Queer activist/ex-Journo from Pakistan advocating for rights of LGBTQ+ migrants in the US, Progressive & Founder
@OutNewcomers
.Long Live LGBTQ+ Equality.🏳️🌈
Hi everyone, thank u for standing up for my liberation
@DeNovoCenter
,
@AARWboston
,
@BeyondBondBos
& team,my lovely sister
@AradhiyaKhan4
& friends & community. I was held at an ICE detention for 57 days without due process.I demand justice, sign petition!
Most Pakistanis would get a heart attack if they knew that secular Turkey is far more tolerant & accepting of gay culture & activism than their country would ever be.
Modern Turkey has been holding Istanbul pride since 2013 attended by thousands of LGBTQ+ folks & allies.(Cont)
Just had a word with a lesbian from Lahore fearing for her life, I’m shaken by her story. Her girlfriend in Peshawar had been forced into an abusive marriage, the husband rapes her. Both r not allowed to meet, they plan to runaway & if not possible will commit suicide. Need help!
My name Salman & I'm not afraid to make this public that I'm an ex-Muslim and gay. It's not easy for us who have been living under the closet for years about our religion and our sexuality to come out public about it. We've been forced to live our lives in fear, in isolation ...
Absolutely disgusting, you come to a secular country like America and expect to impose your bigoted,tyrannical and hateful belief system and religious ideology/ indoctrination on us all. I despise any politics of respectability, then these (conservative Muslims) cry Islamophobia.
Muslims in Montgomery County protesting against LGBT books in school. The other side appears all white, mostly women.
Selling immigrants on hating liberals would be the easiest thing in the world to do if conservatives had a real interest in winning.
A famous Sindhi artist
#QutubRind
from Jacobabad was killed in Lahore under the blame of
#blasphemy
.
Miscreants in Lahore, broke his legs and arms before throwing him from a building.
Qutub was student of National College of Arts (NCA) Lahore.
@MJibranNasir
@Xadeejournalist
Just wanted to serve my people in
#Pakistan
as a journalist. But unfortunately was being blackmailed by an influential person who’d raped a minor trans girl. I went public with their
#MeToo
& now I face criminal defamation charges only to leave the country to save my life in US.
This is why Sweden should have prioritized LGBT, atheist & other persecuted religious groups for asylum instead of inviting hordes of ungrateful people who protest because their book of fairytales was burned, I know some of my Pakistani LGBT friends who
If you think posting Mohammad’s cartoons is fine but posting content critical/mocking of Jesus,Rabbis & Hindu Gods/Goddesses is NOT then u r free to leave my profile. Blasphemy should be freedom to write,mock,critique & draw of ALL religious figures & scriptures.Fuck them all!
#MianMithoo
is the main culprit behind the
#Ghotki
riots that has destroyed houses, temples & terrorised local Hindu community. He is infamous for forcefully abducting & converting Hindu girls. He should be jailed but he won't b/c the state itself protects him.
#ArrestMianMithoo
@HotSpotHotSpot
People are thinking he really means it. Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist who has written extensively about the Palestinian issues. Here he’s criticizing the Israel’s Zionist rhetoric in his own sarcastic way. Let’s not cherry pick things on X.
A Pakistani gay outed on social media/news channel is living in fear now. He is getting death threats & is even threatened by the country’s draconian blasphemy laws. He is threatened b/c held pro-equality banners at the women’s march. Is there any way to get him out of Pakistan?
Some good news, I’d found a customer support job after a year long unemployment due to my precarious immigration status in the US. It would be my first full-time job in the US and I’m proud of landing it even at this time of Covid19 pandemic. Wish me all the best! ❤️🥰🙏🏽
Normalize leaving of Islam like any other religion & it’s criticism too. No religious dogma that’s steals freedom of women, discriminates against LGBTQ+ folks, persecutes religious minorities & free thinkers deserves to be protected in the name of “religious freedom.”🕊️🏳️🌈🖕🏽💃🏼🏳️⚧️
Trigger warning ⚠️: This video confession of a known pedophilic child rapist Sohail Ayaz has made me quite upset because he claims to be ‘Gay’ & into ‘Boys’. Let me clarify that ‘Gay men’(homosexuals)don’t rape underage boys & post their porn videos on dark web. He’s a pedophile!
One of the hardest part of growing up in one of the most conservative, gender segregated & patriarchal societies in the world of Pakistan has been to embrace my inner femininity, Proud of openly embracing my genderfluid queer side now and my inner drag queen ‘Miss Chilly Masala’
.
@anj3llyfish
&
@sufisun7
are not Indian political activists, they're Desi American artists & they’ve the right & freedom to talk about whatever they want. I know hundreds of LGBTQ+ Indian activists & many have spoken out against NRC & CAA (I’ve also as an exile gay activist from
@shaTIRED
People are thinking he really means it. Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist who has written extensively about the Palestinian issues. Here he’s criticizing the Israel’s Zionist rhetoric with a bit of irony. Let’s not cherry pick things on X.
I was raised around such views too in the Islamic republic of Pakistan, one can just post something in support of the LGBTQ+ community or Jewish people in an Islamic country & you can see the incredible hatred that exists against these persecuted groups in the Muslim world.(Cont)
As a Muslim I was raised to believe that Muslims are superior to nonMuslims, that women are subordinate to men, that Jews are apes and pigs, and that gay ppl are immoral and deserve to be killed.
I will spend my life speaking against those teachings that inflict harm on humanity
Hell yeaaaaah, I’m a honorary
#Satanist
now, ‘Hail Satan!’ 😈🤘🏽😈
Proud to have met with
@LucienGreaves
, spokesman and co-founder of
@satanic_temple_
at
@MIT
, who together with his nontheistic religious group is campaigning against Christian privilege,
#LGBT
discrimination,
activists there.
Same-sex sexual activity was legalized in the Ottoman Empire in 1858 with many sultans known to have engaged in homosexual affairs, and in today’s
#Turkey
, homosexual activity has always been a legal act since the day it was founded on 29 October 1923.
Pakistani diaspora does not really care much about what goes and happens in Pakistan, similarly a lot of them tend to be bigoted racists who hate poor, struggling Black and Brown folks just for existing.Their only sense of self identity is that they are Muslim & are oppressed af!
This is what transwomen or Khwaja serai community is facing in Pakistan right now. An abhorrent & vicious campaign against them launched by Islamo-fascists inspired by Western white supremacist fascists. Historically transgender were respected but now hated by those who don’t
This is a humble appeal to LGBTQI+ folks around the world and to our allies in every corner: can you please help feed and house one a Pakistani trans man refugee by the name of Honey who’s now living a life of utter destitute and poverty in Nepal (Cont)
Modern Turkey has been holding Istanbul pride since 2013 attended by thousands of LGBTQ+ community folks & allies. In an attempt to ban them Turkey’s Islamist premier Erdogan on multiple occasions had placed a ban on gay pride which were defied by bravely by the brave LGBTQ+
@coverofmagazine
Yeah right I’m in the US but still my existence as a Pakistani queer person brings earthquakes for my lovely people back home. Love this logic, I wonder why hasn’t Allah destroyed Canada or Netherlands yet, they legalized the gay marriage first lol!
There are many openly gay academics, writers, journalists & activists in
#Turkey
nothing that can be compared to the worst situation we see in the Islamic Republic of
#Pakistan
. They even have gay bars and gay literature sold at their bookstores.
Let us be inspired by a modern Turkey & its brave LGBTQ+ activists, who are fighting for their rights against all odds,not a fictionalized Netlfix character like Ertuğrul who is no relevance or significance to us Pakistanis to move ahead for a more progressive & inclusive future.
What about queer kids in Muslim communities, is this world even aware of the trauma, the harassment and the discrimination we face throughout our lives. Disgusting to see these privileged American Muslim bigots protesting & using the pretext of “religious freedom” to discriminate
I’m an ex-Muslim & a progressive leftist, people like
@YasMohammedxx
don’t represent us all. We as LGBTQ+ ex-Muslims are not leaving Islamist conservatism to appease the White supremacist conservatives. It appalls me to see her transphobic tweets,
@monaeltahawy
is not a sellout!
Back from when she was
@confessionsexmu
, till now,
@YasMohammedxx
has epitomized the ex-Muslims who sell out to right wing racists. I know ex-Muslims who have NOT allied with trash and she does them a massive disservice.
For the first time in years and that too at great personal risk I will be making this public that a well known transgender activist and model Kami Sid from Karachi is a child molester, sexual harasser and rapist...
Turkish LGBTQ+ activists are under attack from the Erdogan regime as they face government crackdown on, NGOs & pride parades, harassment, and court cases but despite these odds, many stays defiant and are fighting their fascist regime head-on. ()
Some of us have been warning the
@pid_gov
for years & now this has gone out of hand. Can PM
@ImranKhanPTI
take time out & declare Great Indian Bustard a protected species that needs to be saved at all cost, there are only 200 left in the world. Arrest this poacher now too!
An elite “social sciences” professor of LUMS instead of poking fun at Zoology professors at public sector university for organizing an event on Snakes 🐍 should appreciate that such an event is even taking place in Pakistan,where around 60 species of snakes exist but as a country
It's not “Islamophobic” to criticize Islamic homophobia & highlight the plight of the LGBTQ+ community persecuted & oppressed in the Muslim majority world by Islamists. Kudos to
@Geemme
for highlighting the plight of LGBTQ+ folks living in danger of even existing in Muslim world.
I’m trying my best to help a Pakistani queer asylum seeker living in Manchester,UK with his asylum case & trust me he’s situation is not good. He has to pay £4,000 to his solicitor which cannot afford.He gets no benefits, he is not even allowed to work more than 20 hours a week.
Can I end this nonsense now. Asylum seekers don’t arrive here and claim benefits or get keys to Social Housing.
They have no recourse to public funds until their asylum application is granted, which often takes years.
They live on about £37 per week.
#LGBT
rights is human rights, freedom to choose & leave your religion is a basic human rights too unfortunately simply doesn't exist where I come from and if we even speak out about our existence we are threatened with consequences, labelled as foreign agents and worst...
@pogbhai
That Pakistani
#LGBTQ
+ community exists, you cannot erase us queer, transgender & nonbinary folks just by thinking that we don’t exist. We do & we have been existing even before the creation of
#Pakistan
. We are very much part of the sociocultural & spiritual fabric of the land.
even attacked and killed. I've lost all my extended family, school & university friends for my rebellious views, been bullied, received curses and death threats that never ceased to go away.
We're some of the bravest people on Earth, the Muslim orthodoxy is still not ready....
So if you’re a Muslim and a dancing gay man offends your fragile ego, go get yourself checked for the better. One cannot claim constant oppression and victimization ‘Islamophobia’ if they’re (Muslims) who want to kill anyone who’s gay. This is beyond sad!
under persecution from our families, friends, society and state especially for me coming from a highly conservative
#Muslim
majority society like the Islamic republic of
#Pakistan
, where both being openly gay and leaving
#Islam
are both criminalized by law.
Cruelest punishment that exists in the Islamic republic of Pakistan is to be born a “non-Muslim”, I was raised with Muslim privilege there but I dared to speak out & shed it away for that I was threatened, bullied & forced to be an exile. Religious minorities live a cruel life.
Correction: Istanbul Pride is a gay pride march & LGBT demonstration held annually in
#Turkey
's biggest city, Istanbul. The event first took place in 2003, not 2013. It occurs each year on either the last Sunday of June or the first Sunday of July.
"The security establishment is trying to push a certain narrative on the Pakistani public ahead of the July 25 elections," by
@GulBukhari
#PakElections2018
At times, I feel almost like breaking down in tears ... I did today & was quite depressed of how my life’s been turn upside down. I wish I was never so open about myself, I wish I’d a normal life. I wish I’d a community, I’d friends & loved ones but no one they all left me for...
Islamic republic of Pakistan being one of the worst ones and yes you might not hear it in popular news media but hate crimes, discriminatory attitudes and even violence all are very common & go unreported against gay folks. Forcing gay men to marry women is a crime in itself too.
What about the Islamist oppression we religious minorities,LGBT & women face...who will speak about us? ...where I’m from in Islamic republic of Pakistan there is the draconian blasphemy law that targets Christians,Ahmadis & anyone who’s deemed a “heretic”. What about our rights?
Bats 🦇 are not spreading coronavirus,they must be protected by law across the world. In Pakistan, there are around 50 species of bats. Many bat species are vital for our healthy ecosystem,they spread fruit seeds in forests & eat pests that harm our crops save them not fear them.
I’m assisting him as much as I can but I’ve limited resources. He has gone underground too. He is getting death threats from his university fellows & is scared to go for exams next week. He has also quit his job. Shame on those people who are threatening him, he feels unsafe.
Some of us are fleeing for our lives too, but never mind the “economic migrants” will brain drain their countries & make our queer lives in the West a living hell too.Some call me “selfish” for seeking a safer life. Let me ask you what has my former country ever given me, what?
Remarkable images of resilience, emotions & protests can be seen today in Worcester, Massachusetts (US), where hundreds of protestors were on the streets protesting against rising police brutality, racism & white supremacy.The rally was led by the police chief.
#BlackLivesMatter
Just spend an hour comforting a weeping mother who’s afraid that her gay son could be killed after being outed on national TV/ social media, like how messed up could Islamic republic of
#Pakistan
be. Also the gay man is afraid he could be imprisoned, tortured or worst killed!
So being gay is equivalent to being a rapist or an adulterer according to the Islamic cleric here. What’s next we are to be blamed for global hunger and rising cost of living too? . It’s 2023 & your hatred is not going to stop us from getting our rights and freedom. 💅🏽🏳️🌈💃🏼🙏🏽❤️
Because you want your sin to be accepted as a normal act. Others don't make such demands. Have you ever seen an adulterer demanding respect in the society? Have you ever seen rapists demanding rights?
So long as you call a spade a spade, the world has no problem with you.
@adnanactor
@priyankachopra
Pakistanis have always been hating Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy
@SOCFilms
& her work,why cannot she be a South Asian for a bit. She’s not only Pakistani, she’s Canadian too. So should she flaunt around her Canadian nationality too. Only when someone gets famous in the West u like them.
It’s disgusting to see these American born Muslim & how much hate they have against LGBTQ+ Americans,many stood up against the Muslim ban of Trump only to be thrown under the bus by these hateful bigots. American Muslims need to stop playing victim & start reforming themselves.
The queer & trans community of Pakistan definitely owns the
#MeraJismMeriMarzi
(My body, my choice) slogan too, as sexual & gender minorities we are equally oppressed in this hyper conservative & patriarchal society of ours just like our women counterparts. (Cont)
This
#InternationalApostasyDay
, let us remember the apostates & LGBT folks being hunted down, forced to commit suicide & killed by religious fanatics. Let us demand justice for all the apostates & LGBT folks who are forced to conform against their will.
#HandsUpForApostasyDay
I’m queer, my sibling
@AradhiyaKhan4
is a transwomen.She’s my friend, my mentor too.I’m grateful to the transgender community of Pakistan for being the force of change that made me accept myself for who I’m. Transgender people deserve all the love in the world. 🏳️⚧️
#LGBWithoutTheT
**Trigger warning***
This cruel landlord from Southern Punjab,
#Pakistan
(close to Indian border) had just killed one of the world's rarest, largest and heaviest bird alive and yes they're found in Pakistan.
Less than 200/ 300 Great Indian Bustards (GIB) exist today
Nisha Rao, Pakistan's first eunuch lawyer, After begging for ten years, he set out on a journey of advocacy and has so far dealt with more than 50 cases of eunuchs and others.
What you’ve seen is the truth, conservative Pakistani muslim men are filled with hate, this is what their religion teaches.
Imagine how much uproar religious conservatives anywhere would get in the civilized world if they would’ve been caught throwing stones & sticks injuring..
@BBCAfrica
What a sad country, I feel sorry for Nigeria & call it the “Pakistan of Africa”. They love their blasphemy law, the same way Pakistanis do. They persecute/ hate & despise gay folks the same way we do & also they were until 3 years ago one of the few countries with poliovirus.
To most people’s surprise yes the transgender communities have been such an integral part of South Asian culture that they have their own entire language. A language that I can speak. It’s not written, it’s mostly oral & has become a secret queer/trans language in
#Pakistan
.
Did you know, Hijras have their own words for currency denominations? Dasola is 10, adhi vadvi is 50 and vadvi is 100. But there's more. In fact, an entire language, which you are not supposed to know about.
This is the story of Hijra Farsi, South Asia's secret language. (1/16)
This is how the White working class Americans r fooled by their masters.Minorities r scapegoated for all issues.The divide & conquer formula is widely used to enslave & control the masses just by petting them against one another through lies spread for electoral gains in America.
Don’t don’t don’t ever weaponize our (LGBT+) plight to justify your evil genocide. Queer movement has always been about the liberation of the oppressed from its oppressor. Read more about Stonewall riots 1969, also Israel isn’t a heaven on earth for LGBTQ+ folks. No it’s not!
These r the messages I get from gay men in Pakistan,who fear for their lives&live under constant surveillance of their families&society.Imagine living in a country of 220 million & there’s no mention that gays exist & what lives we live.I wish I could help but I’m helpless myself
-Moussa Marega, who is from
#Mali
and plays for
#Portuguese
team Porto walked off after being racially abused during his side’s 2-1 win over Vitoria de Guimarães on Sunday
3. The ENTIRE 2 TEAMS should’ve walked off with him, NOT tried to restrain him
despite applying for asylum had to suffer, while hiding their LGBT identity and forced to live in conservative Muslim majority neighborhoods. These riots are insane, the Swedish far-right are scumbags I don’t support them and I stand for the rights of migrants who shouldn’t be
The blasphemy prosecution of
#JunaidHameed
has sentenced him to death. This is the travesty of the justice system in
#Pakistan
, where a Fulbright scholar & professor at Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan was languishing behind bars for six years on false blasphemy charges
@TheMahiraKhan
@PTIofficial
Brave
@TheMahiraKhan
pleads for mercy for
#JunaidHafeez
, who has been sentenced to death for posting blasphemous content on social media. You’ve really been my favorite actress & now you’ve done what most celebrities don’t even dare think of, you’re incredible beyond words! ❤️
I’m deeply honored to announce that I’ve been voted and chosen to be part of the
#Massachusetts
Commission on LGBTQ Youth
@MassLGBTQyouth
& would serve the term from 2020-2021.
The push for
#LGBTQ
equality 🏳️🌈 continues, thank you Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth
International media is reporting brutal murder of Asia Bibi’s brother in law, his body was found with his throat slit out. Why is the Pakistani media silent about this? ...
@ShireenMazari1
/
@ImranKhanPTI
should take notice of this gruesome murder.
Just saw Salam - the First ****** Nobel Laureate on
@netflix
with a heavy heart, it just breaks my heart to see someone who was a scientific genius like Dr Abdus Salam belittled by a religiously zealous state of Pakistan simply because he belonged to a different sect of Islam.
@WaqasAalam
Entitled brats will never really acknowledge the privilege they've been born with and they aren't sorry about it too, tell her what's the percentage of kids who really can afford O/A levels & who have daddies running businesses also who pays her uni fee, one can't pay by tuitions
To be queer & to side with a genocidal fascist regime is an oxymoronic act in itself.Queer people have a long history of opposing systemic violence, discrimination & injustices of all sorts. It’s just painful to see some of our own siding with a ruthless aggressor.Not cool!🏳️🌈🙏🏽🇵🇸
Thank you so much for the love & support,
@YasMohammedxx
... this is what we need to embrace each other & our marginalized existence more. We must unite against all forms of societal oppression & violence, whether they be against queer, women or racial/ religious minorities etc
@ImGreenGuru
I hope your sacrifice today will pave the way for more queer Muslims/Pakistanis to be open & proud of who they are. Each person on that road will have it easier than the person before them. And you can always feel a sense of pride that you helped to pave that road xx
Imagine being British Pakistani & queer but still struggling to find acceptance,love & tolerance from ur own toxic community in the year 2023. Kudos to
@Shehzada_Aamir_
&
@ladybushraOG
for bringing visibility to British Pakistani/South Asian queer community & their issues.🏳️🌈🙏🏽❤️
Absolutely honoured to be part of
@Channel4
’s ‘Love Against The Odds’ with my husband
@ladybushraOG
. Thank you for allowing us to be so open and vulnerable. The most incredible project we have ever worked on 🙏🏽😭❤️🏳️🌈
Full video on YouTube:
being queer. It’s never easy to live your truth, our people are such that they will make your life miserable for as long as you can remember. Even if you leave them forever, it is hard to overcome the rejection you’d experience from your own.
Mate I'm gay & we exist, you & your walnut size brain cannot deny us our right to exist. So grow up & stop saying that homosexuality is incest because it's not. You know what is incest, half of
#Pakistan
who is in one way or another married to their cousins. FYI we reproduce too
@LunaticEuphoric
@NicoAngelochxh
how about incest with consent? it wont be wrong either, right? i mean it's completely normal if you are not reproducing and are doing it with consent? no harm done anyway.
Honored & Elated to be invited by
@ImranKhanPTI
with other YouTubers, Digital Media personnel from across Pakistan. It is inspiring,motivating & informative to listen the PM in person.Naya Pak will remain a collective effort. We will IA all do our part.
Vlog coming soon on my YTC
to accept its illiberal, tyrannical and corrupt ways that denies adults with conscience living in the Islamic societies and beyond their right to love whoever they want, leave and choose whatever religion or no religion they want. We need more reform of Islam, more progressive ..
@areybhaiii
So happy for you, my Pakistani mother knows I’m gay and she loves me the way I’m. She loves my trans sister too
@AradhiyaKhan4
, it was just the cruel and homophobic state and society of ours that forced me out otherwise I would have not left her! 😢😢😢