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Awareness campaign against LGBTs stereotypes
9-11-2018
With the support of Agnes Varis Trust’s Funds, LeBMASH launched yesterday an awareness campaign under the title “HINAD”. The aim is to change stereotypes about homosexuality and explain the health conditions associated with it. In this context, LeBMASH president, Shadi Ibrahim, underlined the two main objectives of the campaign which are: first, emphasize the fact that homosexuality is not a disease and hence, no longer classified as one for more than 40 years; second, highlight the many attempts to change sexual tendencies of LGBTs in the absence of any scientific explanation because they are detrimental and harmful to health. Ibrahim clarified that the idea of the campaign came after a study prepared in 2015 by the Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality (AFE) which showed that 72% of Lebanese considered homosexuality as a mental disorder and 79% a hormonal disease (c.f: https://bit.ly/2PJgIpp). For Her part, the head of the Lebanese Psychological Association (LPA), Emmy Karam, stressed the need to support LGPT persons and their families, calling for planning awareness interventions in schools and universities, where many LGPT people are being bullied. (L’Orient Le Jour, November 9, 2018)
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