LGBTQ Lebanese under attack as activists decry eroding freedoms

Lebanon’s LGBTQ community has been reeling from months of snowballing hostility, as activists in one of the Middle East’s more liberal countries worry about deteriorating personal and political freedoms. Rights advocates and LGBTQ community members told AFP they have been harassed and even received death threats in recent months as controversy has raged over everything […]

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