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This category contains sites related to the sexual orientation of Iranian gay men, lesbian women, bisexual people.

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• A Mother Takes On The Ayatollah

  http://www.thegully.com/essays/iran/001113ayatollah.html
  While Iran's hardline Muslims shut down reformist newspapers, and parade 'errant' journalists through court, lesbian, gay and transgendered people struggle to survive. Meet an unlikely activist. [The Gully]

• Iran Transvestite Film Draws Militant Fire

  http://www.iranian.com/News/Dec97/film.html
  Article describing how viewers leaving a cinema in Isfahan were attacked after seeing a film about an Iranian who resorts to cross-dressing in an effort to emigrate to the United States.

• Iran's Chief Prosecutor: Throw Homosexuals into the Fire

  http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/world/100901wo.htm
  Discusses the Iranian government position on homosexuality.

• Iranian Gays Bravely Unite Worldwide

  http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/world/020397wo.htm
  Article by Patricia Conklin. [Badpuppy Gay Today]

• New Internationalist: Sexual Exiles

  http://www.newint.org/issue229/sexual.htm
  The story of Arman, who fled Iran in fear for his life. Explains why terror rules the lives of homosexual men and women in Iran.

• Saviz Shafaie: An Iranian Gay Activist Leader

  http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/interview/052797in.htm
  Interview by Jack Nichols. [Badpuppy Gay Today]

• The Gully: The Iranian Closet

  http://www.thegully.com/essays/iran/031120_gay_iran.html
  When your family would rather see you dead than gay.

• The Only Lesbian In Iran

  http://www.thegully.com/essays/gaymundo/020122_iranian_lesbian.html
  Interview with Niloufar, who, growing up in Iran thought she was the only Iranian lesbian in existence. Article describes how the aftermath of September 11th has affected her as a lesbian Middle Eastern immigrant [The Gully].

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