Arsham Parsi, Founder of IRQO, on Gay Life in Iran

by Sepideh Saremi - Wed, 07 May 2008 13:48:59 -0700

Check out Arsham Parsi, founder of the Iranian Queer Organization, talking about gay life in Iran with Lindsay Campbell on MobLogic.TV and how Google helped him realize that being gay is normal and okay. He also addresses the sex change business in Iran. The video basically makes me want to give him a hug. He […]

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Iranians Portrayed as Cockroaches

by Javod Khalaj - Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:54:34 -0700

The Columbus Dispatch last week printed a controversial editorial cartoon depicting Iran as a sewer and Iranians as an infestation of cockroaches.

Niki Akhavan wrote the Dispatch to complain of what she calls an “incitement to hatred” and received a canned response from the paper, reprinted here:
Dear sir or madame:
Thank you for writing to The Dispatch.
You […]

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