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So when Marvazy realized he was gay sixth gra he felt “pletely and utterly alone. Marvazy, 33, morated a panel nsistg of an eclectic group of muny members — a man cked out drag spoke of his experience g out as gay and experimentg wh genr boundari, while a middle-aged woman talked about how she handled her child g out as transgenr. The dience appld loudly as people shared g-out stori, while everyone sat silence as a therapist read a letter om a mother whose gay son mted suici.

In the fall of 2015, Marvazy was able to put a face to that stigmatized inty when he publicly me out as gay a Facebook vio. About two years after Marvazy me out as a gay man a Facebook vio that quickly went viral his Persian-Jewish muny, the 31-year-old is leadg a hort of 12 fellows, cludg himself and fellow anizer Amanda Maddahi.

While guts picked at a bagel breakfast set out on a bar the back of the room, Marvazy troduced the morng’s speakers: Joseph Harounian, an openly gay Persian man and founr of a Wt Los Angel wellns center; Mastaneh Moghadam, a social worker who has worked wh the Iranian LGBTQ muny for more than a ; and Venn Zand, an Orange County-based therapist who discsed a qualative study of the g-out procs for gay Persian men that she nducted after her brother me out to her. She scribed how she stggled to book fay members of gay and lbian Persian youth to speak on KIRN, a lol Persian-language rad statn.

L.A.’S PERSIAN JEWS STGGLE WH THE ISSUE OF GAY MARRIAGE

Matthew Nouriel, who me out as gay at 15 after movg to L.

Recently, for stance, he began unselg an 18-year-old gay man Iran who found Nouriel on Instragram, sharg tips on how to navigate g out or stayg closeted, as well as offerg makp poters. In a way, the fellowship revers the isolatn he felt growg up gay and Persian, he wrote.

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