2018
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The LGBT Current Situation In Pakistan. Pakistan is a predominantly conservative country with a complicated stance on LGBT rights. Local LGBT individuals continue to face challenges due to a mix of British law and Islamic law present in the country’s Penal Code.
How Gay Is Pakistan?: Directed by Masood Khan. With Mawaan Rizwan. In Pakistan the punishment for being gay is up to ten years in prison or the death penalty. Still the country has a varied and growing gay community, where some fight for equal rights, in defiance of threats of violence.
Mawaan Rizwan asks what life is really like for gay people in Pakistan, where homosexuality is illegal and considered by some as a disease.
Presenter Mawaan Rizwan sets out to discover what life is really like for gay people in Pakistan. Homosexuality is illegal in Pakistan, even considered to be a disease by some.
A documentary which explores the lives of gay people and the challenges they face in Pakistan, a country whose laws explicitly outlaw homosexuality.
Pakistan criminalises same-sex sexual activity between men. Sentences include a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. There is some evidence of the law being enforced in recent years, however LGBT people are regularly subjected to discrimination and violence.
Being gay is illegal in Pakistan. Yet, the country has a growing gay scene. So why are gay rights not being addressed here? In this documentary, Mawaa…
