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17 July 2008
Between 17 and 40 men arrested in Dubai for cross-dressing.
CBS News
17 July 2008
Two gay Iranian refugees stranded in India.
IRQO.net
16 July 2008
Malaysian blogger writes about the ignorance and homophobia of the Malaysian media on homosexuality and finishes with this request - "If you're ever so inclined, do write in to the editor of Bernama to tell him or her what you think of the rubbish they're peddling these days."
tykeonabike.blogspot.com
15 July 2008
English language journalist in Tokyo reports on a question and answer session with Parvez Sharma about his film on the lives of gay muslims - "Jihad for Love." The film will be showing again in Tokyo on Friday 18th at the Spiral Hall.
tilgff08.blogspot.com
15 July 2008
Campaigning gay Christian Richard Kirker hopes to offer his Marrakesh riad to visiting tourists after he retires this year from his position in the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement. "My authentic, ancient, restored riad is the ideal place to make your base, and just five minutes from one of the wonders of North Africa – the dazzling Jama El Efna Square."
PinkNews.co.uk
15 July 2008
A lesson for tenth graders in Saudi Arabia teaches them that gays may be killed and discusses the "appropriate" execution techniques
Extracts from the Hudson Report summarized on MarketWatch
15 July 2008
After months of research American advertising students charged with the task of selling Israel to overseas tourists recommend focusing on the pink euro and the pink dollar. “Tel Aviv could certainly rank as one of the most gay-friendly cities, like Barcelona or Copenhagen." They concluded.
YNetNews.com
14 July 2008
Moscow bans a protest outside the Iranian Embassy which had been planned for 19 July to mark the third anniversary of the execution of two boys in Iran for homosexuality
PinkNews.co.uk
14 July 2008
Malaysian Ministry says it will set up a "special unit" to look into the "homosexual problem." Article by the Malaysian National News Agency
Bernama.com
14 July 2008 onwards
Gay Tunisia - is this an oxymoron? Traveller asks about the gay scene and whether it's dangerous.
Lonely Planet - The Thorn Tree
14 July 2008
Two Iranian gay refugees in Turkey have spent many months on the breadline but are still in a legal limbo. They claim they have not received any response from the UNHCR even about their initial interviews.
IRQO.net
14 July 2008
As Syrian president Bashar Assad visits Paris as a guest of French president Sarkozy on Bastille Day, fifteen members of the Act-up AIDS group are arrested while attempting to demonstrate outside the Syrian embassy.
AFP
14 July 2008
Israel has an increasing number of Orthodox Jewish lesbians coming out of the closet
haaretz.com
13 July 2008
An Egyptian contributor to MidEastYouth.com ponders Muslim attitudes to homosexuality after reading about Parvez Sharma’s new film Jihad for Love
MidEastYouth.com
13 July 2008
The British Defense Ministry investigate allegations that British soldiers forced an Iraqi boy to perform oral sex on a fellow prisoner after he was arrested on suspicion of stealing milk from a food distribution centre.
Welt.de
12 July 2008
"As homosexuality continues to gain grounds worldwide, men have suddenly become 'rape -able'" is one of the more unusual quotations seemingly associating gay culture and male rape from this article on "Reforming Rape Laws" in the Nigerian Daily Trust
Article by the Daily Trust carried on AllAfrica.com
12 July 2008
Dutch police arrest a cartoonist on suspicion he may have offended Muslims with several of his cartoons including one of a Muslim at the North Pole engaging in "deviant sex". The article also reports that ealier a Moroccan born Dutch blogger was sentenced to six month community sentence after writing that active gays should be thrown from rooftops or down stairs.
online.wsj.com
12 July 2008
Writer in the Nigerian Saturday Sun asks whether IVF is morally right and ponders the "worrying" use of IVF by gay couples. "More worrisome is the fact that lesbians and homosexuals are now having children of their own........Of course, this is against established or acceptable societal norms......how would a child feel when he grows to discover that both parents are same sex ?"
The Saturday Sun
11 July 2008
The Azerbaijan Government and the country's state security apparatus attempt to smear a journalist and his alleged attacker and blame his stabbing on his connections with the gay community. In a statement Doctors without Borders declared - “This trial is a farce that is being conducted with the double aim of protecting the real perpetrators and discrediting Khalil.”
rsf.org
11 July 2008
Malaysian man annoyed with gay flirt who harasses him at a wedding party.
deepestinside.blogspot.com
10 July 2008
Independent Irish senator David Norris appealed for the reversal of a deportation order against a gay Iranian who faced possible execution if returned to his home country
IrishTimes.com
10 July 2008
Interview with a Malaysian transexual who has become a prominent advocate of transgender and sex worker rights
namitatv.blogspot.com
10 July 2008
Short article in ABC news on Parvez Sharma's new film "A Jihad for Love" - about lesbian and gay muslims
ABCnews.go.com
10 July 2008
Russian gays plan protest to mark the third anniversary of the execution in Iran of two boys for homosexuality
mpetrelis.blogspot.com
10 July 2008
Israeli transexual pop singer Aderet finds a new popularity among Lebanese listeners
Online Weekly Forward - Forward.com
10 July 2008 and other dates.
Blog by a Chinese gay man in Algiers
Le blog gay chinois a alger
heyao198257.over-blog.com
9 July 2008
HIV rate in Israel increases by 67 per cent in a year
Middle East Online
9 July 2008
Gay bars in Tel Aviv close under the pressure from easier internet dating alternatives but studies suggest such methods of dating tend to lead to unsafe sex
haaretz.com
9 July 2008
Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia's opposition leader, challenges the young man who accuses him of sodomy, claiming the accusation is part of a political conspiracy against him.
BBC News
9 July 2008 and onwards
A potential convert to Islam explains that she is uncertain about the compatibility of her open mindedness over the morality of gay relationships with any commitment to Islam. A discussion ensues with others declaring that Islam can not compromise on viewing homosexuality as a sin.
TurnToIslam.com
9 July 2008
Sheikh Fariha urges Kuwaiti government to combat "negative phenomena such as devil worshiping and homosexuality"
AlWatan.com
9 July 2008
Gay activist to head Israel's largest civil rights group
PinkNews.co.uk
9 July 2008
Dubai police target gays on the beach
AlArabiya.net
9 July 2008
Israeli gays shun condoms despite rise in AIDS cases
Haaretz.com
8 July 2008
In an interview with Dateline Malaysian Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim says that while he himself is a practising Muslim, the Government should not pry into the sexual orientation of its citizens. "It is not our business to knock at every door and checking people's orientation and casting aspersions or having prejudice against people."
news.sbs.com
8 July 2008
Highly homophobic article on the Malaysian National News Agency website with comments such as "In the West, the morally wrong and corrupt homosexual act has turned into a sort of plague, spreading its tentacles far and wide, engulfing individuals with the tendency of adopting this immoral self-indulgence."
web7.bernama.com
8 July 2008
UN official says more needs to be done to clamp down on the use of boy sex slaves in Afghanistan
News.com.au
8 July 2008
Blogger looks at the terrifying story of imprisonment and torture behind a young gay Syrian man's fight for asylum in the United Kingdom which may end in his deportation back to a country where he is likely to face torture and imprisonment
jesurgislac.wordpress.com
8 July 2008
Deportation of a Nigerian bisexual woman from Canada has been temporarily deferred
xtra.ca
8 July 2008
The Daily Star Online reports that Japanese comics with gay stories are available in Malaysian shops priced at RM50.
TheStar.com
7 July 2008
Syrian blogger questions the interpretation of Islam which dictates harsh penalties for homosexuality and portrays it as a sin but finds it difficult to persuade other gay Syrians to be as open-minded. "Unfortunately," he writes, "most Gay Muslims consider themselves to be sinners, live in fear of exposing themselves as homosexuals, and are forced to get married and hide their sexuality."
mazaj75.blogspot.com
7 July 2008
Syrian blogger "Mazaj" lists the best streets, hammams and coffee shops for gay cruising in Damascus and Aleppo (Halab).
mazaj75.blogspot.com
6 July 2008
Human rights activists furious as Syrian gay asylum seeker faces deportation to Syria with the advice he behaves discreetly to avoid mistreatment and torture.
ScotlandOnSunday.Scotsman.com
6 July 2008
British Immigration Tribunal rules that a gay Syrian must return to his home country and behave discreetly.
PinkNews.co.uk
4 July 2008
Nigerian gay rights campaigner freed from British detention centre
PinkNews.co.uk
3 July 2008
Article on Malaysia's homophobic penal code and the use of homosexuality as a smear against Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim
MalaysiaKini.com
3 July 2008
Karachi banker writes gay blog
denouncing the hypocrisy of Pakistani society
Economictimes.Indiatimes.com
2 July 2008
U.A.E. president's brother fined after being gound guilty of beating a man he thought had accused him of being gay
Telegraph.co.uk
30 June 2008
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim sues over gay sex claims
Telegraph.co.uk
26 June 2008
Jerusalem's gay pride parade provokes local resentment but not the violence that plagued previous events
Jerusalem Post
23 June 2008
Over 20 Suadis arrested during gay raid
PinkNews.co.uk
19 June 2008
Kuwait steps up its' campaign against gays and transexuals
TheAdvocate.com
16 June 2008
New film documents the lifes of Egyptian gays facing persecution and discrimination
OhMyNews.com
15 June 2008
Gay artist faces deportation to Azerbaijan and possible torture after the British Home Office rejects his claim for asylum
PinkNews.co.uk
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