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“THE AMA PROFILE” LV TO THE SURPRISG STORY BEHD “A GAY GIRL DAMASC”

It ncerns a blog known as “A Gay Girl Damasc, ” ostensibly the mgs of a lbian livg amid Syrian unrt.

Thk back to the summer of 2011 and to a ltle blog lled A Gay Girl Damasc. Those wrgs stopped abptly last Monday, and a postg on her blog, “A Gay Girl Damasc, ” a said Ama had been hled away by ernment secury of her disappearance beme an Inter and media sensatn. On Wednday, pictur of her on the blog were revealed to have been taken om a London woman's Facebook Sunday, the tth spilled out: The gay girl Damasc nfsed to beg a 40-year-old Amerin man om persona Tom MacMaster built and cultivated for years — a lbian who was half Syrian and half Amerin — was a tantalizg Inter-era fictn, one that he ed to brg attentn to the human rights rerd of a untry where media rtrictns make tradnal reportg almost Sunday, MacMaster apologized on the blog.

‘A GAY GIRL DAMASC’ CLEAN

"MacMaster, a Middle East peace activist who is workg on his master’s gree at the Universy of Edburgh Stland, wrote that he fictnalized the acunt of a gay woman Syria to illumate the suatn for a Wtern hoax rais difficult qutns about the reliance on blogs, tweets, Facebook postgs and other Inter munitns as they creasgly bee a standard way to report on global events. The edor said she had termed that Ama's e-mails had been sent om a puter several terviews, the edor — who spoke on ndn that she be intified only by her psdonym, Pla Brooks — said she enuraged Ama to wre more, first on Lez Get Real and later on a new blog, tled “A Gay Girl Damasc.

A GAY GIRL DAMASC: THE AMA PROFILE

"Wispread ncernThe ntroversy over “A Gay Girl Damasc” has created anguish among her fans.

As spicns of a hoax grew, many exprsed outrage that attentn had turned away om the creasgly vlent ernment crackdown ntroversy has also angered many the lbian and gay muny, which rallied around Ama.

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