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» Animal.
Sheikh Issa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, brother to alleged gay assaulter Sheikh Falah al-Nahyan, likes to torture men by sticking cattle prods into their bums. What's with this family? [AP] |
» Coming Up-pance…
Sheikh Falah al-Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates goes on trial this Thursday for allegedly assaulting American Silvano Orsi after Orsi rebuffed his gay advances. [BBC] |
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The sheikh - whose brother happens to be president of the United Arab Emirates - stands accused of assaulting American national Silvano Orsi last year in Geneva. Orsi alleges that Falah attempted to woo him with champagne, which Orsi doesn't drink, and then became enraged when the American rebuffed his royal advances. Rather than walking away, says Orsi, Falah went ape shit and started whipping him with a belt. As if that's not reasonable! He is, after all, a sultan! |
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» Gay Africans, Arabs Find Virtual Space
While Chris Crocker and his army decry the homophobosphere, gay Africans and Arabs are finding the world wide web to be their only window into the world: There are blogs bridging the Arabic-speaking world from Morocco in the west to the United Arab Emirates in the east. There is a self-sustaining circle of gay bloggers in Kenya and Uganda together with a handful of sites put up by gay Nigerians… Beyond the blogging scene, the Internet's chat rooms and community sites have also become one of the safest ways for gay Africans and Arabs to meet, away from the gaze of a hostile society." [Reuters] |
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"Deceit" and "Forced Homosexual Relations" Among Convictions
Judges from the United Arab Emirates have reached a decision in the trial of two men accused of raping a French teenager: The two men, ages 35 and 18, had been charged with “kidnapping with deceit” and “forced homosexual relations,” a charge that can be punished with life imprisonment or death. Neither the men nor the boy were present at the sentencing. |
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Didn't Enjoy Being Rebuffed
A Swiss jury, however, may sentence the Sheikh to two years in prison. [Note: Our original headline named Orsi as a gay. In fact, Orsi's a proud heterosexual. He does, however, tell us he fully supports gay rights. We'll be getting more on the story next week. Keep your pretty peepers peeled!] |
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• We promise that once you start, you won’t be able to stop playing this game. Forget solitaire, “Let’s Go Cruisin’ With Lee Tamahori” might just be the computer game that gets you fired from your office job. [Secondsphere via Defamer] • The next cycle of America’s Next Top Model doesn’t begin until next month. Until then we have America’s Top Cock. [Ruff And Hot] • There was enough homoeroticism in A Rebel Without A Cause without a kiss between James Dean and Sal Mineo. Still a little guy on guy lip action would have been really, really hot. [Queer Day] • We don’t see what the big deal with gay kisses is in the first place. [NBC] • Brokeback Mountain has been banned in United Arab Emirates which means new resident Michael Jackson is out of luck if he wants to take in a showing. [Gay.com] |
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Last week in the United Arab Emirates, in a hotel along the Dubai-Abu Dhabi highway, two dozen gays decided to go for it. They were in the middle of celebrating a communal wedding ceremony, twelve dressed as female brides, twelve as male bridegrooms, when the police stormed the joint and arrested them. Homosexuality is illegal in the UAE; the captured men are to be punished with fines, imprisonment, and forced male hormone injections.
The UAE government announced that is was giving details of the incident to show that it will not tolerate homosexuality. Mohammed bn Nukhaira Al Dhahiri, the Minister of Justice and Islamic affairs told parents they must be alert to “deviant” behavior in their offspring. This event is one in a series of mass arrests of gays in the UAE. That the UAE is going to punish these gay men by forcing male hormones into their systems shows how little the UAE understands homosexuality. Some of the studliest, most he-man males are gay, gay, gay. And on the other hand, some men, who by their own admission are heterosexual, are as feminine as Michael Jackson, currently residing in Dubai. |