Tag: Syria

Bassil marched alongside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Toronto Pride In a new digital short for the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), director Nimisha Mukerji provided a space for queer Syrian refugee Bassil to tell his incredible story of survival. Awake & Dreaming opens on Bassil asking the audience to let him tell them “about a place where Muslims and Christians lived together as neighbors, where women could get an education…where you could feel safe inside your home.” “Now imagine that place...

‘To love whoever you want is worth the struggle!’ A group of guerrilla fighters in ISIS-ravaged Raqqa, Syria have posted a message of support to Stockholm Pride. The festival takes place in the Swedish capital this weekend. The photo and message was posted on the Facebook page ‘The Women’s Revolution in Rojava’. The page represents Kurdish women fighting against ISIS/Daesh in in the Rojava region of Syria. TQILA and IRPGF The image follows social media postings last week by The Queer Insurrection and...

The International Revolutionary People’s Guerrilla Forces (IRPGF), which describes itself as “a militant armed self-organized and horizontal collective working to defend social revolutions around the world, to directly confront capital and the state, and advance the cause of anarchism,” raised the LGBTQ Pride flag in Raqqa, Syria, according to a tweet posted on Monday. https://twitter.com/IRPGF/status/889445690656608256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.towleroad.com%2F2017%2F07%2Frainbow-flag-syria%2F Tweeted the group with a photo of group members holding up the rainbow flag and a flag of an assault rifle: “These Faggots Kill Fascists! We shoot...

A gay Syrian man has been found decapitated after being kidnapped and raped in Istanbul, local media has reported. The victim, Wisam Sankari, a Syrian refugee in Istanbul, was so badly mutilated that his friends had to identify him by the trousers he was wearing. According to various local news sources , Sankari left his home on 23 July and was found dead on 25 July. Another report names the date he was found dead as Sunday 31 July. Found in Yenikapi,...

The situation of Syrian refugees has become even more critical after the terrorist attack in Paris. And the LGBT community in Syria is going through a real ordeal. News of gay men executed in horrible ways by the Islamic State have gone viral. Neil Grungras, the executive director of the Organization for Refuge, Asylum & Migration described the horrific situation of the LGBT community in Syria. "Our people are being thrown off buildings and they're stoned to death." "You couldn't get...