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Secret freedom at Tel Aviv’s ‘Palestinian Queer Party’

Firmly in the closet at home, Palestinian gay pride flourishes once a month in an underground Israeli nightclub

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Gay Palestinian to court: Deport me and I’ll be killed

Homosexual man from Nablus, living in Tel Aviv, pleads for asylum on the grounds of ‘well-founded fear of persecution’

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Pride and politics

The Jerusalem Gay Pride parade, rescheduled for Thursday after this summer’s war, has been marred by discord in the LGBTQ community

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Report: Hamas mulling long-term ceasefire with Israel

Gaza-based group officials met in Qatar to discuss truce proposal, Palestinian Al-Quds newspaper says

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Palestinian protesters paint over gay rights flag

Artist’s mural on security barrier covered up within hours by demonstrators who decry ‘shameful’ rainbow banner

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Film highlights struggles of gay Arabs in Israel

‘Oriented,’ by a UK director, explores the friction between the national and sexual identities of three Tel Avivians

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Film explores gay Israeli-Arabs’ identities under rockets’ red glare

Now screening in New York, British director Jake Witzenfeld’s ‘Oriented’ depicts the challenges and triumphs of three Palestinian gay men in war-time Tel Aviv

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High Court ruling ends gay Palestinian’s asylum nightmare

Lack of coordination between authorities led to permit problems and multiple arrests, expulsion threats

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Executed Hamas commander may have been accused of gay sex

Rumors surfaced that Mahmud Eshtawi collaborated with Israel in exchange for keeping his sexuality secret, The New York Times reports

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Gay Arab activist wraps himself in the flags

Khader Abu-Seif poses with the symbols of the two ‘states have screwed me for 28 years of my life’

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LGBT community: Spend less on promoting Pride Week, more on us

Activists say the government spent 10 times more on publicizing the event abroad than they receive for year-round programs

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Gay and Christian, a scion of a Hamas family finally finds safety in US

After being denied asylum in Canada, the man now known as John Calvin chases the American dream in LGBT-friendly New York

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Italian gay rights group rejects anti-Israel ‘pinkwashing’ accusation

Delegitimizing Israel distracts from efforts to protect LGBT people, say activists, condemning Hamas and PA treatment of gays

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Rights groups slam Palestinian police for banning LGBTQ activity

After police action, Al-Qaws Foundation receives a wave of hate messages which activists say 'pose a serious threat' to the gay community

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