Showing posts with label hate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hate. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

MBC Hits again with "List of Shame"

Homophobia on MBC TV

Written by: Subhi Nahhas


MBC (Cairo), one of the biggest Arabic media channels chains. Hits against LGBTQ people again, with its recent homophobic campaign. Previously, the media coverage for LGBTQ news and reporting them with demeaning and hateful language. Now, using Hollywood stars who came out and describing them and their coming out with degrading language.

The media agency published an article on 15th of September under the title of "List of Shame: Hollywood stars that revealed their {abnormal sexuality}". the writer started by, "their announcements came as a hit/shock to all their fans around the world, they are Hollywood stars who came out with their abnormal sexuality". Later, he lists eight names including: Ricky Martin, Cameron Diaz, Jodi Foster, and Daniel Radcliffe. Describing all their sexuality and behaviors as abnormal and not complying with the laws of nature.


You can view and read, if you are an Arabic reader, the article from here

Update: the article was removed from the media channel website.

Friday, February 1, 2013

Scream love, Scream death.


Scream love, Scream death.



Hush, human child!
No one knows your secret.
No one cares who you are.
Don’t try to hide what you hold;
I see the glass shard in your hand
And the paint it made upon your skin.
The screaming redness - your eyes…
All flowers, chaos and pain
Flourishing from guilt
You never asked for.

All the bridges you burned
Never lightened but engulfed
The existence of good self…
Don’t throw yourself to the wolves
The ideas they may plant inside,
The shame they may stitch upon your ceiling
Will grant you fear forever
Drag you down
The road of depression
Decorated with statues of daemons and angels…
Consuming, hurting, deceiving you.

Hush, human child!
This pain you feel
Hidden so well
Throughout your soul’s garden
Fences of bones, benches of hurt
Nothingness is buffering in the stream
Clear boards of glass branching from
Trees of questionable breeds…
Faking your smile, hey, your sadness told
The redecoration in your mind
And the hell-like stings of reality
Making it all not worthy being here
In this mad fabric – all lines combined
Wanting to be torn apart…
All colors and skins – transparent threads
No place for us in this world’s bed…
We are a cursed dread.

Hush, my child!
Just call my name out
Go crazy, shout, shout…
It is a cruel fractured underneath
Leaking out, to reach a sinner like me
I am holding you – all alone
Heart of a child…
Storms of lights…
Cold blackness illuminating
From your eyes
My poetry of nerves…
Shape shifting tears over your flesh
To wash the worst moan.

I am just a stone,
You are the sun that feeds
Come to me, slowly, slowly…
Let us breed “Night”
Give birth to a nocturnal melody
And then die…
For love never comes young
And death takes unborn lusts…
No language to explain it – only dust.
Curse me forbidden love
All stars illuminate thin
Coloring his blooded skin
Damned if I saved him;
Damned if I did not…
Just say my name child
We shall never be afraid again
Crazy, shout, shout
And say my name;

One last time; in this life…

Written by: Subhi Nahas.

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Unlock My Body.


Unlock my body



It’s me and you
Paying the toll
For present untold…
A cigarette to smoke
A fog to hold…
Your body, uncertain to me
I smell like you;
Your scent calms me.
I breathe you heavily
Your “OH” upon my neck
Ah, stop breathing, and hold me
Even if reversed, I don’t care
Since your lips upon mine…
My thoughts are chaotic and
You are kissing my hand
All shyness, my mind wants more
But my body says: “STOP”…
Please “heart” aid my cause
I want him, I want to
Kiss him back, but I can’t
My body is locked, and
I think; I am sinking down
Inside his naked chest
Of green and gold…
I feel so safe
You feel too warm
I spoke with you about
Things I never dare to
Speak before
With you I am nameless
You can call me anything you want
Call me a love song
Call me any color
Or your peaceful melody…
I am giving in to you
Deliver me to your realms…
Where may you
Unlock my body with
Whispers, soft sad melodies,
And gifts of your heart of flowers.

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Children of the Light...


Children of the Light


In hostile areas it is very hard for you to be honest with yourself, especially; if you have a different feelings, visions, and needs… in hostile areas your skin is what you wear, not who you are; but no matter how hard you try to hide it; it is going to come out…
Even through a fabric of a community welling to condemn you if you are different somehow.
In the leaks of social moralities we find ourselves to be not defined; but denied, and without any doubt “defied”…
They say we are: sick, dishonor, and plague of nature; most of us must be shot! When I hear them echoing their Amen, I wonder “are we butterflies in hiding? Or daemons like they say we are?
All I know is we are not different species, we didn’t come from different wombs, yet still we are accused of being a shame, a weakness, and a liability. Is it the fear of the unknown or hatred plain and simple?
As children of the light; we feel amnesiac in the heavens you designed for yourselves, and denied us from… but we are marching through, we are “you” (friends, lovers, fathers, and mothers); yet you can’t hear our inner screams, your hostility made you think “minority”; and chocked us with tears coal-like, putting thorns inside our painted with love eyes.
In a status where we are a frozen stars; you have left us, but in higher planes of awareness, there will be a place for our dreams to collide with reality. No place for definitions’ paradoxes, swapping of faces, and suicides left “reason unknown”; we are children of the light, and we are the heirs of the shameless flames you are burning our souls with…
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...The Arabic version was published in barra magazine