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A GLBTQ EDUCATION INTERNET RESOURCES The Middle East to Asia: Central Asia / Middle East

Index: Asia & Middle East -  - Race/Ethnic Minority Issues: U.S., Canada, Europe,  New Zealand & Australia -  -  Latin America / Africa -  - Homosexuality:  Biological  or  Learned ? -  -  Public School Issues -  - Transgender / Tranvestite / Transsexual -  - Lesbian  &  Bisexual Women -  - Homo-Negativity / Phobia -  - Identity Formation  &  Coming Out -  - Counseling  &  Therapy -  - Professional Education  -  - Bisexuality -  - Religion   &  Spirituality -  - Male  Youth Prostitution -  - HIV-AIDS -  - Gay & Bisexual Male Suicide Problems -  - Drug / Alcohol Use / Abuse / Addiction  -  - GLBT  History -  - Community Attributes  &  Problems - -  Couples / Families / Children / Adoption / Spousal Violence -  - The Elderly

The Middle East to Asia: Middle East / Central Asia

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Sexualities, Genders, And Rights in Asia: An International Conference of Asian Queer Studies Bangkok, Thailand, July 8-10, 2005 Closing date for submitting paper and panel proposals: October 31, 2004

Part 1 - This Page: Middle East to Central Asia: Middle East / Eastern Mediterranean Region: - Iran -- Israel -- Palestine -- Lebanon -- Jordan -- Saudi Arabia -- Kuwait -- Iraq -- Bahrain -- Oman -- Yemen -- Syria -- Egypt -- Algeria -- Morocco -- Tunisia -- Turkey -- Cyprus --- Central Asia: - Afghanistan -- Kazakhstan -- Kyrgyzstan -- Uzbekistan --  Turkmenistan -- Tajikistan.

Part 2 - South Asia: South Asia - Web Resources - Bibliographies - Books: - India - Films -- Bangladesh -- Nepal -- Sri Lanka -- Pakistan -- Bhutan -- Maldives -- Full Text Papers.

Part 3 - Northeast Asia: - China - History - Films - Web Resources. -- Hong Kong - Films - Web Resources. -- Taiwan  - Films - Web Resources. -- Tibet -- Mongolia -- South Korea - Web Resources. -- Japan - History  - Films - Web Resources - Books -- Full Text Papers.

Part 4 - Southeast Asia: Mekong Region: Vietnam - Web Resources - Books. -- Thailand - Web Resources - Books. -- Cambodia -- Laos -- Full Text Papers.

Part 5 - Southeast Asia (Not Including Mekong Region): Singapore - Web Resources - Books. -- Malaysia - Web Resources - Books. -- Philippines - Web Resources - Books. -- Indonesia -- East Timor -- Burma -- Brunei -- Guam -- Nauru - Full Text Papers.

Part 6 - General Asian Resources --- International Issues & Resources.

MIDDLE EAST

Struggle for gay rights in the Middle East. - Homosexuality in the Middle East: The hidden homosexuals of the Arab world. Condemned by religious leaders, oppressive regimes and their own relatives, gay men in the Middle East stay out of sight. - Homosexualité dans le monde Arabe: L’homosexualité est illégale dans 26 pays islamiques.- Gay Old Time in Sharia Land. - Coming out in Arabic: Brian Whitaker reports on a lesbian group's struggle for acceptance in the Middle East. - Al-Arabiya Reports: Middle East's First Gay Wedding. - Correction: First Middle East Gay Wedding in Algeria. - Escaping abuse overseas: gay men from conservative countries are winning the right to asylum in the United States. - L'homosexualité dans le monde arabe: est très mal acceptée, elle est même interdite par une loi sévère et injuste ! Regardez un peu ces chiffres...  - Gay Life: From Jordan to Qatar. - Those who say identity politics are over don’t have to deal with shit like this: SALAAM Toronto: for queer Muslims, oppression is worse than death. - Gay Islamic Clerics! pedophile Islamic clerics?!! - Summer lovin': Arab Gays, Lesbians coming out of the closet... - Monde arabe: la culture de l'éphèbe.

N.Y. Editor’s Gay Travels in Muslim World: You’ve spoken about the wide spectrum of homosexual behavior and attitudes to homosexuality that you found in your travels to the Middle East. Can you elaborate? I’ve always stressed that “to do” is not necessarily “to be” in the Muslim world. The Muslim world is also so broad—it’s the suburbs of Detroit, it’s Malaysia. I facetiously used Condoleezza Rice’s definition of the Greater Middle East: everything from Morocco to Indonesia. What surprised me most was that, because male intimacy is normal, you can find that sex between men is not necessarily frowned on in most Muslim countries. The gay identity is the problem. - Le thème du mois: Vivre son homosexualité en Méditerranée. Des jeunes de Marseille, du Maroc, de Tunisie et du Liban parlent d’un sujet qui reste tabou en Méditerranée: l’homosexualité. Voir la vidéo. - Homosexuality and Same-Sex Acts in Islam.

Gay and Lesbian Arabic Society (GLAS). - Articles & Essays. - The politics of Naming; A Queer Arab Identity? - Arab Lesbian Home Page. - A 1998 series of articles on Gay life in the Arab [in Jordan]... written in a positive and informative fashion, but.. N/A (Related Information) - Arabe et Homo! - Homosexualité dans le monde Arabe. - L'homosexualité dans les sociétés arabo-musulmanes. - Allah Loves Gay Too. - Queer Sexuality and Identity in the Qur'an and Hadith. - Islam: Waging a Queer Jihad .- Queer Jihad. - Queer Jihad: A view from South Africa. - Islamic treatment of homosexuals. - Summer Lovin’ - Arab Gays, Lesbians Coming Out of the Closet...?- Battle of the sexualities. - Homosexualité dans le monde Arabe: L’homosexualité est illégale dans 26 pays islamiques. - Bisexuality in Arab Lands. - Pederasty in the Middle East and Central Asia.

Sex and Taboos in the Islamic World. " "Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an imam who lives in Qatar and has a television show on Arab network Al Jazeera, considers homosexuality as an especially decadent monster created by the West. It is against the "divine order," says the religious scholar, citing verses in the Koran that describe homosexuality as a common practice in pre-Islamic Arabia. Homosexuals are referred to in Arabic as "Luti," or people from the city of the Lut, which is mentioned in the Koran and the Bible and is described as having been destroyed by God's wrath. The sources seem to clearly support this notion. As a result, very few gay Muslims even attempt to reconcile their faith with their sexual orientation. Most, says George Assi, a spokesman of Helem, the only gay and lesbian organization in the Arab world, are in despair over the fact that they cannot be as virtuous as their religion prescribes..."

La vie cachée des beurs gays, partagés entre leur sexualité et leur culture d'origine. - Sehakia, lesbiennes arabes: Les homosexuelles arabes et musulmanes vivent dans la quasi clandestinité dans leurs pays. La loi répressive, souvent inspirée de la religion, ne les incite guère à étaler leur sexualité au grand jour. La Toile devient une nouvelle patrie. - L'érotisme au coeur de l'Islam. - Vivre sa vie... différemment (Alternate Link). - L'Islam est-il Homophobe? - "Arab Men Always Active, Never Passive". - Être homo au Maroc. - A support group for queer arab women (lesbian , bisexual and transgender)  who have first hand experience of living in the arab world. - The Ultimate "Planet Out" Guide to Queer Movies (Subject: Arab / Middle Eastern Images).

Power and Sexuality in the Middle East: Sexual relations in Middle Eastern societies have historically articulated social hierarchies, that is, dominant and subordinate social positions: adult men on top; women, boys and slaves below." - Yousry Nasrallah: Son point de vue sur le cinéma et l’homosexualité dans les sociétés arabes. - Welcome to the home page for our GayArabs Chat Channel and Mail List (gayarab.org) N/A.(Archive Link) - Les délices des coeurs, poésie arabe homosexuelle, Ahmad al Tifachi. - Le cheikh, les homosexuels et l’intolérance. - Just because I'm homosexual, doesn't mean I cannot practise Islam. - Homosexual Erotica in Muslim Countries. - Islam's Love-Hate Relationship with Homosexuality.

People think it's a mental illness: In the Middle East, coming out as a homosexual is often unthinkable. Brian Whitaker talks to young gay and lesbian Arabs about their secret private lives... "It was the first time I [a Syrian male] had actually said that I was gay. After that, I couldn't see anybody or speak for almost a week. I just went to my room and stayed there; I stopped going to school; I stopped eating. I was so upset at myself and I was going, 'No, I'm not gay, I'm not gay.'" ... "Before I reached home, he had called my mum, and my mum freaked out. When I arrived home there were all these people in the house. My mum was crying, my sister was crying - I thought somebody had died or something. They put me in the middle and everybody was judging me. I said to them, 'You have to respect who I am; this was not something I chose,' but it was a hopeless case... Ghaith was one of the luckier ones. Ali, still in his late teens, comes from a traditional Shia family in Lebanon and, as he says himself, it is obvious that he is gay. Before fleeing his family home, he suffered abuse from relatives that included being hit with a chair so hard that it broke, being imprisoned in the house for five days, being locked in the boot of a car, and being threatened with a gun when he was caught wearing his sister's clothes. According to Ali, an older brother told him, "I'm not sure you're gay, but if I find out one day that you are gay, you're dead. It's not good for our family and our name." ... here are just a few signs, though, that attitudes could be changing - especially among the educated urban young, largely as a result of increased contact with the rest of the world.... - Commentary on Article: Homosexuality in the Arab Woeld: It’s sad that nothing in the article seems to be exaggerated. I hear stories like that all the time.

Gays persecuted, arrested, tortured, and murdered regularly in Muslim countries: "But experts say it's hard to generalize the situation in Muslim-dominated nations. In secular, Muslim-majority Turkey, for instance, parliament is currently reviewing a penal code amendment that would criminalize discrimination based on "sexual orientation." And while Saudi Arabia has been infamous for its harsh punishments for anyone convicted of "sodomy," a recent report by The Independent, a British newspaper, said in that in practice, homosexuality is tolerated — especially among affluent sections in the relatively liberal Saudi port city of Jeddah. "The situation differs according to the class and identity of the people concerned," says Scott Long of Human Rights Watch. The large numbers of migrant workers in the oil-rich kingdom are particularly vulnerable, he says. "Saudi citizens are a lot safer than guest workers arrested for so-called suspicious activities."" Al Bawaba yields to homophobic censorship: Articles about GLBT people in the Middle East are removed from web sites if enough homo-hating people complain. - Religious fundamentalists refuse to allow gays on AIDS panel: Western nations partially accede to Islamic demands to exclude gays in international anti-HIV effort.

A Gay Palestinian Criticizes Gay Hawks! Toppling Saddam won't free gays: "GAY MEN AND lesbians who endorse the war in and occupation of Iraq — and possible future military action against other countries like Syria — need to stop using the guise of caring about the plight of gay Arabs to rationalize their support. It's an argument fraught with emotional manipulation, hypocrisy, intellectual dishonesty and factual error...  THE TRUTH IS that the plight of gay and lesbian Iraqis — just like that of gay and lesbian Afghanis — will change little under whatever new government is installed. There is no denying that gays in Iraq and other Arab countries are persecuted. But the forces of oppression that keep them down in the Arab world are complex, and cannot be altered by simple "regime change." Religion, tradition, culture, family pressures, ignorance of the contemporary understandings of modern psychology and other factors make life extremely difficult for gay Iraqis and those in other Arab nations. To believe that life for gay Iraqis will be better — or different in any real way — than it was under Saddam Hussein is willfully naïve. The social, religious and cultural forces that oppress gay Iraqis will not have changed one iota under a new government. Furthermore, the line that invading Iraq, and now possibly Syria, will "free" gay people there is heaped in hypocrisy. The forces that are supposedly emancipating our downtrodden gay Iraqi brethren are themselves hyper-homophobic. How can anyone seriously argue that the United States military is an instrument for gay liberation? - Gays Seeking Asylum Find Familiar Prejudices in U. S.

Stratégies d'actions et de luttes entre lesbiennes en terres natales et lesbiennes en terres d'exil, de migrations...: "A la lumière de ce nouveau millénaire, alors que les pays occidentaux débattent sur l'homoparentalité et sur le mariage des homosexuelLEs, des gays égyptiens sont emprisonnés et des Saoudiens sont tués à coup de sabre, des femmes, des hommes préfèrent le suicide à une vie de mensonges, une vie de peurs et de hontes …. C'est sur cette situation des lesbiennes et gays arabes et nord africains que portera mon intervention aujourd'hui, à la fois en termes de contextes mais aussi de stratégies d'actions et de luttes à mettre en place ici et là-bas. Mon intervention se distribuera en 3 temps qui correspondent aux trois entrées suivantes : 1) Un rappel contextuel sur la situation des lesbiennes et gays en pays arabes et nord-africains avec un accent bien sûr sur les lesbiennes; 2) La présentation du collectif, les N'DéeSses, dont je suis la co-fondatrice et du website, sehakia, que nous avons lancé en mars 2002 et qui est dédié particulièrement aux lesbiennes nord-africaines et arabes; 3) Enfin je terminerai par le point qui nous intéresse toutes et tous ds ce séminaire, à savoir les stratégies d'actions et de luttes à penser et mettre en place pour soutenir les lesbiennes (et plus largement les gays) là-bas et ici..."

Leading the queer jihad: "For a full day, bitter debate ensued over whether to allow the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission to participate in a panel discussion. Islamic nations, led by Syria, Egypt, Pakistan and Malaysia, demanded the group be barred. The Islamic nations failed to block the gay group from discussion, though, when it came to a vote (they did garner 30 abstentions, including China and Russia). More than that, the full day of discussion forced the leaders of fiercely anti-gay governments to grapple with homosexuality, an issue that is taboo even to speak about within their cultures."

Films & Videos on Gay & Lesbian Studies: The Perfumed Garden - An exploration of the myths and realities of sensuality and sexuality in Arab society. (new September, 2001) - Talking Back. Arabs in the Celluloid Closet: Separate and unequal visions of gay male identities in lands of exile: "These directors may love filming Brown or Black men, but they still have no clue of how to narrate the lives of these characters, making them hollow figments of their imagination. In fact, they know nothing about the culture of others, yet talk about "shared values..." How long until we see a film with a gay Arab man who is not necessarily beautiful, who is menacing instead of being sexy, sympathetic and reassuring? Such a character might find a way to impose his perspective instead of playing the passive victim awaiting the white hero."

A Jihad for Love: Filmed in twelve different countries and in nine languages, A Jihad for Love is the first-ever feature-length documentary to explore the complex global intersections of Islam and homosexuality. With unprecedented access and depth, the film brings to light the hidden lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Muslims and goes where the silence has been loudest, to countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Egypt and Bangladesh, as well as to Turkey, France, India, South Africa, the United States and the United Kingdom.... (World Premiere of our film, A Jihad for Love, at The Toronto International Film Festival, September 6-16, 2007: Press release).

Virtual Refuge for Gay Muslims: "Living in countries where homosexuality is a crime often punishable by death, gay Muslims are finding refuge on the Internet. From Malaysia to Iran, gay men and women are joining each other in a virtual way. Sites created by gay Muslimsliving in the United States offer a safe and anonymous space for a community that lives in constant fear of being discovered. - De toutes les couleurs: Les autres gais - Selon l'appartenance ethnique, l'homosexualité ne se vit pas de la même façon pour tous. - Amour au Masculin et Culture Arabe: Bibliographie - Histoire. (Kademos: L'amour au masculin).

"I Exist": Voices from the Lesbian & Gay Middle Eastern Community in the United States: Documentary. - Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe, eds., Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, 1997 (Review).

Further Reading on Sexuality in Middle East Societies. - Voices of the Middle East: The Middle East as you have not heard it before. - Salaam: Queer Muslim Community (Canada). - Queer Jihad. - AHBAB: Site of the Gay and Lesbian arab Society.

Resources: - Huriyah Magazine:. - Queer Jihad: Links, Bibliography, Essays & Articles. - Queer Arabs Links. - filou Mektoub Links. - GayMiddleEast.com N/A (Archive Link)- Middle East (Global Gayz). Homan: The Iranian Gay, lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Organizaton: Links. - Gays and lesbians in the Arab world: Links. - Gay Arab N/A.(Archive Link) - Les articles de presse sur Kelma, depuis 1997 dans toute la presse. - Assyrian Gay / Lesbian Forum N/A. (Archive Link) - Liens:  moyen-orient, maghreb. - A starting-point for research into Arabic traditions of male-male erotic/sensual/sexual relationships. - From kelma.org (French): Articles. - From AHBAB: Articles and Essays.  - Arab Gay Community Blog. - www.al-bab.com (An Open Door to the Arab World): GLBT Links. - Middle East GLBT News Items.

Safra Project: - The Safra Project is a resource project working on issues relating to lesbian, bisexual and/or transgender women who identify as Muslim religiously and/or culturally (Muslim LBT women). The Safra Project was set up in October 2001 by and for Muslim LBT women. The issues faced by Muslim LBT women, and the (combination of) prejudices based on sexual orientation, gender identity, gender, religion, race, culture and immigration status that they experience, are unique and currently insufficiently addressed.The word Safra is related to the words for 'journey' and discovery' in many languages such as Arabic, Farsi and Urdu. The compass in our logo and on our home page symbolises the aim of the Safra Project to be a resource and tool for Muslim LBT women on our journeys and discoveries in life. The Safra Project does not seek to provide ultimate answers or solutions, and is not a faith group. Our ethos is one of inclusiveness and diversity. - Sexuality, gender & Islam, with Bibkliography & Links. - Publicatons: 2001 to Present. - Resources: Personal stories of Muslim lesbian, bisexual and trans women. - Poetry. - Audio Files.

Books: - Homoeroticism in Classical Arabic Literature - 1997 - edited by J.W.Wright Jr. and Everett K. Rowson (Review) (Review) (Amazon).  - "Sexuality and Eroticism Among Males in Moslem Societies." -  Islamic Homosexualities - 1997 - edited by Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe (Abstract/Contents) (Review) (Review). Critique of Book.- Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800 - 2005 - by Khaled El-Rouayheb (Abstract/Contents) (Minor Mistakes) (Review) (Review). - Sex, Longing & Not Belonging: A Gay Muslim's Quest for Love & Meaning - 1997 - by Badruddin Khan (Amazon).(Gay Muslim author talks about a life of contradiction -- and coming to peace with himself.). - Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East - 2006 - by Brian Whitaker (Review) (Review) (Review) (Review) (Review) (Review) (Author Interview).  - Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations - 2007 - by Samar Habib. - Desiring Arabs - 2007 - by Joseph Massad (Review) (Review) (Alternate Link) (About the Author) See: Re-Orienting Desire: The Gay International and the Arab World.(Alternate Link) (Related to Article).

Books: - Gay Travels in the Muslim World - 2007 - edited by Michael T. Luongo (Review) (Review) (Review) (Review) (Author Interview) (Related Information).  - Sappho in the Holy Land: Lesbian Existence and Dilemmas in Contemporary Israel - 2005 - edited by Chava Frankfort-Nachmias, Erella Shadmi. - Independence Park: The Lives of Gay Men in Israel - 2000 - by Amir Fink, Jacob Press. - Beyond Flesh: Queer Masculinities and Nationalism in Israeli Cinema - 2004 - by Raz Yose. - Brothers and Others in Arms: The Making of Love and War in Israeli Combat Units - 2002 - by Danny Kaplan. - Between Sodom and Eden - 2000 - by Lee Walzer. - Lesbiot: Israeli Lesbians Talk About Sexuality, Feminism, Judaism and Their Lives - 1999 - by Tracy Moore. - A Fish Out of Water - 2002 - by Cecilia Tzukim. - Cleopatra's Wedding Presen: Travels Through Syria - 2001 - by Robert Tewdwr Moss (Review, Must Scroll). - Syrian Episodes: Sons, Fathers, and an Anthropologist in Aleppo - 2007 - by John Borneman (The author) (Contents) (Review). - Queer Nations: Marginal Sexualities in the Maghreb - 2000 - by Jarod Hayes (Review) .

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IRAN - Iranian paper shut down for interviewing lesbian: A leading Iranian newspaper has been shut down for publishing an interview with a woman accused of being a "counter-revolutionary" homosexual... - 87 gay men arrested in Iran. - Fleeing Anti- Gay Iran. - A gay Iranian man was hanged in public on Tuesday in the western city of Kermanshah on the charge of sodomy. - Germany gives Iran lesbian asylum. - Another Gay Iranian Torture Victim Tells His Horrifying Story.

Sex change funding undermines no gays claim: While Mr Ahmadinejad may want to believe that his Islamic society is exclusively non-gay, it is a belief undermined by the paradox that transsexuality and sex changes are tolerated and encouraged under Iran's theocratic system. Iran has between 15,000 and 20,000 transsexuals, according to official statistics, although unofficial estimates put the figure at up to 150,000. Iran carries out more gender change operations than any country in the world besides Thailand. Sex changes have been legal since the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, spiritual leader of the 1979 Islamic revolution, passed a fatwa authorising them nearly 25 years ago. Whereas homosexuality is considered a sin, transsexuality is categorised as an illness subject to cure.

Italy asks Britain not to deport Iranian lesbian. - Italy: Govt. ready to give asylum to Iranian lesbian. - Gays Worldwide Rally to Aid Iranian Lesbian Facing Deportation from UK: More letters to British Home Secretary needed. - Iran lesbian wins stay over deportation from UK. - Gay Amir, Aged 22, Given 100 Lashes: Apathy of gay, left and human rights groups condemned. - 'Next Time, They'll Kill Me': A Gay Iranian Torture Victim Speaks. - There’s no anti-gay pogrom in Iran. - Iran's Anti-Gay Pogrom: American gay rights groups are ignoring systematic persecution in the Islamic Republic. - Iran Exports Anti-Gay Pogrom to Iraq. - Interview with an Iranian transgender.

Too much outrage about Iran execution: We get more upset at other countries than we do at ourselves. - Iranian teens were hanged for rape, not gay sex. But Questions Remain. - Full Story Behind 'Iran Gay Hangings' Mired In Controversy. - Let the Spin Begin: Iranian teens were hanged for rape, not gay sex, reports Human Rights Watch. - Islamic Republic of Iran and execution for adultery and homosexuality. (Alternate Link) (See: Special page on execution of homosexuals in Iran). - Is There An Anti-Homosexual Campaign? - Transsexuality in Iran. - Iran permits sex change. - Queen album brings rock to Iran. - The Dangers of Being Young, Gay and Iranian: "Amir is a 22-year-old gay Iranian who was arrested by Iran's morality police as part of a massive Internet entrapment campaign targeting gays, beaten and tortured while in custody, threatened with death, and lashed 100 times. He escaped from Iran in August, and is now in Turkey, where he awaits a grant of asylum by a gay-friendly country... One of my dear friends, Nima, commited suicide a month ago in Shiraz. He just couldn't take it anymore." - Gay and Underground in Iran.

Persian Gay And Lesbian Activist Urges Tolerance: Parsi now lives in Canada, and is secretary-general of the Toronto-based Iranian Queer Organization (formerly called The Persian Gay and Lesbian Organization). He says homosexuals in Iran live in fear... Parsi claims a lack of knowledge and homophobic culture that rules Iranian society puts enormous pressure on homosexuals... He left Iran in 2005 in large part out of fear of arrest and sought asylum abroad. He has lived in Canada since 2006, increasing his activities in defense of Iran's homosexual community...

The Iranian society can be seen as relatively tolerant towards homosexuals. - DeClassified Report Claims Gays in Iran Are "Tolerated" and Live Without Risk of Persecution. (Alternate Link) - The Only Lesbian In Iran. -  Iran Decriminalizes Sex-Change Operations. - Country information report: Iran (PDF Download): Resource Project for LBTQ Muslim women (Safra Project). - Iran's Chief Prosecutor: Throw Homosexuals into the Fire. - Dispatch from the Dark Ages: Iran deals with gays by killing them. - Death To Gays In Iran. - Death is how Iran deals with gay men. - Iran: Homosexuals executed in Iran N/A. 

Saviz Shafaie: An Iranian Gay Activist Leader - Interview by Jack Nichols. - Saviz Shafaie: Homosexuality and its critics. L'Iran è in prima fila per reprimere il diritto ad esistere degli omosessuali e delle lesbiche. - Iranian Gays Bravely Unite Worldwide (Alternate Link). - An Iranian Man Struggles to Liberate His Gay Soul. (Alternate Link: Must Scroll) - Being real Gay Iranians struggle to be themselves. - The Iranian Closet: When your family would rather see you dead than gay. - Life After the Closet. - La única lesbiana en Irán. - An Iranian Doctor Celebrates Life After the Closet.

Emil Keliane: "All my life I have tried to fathom my own gender fate. In relation to other men, am I man or am I woman? As a developing homosexual child in Iran, I learned to adopt women’s sentiments concerning men and relationships—not a liberated, enlightened, independent woman’s sentiments, but a subjugated woman’s. I learned to feel and be inferior to man.Like the subjugated woman, the universal homosexual must fight for his own liberation, because man will not hand it to him freely. Still, I cannot repudiate the man in myself simply because he may possess tyrannical tendencies. Equally functioning within me are the two genders. I make decisions not as strictly woman, or solely man, but as an androgynous spirit..." - Gay In Iran: " Ancora negati i diritti civili nel paese islamico: vietate le manifestazioni. I gay continuano a essere messi a morte. Ma grazie a internet e tv satellitare, qualcosa sta cambiando."

Ayatollah Musavi Ardebili's Guideline on the Way of Killing a Homosexual! (French English: About a Iranian Government Official) - Gays, lesbians must be stoned. - A Mother Takes On Ayatollahs: "In the Islamic Republic of Iran, lesbians and gay men risk the death penalty. Sex-change surgery for transsexuals is legal, but the recommended year of transition is skipped, because until the surgery is complete, you are considered criminally homosexual." - Iranian opposition groups back gay rights. - Saviz Shafaie: An Iranian Gay Activist Leader (Alternate Link).- Iran's Green Party has announced its support for homosexual rights. - Diary of a Queer, Persian, Otaku Wanderer in CyberCloset.

Sexual exiles: Arman fled his home country in fear for his life. He explains why terror rules the lives of homosexual men and women in Iran (1992): "In Iran today homosexuality is punished by arrest and even death, which makes coming out’ practically impossible. Every lesbian and gay lives in almost complete isolation and panic lest school-mates, an employer or a family member become suspicious. Those who dare confide their secret know that if it gets out, shame will fall on the entire family... Gay bars have been closed since the time of the Shah so homosexuals are forced to meet in parks, which are raided regularly by civilian-clothed police or ‘guardists’. They demand identification and anyone who hesitates is immediately suspect. Gays revealing the slightest ‘soft’ or feminine characteristics are beaten and kicked or given electric shocks to different parts of the body. If the police feel they have captured a particularly ‘dangerous’ homosexual, he is humiliated and raped before being executed." - Gay Iranian Faces Sure Execution if Expelled from Sweden - Young Man's Boyfriend Executed - Mother Suffers Reprisals. - Acceptance: Iranian homosexuals are excluded, even abroad.

Islamic Republic of Iran and Execution for Adultery and Homosexuality: "In his 14-page research paper, Goudarz Eghtedari takes a legal approach to demonstrate existing injustice penal codes of Islamic Republic toward both adultery and homosexuality. He begins by exploring ill treatments of gays and lesbians by government agents all over the world, even in the developing Western countries and then in Iran. Out of such comparison, he notices some substantial differences between situation of homosexuals in Iran and elsewhere. He argues that the death capital punishments toward gays and lesbians in Iran are being officially in practice in an extremely fierce manner. Being aware of a widespread denial of same-sex relationships in Iran, the author tries to legitimise the significance of his report concerning homosexuality by mentioning several evidences. Eghtedari, therefore, takes a deeper glance into the history of homosexuality in Iran and points out several evidences, showing the existence of same-sex relationships throughout the past centuries, as well as the contemporary period. - Rights Activist Testifies on Iranian Gay Asylum-Seeker. - Gay Iranian Desperate to Stay in Japan. - Japan Refuses Sanctuary To Fleeing Gay.

New Dark Ages: "Of the Islamic states that ban lesbian and gay sex, Iran is the most zealously homophobic. Since 1980, when the fundamentalists came to power under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, over 4,000 lesbians and gay men have been executed, according to estimates by the exiled Iranian homosexual rights group, Homan..." - Iran Announces Launch of HIV Prevention Campaign. - Quanto segue è un articolo di Sergio Lo Giudice, presidente di Arcigay Nazionale, in relazione alla situazione dei gay in Iran (e negli altri paesi musulmani), alla luce delle recenti proteste degli studenti a Teheran ma anche in tutto il mondo e delle dure rappresaglie del regime.

Homan Conference: First Conference of Homosexuality in Iranian Society: Los Angeles, 2003:"The documentary I Exist: Voices from the Lesbian and Gay Middle Eastern Community in the U.S. will be screened that evening in conjunction with the conference. This will be the Los Angeles premiere of the film."

Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology: Index Page: Iran: - Homoerotic, Homosexual, and Ambisexual Behaviors. - Gender Conflicted Persons. - HIV/AIDS.

Iranian Queer Organization. - Gay Persia N/A: (Archive Link)  Articles / Discussions N/A. (Archive Link)  -  State of Homosexuality in Iran Since the Revolution of 1979. - Queering Democracy in Iran. - Iran transvestite film draws militant fire.

Kanaye Doost N/A (A Site For Iranian Women Who Love Women: Archive Link, to 2002) (Archive Link, to 2004) - Gay Iran N/A. (Archive Link, to 2002): - Society of Hypocrisy N/A. - Memories of an Iranian homosexual out of honesty - Article Listing. - Iranian Homosexuals in Society - To talk seriously about ourselves. - Persian Gay & Lesbian Organization V/A (Norway) (Archive Link). Iran Gay Home N/A (Archive Link, 2004).

Iranian Gay and Lesbian Health Care Providers Association: Article Listing. - Being real: Gay Iranians struggle to be themselves. - ThePersianBoy.com.

Resource Links: - Net Gai Links. - filou Mektoub Links. - Dutch Website dedicated to Iranian Lesbian, Bisexual and Transexual Women. - Situation of Lesbians & Gays: Bibliography: Reports, Books & Articles (To 1996). - Diary of a Queer, Persian, Otaku Wanderer in CyberCloset: Links.

Gay Iran (Global Gayz) - News Report 1998 to Present. - ILGA Report - The Eastgarden. - Sodomy Laws: Iran. - GME: Iran. - LGBT rights in Iran. 

Pridelinks. - QRD. - Open Directory Links. - Google Directory. 

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ISRAEL - Gay agenda takes spotlight in Israel: Israel's gay community is pressing ahead with transforming the Jewish state into a bastion of homosexual rights and depraved pleasures. - Supreme Court Approves Same-Sex Marriages. - Israel recognizes first 'gay marriage': Israel registered its first "gay marriage" Jan. 29, two months after the nation's highest court issued a landmark ruling for homosexual couples. - Gay 'Marriage' in Israel: Worse than Holocaust - Will Cause Terrorism Warns Rabbi Levin. - Violence in Israel caused by 'gay' event? Rabbis link troubles to approval of World Pride parade in Jerusalem. - Gay Pride demo under serious threat: Reactionary Jewish and Arab groups unite in homophobic campaign. - A transgender agenda: As the representative of the most rejected minority group of all - transgenders - Nora Greenberg is busy lobbying the Interior Ministry to permit `sex changes' on identity cards. - Foreign Ministry promoting Gay Israel. - Education Minister Yuli Tamir is taking important steps to help foster acceptance and integration for gay Israeli teenagers.

In Israel, gay Arab activists forge ahead with plans for a rare public conference. : "A rare gathering of openly gay Arab activists is slated to be held in Israel this month, drawing the ire of religious conservatives. Headlined "Home and Exile," the March 28 meeting is meant to spark discussion of homosexuality among Israel's 1 million Arab citizens, said Roula Deeb, a prominent Arab feminist and one of the scheduled speakers..." - Gay Pride Parade in Israel (Video). - 'Gay attack' on Israel synagogue: A Tel Aviv synagogue has been attacked and daubed with graffiti, apparently in response to religious Jewish attempts to ban a gay pride march in Jerusalem... -  Israel oks gay march. - Israel Refuses to Ban Gay Pride Parade. - Gay Pride Israel 2006: Against a tide of hatred, some of which resulted in violent protests by religious conservatives, tens of thousands of gay men and lesbians joined together November 11 to celebrate in Jerusalem. - The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, yesterday voted overwhelmingly to pass two bills designed to ban the Gay Pride March in Jerusalem scheduled for June 21. - Jerusalem Gay March Sparks Controversy: Under heavy police guard, gay activists marched in a Gay Pride parade in downtown Jerusalem on Thursday, sparking a noisy counter-demonstration by ultra-Orthodox Jews and denunciations by Muslim and Christian leaders. There were no incidents of violence during the brief event...  - Dispatch From Jerusalem: The Lebanon war comes to a gay pride rally.

History of Gay Israel: Queer in the Land of Sodom. - Between Sodom and Eden: A Gay Journey Through Today's Changing Israel. - Gays Are Divided On Mideast Strife. (Related Information) - Gay Israel: No Pride In Occupation. - Israel's top court okays homosexual parenthood. - Israeli Gays Struggle with Intransigent Orthodoxy N/A. - Gay and Lesbian Kiss-in is Staged in Jerusalem. - 4,000 People March in Jerusalem's First Pride Parade. - J'lem mayor threatened over scheduled Gay Pride parade. - Gay Pride: an Otherworldly Night in Jerusalem (2004). - WorldPride 2005 to be held in Jerusalem. - Taking 'pride' in Israel's gay rights: One might get an idea from reading recent headlines in Israel about the controversy over World Pride - the international gay and lesbian week which is taking place this week in Jerusalem - that the country has not yet entered the modern world pertaining to gay rights. But nothing could be further from the truth... - "Queer" As A Tool Of Colonial Oppression: The Case Of Israel/Palestine.

Gays Under Occupation: Help Save the Life of Fuad Moussa. - Tel Aviv Tales: In the second of her new series on everyday life in the city, Linda Grant hears what it is like to be gay in Israel. - Small gay kiss puts Israeli hit in local theaters. - Israeli politician discusses social norms at home, in U.S.: Parliament Member Uzi Even Speaks to Bruins about Progress of Gays, Gay Rights. - Queer in the Land of Sodom. - Even in Israel: professor Uzi Even is the first openly gay member in Israel's parliament - but that's only his latest accomplishment. - Out in Israel outside the bubble of Hollywood. - West Bank gays more at home in Israel. West Bank gays find social life in Israel. They fear new wall will trap them where their lifestyle is taboo.

'Gay? Oy Vey!' cleans out Israel's closets: ""There's so much overlap between Jewish and queer identity -- how the closet operates, invisibility, visibility -- and then you add Israel to that, one of the most interesting and volatile regions on the planet," said Kevin Schaub, HMI's dean and executive director... Within an equation that leaves little room for homosexuality or non-traditional gender roles, Even-Zohar believes a hyper-masculinity flourished as the ideal sabra. The fruit itself has a tough, thick outer skin that takes some difficulty to peel away, yielding to a sweeter, soft center -- a metaphor for a stereotypical Israeli man. To demonstrate, Even-Zohar intends to show two films in the class, so students can analyze the evolving cultural context from statehood to the present-day climate for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people in Israel... "The gay community is maturing, it's becoming better and better. But in some ways, it doesn't matter. It's not good for gays when there's no place for feminism, gay rights and human rights -- because everyone is obsessed with national  security and the peace process," he said..." - Homosexuality and the Israel Defense Forces; Did Lifting the Gay Ban Undermine Military Performance?

Pride & Prejudice: Being Gay in Israel: (Alternate Link)  Israeli gays: accepted and shunned: "Orael is frightened of going to school in Israel’s Upper Galilee, where he must endure a barrage of anti-gay slurs. Classmates see him as effeminate, and taunt him repeatedly. Accustomed to being called "disgusting freak" and "faggot," he expects even worse from his upcoming compulsory army service. In Israel’s north, few homosexuals have come out of the closet...  "There’s little gay-bashing here [Tel Aviv]," said Nathaniel, who recently opened Jerusalem’s only gay and lesbian pub. "Verbal, yes, but it’s not physical like in the States...It’s more stuff like, ‘Please don’t hang that rainbow flag there.’" And that’s not the only differences between gay life in Israel versus that in the United States. For instance, sodomy laws were repealed years ago, discrimination was banned in the workplace, and immigrant same-sex partners of Israelis are eligible for visas even if they’re not Jewish..." - Being Gay in Israel. - Isn't That Queer? - Endangered Valentine's: In the midst of the brutal Israeli-Palestinian butchery, a Jerusalem gay couple will spend Valentine's Day desperately fighting to remain together. The two men, an Israeli and a Palestinian, have lived together in that city since 1999. - An Update on the Gay Couple in Jerusalem: Fuad and Ezra: Gays Under the Occupation. - For Homosexual Palestinians, Israel Is Their Best Shot at Safety.

Jerusalem Open House: Where Jews and Arabs find ways to mix peacefully in the Holy Land: "In the heart of Jerusalem, the holy city torn by age-old animosities, the rainbow flag is sending a powerful message, according to those who placed it there. Flying over a pedestrian mall that's been the target of terrorist bombs, the international symbol of Gay Pride shows that Jews, Christians and Muslims can live together in harmony. - An Israeli 'open house' for Palestinians in the closet: Unnoticed by the crowds walking along the Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall in downtown Jerusalem, a rainbow-colored flag flies from the third-floor window of Open House, the community center for the Holy City's homosexuals... The men range from their late teens to early 30s, are both Moslem and Christian, and, atypically for the Palestinian gay population, none are married. None would be interviewed for this article, either, and none are 'out of the closet' on their home turf, which is perfectly typical of Palestinian gays... - Gays blog for Mideast peace: Two American Jews living in Israel launch gay blog in a mission to unite Jewish and Arab gay men who believe in peace.

Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology: Index Page: Israel: - Homoerotic, Homosexual, and Ambisexual Behaviors. - Gender Conflicted Persons. - HIV/AIDS.

Good Boys (Film): Writer/Director Yair Hochner weaves a tale of young male prostitution in Tel Aviv in Good Boys (2004/Israel) as two rent boys, Tal and Meni, start to become interested in each other.  We have seen this story before of two loners with low self esteem finding each other in the oldest profession in the world, but I give him credit for trying to show a side of Israel and these young men we might not see otherwise... - Israel’s Gay Music Video.

Resources: - The Agudah: The Association of Gay Men, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgender in Israel. - Haifa Gay Community Home Page -  The Gay and Lesbian Student Union of the Hebrew University - Queer Theory Reading Group at Tel-Aviv University. - The World Congress of Gay and Lesbian Jewish Organizations. - Banot: Merkaz haMeyda ve haMagazin haIsraeli leTransexualim N/A. (Archive Link, to 2000) - The Political Council for Gay Rights in Israel.

Resources: - The Jerusalem Open House:  - History. - Article List. - Jerry Levinson / Speech to Knesset. - Tamar / In or Out or: Little Boxes on the Hillside. - The Haifa Gay Community Home Page. - Out In Israel N/A. (Archive Link, to 2002) - The OrthoGays. - The Agudah: The Association of Gay Men, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgender in Israel. - Gay Israel: Tourism in Israel. 

Gay Israel - Gay Israel/Palestine (Global Gayz): - News/Reports, Israel 1997 to Present. - ILGA Report - The Eastgarden. - Sodomy Laws: Israel. - LGBT rights in Israel. - GME: Israel. - glbtq: Israel. 

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PALESTINE - Palestine and gay rights. - Palestinian Gay Women holds historic conference. - Islamic fury at Palestinian lesbian conference in Haifa (& Arab praise for kidnapped BBC man).- Out of the Closet in Palestine: An Interview with Rauda Morcos on Palestinian Gay Women. - Palestine: Not So Glad to be Gay. - Gay and Palestinian: "A must-read piece on Tayseer (not his real name), a gay Palestinian, and the horrible treatment he has received at the hands of his own people for his sexual orientation. This is a different guy then the one I wrote about last month, but the overall pattern in the same: young Palestinian man is gay; family and neighbors find out, brutally abuse him. In the case of Tayseer, he also gets punished for being gay by the duly constituted offices of the Palestinian Authority, who force Tayseer to be submerged in a pit of raw sewage and then throw him into solitary confinement."

Being gay in Palestine. (Alternate Link) - 'Death threat' to Palestinian gays. - Gays Attacked at Palestinian Protest. - Palestinian gays flee to Israel: The Palestinian gays feel safer on the other side of the border. A number of gay Palestinian men are risking their lives to cross the border into Israel, claiming they feel safer among Israelis than their own people. - Palestinian Gays Seek Safety in Israel. - Palestinian Gay Runaways Survive on Israeli Streets. - Being Gay and Palestinian: As this Economist article makes clear (but perhaps not clear enough), despite its propaganda, Israel is not interested in Palestinian gay men except as vulnerable subjects to blackmail and make into collaborators. - Gay Man Criticizes Palestinian Society. 

Gay Palestinians: What the World Ignores: "...But none of this excuses the fact that queer Palestinians are being persecuted, imprisoned, tortured and killed by their own people, their own government. Many of them flee to Israel, knowing that they will get better treatment from "the enemy"... "With bombs once again exploding all over Israel, and the Palestinian territories under seemingly permanent curfew, the woes of Palestinian homosexuals haven't exactly grabbed international attention. But after spending two days with gay Palestinian refugees in Israel, I began to wonder why the ... world has never taken interest in their plight." - OutRage! Position Statement: Palestinian Gays. - Palestine Gays Are Tortured. - Queers for Palestine.

Time for the Palestinian ‘liberals’ to come out:  At the talk on Wednesday, Eli (using a pseudonym), a gay Palestinian now living in Israel, told a story about his friend Adam, who at the age of 17, fled from his home after he was caught with another man. "After Adam managed to flee from the wrath of his father, his father held a funeral for him, pronouncing, 'As far as we are concerned, our son is dead.'" The Palestinian Authority subsequently arrested Adam three times for his sexual orientation, torturing and humiliating him. It is illegal to be gay in the Palestinian Authority, Eli said, and the police actually employ special undercover agents that seek out gay men, whom the police then torture, kill, or force to work as prostitutes. It is not surprising, Eli said, that he and Adam decided to flee to Israel, the only place where they would not be persecuted for their sexuality. Eli's story is typical of the lives of the many gay Palestinians who find themselves at risk because of their sexuality . One can imagine the hard choices gay Palestinians must make between living in danger in the Palestinian Authority and risking their lives by escaping to Israel; despite the risks, many choose to flee and live among the "enemy."

ASWAT (English: Voices) is a courageous and dynamic group of women who have decided to organize to challenge the status quo and to improve their lives and hopefully secure these rights for the coming generations. - Aswat Gay Palestinian Women fight for the rights of lesbian women. - We are Palestinian, we are women, we are gay. - A language no one else is speaking: Rauda Morcos is a true radical. She’s a Palestinian lesbian activist who next year plans to protest the Pride parade in Jerusalem. “I’m against the idea of having a celebration at the same time that there’s occupation,” says Morcos, the 30-year-old coordinator of the first Palestinian lesbian group, Aswat. “We have people being killed 20 minutes down the road at the same time as this racist separation wall is being built,” she says, referring to the West Bank towns near Jerusalem that are frequently the site of clashes with the Israeli army and where Israel is building a controversial wall to cut itself off from the West Bank. Morcos’ discomfort with Israeli Pride festivities is illustrative of the challenges she and other Aswat members face: they’re discriminated against as Palestinians living under Israeli rule, as women in a male-dominated society and as lesbians in an Arab community where there’s no official word for “gay.” “We’re against any type of occupation,” she says. “I don’t want to be occupied as a Palestinian or as a woman or as a lesbian.” ...

Gays attacked at Palestinian rights protest: Lesbians and gay men from OutRage! and the Queer Youth Alliance joined today’s demonstration in London to support the human rights of the people of Palestine. But they also urged the Palestinian Authority to halt the arrest, torture and murder of homosexuals. They marched with placards reading: “Israel: stop persecuting Palestine. Palestine: stop persecuting queers”. As soon as they arrived in Trafalgar Square to join the demonstration, the gay protesters were surrounded by an angry, shouting mob of Islamic fundamentalists, Anglican priests, members of the Socialist Workers Party and the Stop The War Coalition, and officials from the demonstration organisers, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC). The mob variously attacked the gay activists as “racists”, “Zionists”, “CIA and MI5 agents”, and “supporters of the Sharon government”... 

Gay Israel/Palestine lobal Gayz) - ILGA Report - The Eastgarden. - Sodomy Laws: Palestine. - GME: Palestine.

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LEBANON / LIBAN - Lebanon displays an increasing tolerance of gays: Nightlife tourism booms in Beirut. (Alternate Link, Must Scroll) - Opening the Arab closet: Lebanon-based queer rights group Helem fights for visibility and acceptance in an unwelcoming community. - Gay Community Thrives in Lebanon (Audio). (Alternate link) (Transcribed, Must Scroll) - Lebanon's homosexual community speaks out: (Alternate Link) (Alternate Link) Reports of police abuse and societal intolerance are among the complaints of the country's gay population. - Homosexuals still facing discrimination. - Lebanon's gays struggle with law: (Alternate Link, with comments) Homosexuality in Lebanon is no longer on the fringes of society or confined to an underworld of nightclubs and exclusive gatherings. It is now the subject of daily discussions in the country... - Lebanon seeks gay travelers.

Helem publishes region's first magazine for gay Arabs:  Not only has Lebanon managed to establish Helem, the first Arab non-governmental organization openly fighting for the rights of homosexuals, but it is also now publishing Barra (Arabic for Out), the region's first magazine for gay Arabs (Excerpt) (Excerpt, Must Scroll). - Helem, pour les droits des gays et lesbiennes au Liban. - Landmark meeting for gay Lebanese: For people routinely harassed and sometimes arrested by the Lebanese authorities, it was refreshing to be able to attend a public event without fear of being detained...

Beyrouth, le rêve éveillé: Bars, boîtes, soirées… longtemps, la communauté gay de Beyrouth a été un vrai papillon de nuit. Mais plus seulement. Même si le tabou de l’homosexualité pèse toujours lourd dans une large majorité de la société libanaise, les gays et lesbiennes de la capitale se réveillent, et craignent de moins en moins de s’affirmer au grand jour...  - "Acid": Le temple gay de Beyrouth. - Les gays sortent du placard au Liban.