Friday, July 4, 2008 
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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SNL’s take on Ahmadinejad…
Highlight: “I know you say there’s no gays in Iran… but you’re in New York now, baby.”
(Thanks, Shobeir!)Thoughts?
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After Iran’s president last week uttered his ludicrous statement about Iran not having any gays, here’s a Washington Post essay penned by a 25-year-old gay Iranian man, Amir, that strikes back. And here’s a NY Times article by Nazila Fathi, which essentially says the same thing as Amir’s essay - that gay culture, like many […]
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From Publisher’s Weekly:
Canadian author Shahir Shahidsaless is suing the Nobel Prize winner and Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi. Shahidsaless says Ebadi went back on her word regarding getting a publisher for a book the two had coauthored after Ebadi was warned by her publisher and agent that the book’s publication might spoil sales of […]
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