So many new queer Lebanese blogs have sprouted over the past year, which is fantastic news! Bekhsoos will be featuring a round-up with links to their latest posts every week. Here’s our pick for this first round-up: Science Will Save Us by @lordgaytheist The Short Story by the Rainbow Experience Janet Jackson doesn’t mind being [...]
I don’t get why people think “queer” is advanced or privileged politics. As if it’s difficult theory or something so complicated that people can’t understand. I guess that must only be evoked by a fundamental misunderstanding of queer and its attribution only to academics. Every theory has roots on the ground. And every lived experience [...]
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We, the gender confusing humans, would like to announce the creation of a new category of humans, henceforth referred to as the Gender Confusing. This new identity is constructed on the grounds that our gender often confuses people. Sometimes, we get referred to as men, other times as women, and most often we are met [...]
We learned a long time ago, us queer kids, how to live in fear. When the phone rang at home, when a friend started behaving weird, when a parent got angry with our choice of clothes, when a brother read our MSN chats, when we forgot to sign out from our email, when a stranger [...]
As we approach our 6th annual celebration of the International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) on May 17 (now a tradition of the Lebanese LGBT community), it is important that we reflect on the particular significance of the event this year within the wider political atmosphere in Lebanon. LGBT activists have been involved in the recent anti-sectarian movement as participants, organizers, and critical observers, and our involvement, predictably, has not passed without clashes and antagonism.
A comic about same sex and same sex!
This is our third article on online security tips for queers. Here is the first and second. For some, it might be helpful to hide all of your friends from appearing on your profile – including your friends in common. I’ve heard many queer folk complain that their parents or friends check through their list [...]
A few weeks ago, we kicked off a new Bekhsoos series about online security and queerness with “Your Mom Has Added You on Facebook.” Today, we will address a specific privacy violation (at least according to us) that has recently sprung back up in online debates. A while back, Facebook created a new feature called [...]
يتابع مسلسل خطف المدونين العرب مع اعتقال المدون والتقني التونسي سليم عمامو وذلك بعد نشاطه الأخير في تغطية أحداث سيدي بوزيد في تونس. نطلب من جميع المدونين/ات في لبنان والعالم العربي أن يتضامنوا مع سليم بوضع إحدى التصاميم المنادية بالحرية له على مواقعهم. كما ونحث جميع المدافعين/ات عن حرية التعبير الإتصال بالسفارات التونسية للمطالبة بالإفراج [...]
