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Hundreds of queer Palestinians protested last week following a tumultuous year for the community, which is forced to navigate between homophobia and anti-Palestinian racism.
It happened all at once, without any coordination. Suddenly, all 150 protesters were on the street — lesbians, gays, (...)
On 18 August, the Palestinian Police Force issued an official statement banning the activities of alQaws for Sexual and Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society. The announcement followed an unprecedented attack on alQaws in social media channels. The statement promotes incitement against alQaws (...)
This statement comes a week after alQaws held a widely published discussion-based event in Nablus, and three weeks after last month’s stabbing of the Palestinian queer teen and alQaws’ subsequent organizing around it.
Prior to Irzeqat’s statement, there had been a wave of unprecedented attacks by (...)
The activists were protesting what they called the Israeli government’s cynical exploitation of the LGBTQ community to appear liberal and progressive and cover up its violation of Palestinians’ human rights in Gaza and the West Bank.
Several hundred LGBTQ activists briefly blocked the path of (...)
As long as Palestinians are deprived of their rights by the occupation, we cannot view the achievements of the Israeli LGBTQ community as an indication of tolerance.
Every year in June, during Pride Month, the inherent paradox built in to Israel’s political discourse reaches a fever pitch: the (...)
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 (...)
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 shape (...)
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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