Doug Henwood Talks

On Jul 11, 2006, at 6:02 PM, Doug Henwood quoted Yoshie Furuhashi:

What you posted is exactly the same thing as what Steven L. Robinson posted on June 28 , to which I responded on the same day: .

And here’s some material from Yoshie’s response:

About this and other cases, too, questions have been raised, reported in Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a staunch defender of the Iranian government: > “In practice, if someone is not known for being homosexual and is not openly homosexual, I don’t think that person would face a problem in Iran,” Lahidji said.

An editor of “MAHA,” an Iranian gay and lesbian electronic publication, told a Russian gay web site last summer that there are parks and cinemas in Iran known as being meeting places for gays.

Several Iranian gay and lesbian websites are available on the Internet. Iranian homosexuals also communicate and write freely about their sexual orientation in their web logs.

However, Lahidji says that if a person is suspected of a homosexual orientation, he or she could face harassment.

“Unfortunately, if someone is branded as homosexual and it is reported to the police or Revolutionary Guards, and then if that person is seen repeatedly with another man or woman then it is possible that there will be a case against him and that the case will be sent to the court,” Lahidji said.

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The editor of “MAHA,” the Iranian gay journal, says life for homosexuals in Iran is mixed with fear, uncertainty, and self-oppression.

Isn’t that reassuring?

And this is a defense of Iranian practice?

Doug

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