LGBT posters call for acceptance in Baghdad
Posters advocating the acceptance of homosexuality have been spread on different streets in Baghdad, calling for tolerance and coexistence. On Monday, photos of posters supporting…
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Homophobic rabbi who mentors soldiers says IDF turns women ‘crazy’
A controversial rabbi who runs a pre-army religious academy told new IDF recruits that military service drives female soldiers “crazy” and strips them of their…
Treatment of transgender people is a double-edged sword in Iran
Iran — an Islamic theocracy that criminalizes consensual same-sex relations, forces women to adhere to a strict and modest dress code in public, and has…
Jerusalem chief rabbi: Homosexuality is an abomination – Photo
Jerusalem’s chief rabbi lashed out at Israel’s gay community in an interview released Friday, calling homosexuality an “abomination” and earning himself a police complaint for…
The war between the gay British MP and the anti-gay Muslim brotherhood
Crispin Blunt, the gay Tory parliamentarian, has emerged as one of the most vocal British defenders of the Muslim Brotherhood. The chairman of the Foreign…
New York’s biggest LGBTQ synagogue gets a new building after 40 years of wandering – PHOTOS
The forms aren’t discreet, but then again, neither are the four rainbow flags hanging on the lobby wall, or the Black Lives Matter sign leaning…
Iran’s media outraged over a handshake with lesbian German minister
Iran’s press and social users blasted a handshake between Germany’s Minister for the Environment Barbara Hendricks and Iranian Vice President Masoumeh Ebtekar on Thursday. The…
Is it dangerous to be gay in the Middle East?
Just after it became known in June that the attacker of Orlando’s Pulse nightclub had pledged allegiance to ISIS, Egypt’s foreign ministry immediately moved to…
Why are there so few resources for gay muslims online?
Over a year ago, I told my coming out story on a popular LGBTQ YouTube channel called I’m from Driftwood. In the video, I talked…
In Israel, Modern Orthodoxy embraces the religious LGBTs — partly
When Ben Katz witnessed the violence that beset the 2015 Jerusalem Gay Pride parade, which saw an ultra-Orthodox man go on a stabbing rampage that…