The Lesbian Fate in the Arab World

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Work is another difficult area for lesbians in the Middle East. It goes almost without saying that any young woman who is not engaged or married will receive amorous attention from her boss. Giving him the brush-off by declaring a preference for women is a non-starter. ‘We don’t employ lesbians here,’ Laila was informed by one boss shortly before she walked out of her job. She had left several other office jobs for similar reasons. Kimball, Geoffrey (1993-12-06). "Aztec Homosexuality:: The Textual Evidence". Journal of Homosexuality. 26 (1): 11. doi: 10.1300/J082v26n01_02. ISSN 0091-8369. PMID 8113605. Dover, Kenneth James (1978). Greek Homosexuality. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p.182. ISBN 978-0-7156-1111-1. In the fifth century CE, women at the White Monastery in Upper Egypt sometimes pursued same-sex relationships. A letter from Shenoute chastises two women, ⲧⲁⲏⲥⲉ, Taêse and ⲧⲥⲁⲛⲥⲛⲱ, Tsansnô, for running after each other "in friendship and physical desire". [15] :304 This phrase referred to homosexual advances, which were not uncommon. [16] It is unknown if the corporal punishment Shenoute prescribed for the women was administered. [15] :324 Early imperial China [ edit ]

Meskipun konten film dan musik yang mengangkat tema lesbian Arab masih terbatas, tetapi ada beberapa karya yang berhasil menarik perhatian. Beberapa film seperti “I Exist” dan “A Secret Love” mengisahkan kisah cinta kaum lesbian Arab. Sedangkan dalam musik, ada beberapa artis seperti Mashrou’ Leila dan Aziz Maraka yang berani mengangkat tema LGBT dalam karya-karya mereka. Lesbian Arab di Luar Negeri Bennett, Judith M. (2000). " "Lesbian-like" and the Social History of Lesbianisms". Journal of the History of Sexuality. 9 (1): 3.It is quite clear that paiderastia and lesbianism were not held in equally good light, possibly because of the violation of strict gender roles. Seneca the Elder mentions a husband who killed his wife and her female lover and implies that their crime was worse than that of adultery between a male and female. [ citation needed] Elaine Fantham; Helene P. Foley; Natalie Kampen; Sarah B. Pomeroy; H. Alan Shapiro (1994). Women in the classical world: image and text. New York: Oxford University Press. p.165. ISBN 0-19-506727-4. OCLC 27265657. Loveland, Barry, and Malinda Triller Doran. "Out of the Closet and Into the Archives: A Partnership Model for Community-Based Collection and Preservation of LGBTQ History." Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 83, no. 3 (2016): 418-24.

Kimball, Geoffrey (1993-12-06). "Aztec Homosexuality:: The Textual Evidence". Journal of Homosexuality. 26 (1): 17. doi: 10.1300/J082v26n01_02. ISSN 0091-8369. PMID 8113605. Bennett, Judith M. (2000). " "Lesbian-like" and the Social History of Lesbianisms". Journal of the History of Sexuality. 9 (1): 18–19. Stol, Marten (2016). Women in the Ancient Near East. Walter de Gruyter. p.76. ISBN 978-1-61451-323-0.

Torra, Michael Jose (Summer 1998). "Gay Rights after the Iron Curtain". The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs. Medford, Massachusetts: The Fletcher School at Tufts University. 22 (2): 73–88. ISSN 1046-1868. JSTOR 45289040. OCLC 8897849563. Archived from the original on 13 January 2022 . Retrieved 14 June 2022. These attitudes are reflected in modern Arabic novels, where gay men are almost always portrayed negatively. Very few novels feature lesbian characters, and those that do are mostly by feminist writers who portray lesbian sex as a reaction to the inadequacies of men or a temporary alternative to straight sex. a b Keene, Donald (1989). "A Neglected Chapter. Courtly Fiction of the Kamakura Period". Monumenta Nipponica. 44 (1): 1–30. doi: 10.2307/2384696. ISSN 0027-0741. JSTOR 2384696. However, an Italian surgeon, William of Bologna, attributed lesbianism to a "growth emanating from the mouth of the womb and appearing outside the vagina as a pseudopenis." [70] Arab world [ edit ] Bhishagratna, Kaviraj Kunja Lal (1911). An English Translation of the Sushruta Samhita in Three Volumes. Vol.II. Calcutta: Self-published. p.132.