What does hamas do to gay people
An analysis of recent facts in Palestine indicates a widespread and severe resistance to LGBTQ+ rights, a situation that is deeply troubling to human rights advocates.
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Same-sex marriage in Palestine
?Same-sex marriage in Palestine is unrecognized.
Right to change legal gender in Palestine
?Right to change legal gender in Palestine is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Palestine
?Gender-affirming care in Palestine is restricted.
While gender affirming healthcare is provided in Israel, the oppressive laws restricting movement for Palestinians inhibits their ability to access such in the occupied territories.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Palestine
?Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Palestine is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Palestine
?LGBT discrimination in Palestine is illegal in some contexts.
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Last updated: 17 December 2024
Types of criminalisation
- Criminalises LGBT people
- Criminalises sexual activity between males
Summary
Same-sex sexual activity is prohibited in Gaza under the British Mandate Criminal Code Ordinance 1936. The relevant provision carries a maximum penalty of ten years’ imprisonment. Only men are criminalised under this law.
The law was inherited from the British. It continues to be in operation in Gaza today, though it is not in force elsewhere in Palestine.
There is little evidence of the law being enforced, and it appears to be largely obsolete in practice. However, an incident in 2017 saw an author being threatened with prosecution for writing a novel which included LGBT themes. There do not appear to be any other reports of enforcement of the criminalising statute or other laws. Nevertheless, the mere existence of this provision is itself a violation of human rights and underpins further acts of discrimination (see further).
Law and Leg
Atshan, Sa’ed. "2. Global Solidarity and the Politics of Pinkwashing". Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique, Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2020, pp. 71-111. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503612402-005
Atshan, S. (2020). 2. Global Solidarity and the Politics of Pinkwashing. In Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (pp. 71-111). Redwood City: Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503612402-005
Atshan, S. 2020. 2. Global Solidarity and the Politics of Pinkwashing. Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, pp. 71-111. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503612402-005
Atshan, Sa’ed. "2. Global Solidarity and the Politics of Pinkwashing" In Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique, 71-111. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503612402-005
Atshan S. 2. Global Solidarity and the Politics of Pinkwashing. In: Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique. Redwood City: Stanford University Press; 2020. p.71-111. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503612402-005
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Источник: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.15LGBT Network President David Kilmnick’s Op-Ed: The abandonment of Israel by LGBT groups is hypocritical and cruel
(JTA) — For more than 30 years, I possess stood on the frontlines and been an outspoken chief for LGBT people and families. I have been called every name in the book, my life has been threatened because of my being homosexual, the police insisted on installing a panic button in my house because of these threats. But that hasn’t stopped the organizing work that I continue to undertake to bring guard and peace to the LGBT community.
And yet, there’s been times when I’m at LGBT events, where the shelter that should be a given instantly dissipates because I am Jewish as well. There are unfortunately countless examples, but one that I will never forget is the protest that occurred at the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Creating Change conference I attended in Chicago in 2016. The protest was organized by pro-Palestinian activists who accused A Wider Bridge, a Jewish LGBTQ organization, of “pinkwashing” Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.
As I was getting off the escalator to go to a reception hosted by A Wider Bridge, which featured members of Jerusalem Open House, a gay righ
‘No pride in occupation’: gay Palestinians on ‘pink-washing’ in Gaza conflict
When Daoud, a veteran queer activist, recently walked past rainbow flags hung for Pride month in the old port city of Jaffa, a historic centre of Palestinian culture, he was overcome by a wave of revulsion.
The most famous symbol of LGBTQ+ liberation has been so co-opted by the Israeli state that to a gay Palestinian like him it now serves only as a reminder of the horror unfolding just 60 miles south.
Last November, Israel’s government posted two images from Gaza on its social media account. One shows Israeli soldier Yoav Atzmoni, in battle fatigues, in front of buildings reduced to rubble by Israeli airstrikes. He holds a rainbow flag with a hand-scrawled message: “In the name of love”.
In the second he poses beside a tank, grinning as he displays an Israeli flag with rainbow borders. “The first ever Celebration flag raised in Gaza,” the caption for both images reads.
At the moment, Israeli attacks had killed more than 10,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including more than 4,000 children, according to Gazan health ministry figures. The toll has now risen to over 37,000, and more than a million people are on