[1] The founder operated the website as "Paula Brooks," and pretended to be a lesbian, as well as deaf to deflect suspicion about being unable to use the phone to talk to journalists.
In 2011, after it was revealed that the self-described Syrian lesbian blogger Amina Abdallah Arraf al Omari was actually a hoax by an American man, Tom MacMaster, "Brooks" revealed himself as Bill Graber, a retired construction worker from Ohio.
Judy Dlugacz, the founder and owner of Olivia, a travel company catering to lesbians, described the hoax as an "outrage.
At the end of 2014, Lez Get Real shut down due to a combination of financial reasons and burn out among the remaining writers.
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