This year Ireland passed a referendum to legalize
same-sex marriage and this historic event was followed by the United States becoming
the 21st country to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide. This
monumental progress in the recognition of LGBT rights is the opposite of the
reality in the Middle East, especially countries such as Iran.
In July
this year, a 14 year old homosexual teenager was hanged by a tree during summer
camp in Iran. This year also
marks the tenth anniversary of the public hanging of two teenagers accused of
homosexuality, Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marihoni, in the Iranian city of
Mashhad. On July 19th a vigil took place in London to highlight
the continuing repression of gay and lesbian people in Iran and to pressure the
Islamic regime in Iran to stop its discriminatory and anti-gay laws.
Gay,
lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in Iran are systematically and
comprehensively being denied all basic human rights by the Islamic regime in
Iran. The Islamic law in Iran states that homosexuality is
punishable by flogging as well as capital punishment: the government’s attempt
to do its utmost to completely annihilate the group from the map of Iran. The fatwa (religious decision) for the
death of all LGBT people in Iran was issued by almost all Iranian clerics.
The social repression of the Islamic
regime in Iran results in high suicide rates, bullying and the creation of a
secret online LGBT community. Without a real way of expressing themselves
in society, the LGBT people in Iran find themselves above all very lonely and
isolated from family, friends, the local community and society at large.
Finding employment is also another major
issue in the LGBT community in Iran, particularly for transsexuals, due to the
culturally constructed taboos and ideas created by the Islamic regime.
Officially, the Islamic state of Iran believes that
everyone is heterosexual and that homosexuality is a direct violation of the
supreme will of god. In this way, all political parties and
groups that are in any shape or form affiliated with the LGBT community in Iran
are not endorsed and are severely suppressed.
The LGBT community in Iran need your
support! The LGBT community around the world must
continue to renounce the Islamic Republic with their solidarity with the
Iranian people in their struggle against this repressive regime. The Isolation and marginalization that is
imposed on the LGBT group under the threat of prosecution must stop! The
Iranian regime since the so called “revolution” has been a force of oppression
in the Iranian society. Human rights have been denied to tens of millions of
people in Iran and the Iranian people have been living in fear of enjoying the
most fundamental human rights, including their sexual rights as human beings.
The Communist Youth Organization states that
“All adults, women or
men are completely free in deciding over their sexual relationships with other
adults. Voluntary relationship of adults with each other is their private
affair and no person or authority has the right to scrutinize it, interfere
with it or make it public."
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