Gay in Iran? No Way!

This reminds me of a Nigerian student who told me "There were no gays in Africa before the white man came." Ah, so.

GayMiddleEast News 22.8.05

The P.G.L.O. (The Persian Gay and Lesbian Organization) has announced via it's website that on August 27, 2005 another two Iranian homosexuals are scheduled to be executed in Arak, Iran. The organization's website claimed they will be executed after a man named Ali, a student in the town of Arak, claimed that the two homosexuals raped him.

The accused men, Farbod (Amir), and Ahmad (Men), 27 years of age each, who did not have even enough money to hire the help of a lawyer, were arrested by the Iranian authorities and sentence to death as per Iranian law. The P.G.L.O. organization explained that they received this information from both friends and family of the accused. [. . . . ]

Do you believe that -- or is it a trumped up charge, given the attitude toward homosexuals in that area of the world? A fair trial, in the Western sense, does not exist in Iran, obviously.

I remember being told that there was a whole town in Iran that was where homosexuals congregated but I remember nothing more about it so check. It seems that it was the one place gays could go and live without much harassment. The story came in the context of someone telling me why I wouldn't want to go since I am not gay. Perhaps the story is not true.

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