Man detained in mental hospital after trying to set up Pakistan’s first gay club
Man detained in mental hospital after trying to set up Pakistan’s first gay club
Leaked application prompts fury among residents and politicians as gay sex remains illegal in country
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I’m not saying his overall intent was a bad one. But if you try something like that, in a country like Pakistan, you do kinda deserve to be in a mental hospital. I understand trying to spread acceptance and provide a safe place to go for those not accepted by the local society at large, but maybe there are better, even slightly more accepting places where this kind of idea would pan out. I feel like this is equivalent to opening a dispensary in Thailand.
Honestly, better being committed to a hospital where he can't be killed by a mob.
I'm all for fighting for human rights, but you have to fight. Just hoping for the best is never going to end well.
Opening the club was the fight. Because all the reason the commenter above you said.
He maybe should've known that it wouldn't work, but does he 'deserve' to be in a mental hospital? Absolutely not.
Lemmy: protest groups have every right to block ambulances in the English-speaking world. If people die they die.
Also Lemmy: we have to respect the homophobia of Islam because Christopher Hitchens supported the Iraq War 21 years ago.
What's wrong with a dispensary in Thailand?
Thailand and really most of Asia from my understand, has beyond zero tolerance for cannabis.
Thailand decriminalized Cannabis use in 2022. They've tightened the rules here and there a bit, but it's the Mecca of Cannabis in Asia basically.
It will possibly be recriminalized by the end of the year.
Every Thai I know says that they don't think it's going to happen, it is leverage so the National Government can collect more taxes. "Ok we won't ban you but you got to start paying more"
But hey that is just armchair speculation and this is a thread about Pakistan
Thailand has cannabis freaken everywhere a tourist might possibly be. I don't know it if is possible to walk in a straight line for ten minutes in Pattya, Chaing Mai, or Bangkok without seeing cannabis for sale. And that is just official places, the stuff really grows like a wild weed there so tiny stores random stores will have the tea version for sale.
The first queer people here got fired from their jobs and left largely destitute. They were the ones that started the first gay societies and the first protests in front of the White House. Throughout the decades, many were fired, arrested, or died from poor health or deaths of despair.
Someone always has to take the first step.
I recommend reading The lavender scare, it's extremely relevant right now, and I had to keep checking the copyright date because the same shit is happening the same way it happened in the 50s.