“Living as a Queer person in Gaza is punishable by torture and death by Hamas, the rulers of Gaza” the campaign notes.
A new campaign launched a website to raise awareness about the Hamas terrorist movement’s lethal actions targeting the persecuted LGBTQ+ community in the Gaza Strip.
The Equality Campaign Inc. created a website called “Queer in Gaza” that states “Learn the Facts about Hamas’ treatment of LGBT Palestinians.”
The website declares “Living as a Queer person in Gaza is punishable by torture and death by Hamas, the rulers of Gaza” and “There is no transgender population in Gaza because any trans person who lives openly will be hunted down by Hamas.”
The former acting director of US National Intelligence, Richard Grenell, who was the first openly gay member of a presidential cabinet during the Trump presidency, told The Jerusalem Post that “It’s shameful for the gay community in America to ignore the reality of what gays in the Middle East face. The Chelsea and WeHo crowd is too damn selfish to understand what other people are dealing with.”
Chelsea refers to the neighborhood of Manhattan that has a large LGBTQ+ population and WeHo is an abbreviation for West Hollywood. Grenell launched the first global campaign to end the death penalty targeting gays in Muslim-majority countries such as Iran and other repressive nations.
