1 Gay Africans and Arabs come out online 2/08 2 A Jihad for Love: Can your faith really kill you? 3/08 3 Gay Arabs Party Here, Risk Death Back Home 6/08 4 Book on LGBT life in Muslim cultures published 8/08 5 HIV/AIDS and Its Effects on Society Cont. 5 9/08 6 Outcast heroes 11/08 7 Review: Islam and AIDS, Between Scorn, Pity and Justice 1/09 8 Al-Qaeda accused of using male rape to ‘create’ suicide bombers 2/09 9 Islam ‘recognizes homosexuality’ 2/09 10 Comment: False hope – LGBT rights in the Middle East 3/09 11 Why can’t Muslims be gay and proud? 7/09 12 What’s it like being a gay Muslim? 7/09 13 Transgender belly dancer helps launch Arab gay initiative 9/09 14 Middle East LGBT Monthly Magazine 9/09 15 Gay MEP Michael Cashman criticises UN General Assembly president’s ‘unacceptable’ anti-gay views 9/09 16 The Gay Sons of Allah

1 Islamic Feminism Revisited 2/06 2 UK Gay Muslim Activist Adnan Ali is Interviewed 3/06 3 New book gives voice to gay Arabs: ‘Unspeakable Love 4/06 4 Four-Day Conference to Highlight South Asian Gay Issues 6/06 5 Marriage for Gay Muslims? 6/06 6 Queer Muslims find peace 6/06 7 Homosexual and ‘passionate about Islam’ 7/06 7a Middle East dispatch Coming out in Arabic 10/06 7b Love, Lust and Passion: Sex and Taboos in the Islamic World 10/06 8 Gay Arabs organising in Israel 3/07 9 Arab Lesbians Hold Rare Public Meeting in Haifa, Defying Islamist Ban 3/07 10 Gay, Muslim lawyer bucks stereotypes 3/07 11 Bear Arabia is a unique social network for dating and travels in Arab world 5/07 12 Website for Arab and Asian gays launched 7/07 13 Changing Hearts and Reading Minds 7/07 14 Mithly.com website dedicated to the (LGBT) Arab communities of the world 7/07 *15 New documentary features gay Muslim experience 9/07 16 Holy hatred: Homosexuality in Muslim countries 9/07 17 Middle East dispatch Coming

1 The True Clash of Civilizations-Sex 4/03 2 Summer lovin’ – Arab Gays, Lesbians coming out of the closet? 8/03 3 Gay Muslims Work Toward a New Islam 8/03 4 Arabian Nightsweats (essay) 6/03 5 A Muslim calls for reform – and she’s a lesbian 1/04 6 Woman Fights for Equality in West Virginia (USA) Mosque 1/04 7 How a Muslim woman (USA) broke a taboo by praying with men 1/04 8 Review of Book by Lesbian Mulsim Author Irshad Manji 1/04 9 Al-Fatiha hold successful 2004 North Amertican conference in Los Angeles 2/04 10 Outing the Middle East 2/04 10a Differences in opinions among men and women (non-gay story) 5/04 11 Web site galvanizing Muslim moderates 6/04 12 Progressive Muslims rally around web site 10/04 13 Dissident Sexualities: Muslim and Gay in the UK 12/04 14 No Condoms & Gays Must Repent Arab AIDS Summit Agrees 12/04 15 Gay Muslims will hold international conference in Atlanta 8/05 16 Queer Muslims finish 5th international conference in (post script) 9/05 Foreign Policy

1 Power and Sexuality in the Middle East (Academic essay, 1998) 2 Gay Muslims in the Post-Attack World 10/01 3 Male Homosexuality in the Arab World 7/98 4 Gay Life and Death in the Arab World 2/02 5 Pakistani-American Gay Muslim Activist Works to Build Ties 11/01 6 Islamic Studies on Homosexuality (1998) 7 Gay Muslims Face a Growing Challenge 1/02 8 To Be Gay and Muslim (USA) 4/02 9 More acceptance for gay Muslims since 9/11 4/02 10 Interesting Notes from Academia about Homosexuality and Islam Middle East Report http://www.merip.org/mer/mer206/bruce.htm Spring 1998 1 Power and Sexuality in the Middle East by Bruce Dunne Sex as Power; Denial as Safety Sexual relations in Middle Eastern societies have historically articulated social hierarchies, that is, dominant and subordinate social positions: adult men on top; women, boys and slaves below. The distinction made by modern Western “sexuality” between sexual and gender identity, that is, between kinds of sexual predilections [and] degrees of masculinity and