#lesbian middle eastern

[haykhighland]

I want to write this for all the queer West Asians and North Africans out there as a little hope, something I wish I saw when I was younger.

I came out to my dad when I was 21. To be fair I hadn’t even come out to myself truly until I was 20. I knew I wanted my dad to meet any partner I would have one day, so coming out to him before I was in a relationship was my first step.

He didn’t believe me at first, I told him when he was in the middle of one of his homophobic rants. He just said I would change. One day you’ll change, you’ll want a family. When that didn’t work, and I got into my first relationship with a woman, he would just ignore the fact that I was gay.

I’m 24 now, and my partner and I went to visit him this summer. He met her for the first time, and I was so worried he would say something offensive. But I know my dad, he wouldn’t risk disappointing me in that way.

He spoke with her, he engaged in conversations with her, and at the end of our trip he gave her a hug and a pat on the head.

Ever since we came home, whenever I FaceTime him, he asks about her. And yesterday, he told me he was glad I met someone with a good heart. He said it’s not easy to find people like that.

When I introduced her to my grandmother, she asked her to come closer, she gave her a kiss on the forehead and held her hand. She told us to be kind to one another. I couldn’t help but laugh when she told us to not fight, and then I understood what she actually meant, she was telling us to not physically fight each other. I assured her we would never do that.

My grandmother born in 1935 in a small village in Iran. Who was forced to marry at the age of 12. Who grew up deeply religious, pulled me close and told me to not care what others thought, to care about my happiness first.

My grandmother who prays for the health of me and my girlfriend at the end of every phone call.

I just want to say, that there is hope. When I had originally came out to my grandmother, she told me to never speak of it again. She is now the first person to always ask how my girlfriend is doing whenever we speak.

I know it’s not always safe to come out to our parents. I think many of us can gage whether it is safe to do so or not. I know I am everything to my father, he has always uplifted me, he always gave me freedom to dress how I wanted and to go out with friends whenever I wanted. I knew my father was the “black sheep” of the family (something he was not ashamed of), which helped me know whether it would be safe to come out.

Despite him being homophobic, I knew that if I came out to him, he would be forced to change. That does not mean we did not have painful conversations. He has offended me, but I accepted that this was something I would have to deal with as he came to terms with the fact that his beloved daughter is gay. Meeting my partner changed his perspective even further now.

[ed-recoverry]

Shoutout to all Middle Eastern LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Arab LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Egyptian LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Iranian LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Turk LGBTQ+ folks (if you consider yourself so).

Shoutout to all Persian LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Iraqi LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to Kurd LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Assyrian LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Maronite LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Yemeni LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Aramean LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Qatari LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Bedouin LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Jordanian LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Shabak LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Saudi LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Chaldean LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Kuwaiti LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Palestinian LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Bahraini LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Druze LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Cypriot LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Omani LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Lebanese LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Syrian LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Copt LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Emirati LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Turkoman LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Pakistani LGBTQ+ folks.

Take pride in it all. Your culture, your identity, it’s all so beautiful. Celebrate where you are from and who you are. It makes you you, and that is something to be proud of.

I’m aware some of those of these ethnicities don’t consider themselves Middle Eastern, so take this with a grain of salt and just an opportunity to celebrate who you are :)

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[r4tfromm3rcury]

What if survivalshipping, but women???????????????????????

[aimeekb]

Traversing up the Middle Palisade glacier trail after fresh snowfall❄️

[yourdailyqueer]

Rauda Morcos

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: N/A

Ethnicity: Palestinian

Nationality: Israeli

Occupation: Poet, activist

Note: Set up Aswat, the first Palestinian group dedicated to supporting lesbians.

[blacksapphicguide]

Billie x Christine Jagged Mind (movie)

[horsemeatluvr23]

every time someone draws bdubs white an angel dies

[qbdatabase]

The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher In a Pacific Northwest hospital far from the Rummani family’s ancestral home in Palestine, the heart of a stillborn baby begins to beat and her skin turns a vibrant, permanent cobalt blue. On the same day, the Rummanis’ centuries-old soap factory in Nablus is destroyed in an air strike. View the full summary and rep info on wordpress or check it out for free from the Queer Liberation Library!

[celluloidrainbow]

شرایط | CIRCUMSTANCE (2011) dir. Maryam Keshavarz Atafeh Hakimi is the teenage daughter of a wealthy Iranian family in Tehran. She and her best friend, the orphaned Shireen attend illicit parties and experiment with sex, drinking, and drugs. Atafeh's brother Mehran is a recovering drug addict who becomes increasingly religious and obsessed with Shireen, coinciding with the collapse of his once-strong relationship with his sister. The Hakimi parents, Firouz and Azar, reminisce on their youth and what has become and what will become of their family. (link in title)

[strawberryflavoredsapphic]

In Search of Self: a Study of Queer Arab Women

In the United States Post Migration by Lexi Haddad

[sybile]

his hand on my hand

maybe caressing,

my eyes on the floor, my mouth shut

he orders me to talk

and a whimper escapes through my teeth

"what else is there?"

i say, as words scrape down my throat,

finding their grave

he says that's my problem

is it better to speak or to die?

how many times did i die on his hands?

(how many times did he slash this throat?)

how much blood is there?

[vogelmeister]

honestly getting pissed off because the matildas hype is v high in australia rn and the advertising is like “every little girl’s dream” and sure they may have worded this awfully as in, soccer is obviously not every single girl’s dream but my dad keeps mocking it, as if the whole idea it’s promoting isn’t simply encouraging girls to dream big and chase them because you can do anything. that’s what it stands for. that’s what the matildas literally stand for. and yet my dad here is taking it literally going “oh but what if they don’t wanna play sport”

[womanyellsatcloud]

Wondering when I will reach "hopeless spinster" stage in the eyes of my mother and other overbearing female relatives, so they can stop talking about my future husband.

[yourdailyqueer]

Traci Dinwiddie / Thunderbird Dinwiddie

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 22 December 1973

Ethnicity: Syrian, white, Native American (Cherokee)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

[blacksapphicguide]

The Bold Type (TV series).

2010s TV show | 5 seasons (Cancelled) Fashion, Drama, Comedy, Romance, Politics, Social Commentary.

Plot points:

Career women and challenges they may face

Fashion industry

Dating within the workplace

Ethnic and gender diversity

Feminism

Identity: social and political

Politics

Friendship

Loyalty

Ups and down of life and love

Gun politics

Conversations about abortion, miscarriages, reproductive health and breast cancer

Reconnecting with absent parents

Relationships and conversations about monetary, class and career positional differences

Marriage and divorce

Coming out, discovering sexuality

Conversations about being racially profiled

New York City (NYC)

Multiple queer relationships

Sapphic relationships (joint main)

Black sapphic characters:

Kat Edison [bisexual] (Aisha Dee) Tia Clayton [lesbian] (Alexis Floyd) Chloe Blair [transwoman] (Ianne Fields Stewart) Daniella [lesbian] (Gabrielle Graham)

Connections:

Kat x Adena (interracial sapphic: mixed [black x white] x middle eastern) x Tia (black sapphic) x Ava (interracial sapphic: mixed x white) x Ellie (interracial sapphic: mixed x white) x Daniella (black sapphic) x Gina (interracial sapphics: mixed x white) x Michelle (interracial sapphics: mixed x white)

Sex & Nudity - Moderate

Characters make out: fully clothed and in underwear

Suggestive scenes , preluding offscreen sex

Both heterosexual and homosexual partially explicit sex scenes

Moaning, movements

Heavily implied oral sex

Hookups

Sexts

Sex toy usage

Conversations about sexual health and freedom

Conversations about climbing the corporate ladder through sex

Violence & Gore - None

Profanity - Moderate

Use of the word ‘fuck, shit, crap, hell, etc’.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking - Moderate

Scenes in bars.

Social drinking at both social and networking events

Character gets visibly drunk

Use of a cigarette.

Mentions of being drugged

Frightening & Intense Scenes - None

[destana-min]

A person may know this for himself; he may have the problem of committing a sin that he commits regularly even though he believes that it is haraam and hopes to rid himself of it.

But what is feared for the one who persists in sin without repenting is that it may lead him to a bad end, Allāh forbid, or he may begin to love the sin in which he persists, so that leads him to no longer feel in his heart what he is obliged to believe, which is that it is haraam. So he begins to regard the sin as permissible because he is used to it and loves it.

Hence one of the salaf said: Sin is the harbinger of kufr and there is the fear for the one who persists in sin that if he takes the matter lightly and does it as he does permissible things, without hating it or fearing the consequences, his faith will be rendered invalid.

Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may Allah have mercy on him) said: A man only commits haraam actions because of the weakness of his faith and love; if he does makrooh actions it is because he does not have enough hatred towards it, or because of the strength of the love for it that overwhelmed his heart. No person does any haraam action, such as immoral conduct both obvious and hidden, or sin and transgression, or associates things with Allah for which He has sent down no authority, or speaks about Allah without knowledge, except because of weakness of faith, because of lack of knowledge and belief, or because of the weakness of love and hate. But if his faith is basically sound, which means that he believes in all that Allah sent, then when the believer does these actions, he feels hatred and resentment towards them, and if he does them then it is because his whims and desires overwhelmed him, so when doing them he inevitably hates them and fears Allāh's punishment for them, and he has the hope that he will rid himself of the consequences, either by repenting or by doing good deeds or by being forgiven, and so on. But if he does not hate them and does not fear Allāh with regard to them and does not hope for His mercy, then this is not a believer under any circumstances; rather he is a kaafir or a hypocrite. [Qaa‘idah fi’l-Mahabbah, p. 104]

It was narrated that Abu Hurayrah said: I heard the Messenger of Allāh (blessings and peace of Allāh be upon him) say:

“All of my ummah will be fine except those who commit sin openly, and it is part of committing sin openly for a man to do something at night, then in the morning when his Lord has concealed him he says: O So and so, I did such and such last night, when his Lord had concealed him all night, but in the morning he discloses that which Allāh had concealed for him.”

Narrated by al-Bukhaari (5721) and Muslim (2990).

To sum up: persisting in sin is a major sin, but it does not constitute kufr unless it is accompanied by regarding the action as permissible. Persisting in it does not necessarily indicate that the person regards it as permissible, but it may lead to that.

May Allāh forgive you and have mercy upon you.

Do you think I'm not miserable enough. Why do you have to add onto my pain thinking you're saving me when you're just rubbing salt in my wounds