The cool new e-magazine of the week is Bekhsoos, a lesbian/queer publication out of Beirut!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2009/09/lebanon-queer-arab-magazine-relaunches-online.html
This story comes from an LA Times blog called "Babylon & Beyond"; the photo is a depiction of about 200 activists who protested "a purported gay bashing in East Beirut in which two men allegedly having sex on the ground floor of a residential building were dragged out onto a nearby square and beaten." Despite this violent incident, "homosexuality is more accepted in lebanon than in most Arab countries", and Bekhsoos is a sign of this. Fortunately for those of us who don't read Arabic, a lot of the writing is in English as well! Yay for Lebanese grrls!
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