New York Times, Posted: 8/9/2010, 12:24 PM QUICK LOOK:
He spent part of his childhood with his father in the arid plains of central Oklahoma, where classmates made fun of him for being a geek. He spent another part with his... (MORE)
Washington Post, Posted: 5/27/2010, 10:23 AM QUICK LOOK:
During planning for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the CIA's Iraq Operations Group kicked around a number of ideas for discrediting Saddam Hussein in the eyes of his people... (MORE)
New York Daily News, Posted: 5/26/2010, 1:34 PM QUICK LOOK:
WATCH: The Army is investigating a soldier who posted a video on Facebook taunting Iraqi children, asking if they're gay and if they're going to "grow up to be a terrorist."... (MORE)
Sydney Star Observer, Posted: 3/26/2010, 11:24 AM QUICK LOOK:
The UK government has refused to give priority to an application for asylum by Ali Hili, the leader of the Iraqi LGBT group, currently in exile in London. Hili’s application... (MORE)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Posted: 3/26/2010, 10:48 AM QUICK LOOK:
Civil rights legislation that would make it illegal to discriminate against gays and lesbians in Missouri moved past an obstacle Monday that had stood in its way since... (MORE)
New York Observer, Posted: 3/17/2010, 8:47 AM QUICK LOOK:
During the run-up to Sept. 11, there was a previously undisclosed, covert C.I.A. effort to recruit a spy to penetrate Al Qaeda a year and a half before the planes crashed... (MORE)
The Register (U.K.), Posted: 3/8/2010, 9:26 AM QUICK LOOK:
Microsoft's Bing search engine blocks out "sexually explicit" results and gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender queries in Arab countries, claimed the Open Net Initiative... (MORE)
MSNBC, Posted: 2/21/2010, 4:07 PM QUICK LOOK:
*VIDEO after the jump*: Top U.S. Army General David Petraeus was asked about “don’t ask, don’t tell” on Meet the Press and spent the bulk of the time praising the year-long... (MORE)
Dallas Voice, Posted: 2/12/2010, 12:01 PM QUICK LOOK:
Yousif Ali, 24, and Nawfal Muhamed, 20, are safe in Houston. But life is difficult.
The two have been denied food stamps. Jobs are not easy to find. The Sharpstown... (MORE)
ABC News, Posted: 5/28/2009, 3:40 PM QUICK LOOK:
Two gay men were killed in Baghdad's Sadr City slum, and police
confirmed they found the bodies of four more men, all killed during a
10-day period after an unknown... (MORE)
Los Angeles Times, Posted: 4/17/2009, 6:44 PM QUICK LOOK:
Offering the latest evidence of an organized campaign of persecution against Iraq's gay community, threatening fliers have been posted around the impoverished Shiite... (MORE)
Newsweek, Posted: 8/27/2008, 12:09 PM QUICK LOOK:
When militiamen from the Mahdi Army came by the compact, two-story stone home in the Doura neighborhood of Baghdad,
they weren't looking... (MORE)
New Yorker, Posted: 8/10/2008, 7:38 PM QUICK LOOK:
In a handwritten letter to himself, dated December 13, 1990, Specialist
Alan Rogers, a twenty-three-year-old African-American chaplain’s
assistant, grappled with the... (MORE)
CNN, Posted: 7/24/2008, 8:19 PM QUICK LOOK:
Kamal was just 16 when gunmen snatched him off the streets of
Baghdad, stuffed him in the trunk of a car and whisked him away to a
house. But the real terror was about... (MORE)
Pink News (U.K.), Posted: 1/2/2008, 11:23 AM QUICK LOOK:
A draft bill before the Iraqi parliament would grant an amnesty for as many as 5,000 prisoners, yet excludes those convicted of homosexual "crimes." Ali al-Dabbagh, a... (MORE)
Frontlines (SLDN), Posted: 12/21/2007, 10:29 AM QUICK LOOK:
The holidays will be a whole lot brighter for the Manzella family, who
are looking forward to welcoming a very special guest home. Sergeant
Darren Manzella, the Army... (MORE)
CBS News, Posted: 12/17/2007, 1:39 PM QUICK LOOK:
Discharges of gay soldiers are dropping, dramatically: from over 1,200 a year in 2001 to barely 600. With the military struggling to fight two wars, there are growing... (MORE)
CBS News, Posted: 12/14/2007, 9:09 AM QUICK LOOK:
A gay soldier says he disclosed his sexual orientation to his superiors, even offering graphic proof, and was neither discharged nor reprimanded, despite the military's... (MORE)
Boston Globe, Posted: 10/5/2007, 7:07 AM QUICK LOOK:
The Massachusetts National Guard soldier from Quincy who died Friday in Afghanistan asked her relatives to press for answers if anything happened to her while she was... (MORE)
New York Post, Posted: 9/20/2007, 4:34 PM QUICK LOOK:
Nobody says no to Oprah Winfrey -- except Rosie O'Donnell. Insiders say Winfrey wanted to have her on her show to talk about O'Donnell's book, "Celebrity Detox," which... (MORE)
Gay.com UK, Posted: 9/18/2007, 11:34 AM QUICK LOOK:
Left-wing London politician George Galloway, a member of Parliament and
strong anti-war campaigner, is being accused of dismissing gay rights
to win Muslim votes. The... (MORE)
Los Angeles Times, Posted: 8/5/2007, 2:03 PM QUICK LOOK:
Human rights groups say that Iraqi gays are increasingly targeted by militias and police. The United Nations and State Department have issued reports documenting some... (MORE)
The Advocate, Posted: 6/19/2007, 8:04 PM QUICK LOOK:
Army private Karissa Urmanita is a typical U.S. soldier. The Pomona, Calif., native joined the Army to take advantage of generous college tuition assistance and to help support ... (MORE)
365gay.com, Posted: 6/15/2007, 6:42 PM QUICK LOOK:
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is being urged to investigate reports that gay Iraqis are being rounded up by militias on the streets of Baghdad and murdered. In a ... (MORE)
Detroit News, Posted: 3/4/2007, 3:23 AM QUICK LOOK:
Barricaded in his bedroom after his parents found out he was gay two years ago, Bashar Makhay of Ferndale felt alone in the world. He was 19 and his Chaldean mother, an Iraqi ... (MORE)