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Behind the Aegis

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11. Now, I am even angrier!
Mon Jul 1, 2024, 02:43 PM
Jul 2024
'It just makes me feel home': LGBTQ2S+ newcomers celebrate first Pride in Canada

When Zhya Aramiy was living in Turkey and Iraq, he had to keep his Pride flags hidden away.

Aramiy, who identifies as gay, fled from Iraq at the age of 27 after facing threats, physical violence and ostracization from his family because of his sexuality.

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"As an LGBT person in Uganda, you don’t have the freedom to really express your feelings,” Bisaso said. He added he feared he would lose his life, citing the country's enactment last year of an anti-gay law that allows the death penalty.

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Nugent said she faced discrimination in Jamaica as a queer woman. As an activist there, Nugent said she was once arrested after challenging “a culture that is very homophobic and queerphobic.”

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These people (above), and others, are who those SELFISH, TERROIST-SUPPORTING fucksticks ruined what should have been a celebration, liberation.

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