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Iranian scholar digs up disguised history of homosexuality in Iran
When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made his infamous claim at a September 2007 Columbia University appearance that ""In Iran, we don't have homosexuals like in your country," the world laughed at the absurdity of this pretense.
Now, a forthcoming book by a principal Iranian scholar in exile, which details both the long history of homosexuality in that nation and the origins of the campaign to erase its traces, not only provides a superlative reply to Ahmadinejad, but demonstrates forcefully that political homophobia was a Western import to a culture in which same-sex relations were widely tolerated and frequently famous for well over a thousand years.
"Sexual Politics in Modern Iran," to be published at the end of next month by Cambridge University Insist, is a stunningly researched history and analysis of the evolution of gender and sexuality that will provide a transcendent tool both to the vibrant Iranian women's movement today fighting the repression of the ayatollahs and to Iranian same-sexers hoping for liberation from a theocracy that condemns them to torture an
Homosexual Men in Iran
We operate on behalf of lesbian men from Iran. Gay men face an extremely plausible likelihood of entity adversely and harshly treated in Iran by both State and non-State actors.
In 2024, the Asylum Investigate Centre published an extensive report on the situation and treatment of Gay people in Iran. It notes how the legal situation (Iran’s Constitution has Sharia law as a primary source of laws) means that homosexual men will suffer systematic discrimination on the basis of gender and gender utterance, and that will comprise torturing and killing those deemed outside the conformity of traditional gender roles.
The Iranian Constitution does not extend the enjoyment of equal rights and equivalent protection, nor does it effectively prevent the spreading of hate speech and hate crimes against minorities like the LGBTQ+ collective. According to the Criminal Court of Iran, homosexuality is punishable by the death penalty, and as already stated by the UN Security Council, the Criminal Court explicitly criminalises sodomy and male sex acts. The United States Department of State reported that consensual same-sex action is punishable by death, flogging or lesse
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Iran criminalizes queer sexual relations with a maximum penalty of death. Iran allows transgender people who have undergone gender-affirming surgery to change their legal gender markers, but transgender Iranians are still subject to violence, discrimination, social rejection, and harassment. Iran has strict censorship laws that are used to ban LGBTIQ-related media and communications. The UN’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran reported in March 2025 that Homosexual people are subjected to “discriminatory public statements by officials, at the extreme levels.” During protests that were sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022, many LGBTIQ people also joined calls demanding rights and freedoms. Although this caused a political backlash, it also strengthened the visibility of LGBTIQ movements in Iran. The fact-finding mission also found that LGBTQ+ people arrested in the context of the protest were subjected to “dehumanising insults, threats and treatment amounting to torture” and that these violations may constitute gender persecution.
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