On Jul 11, 2006, at 6:02 PM, Doug Henwood quoted Yoshie Furuhashi:
> What you posted is exactly the same thing as what Steven L. Robinson
> posted on June 28
> <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-
> Mon-20060626/041028.html>,
> to which I responded on the same day:
> <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-
> Mon-20060626/041031.html>.
And here's some material from Yoshie's response:
> About this and other cases, too, questions have been raised, reported
> in Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a staunch defender of the Iranian
> government:
>>
> "In practice, if someone is not known for being homosexual and is not
> openly homosexual, I don't think that person would face a problem in
> Iran," Lahidji said.
>
> An editor of "MAHA," an Iranian gay and lesbian electronic
> publication, told a Russian gay web site last summer that there are
> parks and cinemas in Iran known as being meeting places for gays.
>
> Several Iranian gay and lesbian websites are available on the
> Internet. Iranian homosexuals also communicate and write freely about
> their sexual orientation in their web logs.
>
> However, Lahidji says that if a person is suspected of a homosexual
> orientation, he or she could face harassment.
>
> "Unfortunately, if someone is branded as homosexual and it is reported
> to the police or Revolutionary Guards, and then if that person is seen
> repeatedly with another man or woman then it is possible that there
> will be a case against him and that the case will be sent to the
> court," Lahidji said.
[...]
> The editor of "MAHA," the Iranian gay journal, says life for
> homosexuals in Iran is mixed with fear, uncertainty, and
> self-oppression.
Isn't that reassuring?
And this is a defense of Iranian practice?
Doug