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13 March 2012 ~ 1 Comment

(In)equality Forum 2012: Israel as Featured Nation, and Israeli Ambassador to US, Michael Oren, as Keynote Speaker!

We, Palestinian Queers for BDS (PQBDS) and Pinkwatching Israel, are appalled by the Equality Forum’s decision to highlight Israel as the featured nation of their 2012 Summit in Philadelphia this May. While attempting to

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05 January 2012 ~ 2 Comments

No, it is not about Gay Rights

By Mikki Stelder
January 4, 2012

Why is it that every time we speak of sexuality [in Israel] we also have to speak of the occupation [of Palestine], and not also the opposite?

Can we

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21 October 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Que(e)rying the Israel-linked GayMiddleEast.com: a statement by Arab queers

By The Queer Shadow Gallery Collective
Cross posted from MidEastYouth
June 23, 2011

Part I – Delineating Differences

As queer Arab activists working on the ground in several countries in the Middle East, our initial disagreements with GayMiddleEast.com were…

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21 October 2011 ~ 0 Comments

GayMiddleEast.com’s Zionism

Gay Middle East have always had shady politics. That the largest Middle East LGBT (well, G mostly) “grassroots news” website is run by British Israeli Zionist Dan Littauer is already cause for concern. The fact that GME regularly collaborates with neo-colonialist…

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21 October 2011 ~ 0 Comments

On Race, Palestine, and “Dividing the Gay Community”

In the past few years, the queer movement for Palestine, and particularly for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign against Israel has become quite powerful. Far from merging two separate and unrelated issues, it emerged as a direct response to…

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