#lesbians for marwan

[emocowboylover00]

Important please share and reblog

Loser hawks ,dabi support

[therenegadesexualmystic]

So we all agree that Yusuf Al-Kaysani is the most beautiful man in the world, yes? (Followed closely by Luca Marinelli and Marwan Kanzari in some order, maybe a tie depending on hair & face scruff).

[starsisbig]

once the old guard manages to weaponize joes doe-eyes it’s all over, babes

[niccolos]

Marwan Kenzari interviewed for Romeo and Juliet on April 9, 2009

[killerchickadee]

I just think he’s neat.

[inej-qhafa]

Marwan Kenzari's roles based on how much I like his hair

So I was inspired by this post by @distractionapple after watching like 80% of Marwan’s films. His hair doesn’t change anywhere near as much as Luca’s, but in some of his films, his look is questionable™.

Joe / Yusuf al-Kaysani, The Old Guard    11/10

His hair here is just beautiful. Thank God Luca convinced Gina to keep his curls because he looks so much better with them. 10/10 for the hair alone. The beard also looks good, especially compared to the atrocities that some of his past roles have been.  Bonus point for the scenes when he's wearing a cap.

Emre Ogan, The Promise    6/10

Look, I don’t know what they thought they were doing with his facial hair, but it’s not the worst it’s ever been (we’ll get to that later). I enjoy the way his hair is styled here, but I do miss his natural curls. Basically 1/10 for whatever that moustache is meant to be but a comfortable 8/10 for his hair.

Adrian Knowles, What Happened to Monday    -10/10

You know when I said the worst facial hair ever? Yeah, this is it. It’s like they looked at him and said “how could we make him look super creepy” and decided the best way was to *partially* shave his beard. The dodgy moustache was bad enough, but the sideburns? Just no. His slicked back hair wasn’t the one either, even though it looked much better near the end when it came free. On its own, I’d give his hair a good 3/10, but the beard lets him down. A lot.

Ashraf Marwan, The Angel    8/10

Okay he looks so young in this film. He may be about 35 in this movie but he looks like he’s 25, purely because he has no facial hair. Most of his roles have some kind of beard, so clean-shaven Marwan is an outlier, and I like it. His hair is also pretty good, though of course without his curls, he loses a couple of points. Overall, pretty good decisions from hair and makeup here.

Jafar, Aladdin    3/10

I don’t know why hair and makeup decided to do this to him, but it is a tragedy. I think he spends most of the film with his head covered (idk I haven’t seen it and I don’t intend to) but even this brief shot I found is too much. I appreciate the beard, but the short hair does him no favours. Whoever watched this before The Old Guard must appreciate the upgrade. 5/10 for the beard, 1/10 for the hair.

Daan, Hartenstraat    9/10

His hair is just great here. Any role that lets him keep his curls automatically gets extra points from me. And I love that you can see his dimples, which is like the only downside to his beard. Not quite as good as in The Old Guard, but a close second. I haven’t seen this movie because I can’t find it with English subtitles, but from every gifset I’ve seen, his hair looks great the whole way through.

Rico, Bloedlink    5/10

Now, this film may be a complete mess, but hair and makeup didn’t fuck up completely. They didn’t shave Marwan’s head, but having said that, his hair isn’t great either. This is probably the longest his hair has been in film, so I wish we could have seen it down. He does spend about half of the film wearing a balaclava though.

Idris, Instinct    -1000/10

Ending at rock bottom. Whatever this is, I DON’T WANT IT. He looks nothing like any of his other roles and there’s a good reason for that. The only positive thing I can say about it is at least they gave him some reasonable stubble. I haven’t seen this film, and I don’t plan on ever changing that. Sorry Marwan.

[moonlightperseus]

and i wish the black adam casting directors a very good night

[kizzys]

lgbtq meme -> gay/lesbian characters [15/15]

yusuf al-kaysani - "you’re a child. an infant. your mocking is thus infantile. he’s not my boyfriend. this man is more to me than you can dream. he’s the moon when i’m lost in darkness and warmth when i shiver in cold. his kiss still thrills me, even after a millennia. his heart overflows with the kindness of which this world is not worthy of. i love this man beyond measure and reason. he’s not my boyfriend. he’s all and he’s more.”

[eternalporcelaindoll]

Marwan Kenzari is for me the definition of “If I was into men I would choose that one”

[raskolni-kin]

tog rewatch for mental support after like, 3 months: my thoughts

the way andy hugged nicky at the beginning makes me think that somehow nicky is andy’s favorite kid, like the so freaking stubborn one you have to babysit but end up caring about the most lol

so nicky and joe were found in time to meet quynh? im kinda dumb with timeline but i think the dark ages and witch-hunting thing was after the crusades?

gay-lesbian solidarity time, sounds peaceful😔

the coordination when they fight together (esp. that one smooth shot with nile > nicky > joe)… beautiful. gorgeous. very aesthetically pleasing.

i rewatched every scene with joe and nicky (van scene, malta scene, head bonk scene, nicky getting shot in the head scene) for like probably at least 5 times each

yall on tumblr makes me analyze everything lol

why is this depressed rat man booker seems to get hotter with every rewatch

love how calm joe was when he killed keane, like yes dad you go dad do it for papà nicky

the sao paolo’34 entering got me every time. dramatic gay entrance… i can relate to that

i need more of joe and nicky bonding moment with nile. nicky seems so kind to nile i love their small moments together

poor booker at the end when he realized he would never see andy again ;(( or would he???

the wall scene at the end… crying. i love them

so quynh probably force booker to help her fine andy and the rest in 2 old 2 guard and ooh imagine what will happen when quynh find out that andy’s already lost her immortality

choo choo angst train mf

how many crusades did joe and nicky fight in? (in fact… how many crusades are there lol i didn’t pay attention in history class and now i regret it more than ever) how many centuries did it take before they realized that if a rivalry lasts longer than seven years then you are no longer just rivals you are GAY

yeah i need to make that meme but with joe and nicky

joseph jones… nicky smith…….

nicky was in the states during early 60s (with martin luther king jr) what if he and joe were in stonewall riot a few years later as well?

(even tho i think they were probably in vietnam at the time lol)

anyway i love all the characters and the casts and gina so much thanks for mental support

anyway.2 luca is so freaking angelic, one of the best looking yt men (and i rarely find yt men attractive) so PERIODT

marwan gives the best hug i know it just look at him… what a sweet man *insert 10k 🥺 emojis*

have u ever looked at someone’s eyes and suddenly fell in love? yeah me too nicky

joe/marwan’s eyes are just… *insert another 10k 🥺🥺🥺 emojis*

i still insist on wanting to be adopted by joe and nicky

[therenegadesexualmystic]

I suppose it was just a matter of time before I had a sex dream about Marwan Kenzari (yes Luca is gorgeous but I only have room in my lust hole for one white man at a time and that position is currently filled by Sebastian Stan who has provided me the best dream sex I’ve had ever).

Unfortunately it was after looking at a series of gifs from the movie where he’s some kind of criminal with a mohawk so it was more like a nightmare.

[harpers-tartarus]

do you have any sexualities for specific characters in bfi?

Specifically? not really?

I mean:

Diane Thomas is a lesbian

Quinn is genderqueer in a relationship with a woman

Marwan is gay

Hope is likely a sex-positive ace

George is demisexual

But there's a lot of characters that I don't know what specific sexuality they are, just that they are in same sex relationships in the fic

Though, I will say that I think its utterly hilarious that I specifically wrote Hope's mentor as a genderqueer poc when Harry's was an old white man lol

[starsisbig]

[niccolos]

if i liked men i know for certain i would want to kiss marwan kenzari on the mouth

[southeastasianists]

Carolyn* can never get out of her head the memory of her parents bringing her to conversion therapy. The transwoman from South Sulawesi was 13 then, and society expected her to identify as male in accordance with her biological sex at birth.

“Deep inside, I kept telling myself that I’m not sick, that I’m okay,” she recalled.

Carolyn experienced ruqyah firsthand, a form of conversion therapy imbued with Islamic exorcism that is common among Muslim communities in Indonesia. Carolyn’s parents explained away her feminine expression as the work of a malevolent female demon.

At the time, the teenager did not fully grasp the situation she was in. She agreed to go along with her parents’ wishes due to her deeply embedded fear of sin.

Carolyn was taken before the local cleric, who prayed to expel the female demon in her body. The cleric also asked her parents to leave her with him for a few days so she could undergo several rituals.

“But at that time, I refused. I wanted to go home and didn’t want to be there. I was fine, I cried and said to my mom, ‘Mom, I want to go home, I’m fine,’” she said.

After begging her mother, Carolyn’s mother finally agreed to send her home on one condition: she had to stop expressing feminine traits and stop hanging out with her female friends. Carolyn repressed her feminine expression for several years after that day.

“To be honest, I felt very tortured. I felt very tortured mentally,” Carolyn confessed.

Carolyn said she placed a lot of pressure on herself over the years. She never felt that she was a man. She was always more comfortable expressing herself as a woman. In the final year of high school, Carolyn decided to stop lying to herself and her family. She ran away from home and learned to become a hairdresser at a salon that accepted her gender expression.

In the early days of Carolyn’s emancipation journey, her past and concerns over her identity continued to haunt her. Not a day went by that she didn’t fear persecution, socializing with others, fully expressing herself, all the while saddened by the irreparable burned bridge with her family.

Even now, at the age of 32, Carolyn is still traumatized by her conversion therapy experience. She gets easily triggered by watching religious TV shows or films that feature ruqyah scenes.

But ultimately she believes that she made the right choice, because nothing can take away her freedom to fully express herself as a woman and her achievement of becoming a fully functioning adult in a society that generally does not tolerate her people.

“I also feel comfortable and feel very relieved that in the end, I can accept myself as a transwoman. I feel like I have found myself. This is me, I am a transwoman,” she stresses.

In contrast to Carolyn, Sofia*, a lesbian living in the capital, was encouraged by her family to undergo ruqyah when she was old enough. By that time, she was mature enough to make her own decisions; and so she ran away from them.

“At that time, I was 25 years old and I was studying for my master’s degree. My position was quite privileged, right?” Sofia said.

Living in Jakarta, Sofia was more exposed to open discussions on the issues of gender and sexuality. When her mother asked her to go to therapy, Sofia was already certain about her sexual orientation. Furthermore, she had been involved in the advocacy for gender and sexuality issues.

“So I think there was nothing to lose at that time, and my identity is the core of my life,” she said.

However, Sofia’s refusal for therapy did not sit well with her family. She said they still pressured her “recover” to the point that they used violence against her.

“But I didn’t want to. I insisted because they already know me as a lesbian, so why do I have to back off?” she said.

Sofia believes that her knowledge of diversity in gender expression and sexual orientation was one of the biggest sources of courage that emboldened her to emancipate. If LGBTQ+ people are exposed to the same knowledge, Sofia said, they will be able to accept their identities and acknowledge that they’re not the problem — homophobia and conversion therapy are.

“We must fight together to convince the world that being gay is okay. You need to learn about yourself. You’re not sick. It’s society that’s sick,” she added.

Ika*, a transwoman from North Sumatra, experienced conversion therapy when she was 13, 17, and 18. The methods that she went through were quite diverse, ranging from ruqyah, to burial rituals, admission to Islamic boarding schools, and goat sacrifice.

None of them worked. And she said she had to live with the constant pressure from her parents to get rid of her feminine expression, which, according to them, was also the work of a demon.

“What should be removed from my body? Because according to their assessment, there is an evil spirit who made me like this,” Ika said.

“In my opinion, conversion therapy is bullshit.”

Ika now works for an NGO advocating to end HIV discrimination and stigma suffered by trans communities.

‘Individual will’

Conversion therapy is not a new phenomenon in Indonesia, but the matter was hotly discussed recently when several Indonesian queer activists, including Lini Zurlia and Kai Mata, received targeted ads on social media encouraging them to undergo conversion therapy.

“It feels like I was targeted by a group of people. It made me upset, especially because this is very sensitive regarding LGBTQ+ rights in Indonesia,” Kai Mata said.

“What I think the government should do is to make it illegal. I also think that LGBT people in Indonesia deserve the right to live in this country without fear.”

Attempts to contact the conversion therapy service through the ad failed as of the time of this article’s publication. Another conversion therapy center in Jakarta, which claims to use hypnotherapy as one of its “healing” methods, did not come across like it has a vendetta against LGBTQ+ people despite providing the harmful service.

“When does sexual orientation become a problem? It happens when the values that are taught ​​[by people’s environment and family] are different from their sexual orientation,” therapist Adrianto Darma Setiawan said.

Adrianto claims to have treated around 2,500 patients in the last 12 years. About 20 percent of these patients are (or were, if he succeeded) gay, lesbian, or bisexual. The standard therapy to “heal” sexual orientation consists of about about five to six hypnotherapy sessions lasting around three hours per session.

Adrianto said that some of his patients underwent therapy out of their own accord, but most were there due to encouragement or pressure from relatives. The therapist did not say how many of his patients he managed to convert, but said that “recovery” depends on the will of the individual.

The government’s failure

Imam Nahei, a commissioner at the National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan), said that LGBTQ + groups in Indonesia still have a long way to receive adequate protections from the government. For as long as homophobia prevails in Indonesia, conversion therapy will remain as one of the most harmful and real threats that haunts people from minority sexual groups in Indonesia.

Nahei said that conversion therapy is an obvious human rights violation, yet the state, which should be responsible for protecting all of the country’s citizens, has not done anything to protect LGBTQ+ people from the practice.

“The state has not done anything because, in Indonesia, this issue is still very controversial as it is associated with dominant religious views,” Nahei said.

There’s little hope for progress in this regard when homosexuality and alternate forms of sexual expression are still seen as a deviation or a disorder by the country’s lawmakers, such as House of Representatives (DPR) Commission VIII Deputy Chairman Marwan Dasopang.

Marwan supports the existence of conversion therapy in Indonesia. Not only that, he wants DPR to eventually pass legislation allowing the state to provide the service to the public. If conversion therapy was normalized, he argued, patients would not experience extreme psychological trauma, such as from being forced to “recover” by their parents.

“It needs to be regulated,” Marwan said, adding that discussion on the regulation of conversion therapy are still in their infancy.

Indonesian policy makers, and even psychiatrists, have long gone against the scientific fact that homosexuality and other sexual identities are not a disease or disorder. Their stance have emboldened homophobia, which, in turn, has fostered the continued existence of conversion therapy.

Riska Carolina, director of Advocacy and Public Policy from the Support Group and Resource Center on Sexuality Studies at the University of Indonesia (SGRC UI), said among the many forms of conversion therapy in Indonesia, most are performed with ruqyah. Others who aren’t forced to go the conversion therapy route are still made to see shrinks who practice with heavy religious influence, hypnotherapists, or admitted to religious boarding schools.

“[Conversion therapy] is a threat to the LGBTQ+ community. It is persecution to the LGBTQ+ community. It violates their basic human rights. LGBTQ+ people are not a disease,” she stresses.

Riska believes that regulating conversion therapy would violate the minority groups’ rights even more than they have suffered. Even if the therapy is carried out based on patients’ willingness, Riska argued that it still validates the idea that LGBTQ+ people have mental disorders.

“Conversion therapy must be banned. It is more necessary to provide protection, even though I know that protection is still a long way off. So I prefer that, at least, [the government] treats us equally and gives us affirmative action,” she said.

“I’m ashamed to know that Indonesia is very late in terms of acceptance and it’s already 2021. You don’t need to like LGBT people, but you also don’t need to discriminate against us, especially to the level of torture. What you do with conversion therapy is torturous.”

*Carolyn, Sofia, and Ika’s real names have been omitted, at their request, to protect their identity.

[wickedpact]

let’s be Real here could we HANDLE marwan in a period drama... (yes! yes we could! but like. it would be A Lot. and i’m a lesbian.) - 2ta

but god. i would love to have a flashback to regency era with the tog crew........ - 2ta 

WE WOULDNT BE ABLE TO HANDLE IT BUT ITS WHAT WE DESERVE