Written: 8/3/2012
I’m Lebanese, and proud of that heritage. I love the food (or at least most of it), and I like to be able to add my heritage into conversations about racial intolerance and catch people off guard. And even though I have the physical look of my German grandfather, I sear I am a quarter Lebanese.
Anyway, the country is a weird contradiction. Beirut has become a sort of attraction spot for the LGBT community offering a lot of gay clubs. But sadly, like many other countries, it is still not entirely safe for the LGBT community.
Three dozen men were arrested from a gay cinema, and then forcibly probed and then made to pay for the invasion.
It’s sad to see, even though we’ve made a lot of progress in so many areas (oftentimes in the form of two steps forward, one step back), it is still a shame to see these kind of actions anywhere in the world.
All my best,
The King of Spades
