Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Iran's hidden homosexual history

IRAN'S HIDDEN HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY

Doug Ireland reports..

...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 celebrated for well over a thousand years.

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