Lesbian Editor Who Published Gay Girl in Damascus....ALSO A Man

[tishaLA]

http://gawker.com/5811566/lesbian-editor-who-published-fake-lesbian-blogger-also-fake">Gawker

In the wake of yesterday's revelation that Syrian lesbian blogger Amina Arraf was actually married American grad student Tom MacMaster, another lesbian blogger—the editor who first gave "Arraf" her platform—admitted to being a married man in Ohio.

Elizabeth Frock and Melissa Bell, the Washington Post reporters who helped break the Amina Arraf/Tom MacMasters story, came up with another bombshell just one day later: Paula Brooks, the editor of lesbian news site LezGetReal, is actually "retired Ohio military man and construction worker" Bill Graber, a 58-year-old who used his wife's name to found and run the site.

Brooks had been the first person to publish Amina Arraf's writing on the Syrian revolution, and as such was something of a "person of interest" to people investigating Arraf—especially because, as Ali Abunimah and Benjamin Doherty pointed out at Electronic Intifada, "Paula Brooks is the sole source of information on Paula Brooks."

Frock and Bell seem to have had similar misgivings during their interactions with Brooks. She told them that she was deaf, and couldn't give phone interviews, but they were able to talk to a man who identified himself as her father. Eventually, after pressing him, the man—Graber—admitted he was Brooks.<...>

What I'd like to call the "best" part of this series of revelations might actually be the worst: that Amina used to flirt with Paula, but it was really Tom MacMasters flirting with Bill Graber in that special way only two straight men pretending to be lesbians can.

Edited to correct name of blog. Mea cupla.

[Broderick]

1. hehe

men pretend to be women all the time from my experience. Wiener take a lesson.

[rfranklin]

2. Another lesbian trapped in a man's body!!!!

It's like an epidemic!

[dkf]

3. Geez. Maybe they are all fakes.

Makes you wonder who Weiner was sexting to.

[Liquorice]

4. That's a pretty strange thing to do. I wonder what's going on with these men psychologically. nt