Sexuality

UK: Open letter to the gay press on EuroPride 2006

EuroPride 2006 was billed as a Pride of diversity. Watching the morning march, with its float of gay Muslim groups Safra & Imaan, and Beit Klal Yisrael, Black Lesbians UK, as well as trans, BDSM, & many other groups, the diversity motto seemed convincing.

Indonesia: Application of 'Muslim laws' takes toll on women

To a passer-by, the dress and demeanor of Lilis Lindawati would have attracted little attention as she waited in the dark in this busy industrial city for a ride home.

منظمة الصحة العالمية: ختان البنات يسبب مخاطر الولادة

Canada: WLUML dress codes exhbition in Vancouver - 23 June to 8 July

You are invited to view the WLUML exhibition "Dress codes & modes - women’s dress in some Muslim countries and communities."

France: French women of migrant descent between the religious extreme Right and a coward Left

The international press has pointed at France on 2 occasions in the past 2 years: during the controversy around the so-called 'islamic veil' at the beginning of year 2004 and during the riots in suburbs [1] in 2005. These events are intimately linked.

International: Threats and survival: the religious right and LGBT strategies in Muslim contexts

At the turn of the nineteenth century, Europeans referred to same-sex relationships as the “Persian disease,” the “Turkish disease,” or the “Egyptian vice.”

Turkey: Problems of lesbians, gays and bisexuals in Istanbul

*Lambdaistanbul LGBT Initiative,* started some research, whose results were brought together in a book entitled *"Neither Wrong Nor Alone!"* in 2005.

International: A celebration of courage

A Celebration of Courage is the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC)'s annual awards receptions honoring human rights activists held in San Francisco and New York.

Iran: Police in Tehran ordered to arrest women in 'un-Islamic' dress

Iran's Islamic authorities are preparing a crackdown on women flouting the stringent dress code in the clearest sign yet of social and political repression under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

International: Unspeakable Love

Homosexuality is still taboo in the Arab countries. In this absorbing account, Guardian journalist Brian Whitaker paints a disturbing picture of people who live secretive, often fearful lives.