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Want to cruise offline ? - we recommend consulting Mazaj's guide to gay cruising in Damascus and Aleppo - see 7 July 2008
14 July 2008 As Syrian president Bashar Assad visits Paris as a guest of French president Sarkozy on Bastille Day, fifteen members of the Act-up AIDS group are arrested while attempting to demonstrate outside the Syrian embassy. AFP
8 July 2008 Blogger looks at the terrifying story of imprisonment and torture behind a young gay Syrian man's fight for asylum in the United Kingdom which may end in his deportation back to a country where he is likely to face torture and imprisonment jesurgislac.wordpress.com
7 July 2008 Syrian blogger "Mazaj" lists the best streets, hammams and coffee shops for gay cruising in Damascus and Aleppo (Halab). mazaj75.blogspot.com
7 July 2008 Syrian blogger "Mazaj" questions the interpretation of Islam which dictates harsh penalties for homosexuality and portrays it as a sin but finds it difficult to persuade other gay Syrians to be as open-minded. "Unfortunately," he writes, "most Gay Muslims consider themselves to be sinners, live in fear of exposing themselves as homosexuals, and are forced to get married and hide their sexuality." mazaj75.blogspot.com
6 July 2008 Human rights activists furious as Syrian gay asylum seeker faces deportation to Syria with the advice he behaves discreetly to avoid mistreatment and torture. ScotlandOnSunday.Scotsman.com
6 July 2008 British Immigration Tribunal rules that a gay Syrian must return to his home country and behave discreetly. PinkNews.co.uk
30 March 2008 The Scotland on Sunday newspaper launches an online petition to save a gay Syrian from a deportation order Scotland on Sunday
28 March 2008 Scottish gay activists campaign to stop deportation of gay Syrian teenager PinkNews.co.uk
16 March 2008 Gay Syrian refugee who escaped beatings and torture now faces deportation from the U.K. back to Syria Scotland on Sunday
20 March 2007 Interview with a Syrian lesbian living in Australia MidEastYouth.com
1 March 2007
Syrian blogger discusses the Egyptian film Yacoubian Building and considers at some length how the film tackles the subject of homosexuality.
Decentering Damascus
13 June 2006 Syrian psychiatrist tells gay patient "You're the garbage of the country, you shouldn't be alive and if you want to live, don't live here. Just find a visa and leave Syria and don't ever come back." Guardian Unlimited
OTHER ARTICLES
9 March 2007 Very brief summary of the situation facing lesbians and gays in Syria Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
DISCUSSION FORUMS ON OTHER WEBSITES
November 2007 onwards Traveller asks for directions to a Damscus Hammam. Beware of possible offensive remarks/comments. Lonely Planet - The Thorn Tree
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