{"id":24045,"date":"2013-04-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/24045\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost"},"modified":"2013-04-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T00:00:00","slug":"dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/24045\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\/","title":{"rendered":"Dekweneh Mayor Shuts Down Alleged Gay Club, Ghost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claiming to own Dekweneh is one thing. Shutting down a business in the name of everyone else is another. And forcing people to strip naked to determine their sexuality? That&#8217;s just plain unethical.<\/p>\n<p>  Raising eyebrows of conservatives and liberals everywhere, a video of Dekweneh&#8217;s Mayor explaining just why he felt he had the right to close gay club Ghost went viral yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>  Brazen, rude, and downright homophobic, the mayor used derogatory language befitting of street urchins to refer to the individuals at Ghost, dubbing them \u201cliwat\u201d and \u201cnoss rejel\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/ginosblog.com\/2013\/04\/23\/lgbt-community-in-beirut-targeted-again-this-time-by-homophobic-municipal-chief\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Gino&#8217;s Blog<\/a> takes the initiative to highlight some of the most controversial aspects of the video (though really it&#8217;s <i>all<\/i> controversial), and even translates some of it into English.<\/p>\n<p>  Still, for an elected official to display such unabashed intolerance to the LGBTQ population is unacceptable, degrading, and absolutely humiliating to the people involved. And for him to have some semblance of authority is just plain embarrassing.<\/p>\n<p>  If you&#8217;re aganist such blatant intolerance, raise your voice with like-minded individuals in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/122719804590854\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">event<\/a> happening this afternoon. Because nobody&#8211;regardless of their race, religion, or sexuality&#8211; deserves this kind of treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claiming to own Dekweneh is one thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":452187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","_preview_accessed":0,"_lftp_listicle_injection":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[347],"media-embed-type":[210],"class_list":["post-24045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-trending","media-embed-type-video"],"authorship":[176],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dekweneh Mayor Shuts Down Alleged Gay Club, Ghost<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Claiming to own Dekweneh is one thing.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/24045\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dekweneh Mayor Shuts Down Alleged Gay Club, Ghost\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Claiming to own Dekweneh is one thing.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/24045\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Beirut.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beirutcityguide\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-04-25T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/24045.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"360\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@beirutcityguide\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@beirutcityguide\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/24045\\\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/24045\\\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Dekweneh Mayor Shuts Down Alleged Gay Club, Ghost\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-04-25T00:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/24045\\\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":199,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/24045\\\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/24045.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Trending\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Blog\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/24045\\\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/24045\\\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\\\/\",\"name\":\"Dekweneh Mayor Shuts Down Alleged Gay Club, Ghost\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/24045\\\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/24045\\\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/24045.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-04-25T00:00:00+00:00\",\"description\":\"Claiming to own Dekweneh is one thing.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/24045\\\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/24045\\\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/24045\\\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/24045.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/24045.png\",\"width\":480,\"height\":360},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/24045\\\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Dekweneh Mayor Shuts Down Alleged Gay Club, Ghost\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/\",\"name\":\"Beirut.com\",\"description\":\"Beirut.com is your insider guide to Lebanon, with the best in food, culture, neighborhoods, and everything new. Discover where to go and fall in love with our country.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Beirut.com, SA\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/Beirut.com-Logo-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/Beirut.com-Logo-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1044,\"caption\":\"Beirut.com, SA\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/beirutcityguide\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/beirutcityguide\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Dekweneh Mayor Shuts Down Alleged Gay Club, Ghost","description":"Claiming to own Dekweneh is one thing.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/24045\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Dekweneh Mayor Shuts Down Alleged Gay Club, Ghost","og_description":"Claiming to own Dekweneh is one thing.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/24045\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\/","og_site_name":"Beirut.com","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beirutcityguide","article_published_time":"2013-04-25T00:00:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":480,"height":360,"url":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/24045.png","type":"image\/png"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@beirutcityguide","twitter_site":"@beirutcityguide","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/24045\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/24045\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Dekweneh Mayor Shuts Down Alleged Gay Club, Ghost","datePublished":"2013-04-25T00:00:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/24045\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\/"},"wordCount":199,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/24045\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/24045.png","keywords":["Trending"],"articleSection":["Blog"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/24045\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/24045\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\/","name":"Dekweneh Mayor Shuts Down Alleged Gay Club, Ghost","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/24045\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/24045\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/24045.png","datePublished":"2013-04-25T00:00:00+00:00","description":"Claiming to own Dekweneh is one thing.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/24045\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/24045\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/24045\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/24045.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/24045.png","width":480,"height":360},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/24045\/dekweneh-mayor-shuts-down-alleged-gay-club-ghost\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Dekweneh Mayor Shuts Down Alleged Gay Club, Ghost"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/","name":"Beirut.com","description":"Beirut.com is your insider guide to Lebanon, with the best in food, culture, neighborhoods, and everything new. Discover where to go and fall in love with our country.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/#organization","name":"Beirut.com, SA","url":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Beirut.com-Logo-scaled.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Beirut.com-Logo-scaled.jpg","width":2560,"height":1044,"caption":"Beirut.com, SA"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beirutcityguide","https:\/\/x.com\/beirutcityguide"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24045\/revisions"}],"wp:authorship":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24045"},{"taxonomy":"media-embed-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-embed-type?post=24045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}