Posts tagged Iran

Someone please fetch the fire hose as we need to hose down another COVID-19 conspiracist, this time an Iranian cleric who has warned his followers …

Iran is one of the handful of countries that continues to execute gay men. The local media is not known to be supportive of the …

In a historic win for LGBTQI activists and rights in Africa, Sudan this week finally repealed the death penalty for individuals that engage in consensual …

A petition has been launched to free two gay Saudi journalists, who have been detained in Australia after seeking asylum in the country. Brian Greig …

The UK Home Office has refused at least 3,100 asylum claims from people identifying as LGBTIQ, from countries where same-sex acts are criminalised, it has …

Group will still fight for LGBTI asylum seekers and refugees despite recent controversies at least weekend’s Mardi Gras Parade.

A security flaw found in Grindr, that led to serious issues of violence and harassment overseas recently, has potential implications for Australian men who use the app, according to a Curtin University researcher.

Desiree Akhavan’s film Appropriate Behavior, about a girl coming to terms with her bisexuality while also navigating her Persian-American identity, will have its first screening outside the US at the Sydney Film Festival.

Iranian men identified as homosexual by an invasive physical and psychological screening process are permanently exempted from compulsory military service, leading some to deliberately out …

Four gay Iranian men are due to be executed for sodomy under Shari’a law, Pink News reports. The four men – identified by the Human …