Google vows to change derogatory gay translation
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When the word "gay" is entered into Google's translation tools, the word "luti" is returned, an Arabic equivalent of "sodomite", to the ire of gay activists.
The translation tools of Google, one of the world's leading internet corporations, are widely available on both Google's website and in downloadable software.
Living outside of society: Palestinian refugee rentboys in the Lebanon
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As the conflict between Israel and terrorists and others within the Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories worsens, PinkNews.co.uk's Matthew Streib examines what the plight of Palestinian refugee rentboys living within the Lebanon.
"I'M NOT GAY. Don't write that I'm gay," implored Tarek, a 22-yearold resident of Chatila, a Palestinian refugee camp of more than 12,000 inhabitants just south of Beirut.
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