What is Rauda Morcos?
'''Rauda Morcos''', Arabic: روضة مرقص , (born 1974) is a [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] [[lesbian]] [[activist]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.columbian.com/news/2014/jun/29/us-takes-gay-rights-global-despite-unsure-welcome/ |title=U.S. takes gay rights global, despite unsure welcome |date=June 29, 2014 |publisher=Columbian.com |access-date=February 7, 2017}}</ref> She started [[Aswat]] (أصوات), the first Palestinian group for lesbian [[human rights|rights]].<ref name=OutRight>{{cite web |url=https://www.outrightinternational.org/content/celebration-courage-rauda-morcos-founder-aswat-first-palestinian-lesbian-group-receives |title=A Celebration of Courage: Rauda Morcos, Founder of Aswat, The First Palestinian Lesbian Group, Receives Felipa Award |publisher=OutRight Action International |access-date=February 7, 2017 |archive-date=January 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180115025520/https://www.outrightinternational.org/content/celebration-courage-rauda-morcos-founder-aswat-first-palestinian-lesbian-group-receives |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2006, she received the [[Felipa de Souza Award]] from the [[OutRight Action International|International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission]] (Now called [[OutRight Action International]]).<ref name=OutRight/> In 2002, Morcos joined the first online group for Palestinian lesbians in Israel and the [[Palestinian territories|Palestinian Authority]]. In 2003, she was [[Outing|outed]] after she gave an [[interview]] to an [[Israeli]] [[newspaper]].<ref name=Go>{{cite web |url=http://192.254.197.18/~gomag/100-women-we-love/ |title=100 Women We Love |date=July 10, 2008 |website=Go Magazine |publisher=GO NYC Media LLC |access-date=February 7, 2017 }}{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Morcos asked that her [[sexual orientation]] not be [[published]]. But the newspaper wrote “lesbian” in the [[headline]] and printed her [[photograph]]. After Morcos's sexual orientation was made public, she was [[harassment|h