BEIRUT, Lebanon Lebanese police has launched a sting operation targeting gay men across the country making dozens of arrest.
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NGO urges state to enforce anal test ban
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Tammam Salam has yet to respond to a letter he received earlier this month from a sexual health organization urging him to put an end to unethical “anal tests” and other discriminatory measures used on those suspected of being homosexual, which is illegal under Lebanese law.
Homosexuality is not an illness, Lebanese scientists decide
Homosexuality is not an illness and cannot be ‘cured’, two leading Lebanese mental health organizations have agreed in a landmark ruling. The Lebanese Psychiatric Society (LPS) and the Lebanese Psychological Association (LPA) declared that gay people could not be treated as it was not abnormal, the first time scientific organizations had made such statements in the Arab world.
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Anti-Gay Lebanon: 27 Arrests in Raid on Turkish Bath
Lebanon’s national police and security force raided a Turkish bath in the Hamra-Concord
section of Beirut on Aug. 9 and arrested 27 men.
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