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A fatal explosion, a pandemic, and an economic collapse leaves Lebanon's queer community at risk of disappearing.

Lebanon's beleaguered gay pride week was cancelled a couple of days into the celebrations after its organizer was briefly detained, he and his lawyer said Tuesday. Lebanon became the first Arab country to celebrate gay pride last year. In the conservative region, homosexuality is illegal in most countries and punishable under a number of vaguely worded laws that often cite debauchery or public decency, including in Lebanon.

It took him more than two months to prepare, coming up with the concept, assembling his outfit and rehearsing.

Homosexuality is still criminalized in relatively liberal Beirut, Lebanon, just like around the rest of the Arab world. Watch "Christiane Amanpour: Sex & Love Around the World" Saturdays at 10 p.m. ET.