Scaring them straight in the name of morality. Since what has become known as the ‘gay marriage’ video was released on August 29, there has been a coordinated government crack down on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (LGBT) in Egypt.
The video showed a gathering of men on a felucca, with two of them seemingly getting married, exchanging kisses and rings. The makers of the video have since claimed it was joke, and that the gathering was nothing more than a birthday party. One of the men in question called a TV show to say that the ring was a birthday gift, that he had a girlfriend, and that this video has turned his life upside down. On Saturday, a misdemeanor court sentenced eight participants in the video to three years in prison, in addition to probation for another three years after the sentence is completed. Crackdowns on LGBT people by subsequent regimes have been framed by the state's battle with Islamist powerhouses over who can be more conservative. “The entire case lacks basis. Victory: Unprecedented Coalition of International Queer Arab and Muslim Organisations Takes a Strong Stand Against Apartheid.
Victory: Unprecedented Coalition of International Queer Arab and Muslim Organisations Takes a Strong Stand Against Apartheid The three religious LGBT organisations – Beit Haverim, David and Jonathan, and HM2F – may have completed their trip through Israel but they certainly failed in their effort to “show solidarity with local movements against homophobia” through their purportedly “apolitical tour” through occupied Palestine.
Indeed, while HM2F began as the only queer Muslim organisation to participate in this tour, by the tour’s end, HM2F became perhaps the only queer Muslim organisation to fail to vocally and emphatically oppose occupation and apartheid. While the organizations claimed to want to initiate “dialogue” with queer Palestinians, HM2F in particular ignored Palestinian queers’ vocal opposition to the tour and completely discounted the voices of broader Palestinian civil society. LGBT Interfaith Trip to Israel: Holy Pinkwash? LGBT Interfaith Trip to Israel: Holy Pinkwash?
Between November 6 and 13, 2011, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim French LGBT organizations Beit Haverim, David and Jonathan, and HM2F are organizing a trip to Israel/Palestine under the guise of “interfaith dialogue” and “solidarity with local LGBT movements”. This trip not only constitutes a clear violation of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Campaign against Israel, but is also the complete antithesis of solidarity. As queer activists working for justice in Palestine, we urge the organizations to reconsider this decision. The organizations claim that the trip is “non-political”, but a brief look at their program clearly shows the political dimensions of the trip.
Meeting with an Israeli MK, an official from the municipality of Tel Aviv, and French Cultural Attaché in Israel to discuss “cultural relations between Israel and France” are political by nature. This statement was endorsed by the following organizations and initiatives: بلا اتجاه أو هوية. "Americans may live in the richest country in the world, but it is in a society where about 10% of the population possesses nearly 90% of the nation’s assets.
In a country of 312 million people the entire ruling class can fit comfortably into Yankee Stadium, with room left over to generously pass out free tickets to thousands of the 46.2 million Americans living below the poverty line. Democracy can never fulfill its potential under such circumstances, and the vaunted “American dream” is fast fading for the working class/middle class as the U.S. economic system seems headed into a second recession and the weakening of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Isn’t it time for the American people to directly question what’s wrong with capitalism, or at least inquire, in the words of an old say" — 0 Comments. Hormonlu Domates "Pink Wash" Ödülü Ahwaa.org. Same-Sex Muslim Marriages Coming to Mosque Near You? » Muslimah Media Watch. Saudi Prince Insists He Didn't Queer Out With The Servant He Strangled To Death In London. Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Internet?
“I don’t know how to prove it, and I don’t know if it’s important to prove, but what I know for sure is that the gay rights movement in Lebanon would not be anywhere near where it is today if it weren’t for the interneti.”
In January 2010, web-based Arab LGBT magazine, Bekhsoos.com, published a series of articles celebrating a decade of LGBT activism in Lebanon. “It’s actually been over a decade,” says the magazine’s Arabic editor, Aphrodite. “We consider the registration of GayLebanon.com in 1998 as a marker of the start of an organized movement. But we wanted to celebrate the past decade in which most of the crucial developments occurred.” Most of the commemorative articles featured a Top 10 listing of different categories: the most prominent hang-out places, the best LGBT publications, music videos, films, etc. Lebanon’s internet users enjoy freedom of speech and access online, an advantage strongly contrasted with their neighbors in Syria and Egypt. Internet regulationi Footnotes:
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