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Iranian scholar digs up hidden 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 appreciate in your country," the world laughed at the absurdity of this pretense.
Now, a forthcoming book by a leading 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 noted for well over a thousand years.
"Sexual Politics in Modern Iran," to be published at the end of next month by Cambridge University Push, 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
Iran’s laws, based on a conservative translation of Shiite Islam, did not provide any protections to or recognize LGBTQI+ individuals, couples, or their families in 2023, the Mention Department reported. Queer sexual activity, consensual and nonconsensual, was criminalized. And “security forces harassed, arrested, and detained individuals they suspected or perceived as organism LGBTQI+,” according to the annual human rights report. The following are excerpts.
ACTS OF VIOLENCE, CRIMINALIZATION, AND OTHER ABUSES BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER Individuality OR EXPRESSION, OR SEX CHARACTERISTICS
Criminalization: The regulation criminalized consensual gay sexual activity, which was punishable by death, flogging, or a lesser punishment. There were no reports of such punishments being enforced during the year. The law did not distinguish between consensual and nonconsensual same-sex intercourse, and NGOs reported this lack of clarity led to both the survivor and the perpetrator existence held criminally liable under the rule in cases of assault. Hate-crime laws or other criminal justice mechanisms did not exist to aid in the prosecution of bias-motivated crimes.
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Types of criminalisation
- Criminalises LGBT people
- Criminalises sexual activity between males
- Criminalises sexual activity between females
- Imposes the death penalty
Summary
Same-sex sexual activity is prohibited under the Penal Code 2013, which criminalises acts of ‘livat’, ‘tafkhiz’, ‘musaheqeh’, and other intimate acts. These provisions carry a maximum penalty of death. Both men and women are criminalised under this law.
These provisions hold their origins in Islamic rule, with Iran adopting a criminal code based upon Sharia principles. While same-sex acts have historically been criminalised in Iran and its predecessor states, there is evidence that they were largely tolerated until the 1979 Revolution.
There is significant evidence of the law being enforced in recent years, with LGBT people existence frequently subject to arrest, which can result in the imposition of the death penalty. There have been consistent reports of discrimination and violence being dedicated against LGBT people in re
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