Iran's cel regime execut two gay men for the 'crime of sodomy'

Contents:

• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• HBO'S VICE UNVERS GAY IRANIANS FORCED TO SURGILLY CHANGE GENR
• THE POLITICS OF RECOGNIZABILITY: GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF IRANIAN GAY MEN’S LIVES UNDER REPRESSIVE CONDITIONS OF SEXUALITY GOVERNANCE
• TWO GAY MEN EXECUTED BY IRAN’S CEL REGIME FOR THE ‘CRIME OF SODOMY’
• ARAB LGBT : MOVI, DOCUMENTARI AND SHORT FILMS OF TERT FOR A GAY AND LBIAN DIENCE OM ALGERIA AFGHANISTAN EGYPT IRAN IRAQ LEBANON MOROC TUNISIA + PAKISTAN AND TURKEY

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.

HBO'S VICE UNVERS GAY IRANIANS FORCED TO SURGILLY CHANGE GENR

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

Iran executed two gay men on sodomy charg on Sunday, lol human rights groups and media anizatns have two men, Mehrdad Karimpou and Farid Mohammadi, were allegedly arrted about six years ago for "sodomy by force, " acrdg to Iran's Human Rights Activists News Agency. 1643558554"The two Iranian men were executed today after beg found guilty of charg related to homosexualy, " Iran Human Rights Monor tweeted, reported The Jesalem Post. "The Ayatollah regime Iran jt executed two gay men for the crime of sodomy Iran.

THE POLITICS OF RECOGNIZABILITY: GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF IRANIAN GAY MEN’S LIVES UNDER REPRESSIVE CONDITIONS OF SEXUALITY GOVERNANCE

\u201cThe Ayatollah regime Iran jt executed two gay men for the crime of sodomy Iran. It's an astonishg tale about how gay men who are not transgenr are pelled to have what would normally be genr-affirmative surgery if they were ed trans. For many if not all of the men, 's a matter of livg as someone they are not for the rt of their liv followg surgery -- or facg a relatively progrsive untry, Iran beme a fundamentalist Islamic state where homosexualy is punishable by ath after the fall of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi 1979.

Public executns of gay men Iran is a equent occurrence. In fact, the noosed bodi of young men are sometim put on tcks and parad through ci, towns and villag for all to the clip above as VICE's Morton brgs home the ighteng realy of beg gay Iran.

Abstract In this article we exame acunts of self-intifyg Iranian gay men. We draw on a range of evintiary sourc—terpretive, historil, onle, and empiril—to generate cril and nuanced sights to the polics of regnn and reprentatn that rm narrative acunts of the lived experienc of self-intified gay Iranian men, and the nstutn of same-sex sire for the men unr specific ndns of Iranian morny. In rponse to criqu of existg gay ternatnalist and liberatnist acunts of the Iranian gay male subject as a persecuted victim of the Islamic Republic of Iran's barbarism, we addrs terpretive qutns of sexualy ernance transnatnal ntexts.

TWO GAY MEN EXECUTED BY IRAN’S CEL REGIME FOR THE ‘CRIME OF SODOMY’

In this sense, our article reprents a cril engagement wh the relevant lerature on sexualy ernance and the polics of same-sex sire for Iranian gay men that is rmed by empiril analysis. We would also like to exprs our gratu to all of the participants our rearch, who told Jón their stori and gave sight to their liv as gay men Iran.

1 The inty tegory “gay” is alicized throughout bee refers to how the participants the send thor's study actually intified. Moreover, we e “homosexualy” liberately and the Fouuldian-rmed sense of a particular tegory of person. 3 Afary, Ja, Sexual Polics Morn Iran (Cambridge: Cambridge Universy Prs, 2009)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Korycki, Katarzyn and Abouzar, Nasirzah, “Dire Rest: The Productn of Gay Inty Iran, ” Journal of Genr Studi 25 (2014): 50–65CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Jafari, Mehri, “Islamic Jurispnce-Inspired Legal Approach towards Male Homosexuals, ” Lbian, Gay Bisexual and Transgenr Rights Iran: Analysis om Relig, Social, Legal and Cultural Perspectiv (New York: Internatnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn, 2015)Google Scholar, accsed 20 June 2017,, 19–25; Mir-Hossei, Ziba and Hamzic, Vanja, Control and Sexualy: The Revival of Za Laws Mlim Contexts (London: Women Livg unr Mlim Laws, 2010)Google Scholar; Najmabadi, Afsaneh, Profsg Selv: Transsexualy and Same-Sex Dire Contemporary Iran (Durham, N.

5 Blasi, Mark, “Theorizg the Polics of (Homo)sexuali across Cultur, ” Global Homophobia, ed. And Boisa, Michael (Chigo: Universy of Illois Prs, 2013), 218–45Google Scholar; Rastegar, Mra, “Emotnal Attachments and Secular Imaggs: Wtern LGBTQ Activism on Iran, ” GLQ: A Journal of Lbian and Gay Studi 19 (2012): 1–29CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Sami Zeidan, “Navigatg Internatnal Rights and Lol Polics: Sexualy Governance Postlonial Settgs, ” Global Homophobia, 196–217. 10 Afary, Sexual Polics Morn Iran; Afary, Ja and Anrson, Kev, Fouult and the Iranian Revolutn: Genr and the Sctns of Islamism (Chigo: Universy of Chigo Prs, 2005)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Blasi, “Theorizg the Polics of (Homo)sexuali”; Fraser, Sl of Jtice; Katarzyna Korycki and Nasirzah Abouzar, “Homophobia as a Tool of Statecraft: Iran and Its Queers, ” Global Homophobia, 174–95; Korycki and Abouzar, “Dire Rest”; Massad, Joseph, “Re-Orientg Dire: The Gay Internatnal and the Arab World, ” Public Culture 14 (2002): 361–86CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Najmabadi, Afsaneh, Women wh Mtach and Men whout Beards: Genr and Sexual Anxieti of Iranian Morny (Berkeley, Calif.

ARAB LGBT : MOVI, DOCUMENTARI AND SHORT FILMS OF TERT FOR A GAY AND LBIAN DIENCE OM ALGERIA AFGHANISTAN EGYPT IRAN IRAQ LEBANON MOROC TUNISIA + PAKISTAN AND TURKEY

Rasmsen, “Livg Dangeroly: What It's Like to Be Gay Iran, ” Votiv, 23 December 2017, accsed 20 June 2017, ; Yara Elmjouie, “Iran's Moraly Police: Patrollg the Streets by Stealth, ” The Guardian, 19 June 2014, accsed 15 May 2017, ; Watch, Human Rights, We Are a Buried Generatn: Discrimatn and Vlence agast Sexual Mori Iran (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2010)Google Scholar. 13 Blasi, “Theorizg the Polics of (Homo)sexuali. ”15 Blasi, “Theorizg the Polics of (Homo)sexuali”; Fraser, Sl of Jtice.

17 Grewal, Inrpal and Kaplan, Caren, “Global Inti: Theorizg Transnatnal Studi of Sexualy, ” GLQ: Journal of Lbian and Gay Studi 7 (2001): 663–79CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Povelli, Elizabeth A. And Chncey, Gee, “Thkg Sexualy Transnatnally: Introductn, ” GLQ: Journal of Lbian and Gay Studi 5 (1999): 439–50CrossRefGoogle Scholar. 19 Rastegar, “Emotnal Attachments and Secular Imaggs”; Shakhsari, Sima, “From Homoerotics of Exile to Homopolics of Diaspora, ” Journal of Middle East Women's Studi 8 (2012): 14–40CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

: Universy of Texas Prs, 2014)Google Scholar; Whaker, Brian, Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lbian Life the Middle East (London: Saqi Books, 2006)Google Scholar. 23 Blasi, “Theorizg the Polics of (Homo)sexuali, ” 22.