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Previous propaganda claiming to show 'gay' men being punished has depicted men thrown from buildings in the group’s defacto Syrian capital of Raqqa and victims publicly beheaded. IT has been four long years since pop music last wafted through the once bustling, cosmopolitan streets of Raqqa. Manchester-born Michael Enright, who fought against ISIS as a volunteer in the militia which took Raqqa back last week, played the track at full blast on his phone. Streets once crammed with shops selling gold and textiles and restaurants proudly displaying their Google review star-ratings have been wiped from the map.

In , police arrested a group of gay men in Raqqa after obtaining a tape of two men having sex. Security forces extracted names of other gay men under torture, and arrested them as well. When Hussein arrived in , Istanbul was like a breath of freedom - a place where he no longer felt like he was sick or abnormal. Back home, in a town close to Aleppo, Hussein, who has asked DW not to use his full name, could never have imagined that one Valentine's Day he would stand on a stage in a small but packed venue in downtown Istanbul and be coronated "Mr. Gay Syria " with a cheap plastic crown.

The majority of the gay men who have left Syria in recent months have, like Ram, Shadi, and Kenan, fled from the prospect of torture or death at the hands of the extremist groups who are gradually. They kept their cuts and moved on. The hijab, a traditional headscarf, is required in public — and going outside without one is a crime in Idlib, one rarely enforced if only because cases of women challenging the dictate are unknown. Muhammad Abo Zaid, a spokesperson for the conservative Ahrar al-Sham, claimed the powerful militant group doesn't actually support the requirement but hasn't made it an issue because of the delicate politics in opposition-controlled areas.

Still, not even the Islamist rebels, including al-Qaeda’s once-formal affiliate in Syria, enforced Islamist dress — at least for men. That changed when the rebel coalition was forced out of Raqqa a year later by the self-styled Islamic State, the terrorist organization ultimately imposing “Islamic” dress on the city’s , residents. The Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday announced its feature film lineup, which organizers say brings the most selective and focused festival slate to date. The announcement includes 82 of the 98 feature-length films in this year's festival, which will include movies from 28 countries. Thirty-seven filmmakers will make their debuts, and 20 directors retur with new films.