The existence of gay men is unniable Iran; however, Iran’s Islamic law nsirs same sex relatnships a crime punishable by the ath penalty.
Contents:
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- IRAN'S PERSECUTN OF GAY MUNY REVEALED
- PRI IS A PROTT: THE STGGLE FOR GAY RIGHTS IRAN
- HOW ARE IRANIAN GAY MEN COPG WH SYSTEMATIC SUPPRSN UNR ISLAMIC LAW? A QUALATIVE STUDY
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Iran’s Islamist regime persecut and discrimat agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) cizens. * iran lgbt history *
Tehran, the pal cy of Iran, was once scribed the 70s by Jerry Zar (an Amerin profsor who ed to teach Tehran) as a sexual paradise, one that provid him wh the most excg time of his life which he wasn’t nstraed by Wtern rtrictns and homophobia. The fact that a few people who were associated wh the royal fay were gay – such as the queen’s drs signer, Keyvan Khosravani – created the image, propagated by the opposn, that the Shah was importg palistic cultur om the Wt, at the peak of which stood the unholy act of sodomy. Moo Moallem, a scholar of genr studi, said, “The nvergence of popular culture practic ground Shia mythology, morn natnalism and pre-morn and morn views of genr and sexualy creat a homosocial and homoerotic world for warrr men to tablish a muny of brothers who regnize themselv through the nant procs of otherg and domtitg women.
IRAN'S PERSECUTN OF GAY MUNY REVEALED
<p>Liftyl of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people expos them to horrific punishment, study fds</p> * iran lgbt history *
However, throughout 150 years of homosexual social movements (roughly om the 1870s to today), lears and anizers stggled to addrs the very different ncerns and inty issu of gay men, women intifyg as lbians, and others intifyg as genr variant or nonbary.
Such eyewns acunts the era before other media were of urse riddled wh the bias of the (often) Wtern or Whe observer, and add to beliefs that homosexual practic were other, foreign, savage, a medil issue, or evince of a lower racial hierarchy.
PRI IS A PROTT: THE STGGLE FOR GAY RIGHTS IRAN
The new print of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ebrahim Raisi clared an anti-gay tira 2014 that same-sex relatns are “nothg but savagery.” * iran lgbt history *
Biblil terpretatn ma illegal for a woman to wear pants or a man to adopt female drs, and sensatnalized public trials warned agast “viants” but also ma such martyrs and hero popular: Joan of Arc is one example, and the chillg origs of the word “faggot” clu a stick of wood ed public burngs of gay men.
HOW ARE IRANIAN GAY MEN COPG WH SYSTEMATIC SUPPRSN UNR ISLAMIC LAW? A QUALATIVE STUDY
This creasg awarens of an existg and vulnerable populatn, upled wh Senator Joseph McCarthy’s vtigatn of homosexuals holdg ernment jobs durg the early 1950s outraged wrers and feral employe whose own liv were shown to be send-class unr the law, cludg Frank Kameny, Barbara Gtgs, Allen Gsberg, and Harry Hay. Fstrated wh the male learship of most gay liberatn groups, lbians fluenced by the femist movement of the 1970s formed their own llectiv, rerd labels, mic ftivals, newspapers, bookstor, and publishg ho, and lled for lbian rights mastream femist groups like the Natnal Organizatn for Women. The creasg expansn of a global LGBT rights movement suffered a setback durg the 1980s, as the gay male muny was cimated by the Aids epimic, mands for passn and medil fundg led to renewed alns between men and women as well as angry street theatre by groups like Aids Coaln to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and Queer Natn.