The recent revelations of two prominant lesbian internet activists as being men have understandably created a media storm. Damascus Gay Girl is now only available for invited readers, after it was revealed as a hoax over the days between June 6th and June 13th. The Wikipedia entry dedicated to the blog is interesting reading, rich on references.
I have written more about this on my own blog, mainly with the focus of internet hoaxes.
This event is however ripe with other topics. There’s the online identity issue, the need to check your sources, both for journalists and for us regular readers, the very interesting concept “Münchausen by Internet” used to describe another hoax, and the gender and LGBT issues, just to mention a few.
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