‘Unreal experience’: How the Beirut explosion has impacted the LGBTQ community

Lebanese drag queen Andrea shares their experience of the Beirut blast and how members of the LGBTQ community have been displaced.

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37 comments

    1. redngolden non-whites whining about the disenfranchisement of other freaks? You actually expected them to notice that they are insane? If so, you might want to seek help too.

    2. This tragedy is not only about LGBT. There are thousands affected by this why bring up LGBT?

      Attention what they want.

  1. I watched the entire video and still have no idea how the explosion has “impacted the LGBTQ community”. Shows how ridiculous this is and furthermore how terrible the reporting from this station was and frankly usually is.

    1. Creating false narratives about minorities in distress is all that they do now. They only care about what brings in views. They don’t seem to care about actually reporting the news.

    1. It’s past borderline because it is insulting and having a bandage on his baby finger is definitely not a severe injury, so sad this is what we’re being shown about the suffering this tragedy has caused and will continue to cause

    1. patriarchy is to blame almost all was men in the building , we men we always do somethin bad as if we cannot stop doing bad

  2. Explosion happens!
    Here’s how this one specific group is affected. The rest don’t get coverage, because they’re not part of this specific group. The rest don’t even get a gofundme, because they’re not part of this specific group.
    P.S Maybe you should focus on the fact they live in a country where LGBT are imprisoned for their sexuality, that seems like a bigger issue for them.

  3. Why the frig does anyone care how it affects the LGBTQ community. How about, how has it simply affected the country

    1. Because the difference is they don’t have support from family or programs in Lebanon because they are LGBT. Try and pay attention before you comment moron.

  4. Of course what really matters is how the LGPTQ community is doing. Like that matters and not all the other lives lost.

    1. we men we provoke all the badness in the world and then we blame other for it lol

  5. Every time a news story backfires, it’s immediately removed from the YouTube News recommendations to mute the public outrage.

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