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Vultures over Iran: The Human Rights Campaign follows the money
Why is the Human RIghts Campaign hanging out with the friends of homophobe Gary Bauer? Some background: HRC, the richest US gay group, has gone international. More and more of the news on its website...
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Policing Pride
Stonewall riot, New York City, June 27, 1969 Forty-five years ago yesterday, the Stonewall riots began, the reason Pride happens at this season. I have a Dark Gay Secret: I’ve never enjoyed most...
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LGBTI refugees and Western saviors: Ugandans facing violence in Kenya, and...
Housing in “community areas” of Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya, 2010: Photo by Matija Kovac My friend Victor Mukasa, a distinguished Ugandan human rights activist, helped to found Sexual Minorities of...
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Sodomy in Zambia
James Mwape (in mask) and Philip Mubiana (head covered in a brown coat) led away in chains after a court hearing, May 2013: Photo by the Lusaka Times On July 3, a court in Kapiri Mposhi, in Zambia,...
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Five arrests for “homosexuality” in Uganda: A fuller story
Demonstrator at 2012 anti-homosexuality protest in Kampala, from http://www.pbs.org On Wednesday, the Daily Monitor, a state newspaper in Uganda, headlined a story, “Five Suspected Homosexuals...
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On the slaughter of innocents
“Civilian casualties” in Gaza and Israel, and before, and beyond Palestinians collect their belongings from damaged houses in Gaza City, 2014. (Photo: Mahmud Hams /AFP /Getty Images). ABC News in the...
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Send your support to Yara Sallam and other human rights defenders imprisoned...
Yara Sallam (R) in the courtroom cage in Tora, June 23 On June 29 a court met in the Police Institute at Tora on the margins of Cairo– “a security fortress, managed by the Ministry of Interior,” next...
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Government by moral panic
A separatist militiaman looks at the wreckage of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17. Photo: Dominique Faget/AFP I met Pim de Kuijer once or twice, perhaps, and Martine de Schutter once, I think. He lobbied...
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When genocide is permissible
Palestinian mourners gather around the bodies of three siblings of the Abu Musallam family — Ahmed, 11; Walaa, 14; and Mohammed, 16 – killed by an Israeli shell in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip,...
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Egypt’s “gay wedding” furor: A ship of fools
Hand in hand: Detail from the famous video In Egypt any man can harass, brutalize, and rape a woman. It happens all the time. The State will ignore it for as long as possible; the media will say she...
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Egypt: Tweet and blog against homophobic brutality, September 24 and 25
Prisoners in the courtroom cage during the Queen Boat trial wear masks to protect themselves from sensation-seeking photographers: Cairo, 2001 URGENT! This Wednesday and Thursday, September 24 and 25,...
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Meet the Businessmen Who Want Egypt’s Internet Users Jailed, Tortured, and...
هي هذه المادة متاحة باللغة العربية هنا This article is available in Arabic here If you are a nerd, you’ll like this post, because it’s about computers. But wait! — it’s also about sex, and stuff like...
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اسئلة قانونية بخصوص المثلية في مصر
بعد أن صار المثليون ومتحولو النوع الاجتماعي والجنس في مصر هدفاً لاعتداءات الشرطة كصورة من صور الحماية الزائفة للأخلاق، فقد قمنا بجمع اسئلة من المجتمع المثلي والاجابة عنها بواسطة متخصصون قانونيون بهدف...
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Two trials, two travesties
Convicted men in the wedding video trial cover their faces as police lead them from the courtroom cage, Cairo, November 1, 2014: Photo © Independent (UK) Eight men were sent to prison today in Cairo,...
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Tim Cook’s coming out: Leaning in, trickling down
I’ve lost interest in being gay. Not the sex; the slogans. This has been gathering over time – whose identity wouldn’t shudder under the dark suspicion it was shared with John Travolta? – but...
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Virginity tests, vile bodies: Stories from Sisi’s Egypt
Protest against forced virginity examinations, Cairo, 2011 What is this furniture That speaks of departure? People take up their folding chairs And emigrate. – Günter Grass, “Folding Chairs” Three...
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Egyptian activists to Netanyahu’s PR men: Our lives are not propaganda
Palestinian and Egyptian flags in Midan Tahrir, September 9, 2011, at a protest against military trials and the rule of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy, at...
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Buggery and beggary, and Ferguson
Hijras in Bangalore. Photo by Johanan Ottensooser, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/oatsandsugar/6723701709/ On November 26 and in the days before, police in Bangalore, India, rounded up more than 150...
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Dozens arrested for “perversion” in a huge raid in Cairo
Arrested men from the Bab el-Bahr hammam being herded into a Central Security truck, December 7, 2014. The woman with a cameraphone to the right appears to be Mona Iraqi. At about 10 PM last night,...
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النشطاء يدينون غارة منى عراقي / Activists condemn Mona Iraqi’s raid
Mona Iraqi, R, films while police lead away naked prisoners from December 7’s bathhouse raid: From her Facebook page (English below) نشطاء يستنكرون قيام الإعلامية منى عراقي بالإبلاغ عن مجموعة من الرجال...
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