Irani sex gay

The "passive" person can still be sentenced to death, regardless of marital status. Sexual interaction between two women is punishable by flogging. The vast majority of media reports about homosexuality in Iran are based on accounts of torment and oppression from gays and lesbians who have fled the country.

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Drawing on ethnographic encounters with self-identified gay men in Iran, this book explores the construction, enactment, and veiling and unveiling of gay identity and same-sex desire in the capital city of Tehran. The research draws on diverse interpretive, historical, online and empirical sources in order to present critical and nuanced insights into the politics of recognition and representation and the constitution of same-sex desire under the specific conditions of Iranian modernity.

What it's like to be gay in Iran

The United States Department of State reported that consensual same-sex activity is punishable by death, flogging or lesser punishment, and that the law does not distinguish between consensual and non-consensual same-sex intercourse. In relation to the social conception of homosexuality in Iran, Iranian society is a harsh environment in which homosexuals cannot live openly, or disclose their sexuality in.

Iran: Murder of gay man highlights dangers of state-sanctioned abuses against LGBTI people

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