Caption: Alas, Saddam Hussein did not make the list of gay icons.
Photo Credit: Special To The Washington Post
Article: For One Night, Baghdad Gets a Pink Zone, May 22, 2009
Being so culturally sensitive, are some of those that "they" have liberated inivited to the party?
"Grainy footage taken on a mobile phone and widely distributed around Baghdad shows a terrified young Iraqi boy cowering and whimpering as men with a stick force him to strip, revealing women's underwear beneath his dishdasha (Arab robe).
"Why are you dressed as a girl?" roars one of the men, brandishing his stick as the youth removes his brassiere. The sobbing boy, who appears to be about 12, tries to explain that his family made him do it to earn money, as they have no other source of income."
Iraqi gay men face 'lives of hell', April 18, 2009
"Iraq’s gay population is being targeted by militia groups in a wave of killings that has claimed the lives of up to 25 young men and boys in the past month.
"They know I am gay. I don’t know if I am going to be killed, this is up to God," said Moyad, a 38-year-old Baghdad resident who would not give his last name out of fear for his safety. Visibly frightened, he said that he has many friends who have been sadistically tortured, some even murdered. "They are sticking glue up their anuses; some hospitals refuse to treat them. Is it a war waged against homosexuals?" he asked."
‘They Kill People Like Us,’ Says Gay IRAQI, May 4, 2009
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