Phoenicia Hotel Beirut launched a Define Love campaign with a short, yet powerful minute long video.
The ad begins by asking what love is, then going on to showing the different types of love; love for food, love between pets and humans, between parent and child and romantic lovers. But one scene in particular caught the attention of many, two girls exchanging flirtatious glances.
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People were elated. A group so underrepresented, with their love being deemed sinful and unnatural is finally not only being recognised, but celebrated.
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But Proud Lebanon Director Bertho Makso said that Beirut Pride - which kicked off in May with an exhibition on gender fluidity in fashion - would go ahead in spite of the Association of Muslim Scholars in Lebanon declaring "war on homosexuality".
Before that, organisers had to cancel a seminar on discrimination against the LGBT community for "security reasons" after Islamists threatened to hold demonstrations outside the event.
The ultra-conservative Salafist group posted what it called "the last warning" on its Facebook page on Sunday, and demanded police ban the conference which it labelled a "crime against virtue".
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