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Ahbab News: 08/11/2002 - 08/18/2002
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Serving the Gay and Lesbian Arab Community. Wednesday, August 14, 2002. UNESCO seeks to eliminate ‘shame’ of HIV. Daily Star - Lebanon. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has called for eliminating the shame associated with HIV/AIDS. According to the statement, although HIV is relatively rare in the region, more investment in prevention and care is required now to maintain the low prevalence. Posted by QArab at 11:04 PM. Ahbab Audio Podcast Copy this RSS Feed URL.
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Ahbab News: 08/04/2002 - 08/11/2002
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Serving the Gay and Lesbian Arab Community. Thursday, August 08, 2002. Discrimination At Dunkin Donuts. From The Executive - Beirut, Lebanon. Posted by QArab at 12:36 PM. Ahbab Audio Podcast Copy this RSS Feed URL. In your I-Tunes or Audio Manager to access. 1604;اعبو إكس بوكس المثليين يظهرون هوياتهم. 1575;لبابا يبيع شقته سرا لثنائي مثلي! 1578;شير تقارير و.
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Ahbab News: 07/14/2002 - 07/21/2002
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Serving the Gay and Lesbian Arab Community. Thursday, July 18, 2002. German high court OKs gay marriage. Wed Jul 17, 7:33 PM ET. SUMMARY: On Wednesday Germany's high court upheld a law allowing gay couples to marry. On Wednesday Germany's high court upheld a law allowing gay couples to marry. Judges at the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe voted 5-3 to back the law, which was challenged last year by Bavaria and two eastern states. Posted by QArab at 1:06 PM. Tuesday, July 16, 2002. The Henna cere...
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Ahbab News: 07/28/2002 - 08/04/2002
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Serving the Gay and Lesbian Arab Community. Wednesday, July 31, 2002. New AIDS clinic promises anonymity. Daily Star - Beirut, Lebanon. With the opening of the country’s first Voluntary Anonymous Testing Unit Tuesday, people who suspect they are HIV-positive can now be tested free of charge and in total secrecy. This step will allow the (Health) Ministry to know the extent of the (AIDS) problem. How can we solve a problem if we don’t know how big it is? Each year, an average of 40 people contract the vir...
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Ahbab News: 01/05/2003 - 01/12/2003
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Serving the Gay and Lesbian Arab Community. Saturday, January 11, 2003. Egyptian Police Entrap Gay Men Through Internet. Gfncom - Daily News. Egyptian police arrested a 30-year-old gay man after chatting with him on an Internet site he used to seek potential partners and, posing as gay men, lured him to meet them, police said Thursday. The man, whose name was not given, was an employee at a upscale Cairo hotel and had posted pictures of himself on the Web site calling himself a "single dreamer.".
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Ahbab News: 07/21/2002 - 07/28/2002
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Serving the Gay and Lesbian Arab Community. Saturday, July 27, 2002. Egypt Gay Trial Delayed Again. 365Gay.com Newscenter - July 27. Cairo) The new trial for fifty young Egyptian men accused of gay crimes was postponed moments after it began Friday, when defence lawyers said they needed more time to prepare. The retrial had been ordered by President Hosni Mubarak. The men had all been arrested in May 2001 in a gay club on a Nile riverboat. Mubarak's government had been under pressure from western countri...
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Ahbab News: 09/22/2002 - 09/29/2002
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Serving the Gay and Lesbian Arab Community. Saturday, September 28, 2002. Egypt Gay Convictions Overturned. By 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff. Cairo) An appeal court has quashed the convictions of four men arrested last February in Cairo for having consensual gay sex. The four had been held in prison since their initial arrest on November 10. It is too early to celebrate, however," Long said. Long says he was told by the prisoner that all four had been beaten and ill-treated during interrogations. He descri...
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Ahbab News: 11/17/2002 - 11/24/2002
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Serving the Gay and Lesbian Arab Community. Sunday, November 17, 2002. Military dismisses seven gay linguists. The Army recently dismissed seven gay Arabic linguists from the military's Defense Language Institute (DLI) in Monterey, Calif., despite increased efforts to recruit linguists and a congressional report noting "a significant shortfall in linguists.". Shortly after the investigation, Ramirez was informed that she was being fired from the military under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Accordin...
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Ahbab News: 08/18/2002 - 08/25/2002
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Serving the Gay and Lesbian Arab Community. Friday, August 23, 2002. Two lesbians arrested for ‘unnatural’ sex. Beirut, Lebanon - From the Daily Star. Two lesbians were arrested Thursday for engaging in unnatural sexual practices, under orders from Mount Lebanon’s Public Prosecution Office. The sources said the women’s relationship was exposed after police stormed one of their homes to recover money and jewelry allegedly stolen from the mother of one of the women. The mother had filed a complaint aga...
