LINK Lebanon joins Pride Month crackdown on LGBTQ community as other Arab nations go rainbow hunting
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Lebanon joins Pride Month crackdown on LGBTQ community as other Arab nations go rainbow hunting
By Ahmed Shawkat
June 29, 2022 / 1:38 PM / CBS News
June, global Pride Month, has seen several Arab nations launch campaigns specifically seeking to find and quash any support for the LGBTQ community. Lebanon was the latest nation to join the crackdown, with Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi issuing a letter a week ago to Lebanese security forces ordering them to break up any events that "promote" homosexuality.
The letter, labelled "very urgent," said that "after the spread of calls on social media to organize parties and events promoting homosexuality in Lebanon… and considering the negative consequences brought by this phenomenon on individuals and society" police and security forces should "take the necessary measures to ban any celebrations, meetings or gatherings aiming to promote this phenomenon and to report the results back."
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