On May 17, Ismael Fattahi, Iran’s Labor Movement Activist, in his article “On the Importance of The Day Against Homophobia” posted on IRQO website, wrote that it is indeed important to fight homophobia within Iran’s civil movements. He elaborated on the Penal Code and punishments embedded in Sharia law against individual gays and lesbians in […]
On May 17, Shahrman Kiani, IRQO’s psychologist member of the organization, who is also and essayist and translator, contributed his views in an articles called “Does Homophobia Make Us Miserable?” and concluded that “limited possibilities, distressed life conditions, constant failures, social and parental pressures, widespread homophobia in individual and social levels, eventually, results in a […]
When Buzzfeed Website’s Reporter Lester Feder approached Iranian Queer Organization – IRQO for news about LGBT refugees, he was not a stranger. IRQO had been in-touch with Lester a year ago when reporting about Kermanshah’s Arrest of allegedly gay men. The experience was great because Buzzfeed and Lester Feder surprised us by their ethical approach […]
Starting Thursday, August 12, on Facebook [ http://www.facebook.com/yousef.farhad.story ], the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) launches the first episode of a commissioned graphic novel, Yousef and Farhad, a story about the struggles for acceptance by two fictional gay men in Iran. This weekly publication will be the start of the digital campaign: #LoveForAll. The campaign kickoff on Facebook includes […]
In order to spread the word of IDAHOT in even more places around the world, the Iranian Queer Oganization IRQO have put in all their efforts to translate some of the IDAHOT Artworks into Farsi. Please feel free to post, share and use these to highlight the importance of the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia […]
Iranian Queer Organization (IRQO), an organization supporting the Iranian LGBTI community, requested we share with our readers their summary review of Iran’s response to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) by the United Nations’s Human Rights Council (UNHRC). We provide IRQO’s statement here, very slightly edited. by Denis LeBlanc Resource: 76crimes.com […]
In a 10 pages long review of Iran’s response to the UPR, with a glance at the turning points in Iran’s LGBT movement dating back to 1972, IRQO’s comment is summarized as follows: Iran’s response to recommendations at the 20th UPR session, pointing at violations of LGBT rights, is hypocrite and irresponsible. The excuse offered […]
Insight Iran joined a group of 36 NGOs calling on the member states of the UN Human Rights Council to support the resolution to renew the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran. Resource: insightiran.org March 12, 2015 To: Member States of the UN Human Rights Council Your Excellency, […]
Farrokh Nikmaram According to the official Iranian news agency “Fars News”, the speaker at the “Friday prayer” in Mashhad believes that the real point of conflict between the United States and Iran, is not the atomic negotiations, but the legalization of homosexuality. In his December 27th address Ayatollah Alamolhoda said: “The problem is not the […]
Throughout last year the new Iranian government did not show any reconciliation towards the rights of the LGBT members of the Iranian society, and no changes were made in any of the violent laws against these individuals. By the end of the year religious leaders used their pulpits and any other tribune to attack and […]
