April 2010
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Death to Deviants My escape from homophobic hell...
Algeria is not a safe place for queers. Gay sex is totally illegal; punishable by up to two years’ imprisonment. Arrest and torture by the police and military are ever-present dangers. The victims have no legal redress. This statesanctioned homophobic persecution is compounded by the rise of an armed fundamentalist movement. Islamist terrorists target gays for beatings, torture and...
March 2010
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Reminder: GaynMuslim Gamasp invited you to join Facebook…
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حقوق الإنسان والميول الجنسية وهوية نوع الجنس
حقوق الإنسان والميول الجنسية وهوية نوع الجنس
لدى كل شخص ميول جنسية وهوية لنوعه جنسه . وعندما لا تتماشى الميول الجنسية أو هوية نوع الجنس لشخص ما مع أعراف الأغلبية، كثيراً ما يُنظر إليه كهدف مشروع للتمييز أو الإساءة. فينبغي أن يكون جميع الأشخاص قادرين على التمتع بحقوق الإنسان كافة الموصوفة في الإعلان العالمي لحقوق الإنسان. ومع ذلك فإن ملايين الأشخاص في شتى أنحاء العالم يواجهون الإعدام والسجن...
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Gay asylum seekers receive legal knock-back
A motion to give legal recognition to people who are persecuted because of their sexual orientation has been roundly rejected by the House of Representatives.
The government argued that homosexuals were adequately protected by current asylum laws as members of a “particular social group”, reflecting the view of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights(UNHCR).
Wednesday’s defeat – by...
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Are Moroccan homophiles homosexuals or gays?
Few years ago men in Moroccan big cities, mainly touristic, started discovering their sexuality identifying themselves as homosexual. Indeed it is the discovery of ‘woman in man’s body’. Then Homosexual communities and networks started to emerge in modern cities benefiting from the creation of virtual network by means of the World Wide Web to prepare their physical manifestation. Their...
February 2010
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Muslim leader blasts gay lifestyle
PRESIDENT of the Islamic Council of Jamaica, Mustafa Muhammad, says he agrees with the Sharia law which prescribes death for people who openly flaunt homosexual behaviour.
Muhammad did not mince words as he lashed out against what he described as an unclean, unnatural lifestyle.
“It is illegal and in the Sharia law the punishment is death. If you follow Christianity it is a crime in the...
Anwar Ibrahim sodomy trial poses key test for...
Bangkok, Thailand
In a rerun of a highly polarizing 1998 case, Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim,will stand trial Wednesday on a charge of sodomy that, if proven, could sink his resurgent political career.
The trial in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, is shaping up as a test of the independence of Malaysia’s judiciary, which has been dogged by scandals over influence-peddling...
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Gay sex verdict: Muslim board moves Supreme Court
New Delhi: Giving a secular touch to the issue, the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board joined Hindu outfits and leaders on Monday in challenging the Delhi high court’s verdict allowing consensual sex between adult gay or lesbian couples.
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev, astrologer Suresh Kaushal and BP Singhal, a BJP MP, have already moved the Supreme Court (SC) against the judgment. The Muslim...
November 2009
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Soul-Searching in Turkey After a Gay Man Is Killed
ISTANBUL — For Ahmet Yildiz, a stocky and affable 26-year-old, the choice to live openly as a gay man proved deadly. Prosecutors say his own father hunted him down, traveling more than 600 miles from his hometown to shoot his son in an old neighborhood of Istanbul.
Mr. Yildiz was killed 16 months ago, the victim of what sociologists say is the first gay honor killing in Turkey to surface...
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Muslim Mayor's Gay Rights Drive Fights Homophobia...
Ahmed Marcouch, the Muslim mayor of Slotervaart, an uncharacteristically conservative suburb of Amsterdam, is fighting back against a long-lived trend of homophobia in that town by inviting Amsterdam’s annual gay pride parade to march right down main street, as it were.According to AFP: Slotervaart’s population is mainly of immigrant origin, many of the Muslim faith, like Moroccan-born...
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What's it like being a gay Muslim? EastEnders'...
Pav Akhtar is not usually a fan of soaps. But the 30-year-old local councillor and Unison worker has been paying special attention sinceEastEnders introduced its first gay Muslim character. Akhtar, the chair of Imaan, an organisation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Muslims, advised the BBC on the storyline in the hope that the character of Syed Masood would help tackle the double...
October 2009
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A very useful blog for anyone who is muslim and... →
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Etre gay au maroc blog →
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Interview with Abdellah Taia →
An interview with the Moroccan gay writer.
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We'll have sex to prove we're gay, says Bangladesh...
TWO gay men from Bangladesh who offered to have sex before Australian immigration officials to prove their sexuality will appeal their case for protection visas for the fourth time in 10 years.
The men, who cannot be named, told The Daily Telegraph they feared being killed if their latest bid for refugee status is refused at a hearing later this month.
A Federal Court judge recently criticised...
Turkey Blocks Access to Gay Websites
Turkey has blocked two of its largest LGBT websites. Users of sites such as hadigayri.com and gabile.com are finding that instead of regular homepages, they are seeing messages stating that the site has been blocked by the Telecommunication Directorate.
The newly-created body is permitted to shut down websites without a court order if it believes they violate the law.
The administrators of the...
The Gay Sons of Allah.
Wave of Homophobia Sweeps the Muslim World
By Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Daniel Steinvorth
In most Islamic countries, gay men and women are ostracized, persecuted and in some cases even murdered. Repressive regimes are often fanning the flames of hatred in a bid to outdo Islamists when it comes to spreading “moral panic.”
Bearded men kidnapped him in the center of Baghdad, threw...
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