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Stars and Stripes, Posted: 7/30/2010, 5:47 PM QUICK LOOK: Officials at the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network are demanding the Secretary of the Navy step in before a senior enlisted sailor dubbed the ringleader of the hazing... (MORE) |
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The Register (U.K.), Posted: 3/8/2010, 9:26 AM QUICK LOOK: Microsoft's Bing search engine blocks out "sexually explicit" results and gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender queries in Arab countries, claimed the Open Net Initiative... (MORE) |
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McClatchy Newspapers, Posted: 2/17/2010, 1:15 AM QUICK LOOK: Navy Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was nearing the end of a 25-minute question and answer session with troops serving here when he raised... (MORE) |
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Los Angeles Times, Posted: 1/6/2010, 12:34 PM QUICK LOOK: Nine men dressed in women's clothing were arrested on New Year's Eve in the discotheque of a Manama, Bahrain, hotel and charged with public debauchery, the United Arab... (MORE) |
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Arab Times, Posted: 10/21/2008, 1:28 PM QUICK LOOK: The Court of Appeals in Kuwait Monday set Nov 12, 2008 to look into the case of four Kuwaitis and two bedoun and allow the defense team to prepare their argument. The accused are charged with causing... (MORE) |
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Khaleej Times (UAE), Posted: 9/6/2008, 10:38 AM QUICK LOOK: The Dubai Court of Appeal has upheld one-month jail sentence for a lesbian couple for committing an indecent act in public. They will be deported after serving their jail terms. The women include... (MORE) |
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Associated Press (AP), Posted: 7/12/2008, 4:19 PM QUICK LOOK: A brother of the United Arab Emirates’ ruler has appealed a Swiss court ruling convicting him of assaulting an American with his belt at a luxury hotel bar, a Geneva... (MORE) |
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Alarabiya (UAE), Posted: 7/7/2008, 2:36 PM QUICK LOOK: Dubai Police have formed an undercover unit to combat homosexual and indecent activity on the emirate's public beaches, a recent press report said. An unnamed official... (MORE) |
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Pink News (U.K.), Posted: 7/6/2008, 4:37 PM QUICK LOOK: A gay asylum seeker has been told that he should be safe in his homeland of Syria, provided he behaves "discreetly." A tribunal found that gays have no right of protection from international persecution... (MORE) |
Bloomberg News Service, Posted: 4/11/2008, 5:13 PM QUICK LOOK: For three months, Egyptian police have embarked on periodic sweeps of downtown streets to clear them of presumed homosexuals. The raids, independent observers and human-rights activists say, reflect... (MORE) |
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The Star (South Africa), Posted: 4/1/2008, 12:21 PM QUICK LOOK: When Ali started blogging that he was Sudanese and gay, he did not realise he was joining a band of African and Middle Eastern gays and lesbians who, in the face of hostility and repression, have... (MORE) |
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Scotsman.com, Posted: 3/23/2008, 10:32 AM QUICK LOOK: Political pressure is mounting on the UK Government to reverse its decision to deport a gay Syrian teenager from Scotland to his homeland, where he faces almost certain... (MORE) |
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Washington Post, Posted: 2/18/2008, 11:08 AM QUICK LOOK: When Ali started blogging that he was Sudanese and gay, he did not realize he was joining a band of African and Middle Eastern gays and lesbians who, in the face of hostility... (MORE) |
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Posted: 2/14/2008, 12:46 AM QUICK LOOK: A crackdown on homosexuals could be launched in Bahrain, including tougher immigration checks to stop foreign gays entering the country. It would include a study to determine how widespread homosexuality... (MORE) |
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Frontlines (SLDN), Posted: 12/21/2007, 10:29 AM QUICK LOOK: The holidays will be a whole lot brighter for the Manzella family, who are looking forward to welcoming a very special guest home. Sergeant Darren Manzella, the Army... (MORE) |
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CBS News, Posted: 12/17/2007, 1:39 PM QUICK LOOK: Discharges of gay soldiers are dropping, dramatically: from over 1,200 a year in 2001 to barely 600. With the military struggling to fight two wars, there are growing... (MORE) |
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CBS News, Posted: 12/14/2007, 9:09 AM QUICK LOOK: A gay soldier says he disclosed his sexual orientation to his superiors, even offering graphic proof, and was neither discharged nor reprimanded, despite the military's... (MORE) |
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New York Times, Posted: 12/13/2007, 7:20 AM QUICK LOOK: A Dubai court sentenced two men yesterday to 15 years in prison for the rape of a French-Swiss teenager whose case became a rallying point for critics of the way the... (MORE) |
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Reuters-U.S., Posted: 11/7/2007, 3:59 PM QUICK LOOK: A tearful French teenage boy told a court in Dubai today that three United Arab Emirates nationals lured him and a friend into their car and gang-raped him at knifepoint... (MORE) |
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Agence France Presse (AFP), Posted: 11/6/2007, 1:19 PM QUICK LOOK: In some countries in the Arab world homosexuals can face the death penalty. But in Lebanon an association battles openly for the rights of gays who may live freely but... (MORE) |
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New York Times, Posted: 11/1/2007, 9:06 AM QUICK LOOK: Alexandre Robert, a French 15-year-old, was having a fine summer in this tourist paradise on the Persian Gulf. Just after sunset, Alex bumped into an acquaintance, a 17-year-old native-born student... (MORE) |
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Ha'aretz, Posted: 9/24/2007, 10:30 AM QUICK LOOK: Israel said on Sunday that an Israeli man who has been arrested in Lebanon is not a spy, and his father said the young man converted to Islam several years ago and immersed... (MORE) |
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Reuters-U.K., Posted: 9/20/2007, 5:43 PM QUICK LOOK: Staff at a German butcher's shop in Mannheim were shocked to discover a customer had hidden two sex toys in their sausages for transport to Dubai, police said yesterday. After shopping there earlier... (MORE) |
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National Public Radio (NPR), Posted: 7/18/2007, 9:24 PM QUICK LOOK: Homosexuality is forbidden in most of the Arab world, and is against the law in Lebanon. But the gay community is quietly flourishing in Beirut, and some young Lebanese... (MORE) |
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Los Angeles Times, Posted: 6/24/2007, 7:46 AM QUICK LOOK: In Lebanon, homosexuality is becoming less of a taboo. It is discussed with much greater candor on TV and radio talk shows. The Arabic word widely used in reference to gays ... (MORE) |
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