The Supreme Court of Israel has ruled same-sex marriage is not a right.
The court’s judges unanimously rejected the Israeli Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Association’s case.
The group argued that the Basic Law of Human Dignity and Liberty should be interpreted to allow same-sex (...)
Yingluck has gone but what has she left?
After being on trial for more than two years, former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra ultimately decided to flee the country before her Rice Pledging Scheme’s judgement day. Her destination remains unconfirmed though media have made various guesses (...)
Terry Conway explains how pinkwashing fits into the strategy of the Israeli state.
Pinkwashing is a strategic campaign by the Israeli state to rebrand itself as a “safe haven” of tolerance for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and queers. This is part of a systematic and conscious (...)
Based on Haneen Maikey’s speech at the conference organized by Aswat – May 2012, and patiently translated to English by Claudine and Deems. Read the original post in Arabic on Qadita.net.
How can we summarize “LGBT and Queer Palestinian Activism in the Past Ten Years from an Internal Perspective (...)
Haneen Maikey from the Palestinian queer group Al Qaws was in Amsterdam in June talking about their struggles for sexual emancipation and against the Israeli occupation. Alex de Jong spoke with her about being queer and Palestinan and the queer contribution to the Palestinian liberation (...)
IGLYO is the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Youth and Student Organization.
Dear IGLYO Member Organizations and Board of Directors,
During the past week, we’ve had the pleasure of publicly discussing, with activists and organizations around the world, issues that (...)
In portraying itself as the only gay-friendly country in a homophobic region the Israeli state reveals its own desperation.
Israel’s recent attack on a flotilla delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza, killing at least nine people, suggests a growing indifference of the Israeli government to global (...)
At the recent ’Gay Olympics’ - the World Outgames in Copenhagen, Denmark - Tel Aviv was crowned one of the exclusive gay capitals of the world and proudly celebrated by the Israeli ambassador in Denmark.
Five days later, a still unidentified gunman killed two people and wounded a dozen more in a (...)
If your own suffering does not serve to unite you with the suffering of others, if your own imprisonment does not join you with others in prison, if you in your smallness remain alone, then your pain will have been for naught.
On the evening of August 1st in Tel Aviv, someone entered a youth (...)
Introduction
Back in 2006 when I was proofing my monograph Female Homosexuality in the Middle East I discovered the existence of Aswat, a Palestinian lesbian organisation. This was through reading an article on the internet about Rauda Morcos, the first director of Aswat. Morcos, who is a (...)
Dear friend of Aswat;
We are two weeks away from our special and great day for Aswat. “Five Years for Aswat Conference”, to be held the 28th of March 2007 in Haifa, is a celebration of Five years to Aswat existence and contribution to the Palestinian community.
In this celebration we launch the (...)
It was when I moved from a small village from the “North” to the big city of Jerusalem. It was not a transition from a far disconnected space called “an Arab village” to the city of red lights, crimes and sex; but a transition from a place of familiarity to the city of impossible paradoxes, of (...)
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