Editing Lebanon (section)

==== LGBT rights ====
{{Main|LGBTQ rights in Lebanon}}

Male homosexuality is illegal in Lebanon.<ref>{{cite news |title=The countries where homosexuality is still illegal |url=https://www.theweek.co.uk/96298/the-countries-where-homosexuality-is-still-illegal |work=The Week |date=12 June 2019 |access-date=22 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191128203653/https://www.theweek.co.uk/96298/the-countries-where-homosexuality-is-still-illegal |archive-date=28 November 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Discrimination against [[LGBTQ rights in Lebanon|LGBTQ people]] in Lebanon is widespread.<ref>{{cite news |title=Lebanon: No Justification for LGBT Crackdown |url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/02/11/lebanon-no-justification-lgbt-crackdown |work=Human Rights Watch |date=11 February 2019 |access-date=15 August 2019 |archive-date=6 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506001010/https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/02/11/lebanon-no-justification-lgbt-crackdown |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=1 April 2019 |title=Human rights group urges Lebanon to abolish anti-LGBT law |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/human-rights-group-urges-lebanon-to-abolish-anti-lgbt-law |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414054835/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/human-rights-group-urges-lebanon-to-abolish-anti-lgbt-law |archive-date=14 April 2021 |access-date=15 August 2019 |work=PBS}}</ref> According to 2019 survey by the Pew Research Center, 85% of Lebanese respondents believe that [[homosexuality]] should not be accepted by society.<ref name="pew2020">{{Citation|date=6 September 2020|title=The Global Divide on Homosexuality Persists|url=https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/06/25/global-divide-on-homosexuality-persists/|access-date=3 October 2021|archive-date=1 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701105248/https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/06/25/global-divide-on-homosexuality-persists/|url-status=live}}</ref>

A gender and sexuality conference, held annually in Lebanon, since 2013, was moved abroad in 2019 after a religious group on Facebook called for the organizers' arrest and the cancellation of the conference for "inciting immorality." General Security Forces shut down the 2018 conference and indefinitely denied non-Lebanese LGBT activists who attended the conference permission to re-enter the country.<ref>{{Cite web |date=4 August 2021 |title="Clean the Streets of Faggots" |url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/08/04/clean-streets-faggots |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220425122215/https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/08/04/clean-streets-faggots |archive-date=25 April 2022 |access-date=25 April 2022 |website=Human Rights Watch}}</ref>