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Contents:

• GAY IMAM HOP TO OPEN ATRALIA'S FIRST LGBTI-IENDLY MOSQUE
• MEET THE IMAM OF AI’S FIRST GAY-IENDLY MOSQUE
• OTED BY A GAY SHEIKH
• AVERAGE OF 20 GAY MEN BASHED EVERY DAY FOR OVER 40 YEARS, NSW QUIRY TOLD
• BEHD THE SPL OF THE ANGLIN CHURCH ATRALIA OVER GAY MARRIAGE
• ANTI-GAY SHEIKH AT UNIVERSY OF WOLLONGONG EVENT SPIKG NTROVERSIAL RAMSAY GREE
• IMAM WHO LLED FOR EXECUTN OF GAYS PREACHED AT ORLANDO-AREA MOSQUE WEEKS BEFORE MASSACRE
• PLOT THICKENS SE OF 'CENSORED' THOR, GAY SHEIKH AND A BOOKER PRIZE-WNER
• ANTI-GAY SHEIKH AT UOW EVENT SPIKG NTROVERSIAL RAMSAY GREE

GAY IMAM HOP TO OPEN ATRALIA'S FIRST LGBTI-IENDLY MOSQUE

Atralia's only openly gay Imam is phg for the untry's first LGBTI-iendly mosque that would also act as a safe hoe and unsellg Warsame said he is alg wh an "avalanche of misery" among LGBTI Mlims who have no support servic or safe Nur is a vout Mlim who once led one of Melbourne's largt mosqu. When he me out as gay 2010 the Mlim clergy severed ti wh him, spe his rare crentials as a hafiz — someone who has memorised the Koran.

MEET THE IMAM OF AI’S FIRST GAY-IENDLY MOSQUE

Nur Warsame ont of the buildg he wants to turn to a gay-iendly mosque.

"You are talkg about an iology that believ your repentance is to be killed as a gay person, " he said he gets daily lls for help om young Mlims stgglg wh fierce and, at tim, vlent ristance om their fay and muny. "'They are tryg to beat the gay out of you'Sam Hawli, 27, me out to his father durg an anxiety attack.

OTED BY A GAY SHEIKH

' I put my tst his words and I said to him, 'I'm gay', " Mr Hawli said. "That really was the most prsg time of life, when you are physilly hurt by your fay and when they are tryg to beat the gay out of you.

AVERAGE OF 20 GAY MEN BASHED EVERY DAY FOR OVER 40 YEARS, NSW QUIRY TOLD

As a Mlim, my relign teach me that homosexualy is not permissible and we stand by that, " he said. Related topics:Share:Global AgendaThe Agenda WeeklyA weekly update of the most important issu drivg the global agendaMichelle HamerJune 20, 2023Katie Connolly September 5, 2022Gaylor Montmasson-ClairJune 21, 2022Lren van r ReFebary 3, 2022Florian ZandtJanuary 25, 2022Ldiwe MatlaliSeptember 21, 2021.

BEHD THE SPL OF THE ANGLIN CHURCH ATRALIA OVER GAY MARRIAGE

"The problem, apart om the fact that the book's story is set agast a background of the Iraq war (which "uld be a mefield" acrdg to Ms Abulhoul), one of s mor characters is a gay urse, the official le the Emirat (as Iran) is that they don't have gay people there apart om a few foreigners, and they absolutely fely tegorilly don't have any gay sheikhs.

Three years ago my own book about gay life the Middle East was banned the emirate of Dubai – though was sold openly Lebanon and even displayed the wdows of some bookshops 2005 police Abu Dhabi, the pal of the UAE, arrted more than two dozen men at what was said to be a gay party. Plans to "cure" their homosexualy wh hormone jectns were apparently dropped after protts om the US state om the sexual hang-ups, Ms Bell's excln om the lerary ftival, which boasts of "celebratg the world of books all s fe variety", highlights the emirat' fundamental dilemma. Atralia’s Prime Mister Mallm Turnbull said on Friday that he would not have ved Sheikh Shady Alsuleiman to an iftar dner if he had been aware of his anti-gay preachg.

ANTI-GAY SHEIKH AT UNIVERSY OF WOLLONGONG EVENT SPIKG NTROVERSIAL RAMSAY GREE

Photo: AP Mallm Turnbull warns agast the muny beg torn apart by acts of terrorism Published: 2:06pm, 17 Jun, 2016 Updated: 2:06pm, 17 Jun, 2016 Atralia’s Prime Mister Mallm Turnbull said on Friday that he would not have ved Sheikh Shady Alsuleiman to an iftar dner if he had been aware of his anti-gay preachg.

Bisexual men are perceived to sound more mascule than men who are straight, acrdg to a study of Atralian subjects.Amics at the Universy of Sydney pared the voic of gay, straight and bisexual men a study volvg 160 people.In the rearch led by clil psychologist Jam Morandi, people were reced to analyse the voic of 60 men, 20 of whom were gay, 20 straight and 20 bisexual. They were then asked to rate the men on their sexual orientatn g a sle om zero (exclively heterosexual) to 10 (exclively homosexual).Listeners were also asked to rate each man’s perceived level of femy or masculy the voic on a siar sle.The men volved the study were asked to rerd themselv on a smartphone recg the first two l of the Atralian natnal anthem.Voice sampl were then modified to remove any background noise while volume levels were ma the same to ensure nsistency.Rults om the study showed listeners uld distguish between gay and straight men’s voic wh an accuracy of 62 per cent, apparently nsistent wh prev rearch.However, the study participants uld not terme any differenc between bisexual and straight men’s voic wh any gree of accuracy. The thors said their rearch showed bisexual men’s voic were perceived as beg more exclively attracted to women pared wh both gay and straight men’s voic.Bisexual men’s voic were rated as more mascule than both gay and straight men’s voic.Rearchers claimed the abily to intify a man’s bisexual inty om his voice alone uld have cril social implitns such as helpg to rce feelgs of alienatn.‘Voice may unter visibily many bisexuals feel’An abstract of the study, tled Can listeners tect if a man is bisexual om his voice alone, reads: “The prent study examed whether bisexual men n be intified om their voic ak to how gay men n be intified on their voice alone.“If this is the se, voice may be an important target of discrimatn on the one hand but may also unter the visibily many bisexuals feel (if their bisexual inti n be apprehend by their voice alone, whout explic disclosure required).“The fdgs may also she light on whether bisexual male voic, like gay male voic, differ om straight voic terms of their genr non-nformy – a qutn that to date has not been examed.”But amics noted the rearch was limed on the grounds all men who participated the study are Atralian, which may not be reflected among wir cultur.And the thors nced the study did not ntrol for the rerdg environment or microphone-to-mouth distance, which uld have affected the qualy of the voice sampl.The thors said the fdgs suggted that while the voic of bisexual men the sample were perceived as more mascule and attracted to femal, listeners did not associate this imprsn wh bisexualy.As a rult, while bisexual men may appear to be at lower risk of facg voice-based intifitn and discrimatn than gay men, they may often be mistaken as beg straight.The study was published the Journal of Sex Rearch.

IMAM WHO LLED FOR EXECUTN OF GAYS PREACHED AT ORLANDO-AREA MOSQUE WEEKS BEFORE MASSACRE

Assistant New South Wal police missner, Anthony Cranll, has told a landmark quiry that on average 20 gay men were bashed every day for a perd spanng more than four special missn of quiry, s send block of heargs, is examg the police approach to spected hate crim agast LGBTQ+ people between 1970 and 2010. “I beme aware … when I unrtook sexualy and genr diversy trag … and rmatn was given to me, that there were wrten rerds at the time of up to at least 20 reports per day of bashgs of gay men, ” Cranll said on then asked: “You, I prume, immediately appreciated that that was a much higher reportg sle than had been reported to the police? ” Cranll told the hearg that was bee “largely gay people were miststful of the police and unwillg to report to police?

Cranll said the gay bashgs were due to an “herent lack of nsequenc and acuntabily”. “Perpetrators were given a kd of social licence to ntue flictg vlence upon members of the gay muny, ” he royal missn-style quiry, tablished at the urgg of a parliamentary probe after the Parrabell report, has powers to pel wns to attend and to a fal report 2018, Cranll said the force’s past difference to gay bashgs had been upled wh a tac social tolerance of vlence directed at gay men and the LGBTQ+ muny the 1970s to past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotn“It is clear and beyond qutn that levels of vlence flicted upon gay men particular were elevated, extreme and often btal, ” the report said at the also asked if police officers had downplayed, as recently as 2014, the level of gay hate murrs. “I don’t thk there was an tentn to downplay … I do thk there was ncern about the numbers on the basis that 88 gay hate aths my opn was a lot, ” Cranll told Tuday’s hearg.

PLOT THICKENS SE OF 'CENSORED' THOR, GAY SHEIKH AND A BOOKER PRIZE-WNER

Anti-gay sheikh at uni event spikg ntroversial Ramsay greeA fundamentalist Mlim sheikh who has slammed gay marriage and homosexuals will speak at a Universy of Wollongong workshop spikg s Ramsay Centre gree Wtern Civilisatn. Materials labellg homosexualy a “curse of ath” and claimg 92% of children of gay parents suffer abe have surfaced two separate cints of homophobic mpaigns agast same-sex marriage. Advot have nmned the material, which clud a poster urgg Atralians to “stop the fags” Melbourne and a leaflet prted English and Mandar found Hurstville, poster, found Heffernan Lane the Melbourne CBD, claimed that children of gay parents are disproportnately abed, suffer prsn and are vast majory of studi show children wh LGBTI parents are no worse off than those wh heterosexual parents, cludg a survey of amic lerature by the Atralian Instute of Fay poster picts two figur menacg a blond child wh rabow leaflet, targeted at English- and Che-speakg Atralians, warned that homosexualy is “a curse of ath termatg the fay le … whout cents [sic]”.

“Homosexualy is a tragedy of a fay, a grave to the fay bloodle, a curse of fay sonlsns!

ANTI-GAY SHEIKH AT UOW EVENT SPIKG NTROVERSIAL RAMSAY GREE

The pamphlet also claimed that same-sex marriage would lead to “transexual ‘unterfe’ women” havg accs to women’s bathrooms which said would make easier for rapists to target said that “anal sex among some homosexuals is the ma source of HIV/Aids transmissn”. The hight prevalence of HIV is still among gay men Atralia, however one-quarter of new fectns the four years to 2013 were attributed to heterosexual LGBTI rights advote and Jt Equal spokman, Rodney Croome, said: “The hate displayed the posters will shock and disgt the overwhelmg majory of Atralians. ”In 2016, when rpondg to homophobic ments by Islamic lear Sheikh Shady Alsuleiman, cludg that homosexualy “spreads disease”, Turnbull said that “homophobia is to be nmned everywhere”.