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Aswat's Activities for February Aswat organizes monthly social activities which offers a variety of fun interactive gatherings in a safe empowering space to read about February's activities, click here>> Palestinian gays under the Hijab Palestinian lesbians and gays need to face both the homophobic street and the racist leaders of the Israeli gay community who refuse to give the stage for Palestinian speakers, neither for former member of Knesset Issam Machool, nor for representative of Aswat >> Aswat- Palestinian Gay Women laments the tragic death of the two youngsters at the Tel-Aviv gay center Saturday evening.   Aswat strongly condemns the horrendous attack on the center of LGBT community in Tel-Aviv...>> Survival kit for a Palestinian lesbian (part 1) Aswat's presentation, at the LGBT Human Rights Conference of the Outgames 2009 in ILGA workshop, titled "Being lesbian, bi, trans woman in the Middle East: survival kit" >> LBTQI Women in Palestine (part 2) Aswat, challenges and opportunities for Palestinian LBTQ women Aswat faces the same universal homophobic challenges of the LGBTQ community in the world. However, unique to the case of Aswat are the multiple forms of oppressions that we face >> Aswat congratulates Meem for the publications of their new book "Bareed Mista3jil".  "Bareed Mista3jil" is a brave new book published by Meem in Beirut, Lebanon. The book is a collection of 41 true (and personal) stories from lesbians, bisexuals, queer and questioning women, and transgender persons from all over Lebanon >> You can contribute to Aswat in many ways: Donations are most welcome. Click here to read how you can donate to us. You can help us in various ways if you have the time and the will. Read more. We thank all our donors and contributors who continue supporting Aswat in various ways. Aswat is mainly sponsored by: