Incompetency of the Seattle LGBT Commission highlighted by the Council member questions at the end of the discussion in Video By Melanie Nathan Watch the apology and the dramatic and emotional testimony given by leaders from the Seattle LGBT and Jewish community to the Seattle City Council ( Public Safety, Civil Rights and Technology Committee […]
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Seattle LGBT Commission Issues Apology to Israeli Guests But Should Still Resign
The Seattle City LGBT Commissions has issued a formal apology, by posting it on Facebook, to the LGBT public and the Israeli AILO group, as can be seen below, for its actions in cancelling an event that in essence served to boycott and silence the visiting group from Israel.
It admits the “pain, offense
Greater Seattle Business Association Outraged by Seattle LGBT Commission
Reacting to last week’s cancellation of a meeting with Israeli equality delegates,the Greater Seattle Business Association, the largest LGBT chamber of commerce in the United States with over 1000 members, wrote a letter to the City of Seattle LGBT Commission, to express their outrage at the commission’s decision to “silence LGBT voices by cancelling the City Hall event with a delegation of Israeli LGBT civil rights leaders.”
Muslim Lesbian Couple Fight Deportation in Canada in Fear of Honor Killing
An Arab-Israeli lesbian couple, who fled to Canada from Israel in fear of death at the hands of their Muslim family have been told they can remain in Canada for another chance at receiving asylum, according to the Toronto Sun newspaper. Iman Musa and Majida Mugrabi, living in Toronto, filed unsuccessful refugee claims that were […]
Protected: US LGBT Academic Delegation Guilty of Pro-Palestinian Pinkwashing
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United Arab Emirates LGBT Reports possible Gay Arrests
Dan Littauer, Editor GME, 16.3.2012 The United Arab Emirates Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender group has received reports that 30 people who are believed may be gay were arrested in private ‘after’ party last at 5am, last Friday (9 March) in the Shangri La Hotel, Dubai. It was said the party was ambushed and all present were […]
Seattle LGBT Commission’s Boycott of Israeli LGBTI Guests Opens Wounds
By Melanie Nathan and Scott Rose, 03/16/2012 Caving to protests by a small anti-Israel and anti-Jewish contingency, using the guise of so called pinkwashing, the Seattle City LGBT Commission has silenced the voices of its Israeli LGBT guests from the coalition Group AILO, by cancelling, with less than 24 hours notice, a dialogue event which […]
Seattle LGBT Commission Shuts Down Israel’s LGBT Voice
The unconscionable shutting down of gay, lesbian and transgender voices by our own community cannot be tolerated, for any reason whatsoever – I take blogger’s license – I am sad and disgusted! By Melanie Nathan 03/15/2012 Reports have come in from the Seattle commission’s meeting tonight that in an act of unprecedented cowardice the Seattle […]
Seattle University Assistant Law Professor Attempts to Silence Visiting Israeli LGBT Voices
Denying dialogue is a means to foster hate … By Melanie Nathan, 03/14/2012 In the midst of a visit to the West Coast by a delegation of Israeli LGBT leaders, is a small group of US anti-Israel proponents determined to silence the visitors. Leading this effort to silence the equality activists from Israel is an […]
Iraqi Gay and Emo Murders San Francisco Castro to Hold Vigils Protesting
No genocide in Iraq, Never Again! The World must scream – Americans have a great responsibility By Melanie Nathan, 03/12/2012 Up to a 100 gay and ‘Emo’ youth have been massacred in Iraq, some reports indicate it has been ordered and supported by police and state officials.” The Government itself seems complicit and that has […]
Horrific Reports of Emo and Gay Massacres in IRAQ and Bush Legacy
Is this the Free Iraq the U.S. Bush War Anticipated, noting his Administration’s participation in Sharia law included in IRAQI Constitution. See Petition – By Melanie Nathan, 03/10/2012, I never understood the Bush Iraq war. It never made sense to me. I always knew we were there under false pretenses, that George W. Bush had […]
Muslim Groups Oppose United Nations stand on Human Right To Sexuality
Tomorrow the UN debates Human Rights for LGBT people By Melanie Nathan, 03/06/2012, For us in the USA, “gay rights” is associated with the debate over equality and is about whether LGBTI people should be allowed to marry, adopt, serve in the military, be subject to baseless firing from jobs. Yet others in the World […]
Reports of Iraqi Gays Kidnapped, Tortured and Murdered
The threats gave the individuals, whose names and ages were listed, four days to stop their behavior or else face the wrath of God, and were to be carried out by the Mujahedin.
According to sources inside Iraq,as reported apparently by IGHLRC, as the result of this new surge of anti-gay violence close to 40 people have been kidnapped, brutally tortured and murdered.
South Africans Outraged as Journalist Deported by QATAR because HIV-Positive
Allegedly tested for HIV without consent, found positive and subsequently dismissed, detained and deported, a South African journalist is attempting to take his case against Qatar to the International Labour Organization (ILO) to change the country’s HIV travel and employment laws.
United Arab Emirates LGBT | Scrub the Gay Away Video Mockery
LGBT people in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have attacked a YouTube video ‘tutorial’ which may depict an attempt to scrub away the gay, under the guise of a title “Be Yourself.” However, from a Western point of view, is the tutorial a mockery of the process of curing homosexuality through a rendition of a […]
Twitter to Start Censoring by Country | Impact on Gay LGBTI Activism
Twitter announced that the company will now start to censor tweets on a country-by-country basis, allowing the popular microblogging site to comply with local governments’ request to remove, block certain content or users.
Tunisia | Interior Minister Gay Scandal Inflames Homosexual Panic
By Guest Dan Littauer, Executive Editor of Gay Middle East Tunisia’s new interior minister, Ali Larayedh, has been embroiled in controversy and scandal as a leaked video allegedly shows him in a gay prison sex video. This scandal has outraged and inflamed public opinion against homosexuality which was already jittery, due to the electoral political […]
Saudi Man Arrested for Gay Dating via Facebook
By Guests Dan Littauer and Sami Hamwi, 13.01.2012 Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) As British Prime Minister, David Cameron visits Saudi Arabia today, activists report the plight of a man arrested by the religious police who may face corporal punishment. Activists are concerned for the safety of a 30-year-old man arrested by the religious […]
LGBT People “are sick” says Iranian Human Rights Official
By Guest Dan Littauer, 9.01.2012 The secretary-general of the Iranian High Council for Human Rights described homosexuality as a western ”disease,” and said that same-sex marriage was “immoral,” according to a report of Radio Free Europe. General Mohammad Javad Larijani allegedly made these remarks in Tehran during a visit by German Tom Koenigs, who chairs […]
Asking King of Norway to save Gay Iraqi Man Azad from Deportation to Iraq
by Melanie Nathan, Dec 29, 2011. Updated: Petition Started on change.org see below. Outrageous reasons to deport gay man from Norway; save Azad , a young homosexual man, from deportation back to Iraq. The High Court in Oslo, Norway has turned down the application for political asylum after being petitioned by Azad, a 33 year […]
Michelle Bachelet on the Egyptian Violence against Women & Children
Melanie Nathan, December 21 2011 | Women’s Political and Civil Rights in Egypt Here is the statement of Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN Women, following the attacks on women and children in Egypt. Wednesday, 21 December 2011. I note with great concern the reports of direct attacks in the past few days on […]
Women March in Egypt at Great Risk
by Melanie Nathan, Dec 20, 2011 I believe what I am seeing in the video below is a march of women in the streets of Egypt, presumably Cairo. I could be wrong. I am having the marching chant translated at the time of posting and will update. In the meantime what I am getting is […]
Watch Video: Iraqi Gays and The Bush War Legacy
All Americans are relieved that the U.S., led by Commander in Chief President Barack Obama has concluded the unwanted Bush War in Iraq. But for Gay (LGBTI) Iraqis there is no relief, just a desperate reality as they seek refuge from their hopeless displacement.” By Melanie Nathan, Dec 15, 2011. With the lowering and return […]
The Israel Uganda Connection: ‘Never Again’ or ‘We Did not Know?’
B’Vakashah, which is it going to be? by Melanie Nathan, Dec 13, 2011 Rumor has it that former minister and Israeli career politician Rafael “Rafi” Eitan, now 85 years of age, is trying to do business in Uganda, seeking to start an agricultural enterprise. I wonder if Eitan knows that Ugandans are currently ‘scape-goating’ gays, […]
U.S. President OBAMA Orders Far Reaching Pro-Gay Foreign Policy
“This critical move by the Obama administration is cause for celebration, especially at a time when violence against LGBTI people is on the increase, through the institutionalization of discriminatory laws, such as the criminalization of homosexuality in Africa.” Melanie Nathan By Melanie Nathan President Obama ordered U.S. diplomatic missions and federal agencies working abroad to […]
Food for Thought! Muammar Gaddafi is Still in the Refrigerator!
Winning Africa Over by Melanie Nathan, October 23, 2011, Muammar Gaddafi was shot and killed. His body was taken to Misrata to the west of Sirte, where a doctor’s examination disclosed that the deposed leader had been shot in the head and abdomen. It was decided to keep his body “for a few days”, NTC […]
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