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governor.swill@gmail.com wrote:
Queers are mentally ill.
Dozens of people were detained in central Istanbul after city
authorities banned an LGBTQ Pride march, organizers said Sunday.
Turkey’s largest city has banned the march since 2015, but large
crowds nonetheless gather every year to mark the end of Pride
Month. Organizers called the ban unlawful.
“We do not give up, we are not afraid! We will continue our
activities in safe places and online,” the Istanbul LGBTI+ Pride
Week Committee said on Twitter.
Kaos GL, a prominent LGBTQ group, said shortly before the
march’s 5 p.m. (1400 GMT) start that police detained 52 people
had been detained. The Pride Week Committee later said more than
100 had been arrested.
There was no immediate word on the number of arrests from the
police or the governor’s office.
Images on social media showed people being frisked and loaded
onto buses, including at least one news photographer.
Journalists’ union DISK Basin-Is said “many” were beaten by
police.
Local residents banged pots and pans from their windows and
balconies in a show of support for the marchers as a police
helicopter circled overhead.
Metal fences and lines of riot officers cordoned off streets
around Taksim Square and Istiklal Avenue in the Beyoglu
district, the heart of the city’s shopping and tourism sectors,
as well as a traditional gathering point for protesters.
Metro services around Taksim Square were shut down for hours
ahead of the march.
Turkey previously was one of the few Muslim-majority countries
to allow Pride marches. The first was held in 2003, the year
after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party came to power.
In recent years, the government has adopted a harsh approach to
public events by groups that do not represent its religiously
conservative views. Large numbers of arrests and the use of tear
gas and plastic pellets by police have accompanied Pride events.
Counter-demonstrations by nationalists and Islamists, who claim
the LGBTQ community is a danger to “Turkish values,” have also
threatened marchers.
https://nypost.com/2022/06/26/dozens-arrested-in-istanbul-as- lgbtq-marchers-try-to-defy-pride-ban/
Halt homosexuality. Put them in prisons and let them watch each
other die of gay diseases.
Make it a mandatory real TV series.
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