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Iran blasts Australian ambassador’s “insulting” pro-LGBTQ+ Instagram post
The diplomat celebrated “Wear It Purple Day,” a day for queer youth, on Instagram. Queerness is punishable by death in Iran.
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Benjamin Netanyahu claims Iran paid gay people to protest against Israel
In his speech to a joint session of Congress yesterday, the Prime Minister of Israel compared queers for Palestine to “Chickens for KFC.”
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The relative acceptance trans folks once found in Iran is being destroyed by America’s culture war
Messages from anti-LGBTQ+ figures in the U.S. have reached Iranian youth.
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Log Cabin Republicans honor Kellyanne Conway & Caitlyn Jenner at “Spirit of Lincoln” gala
Conway opposes same-sex marriage. Jenner opposes trans athletes in sports. The LCR still gave them awards.
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Too fabulous to be ordinary: How a sassy transgender diva growing up in Iran found self-love in NYC
What saved me? Therapy and community.
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Iranian official in charge of “Islamic values” suspended over gay sex video
However, the video may be part of a ploy to sabotage his political career.
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LGBTQ+ ally announces she’s running against “disgrace” George Santos
Anna Kaplan’s ad spends an entire minute focusing on Santos’s many scandals.
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Anything’s better than hell: How queer Iranians & anti-LGBTQ+ rebels became part of the same uprising
“Death to the oppressor” is easy to chant, but what does it mean when everyone is a danger?
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The secret gay neighborhood inside Tehran
If his family discovered his secret, “they would kill me by their own hands,” Muhammad told LGBTQ Nation.
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CommentaryThe 3 words that have launched a revolution in Iran & why LGBTQ people are using them
LGBTQ people, women, Kurds, Afghans, and all the people who have been persecuted by the regime have now found solidarity under the slogan, “Woman, Life, Freedom.”
