They Want Us Exterminated
I would like to send out some big applause to Human Rights Watch for finally calling attention to the anti-gay pogrom in Iraq. Their new report, "They Want Us Exterminated: Murder, Torture, Sexual Orientation and Gender in Iraq," has mustered up a lot of press, after years and years of virtual silence. It's shocking to hear Wolf Blitzer call this an "important story," when the facts and journalism have been readily available in the gay press, particularly in Gay City News for a long time, almost entirely ignored by the mainstream media. Here are some of the reports that have popped up today. I'm curious to see where this goes...



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