LGBTQ communities facing new repression in Middle East | Middle East | News and analysis of events in the Arab world | DW

Iraq wants to criminalize homosexuality, Saudi Arabia has targeted rainbow flags, and Egypt insists on a gender binary. Activists say new threats to LGBTQ communities are based on wrong ideas about tradition.

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