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Posted on Jun 3, 2006

CNN features a rare interview: a homosexual Lebanese man who is unafraid of going public about his sexuality.


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BEIRUT, Lebanon—We were filming an interview on a Beirut street with Youssef, a 21-year-old Lebanese man from a conservative Shia family.

A car slowed down. “Foufou!” the driver screamed in our direction.

“He called you foufou?” I asked. “Yes,” Youssef answered. “Foufou means ‘fag.’”

Youssef then told me that when he came out to his family, two of his brothers kidnapped him at gunpoint and held him hostage in the family home for weeks. “It was their honor in the garbage,” he said.

Youssef is a rarity in the Middle East. He is openly gay and says he doesn’t care who knows it.

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By cognitorex, June 3, 2006 at 6:39 am Link to this comment
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PANDORA’S THONG

THE ISLAMIC WOMEN’S VOTE:
IS IT ALL THAT IT’S CRACKED UP TO BE??

Setting: MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S RIGHTS’ RALLY
Mother & Daughter attending: Laura Bush speaker.


Mom: Doesn’t Mrs. Bush look lovely? She somehow reminds me of Mary Tyler Moore.

Dghtr: You actually know other American right’s activists?

Mom: (laughing) Oh no. Mary Tyler Moore is a TV character. She represents an ideal, a woman who works and of course votes yet knows exactly where women’s rights end and “pushy” begins.

Dghtr: If you say so Mom, but speaking of rights, can I get a thong?

Mom: A what? A thong?

Dghtr: You know, underwear. Like Brittany and Madonna wear. The single strip up your bum. I want a bright red camel thong.

Mom: (momentarily thinking) ....And a tattoo to match, right?

Dghtr: That would be nice.

Mom: And all this would be followed by your Father giving his blessing for your Brother to marry his buddy Gamel…?

Dghtr: (In great consternation) Mother!

Mom: (aside) Perhaps we shouldn’t have come here.

END/5.26.05

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