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Helem is a community-based organization. This means that we exist for you and because of you.

Helem is also a volunteer-based organization. We owe our success and continued work to all the wonderful people who give their time, skills, and effort to keep us up and running. If you would like to volunteer some of your time to Helem and become involved in our work and activities, please contact us at our community center (01-745 092) or by email at lgbtq-centre@helem.net.

All our members and volunteers retain the right to confidentiality and anonymity. We would love to hear from you!

This book has been a long time coming. Enough invisibility, enough denial.

Homophobia is something that permeates every aspect of our lives, sometimes in ways too subtle to detect, and other times with overt violence.

"Homophobia: Views and Positions" ((رهاب المثلية: مواقف وشهادات is a book that breaks the silence around this social ill, claiming loudly that it is not homosexuals that are deviant and in need of treatment, but homophobes themselves.

This book is the first of its kind in Arabic in the region, but we certainly hope it won't be the last. Bringing together some of Lebanon's most gifted writers as well as a host of local intellectuals and activists, Homophobia is a book that challenges and sparks much needed debate in our societies about the violence that gays, lesbians, and bisexuals face
and the silence that protects and condones it.