Considering you have spoken on the topic of gay advocacy before, I thought the following news-item would interest you:

The Palestinian Gay Women group ASWAT is having a conference in Haifa, Israel at the end of the month. Some of the news coverage this is generating:

Advocate: Gay Arab activists in Israel forge ahead with plans for conference and
Ha'Aretz: Islamic Movement condemns Palestinian lesbian conference.

The two things that I find interesting about this story is that 1) according to their own web-site their members are from the "Occupied Territories" yet "occupier" Israel is enabling them to have the conference within Israel (obviously they can't have it in the PA for political/safety reasons), and 2) that one of the Arab MKs most outspoken against this conference, MK Ibrahim Sarsur, has a last name that literally means "pimp" (which is apparently OK). This last issue could merely be an issue of "transliteration", as I've also heard his name pronounced as "Tsartsur", which is much closer to "grasshopper".