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'Scary to be queer': Lebanon cracks down on LGBTQ rights / 32DR6NY
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Lebanon's shrinking queer community is battling a fresh crackdown in a country already made inhospitable by an unprecedented financial crisis. "It feels very intimidating and quite scary to be a queer person in Lebanon right now," said activist Tarek Zeidan following a June 24 letter by the interior ministry instructing security forces to clamp down on events "promoting sexual perversion". IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES