Link:

http://takimag.com/article/just_another_fairytale_lesbian_blogger_from_damascus/print

Note: column is by Jim Goad, provocateur. Treat his approach as a healthy dose of sarcasm and skepticism, not anti-gay. (I vote so they can all get married if they want to.)

Quote:

"When reporters and government officials worldwide could find no trace of an “Amina Arraf” ever existing, it became clear that there was no Gay Girl in Damascus.

This morning it was revealed that “Amina Arraf” is actually a 40-year-old Scottish activist named Tom MacMaster. He said that although nothing he wrote was actually true, he was trying to “illumine” events that actually were true by, well, writing things that were completely untrue.

This isn’t the first time a middle-aged man has masterfully played the sympathies of gullible progressives by posing as a young lesbian. Back in 2004, a reputedly bisexual woman who called herself Plain Layne was revealed to be a portly Minnesotan man named Odin Soli. He had received Web infamy years before that by posing as Acanit, described as “a young lesbian Muslim girl with a Jewish girlfriend.”

But what seems far worse than pretending you’re a gay person suffering indignities is actually being a gay person whose identity demands so much persecution, they wind up inflicting it on themselves. This sort of thing doesn’t fit the progressive script at all, which is probably why you’ve never heard of any of the following cases."

"The truth seems to be that all these presumably objective news outlets jumped on the Gay Girl in Damascus story because they wanted it to be true. Her phony saga perfectly played to their sympathies."