{"id":757,"date":"2012-02-08T23:49:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T23:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gay.blogs.cam4.com\/?p=757"},"modified":"2012-02-08T23:49:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T23:49:11","slug":"gays-and-the-libyan-revolution-before-and-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/2012\/02\/gays-and-the-libyan-revolution-before-and-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Gays and the Libyan revolution, before and after"},"content":{"rendered":"

Libya dominated the headlines last year, but the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender population of the country received very little attention internationally.<\/p>\n

I interviewed Khaleed, a 31-year-old LGBT activist about his life in the North African country. In this first part he talks about his life before the overthrow of Muammar el-Gadaffi. Later this week he\u2019ll be speaking about what has changed and what hasn\u2019t since the revolution.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are absolutely no groups, organisations or even individuals in Libya that speak publicly about gay rights, the subject itself is a social and religious taboo. But this doesn\u2019t mean that LGBT people do not exist, on the contrary some people are known and recognised as gay within their communities,\u201d he tells me.<\/p>\n

\u201cLibyan law has a penal code against \u2018men having sex with each other\u2019 which could lead to a 5-years imprisonment [Section 407.4 of the Libyan Constitution]. However, I never heard of publicly documented cases of men being charged under this penal code, and, to my disappointment no efforts were made by any human rights or LGBT rights organisations either to investigate potential cases, nor discuss LGBT rights in Libya.\u201d\u00a0 Read More <\/a><\/p>\n

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