Category: Essays

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  18 Jul 2025

  Silent Struggles: Queer Self-Censorship in Criminalized States

  Nur E Makbul Fortune[1] In many parts of the world, queer individuals face the daily reality of self-censorship as a survival mechanism (Bar-Tal, 2017; Bar‐Tal, 2017; Rentflejsz, 2007). This phenomenon is intensified in countries where legal systems explicitly criminalize LGBTQ expressions (Bar‐Tal, 2017; Rentflejsz, 2007). The idea of this commentary arises from the authors’ own…