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30 January 2012
Video: UAE ‘straight makeover’ video slammed 30 LGBT people in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have attacked a YouTube video ‘tutorial’ which shows how gays can be ‘cured’ or ‘scrubbed clean’ of their sexuality.
30 January 2012
New Twitter censorship function prompts concern in anti-gay states 9 Twitter's announcement that it will be able to censor tweets on a country-by-country basis has prompted concern for gay communities in hostile countries.
22 January 2012
Tunisian Interior Minister in a gay sex video scandal 19 Tunisia’s new interior minister, Ali Larayedh, has been embroiled in controversy and scandal as a leaked video allegedly shows him in a gay prison sex video.
17 January 2012
Kuwait: Reports highlight police brutality to trans community 2 Transphobia is widespread throughout Kuwait following the introduction of a discriminatory law in 2007 that arbitrarily criminalises “imitating the opposite sex”, reports say.
13 January 2012
Man arrested for Facebook gay date in Saudi Arabia 92 As British prime minister, David Cameron visits Saudi Arabia today, activists report the plight of a man arrested by the religious police who may face corporal punishment.
12 January 2012
Tel Aviv ‘best gay city destination’ of 2011 47 The city of Tel Aviv in Israel was dubbed the best gay travel destination of last year but the poll has caused concerns to resurface over alleged human rights "pinkwashing".
12 December 2011
Tel Aviv gay park ‘becoming too dangerous’ 28 A Tel Aviv park popular with the gay community is becoming too dangerous after a series of attacks, campaigners say.
24 November 2011
US professor: Pro-gay Israeli stance “conceals Palestinian human rights violations” 89 "Pinkwashing", according to the professor, has emerged as "a deliberate strategy to conceal the continuing violations of Palestinians’ human rights behind an image of modernity." The idea was described as "ludicrous and offensive".
17 November 2011
Michael Lucas: Beware of the risk of homophobia arising from the Arab Spring 174 Gay entertainment mogul Michael Lucas warns of the risks of homophobic Islamist governments forming after the Arab Spring. After decades in power, a brutal dictator in a Muslim country is dramatically deposed by a massive popular uprising.
13 September 2011
Gay Iranians come out on Facebook 24 A Facebook group has been set up for gay Iranians to come out and discuss their personal stories.
6 September 2011
Human rights group claims Iran hanged three men for gay sex 111 A human rights group has claimed that three Iranian men have been hanged for having gay sex.
12 August 2011
Tel Aviv LGBT youth centre faces closure 4 An LGBT youth centre in Tel Aviv may have to close because of financial problems.
5 August 2011
Israel LGBT youth conference cancelled 95 An international LGBT youth conference will no longer be held in Israel after Palestinian gay groups complained.
3 August 2011
HIV ‘epidemics’ emerging in gay men in North Africa and the Middle East 17 New research suggests that HIV epidemics are emerging in North Africa and the Middle East among men who have sex with men (MSM).
29 July 2011
2,000 join Jerusalem Pride 4 Around 2,000 people joined a largely peaceful pride march in Jerusalem yesterday.

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