Hiliarty ensues.

Remember the “Gay Girl in Damascus” story we linked on Sunday?

If you clicked through to the WP link, you may have noticed, but not thought much about, the mention of Paula Brooks, editor of “Lez Get Real”, a lesbian news Web site based in Washington.

In several interviews, the editor — who spoke on condition that she be identified only by her pseudonym, Paula Brooks — said she encouraged Amina to write more, first on Lez Get Real and later on a new blog, titled “A Gay Girl in Damascus.”

You probably see the punchline coming at this point, but we have to carry on.

“Paula Brooks” is actually a 58-year-old male construction worker from Ohio.

We’re kind of wondering if the WP is going to make outing lesbian bloggers who aren’t lesbians (or female) a trend, or if this was just, as “Paula Brooks” puts it, “a major sock-puppet hoax crash into a major sock-puppet hoax”. We kind of hope for the former, as it provides more entertainment than the WP‘s gun coverage.

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2 Responses to “Hiliarty ensues.”

  1. Brian Dunbar says:
    June 14, 2011 at 6:31 pm

    If I didn’t know one or two ladies of that persuasion I’d start thinking that the whole ‘lesbian’ thing was fabricated by adult entertainment writers in the mid-1970.

  2. stainles says:
    June 18, 2011 at 6:20 am

    I like this theory, Brian. I think I like it because I can boil it down easily:

    There are no lesbians. Lesbianism was invented by Lawrence Block and Donald Westlake writing under pseudonyms.