The program will celebrate its second anniversary with an event Saturday. He said he created Tarab - a series of parties, beach gatherings and other events for LGBT Arabs and Middle Easterners in New York City - because the community needed to be organized.
“I was craving community because there was this idea that I could only be one identity at a time,” said Tarab creator Bashar Makhay, who is Chaldean-Iraqi, American, Catholic and gay.
