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World in Progress: Threats at Beirut's gay pride

Sunniva Rose
May 24, 2017

Last week, Lebanon's capital Beirut hosted the first gay pride festival in the Arab world. However, some of the events of the one-week long festival aimed at ending discrimination against the LGBT community didn't go ahead as planned - some events were canceled after threats by Islamists.

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