Yoshie asks:
I'm aware of what's been said about gay rights in Syria, but can you show me an organized social force on the Left on the grounds in Syria who can replace the Baath Party-led "National Progressive Front" (in which the two branches of the Syrian Communist Party have participated) on their own, without the empire's assistance, and make things better for gay men and lesbians?
Whether or not such a social force exists, queers can never remain silent when people are persecuted and oppressed for their sexual behaviors (I would say all interested in progressive change, but as history has shown sexual rights are disruptive for both the right and the left).
Brian Dauth Queer Buddhist Resister