“I was living a nightmare,” Fuad al-Essa said. “It broke my heart that I was scared to death to talk to my parents about my identity. It broke my heart that my parents were the ones I was most afraid of.”
GAZIANTEP, Turkey — A Syrian father of a gay man says he hopes his son will burn in hell. A woman says her once-loving father now wants her dead. And the day one young Syrian told his parents he was gay was the last time he spoke to anyone in his family.Syrians have lost their homeland, livelihoods and often hope itself
According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, more than 5.6 million people have fled Syria since 2011 to escape the bloody civil war. “They will say — don’t talk about it, you are fine. Just don’t talk about it,” she said on the phone from Lebanon. “I am hearing from men and women who are really suffocating in Syria and they really need to get out, but there is no way out,” she said.According to Abo Abdulrahman al-Ansari, a conservative imam and member of the Shariah council in the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib, homosexuality is strictly forbidden.
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