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Contents:

• BACKLASH OVER 'IRA KNEEPPED GAYS' MENT - BUT SENATOR NORRIS STANDS BY CLAIM
• THERE'S THIS GAY IRA MAN, SEE...
• IRISH NATNALIST ARGU IRA MARTYRS DIED FOR “GAY RIGHTS”
• DONALD “DON” IRA GAY
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• GAY UDA GUNMAN: 'I HID MY TE SELF'
• WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE GAY IRAN
• IRISH NATNALIST ARGU IRA MARTYRS DIED FOR “GAY RIGHTS”
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• DONALD “DON” IRA GAY
• IRA BATHSATHENSMENULUXURY HOTELSMID-RANGE HOTELSON TODAYBARS + CAFDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSSNASSHOPSSERVICTOURSCY GUIATHENS PICTURGAY MAPIRA BATHS

BACKLASH OVER 'IRA KNEEPPED GAYS' MENT - BUT SENATOR NORRIS STANDS BY CLAIM

Whether you are gay or straight as spoal IRA is a specific type of retirement acunt for dividuals, which allows a workg spoe to ntribute to a nonworkg spoe’s retirement acunt. To help make this procs as seamls as possible, I remend people work wh the tax preparer and gay fancial planner when cidg to open and fund a spoal IRA.

The important thg is that you are savg enough for that dream gay retirement.

Once you know you are eligible to ntribute to a spoal IRA, your acunt n be opened at pretty much fancial stutns or wh your tsted gay fancial advisor. What are you planng for your fabulo gay retirement wh your spoe?

THERE'S THIS GAY IRA MAN, SEE...

He's also gay, and happier to rne wh his Prottant boyiend than wh his long-lost sister, or his former IRA mandg officer. A gay polician Ireland told Belfast’s cizens a major ncern for Irish natnalists has been “gay rights”.

He is openly gay. “A quarter of a century before the achievement of civil marriage equaly the south, one Prisoner of War said, and I quote: ‘The key to gay and lbian liberatn li the succs of the natnal liberatn stggle.

IRISH NATNALIST ARGU IRA MARTYRS DIED FOR “GAY RIGHTS”

Donald “Don” Ira Gay, 75, of Wton, slipped gently to the arms of his Lord and Savr on January 21, 2023.

He passed surround by his lovg fay while unr the passnate re of Wt Virgia Universy Medice was born on June 3, 1947, a son of the late Ira Gay and Ruth (Mick) Gay.

In addn to his parents, Don was preced ath by his dghter, Christy Gay; and one brother, Larry J.

DONALD “DON” IRA GAY

December 25, 1966, Donald married the love of his life, Mary Johnson Gay, who surviv. Together they shared 56 wonrful years of is survived by one son, Granville Marcellas “Marc” Gay and wife, Christy; one granddghter, Marissa Ja Gay; and many special fay members and iends who will all miss him proudly served the Uned Stat Army Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam durg the Vietnam War. Jane Lew, appreciate the service of Donald “Don” Ira Gay and has been our honor and privilege to serve his fay.

McCrory was also one of two UDA lears chosen to meet Mo Mowlam 10 years ago her talks the Maze aimed at salvagg the loyalist now McCrory has bee the first paraary to publicly out himself as a gay man. The 43-year-old has swapped a life domated by direct volvement UDA assassatn squads Northern Ireland for one of gay activism his first terview, McCrory has also claimed he was the unlikely spiratn for a novel wrten by one of his former fo - ex-Sn Fe publicy director Danny Morrison. 'Even before I joed the UDA, I ed to pretend I was homophobic.

I hated Catholics, blacks, Jews and gays - even though I was gay myself. The ia was to e a mix among the republin and loyalist mat, to provoke the IRA men to slaggg me about my gay lover Stland.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

Morrison wr sympathetilly about this prisoner who is ridiculed for beg gay. " I uldn't tell them was a man, was such a macho, homophobic culture.

He now attends Gay Pri ralli across Bra om Glasgow to Brighton, regularly viss Manchter's Gay Village and march gay rights monstratns across the untry. Asked if he would march si by si wh Irish republin gay rights activists, he said: 'I've already done that. In fact I once met a gay guy here om a republin area Belfast.

I don't try to hi the gay muny here Stland or anywhere else. That is all great and good, but why are there so few gay mal?

GAY UDA GUNMAN: 'I HID MY TE SELF'

It is not that we have enough queer girls, but sce Rt sudnly ma Irelia gay, they uld very well have ma Yasuo or Swa or Vladimir to boys as well. When they recently add Zilean to LoR, they uld have ma him gay as easily as they ma Irelia.

This issue mak me thk that Rt se girls as more advertisable bisexual/gay characters, and this disgts me. Is Ira Glass Gay?

His two relatnships and marriage to ex-wife Anaheed nfirms he is not gay. Saeed was 20 years old when he sat his father down and told him he was gay.

WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE GAY IRAN

Sexual teractn between two women is punishable by vast majory of media reports about homosexualy Iran are based on acunts of torment and opprsn om gays and lbians who have fled the untry.

And while their experienc are reprentative for some of Iran's homosexuals, they are hugely different om those of the people who choose to stay the untry, or don't have the opportuny to om lower class and ral areas, where stigmatizatn is often most severe, rarely have the abily to move out of the hoe before marriage, let alone leave the untry. There is generally ltle acceptance of homosexualy, but some middle- and upper-class Iranians have the means to create parallel liv, out of sight of their relativ or iends.

IRISH NATNALIST ARGU IRA MARTYRS DIED FOR “GAY RIGHTS”

"Nety-five percent of gays Iran will never e out, " Saeed says over pasta at one of northern Tehran's ffee shops, where the atmosphere is relatively permissive. | (VOCATIV/SUNE ENGEL RASMUSSEN)"The number one threat to gays and lbians Iran is the fay, " agre Hosse Alizah of the Internatnal Gay & Lbian Human Rights Commissn (IGLHRC), and himself an Iranian. Many gays endure beatgs and even sexual asslts om fay members, he adds.

"The Iranian thori ually turn a bld eye to the gay muny's pas, but much like the telligence servic the former Soviet Unn, Iranian telligence is believed to pile large fil on many cizens, which they n e to build a legal se agast people who might be ught engagg polil activi. Often, this kd of promisg rmatn is ed to ph gay people to rm on their fellow cizens.

"The problem is that somewhere down the road, someone fds out you are gay and then starts blackmailg you. It don't have to be a straight [person], n be a gay who sleeps wh you and fds out you have money. "Private parti are some of the easit plac for middle-class Iranian gays to hook up for one-night stands.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

The park is also one of the most popular pickup spots for Tehran's gay dk, Maseratis, BMWs and the ocsnal Porsche circle the park; you don't have to wa long to spot one of them slow to a halt and pick up a sgle man cisg the g.

DONALD “DON” IRA GAY

Most Iranian gay adults are heterosexual marriag, and prostutn is the preferred way to have same-sex affairs. It also provis a temptg e, for gays and straights alike, an enomy bet by flatn and though the typ of -person enunters are a way to elu virtual spi, they are still ght wh risk. Recently, a story went around about a young gay man who was murred by two strangers durg BDSM play.

He was jt strangled to ath, " says Saeed, who has bee more ut about meetg up wh strangers bee of siar 's parks are always crowd, and particularly around dk, many of them bee popular cisg spots for gay men. | (VOCATIV/JANUS ENGEL RASMUSSEN)So naturally, when Naeem* met Behram* four years ago on gay datg se Manjan, which is also monored, he was ially hant. Seven months later, they rented an apartment wtern Tehran; they both still live at home and when Naeem here, he tells his parents he is gog out of town wh challenge of fdg a steady partner weighs heavily on Iranian gays; many speak of prsn, lonels and paranoia as almost permanent mental stat.

She's a big gay in, and Febary she me out explic support of gay rights wh a vio for the song "Behht, " pictg a lbian uple love. (In a male-domated society like Iran, homosexual women have even ls privacy than men, and often risk beg shunned by neighbors if they rent an apartment whout a hband. "I thk she tri to not watch the clip so she always chang the channel or pretends that she don't watch the TV, " he of the stigma agast homosexuals is trsic to the Persian language, which has two different words for homosexualy.

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"Yet the problem for men like Naeem and Behram is there's no real outlet to bate semantics: Although homosexualy n be punished, 's not somethg that is officially regnized.

In 2007, then-print Mahmoud Ahmadejad ludicroly claimed a speech New York, to loud jeers, that there were no gays Iran. It is unclear if Ahmadejad believed this himself, but his ments mirrored the regime's preference of simply ignorg homosexuals. While the new centrist ernment unr Print Hassan Rouhani matas a siar rea as s precsor, foreign-based media outlets like BBC Persian, Rad Zaman and Voice of Ameri e non-rogatory language about homosexuals, and is slowly tricklg down to reformist outlets si the untry, and to young Iranians, says spe s often venomo rhetoric, the Iranian regime silently accepts that gays do exist, and tak a few pragmatic steps to acunt for that Quran, the foundatn of Iranian law, explicly bans homosexualy.