Iraq: The War Against Sexual Minorities Continues.
By Dan
Littauer, GME Editor, and
Iraqi LGBT - 2.8.2010 -
Exclusive
You don’t even need to be gay or lesbian in Iraq to be in mortal
danger from the Iraqi Police force. The latter have been mounting
an aggressive campaign against anyone who is merely, by rumour,
suspected to be gay or lesbian.
The Iraqi Lgbt
network of activists inside Iraq have collected new and alarming
reports of attacks on the LGBT communities during the month of July.
Since June
there have been consistent raids on... Full Story
Beirut is
launched as a LGBT destination with the first ever gay
familiarization tour of Lebanon!
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28.7.2010
GME News
San
Francisco, Barcelona, Sydney, and … Beirut? As surprising as it
sounds, the Lebanese capital is fast becoming a popular gay
destination. In fact, The New York Times dubbed Beirut as "the
Provincetown of the Middle East" in a 2009 article, while the
Dutch
Winq magazine named it "the (gay) party
capital of the Middle East."
Bertho Makso, the
International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) ambassador
to Lebanon, is directing the first familiarization tour and
symposium to Lebanon for professionals who work in the LGBT travel
market... Full Story
There is growing
concern that the Iraqi government is stepping up a witch-hunt
against gays and lesbians in the country after a police raid on a
Karbala safe house, the London-based Iraqi LGBT said at the
weekend.
Last week, twelve police officers are reported to have burst into
the safe house, and then violently beat up...
Full Story
Syria cracks down on gays, at
least 25 men arrested!
Syria has
in the last two years improved its treatment of its LGBT
citizens, as compared to the period we have been
monitoring 2003-2007. In what follows we outline a
very...
Full Editorial Opinion
ABU DHABI: Troubled
relationships are nothing new for “Sex and the City” story
lines. Now it has been taken to a different level: a
possible snub from the...
On Friday the
11.06.10, Tel Aviv Pride was launched with the biblical
message of peace and love: “thou shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself”...
Full News
Lebanon:
Thousands marched “Civil marriage, not civil war”
BEIRUT: Thousands of Lebanese
marched to parliament in Beirut on Sunday in a peaceful
rally demanding the secularisation of a state long built on
sectarianism. The rally, organised by independent grassroots
movement...
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3.5.2010
The
head of the Egyptian Musician Union has barred British
musician Elton John for performing a private concert
scheduled for May 18 because he made “controversial remarks
attacking religion”…
Bing censoring
non-pornographic LGBT searches
in 22 Arabic speaking countries!
GME Reporter:
Dan Littauer
Date: 10.4.2010
BING,
Microsoft’s search engine has recently started censoring
non-pornographic LGBT searches in 22 Arabic speaking countries.
An extensive test carried out by the Open Net Initiative (ONI)
revealed the extent of censorship on LGBT terms. GME wanted to
explore this further, and found out an interesting logic to
Microsoft’s rather brutal censorship of, and disregard for LGBT
Arab net users...
DUBAI - A male student was
sentenced to one year in jail on Wednesday as the court found
him guilty of prostitution. The Court of First Instance also
ordered that his laptop...
Silvano Orsi says Sheikh
Falah al-Nahyan used a belt to beat him after he rejected a gift
of a bottle of champagne at a hotel in Geneva in 2003. He was
initially convicted of actual bodily harm ...Full
Story
