[lbo-talk] Iran executes another queer

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 11/15/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> From: PGLO - Communications Coordinator [mailto:pglo at pglo.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 12:42 AM
> Subject: Iran Executed another person for same-sex relationship
>
> Iran Executed another person for same-sex relationship
> http://www.irna.com/fa/news/view/line-14/8508234483172234.htm
>
> Translated by: Hossein Alizadeh
>
> This just came in from Iran's state-run News Agency, IRNA:
>
> A Delinquent Person was Executed in Kermanshah
> IRNA: Tuesday, Nov 14, 2006
>
> Shahab Darvishsi, a delinquent person was executed in the Azadi
> Square of Kermanshah on Tuesday evening.
>
> According to the Communications Department of the Justice Department
> of the Kermanshah Province, the above-mentioned was found guilty [ by
> the court of law] of forming a coterie of corruption rings, physical
> assaults , and the despicable act of sodomy.

I followed the link and looked at the original Farsi text.  Once
again, it is a case of understanding what "لواط" [lavat] means.  A
person who engages in lavat is not necessarily gay, much as a person
who engages in sodomy is not necessarily gay.  Neither lavat nor
sodomy is identical to consensual same-sex sex, let alone consensual
same-sex sex between two self-identified gay men.  Anyone who has read
Foucault, Jonathan Ned Katz, etc. knows the difference with regard to
sodomy.  It's time for us to learn the difference with regard to
lavat.
-- 
Yoshie
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