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An American playing dressup and pretending to be a Syrian lesbian

Summary

Tom MacMaster, an American who goes to a grad school in Scotland, started a Blogspot account named "Gay Girl in Damascus" and pretended to be Amina Abdallah Araf al Omari, a lesbian Syrian woman.

The blog falsely reported the fictitious persona as kidnapped, causing real life bloggers and the US State Department to look for her.

Origins

The Facebook photos came from Jelena Lecic, a British woman. Lecic was unaware that her photos were being used. Suspicions came to light when the Briton realized that her photos were on there!

And so the hoax exposed, MacMaster admitted all. Real Syrian gays were oh-so-thrilled that MacMaster's stunt took away from their real troubles, caused the Assad regime to focus its attention on them, and gave the Assad regime ammunition to say "dirty foreigners are lying about Syria!"

Current status

The blog is now totally empty

Facts

Images

	Lecic appears on television, telling everybody how overjoyed she was to have some American douchebag use her photos without her permission to represent a fictional character		This photo of a British woman was used to represent Amina Arraf
	Another photo of "Amina Arraf"
	Facebook of "Amina"

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Related Pages

Blogger

Lez Get Real

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog

Syrian Electronic Army

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