transgender People’ (c.f: https://bit.ly/2IRFUGG). One passionate activist, Nayla, said she feels her femininity despite her birth as a boy, lamenting that her mother forced her to cut her hair out of denial of her effeminacy. Similarly, Dina, 29 years, born in the US, told L’Orient Le Jour reporter that she discovered her attraction to other women, a fact that was completely rejected by her family who decided to move her to a stricter school which exacerbated the situation further. The mother finally suggested sending her daughter to Lebanon where she eventually joined pro-LGBT activists. The event organizer, Dima Matta, explained that advocating women’s rights is inseparable from advocating LGBTQI rights, as both come under the big umbrella of human rights. She said she did not expect such a wide participation, especially after the suspension of Beirut Pride week 2018, stressing more work should be done to this end. (L’Orient Le Jour, May 19, 2018)
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