It turns out that the ‘Gay Girl in Damascus’ is just a 40-year-old American man from Georgia.
NewsFeed has covered the story of the ‘Gay Girl in Damascus,’ a blogger who has drawn significant attention for writing about her experiences living as a gay woman in Syria. But recent reports question Amina Abdullah’s identity and the veracity of her posts.
The once-uplifting story of Amina Abdullah, the voice behind the blog “A Gay Girl in Damascus,” recently took a turn for the worse.
Inspiring the Syrian protest movement is an honest and reflective voice of the revolution: a half-American citizen journalist who, in illustrating her country’s plight, risks death herself.
