Gay Girl in Damascus is a man called Tom

Tom Macmaster ... wrote under the pseudonym Amina Arraf.
                                                                   Tom MacMaster ... wrote under the pseudonym Amina Arraf.
Amina Arraf, the "Gay Girl in Damascus" who sent the world into a frenzy after she was reportedly kidnapped by Syrian security forces, has been outed as a 40-year-old American man.
A new entry on Sunday in the blog, which for months was purportedly written by a lesbian Syrian-American woman living in Damascus, asserted that the entire saga was a hoax.
The post, which came days after an entry saying the blogger had been arrested, was signed by "Tom MacMaster" in Istanbul, Turkey.
Jelena Lecic ... the Croat living in London says the Gay Girl in Damascus blog has been carrying a picture of her.
Jelena Lecic ... the Croat living in London said the Gay Girl in Damascus blog was carrying a picture of her.
In it, the author says the narrative was fictional but insists it "created an important voice for issues I feel strongly about".
It says the author had never expected so much attention.
It is not the first time a blog has been exposed as an elaborate fiction. In 2004, the Plain Layne blog, purportedly the diary of a bisexual young woman, was revealed to have been written by a man, Odin Soli.



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