I just sent this in a message to my good friend Alex in Boulder, think you'll all enjoy!
"Today we just had a guy come in and talk to us about Homosexuality in Jordan. He is the senior editor or senior business person of Jordan's first gay magazine: http://mykali.weebly.com/about-mykali.html He said that a couple of his friends and him back in High School decided that they would make a magazine about their lives and coming out as gay and this would kind of be the way that they would come out to their parents and families and society etc. well the magazine was leaked before they wanted to let it out (don't remember how) and their parents basically found out that they were gay because of the news. This guy who talked to us was on the cover of the first edition of the magazine and every time the news talked about anything gay his cover picture was front and center. This was the first time in Jordan that general society acknowledged that there were homosexual people living "among them", and this was just 2007. I asked him what would he like the future to be for the gay community in Amman, and he said that he just wants them to stop being so promiscuous haha. He said that in Amman, people need the marriage certificate to feel that they are truly committed to someone for life, and once they get that certificate they'll fight harder to keep that marriage going. But since the gay community can't get married, they just sleep around and dump each other and stab each other in the back left and right He said he really doesn't care if the government allows them to get married, he just wants more commitment. Also he said that the religious community hasn't said anything, so opposite of america! he thinks it's because the religious community already has mainstream the media backing their negative feelings."
"Today we just had a guy come in and talk to us about Homosexuality in Jordan. He is the senior editor or senior business person of Jordan's first gay magazine: http://mykali.weebly.com/about-mykali.html He said that a couple of his friends and him back in High School decided that they would make a magazine about their lives and coming out as gay and this would kind of be the way that they would come out to their parents and families and society etc. well the magazine was leaked before they wanted to let it out (don't remember how) and their parents basically found out that they were gay because of the news. This guy who talked to us was on the cover of the first edition of the magazine and every time the news talked about anything gay his cover picture was front and center. This was the first time in Jordan that general society acknowledged that there were homosexual people living "among them", and this was just 2007. I asked him what would he like the future to be for the gay community in Amman, and he said that he just wants them to stop being so promiscuous haha. He said that in Amman, people need the marriage certificate to feel that they are truly committed to someone for life, and once they get that certificate they'll fight harder to keep that marriage going. But since the gay community can't get married, they just sleep around and dump each other and stab each other in the back left and right He said he really doesn't care if the government allows them to get married, he just wants more commitment. Also he said that the religious community hasn't said anything, so opposite of america! he thinks it's because the religious community already has mainstream the media backing their negative feelings."
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