Tag: Iran
Honduras: 215 LGBT people murdered in 7 years
A new report from Index on Censorship exposes the torture, imprisonment and assassination of LGBT people and activists in Honduras.
OutRight Action International Releases Free Download of Graphic Novel “Yousef and Farhad”
Following the Facebook serialisation of a love story Yousef and Farhad about a gay couple in Iran, OutRight Action International, the global human rights organisation, on Monday releases the full 20-page graphic novel to download for free.
Iranian Gay Poet Visits Israel – a ‘Dream Come True’
After months of bureaucracy, Payam Feili, 30, was granted a three-month visa to Israel; he hopes to stay in the country permanently on humanitarian grounds.
Iran: Tatchell in gay, spy & terror smear
Iran’s Rahyab News has made bizarre, fabricated claims that LGBT and human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell is linked to Britain’s spy agency MI6 and to Arab terrorist organisations.
Teens hanged in Iran remembered at London vigil
Stop killing gays! Stop killing kids! End the death penalty!
‘Iran’s Brad Pitt’ Bahram Radan supports U.S gay marriage ruling
The famous Iranian actor, Bahram Radan, was interrogated after tweeting in support of the US Supreme Court’s decision to legalise gay marriage. Though he signed a letter begging for forgiveness for his statements, the actor didn’t let authorities have the last word.