Why We Need More Gay Iranian Love Stories Like This One
By Kevin Schumacher, OutRight's program coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa. I will never forget the afternoon in June 2013 that I spent listening to Javad's* story in Toronto. As a human rights advocate, I have heard many horrific stories of persecution. As a gay man who was born in Iran, I am well aware that one's sexual orientation in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East forces one to live under very precarious circumstances. Nothing prepared me for Javad's story, which haunts me still. Javad, a gay man who fled his small ...
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