{"id":1701,"date":"2014-02-28T06:32:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T04:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/6rang.org\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2021-04-29T01:04:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T01:04:01","slug":"gay-iranian-and-stylish-in-exile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6rang.org\/english\/1701\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay, Iranian And Stylish in Exile"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a class=\"lightbox-added aligncenter\" href=\"http:\/\/6rang.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1393498049140.cached.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1704\" src=\"http:\/\/6rang.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1393498049140.cached-310x150.jpg\" alt=\"1393498049140.cached\" width=\"310\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo by Humans of New York<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A gay refugee couple from Iran have become Facebook superstars thanks to a<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>shout-out on Humans of New York. They talk to The Daily Beast about life for Iran\u2019s persecuted LGBT community in a country that denies their very existence.<\/div>\n<section>Last Thursday night, around 7 p.m., a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humansofnewyork\/photos\/a.102107073196735.4429.102099916530784\/611685178905586\/?type=1&amp;theater#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">photograph<\/a>\u00a0was posted to the cultish<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/galleries\/2013\/10\/16\/brandon-stanton-captures-humans-of-new-york-photos.html#71d5fc76-4bd6-4e41-932c-1b19fb53988b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Humans of New York<\/a>\u00a0Facebook page. The picture is fairly typical for New York City: two young, hip-looking men bundled against the snow, starting a day of sightseeing with a stroll through Central Park. But the caption caught the attention of the blog\u2019s avid followers: \u201cWe\u2019re gay refugees from Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Philadelphia, the couple and their friends gathered around a computer until late at night, hypnotized as they watched comments and likes stream in for hours. The counter ticked upward at an unprecedented speed\u2014even for a blog where tens of thousands of likes on a post isn\u2019t unusual. Six days later, this photo is just shy of 200,000 likes.<\/p>\n<p>Ramin Haghjoo, pictured on the left sporting a handlebar mustache, and his boyfriend Najid (whose name has been changed), an artist, met at the house party of a friend in a country where being gay is punishable by flogging and execution. In fact many things about them were deemed illegal in Sharia law-governed Iran, from the 29-year-old Haghjoo\u2019s hair\u2014worn long, hanging past his shoulders (\u201cI always had to run away from police so they didn\u2019t see my hair,\u201d he remembers) \u2014to the way they dressed, keeping with the latest fashions in a country where wearing tight jeans is illegal.<\/p>\n<p>The outpouring of comments was overwhelmingly positive, coming from Americans and Iranians alike. \u201cI think they mean \u2018We\u2019re ADORABLE gay refugees from Iran,\u2019\u201d someone wrote. \u201cMore like gay refugees from the planet Fabulous,\u201d another posted. Any negative remarks were were quickly pushed into the unreadable depths of more than 6,000 comments by passionate defenders of the couple.<\/p>\n<p>One woman\u2019s reaction was particularly telling: \u201cI\u2019m from Iran, and this is first time in my life that I see an Iranian couple are openly announcing that they are gay. I have to say that you really have guts! I can imagine that you\u2019ve passed many difficulties in the past to get to this point!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Little did she know what had transpired to bring this couple together for a pose on the outskirts of Central Park.<\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath of Iran\u2019s 2009 elections\u2014two years after then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a Columbia University audience that, \u201cIn Iran we don\u2019t have homosexuals like in your country,\u201d\u2014protesters took to the streets, calling out electoral fraud and demanding their human rights. Haghjoo went out too, donning tape over his mouth and a sign lauding free speech for Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI participated in the protests at the time because I\u2019m a member of a sexual minority and also religious minority,\u201d Haghjoo, who is a Sufi, says. \u201cI wanted to stress my individuality and identity.\u201d But on June 20, 2009, at a protest in Tehran, he was shot by government forces. The bullet entered his stomach and exited from the side. He was taken by fellow protesters for medical treatment, and underwent surgery.<\/p>\n<p>He recovered, but about a year later, rumors were circulating that the Iranian authorities were raiding hospital files to see who had been admitted during the protests and could be pinpointed as participants.<\/p>\n<p>Fearing for his safety, Haghjoo fled Iran for Turkey in May 2010, thinking he would return home in a few years. But when officials began harassing his family, he instead applied for asylum to the United States. Amazingly, his request was quickly pushed through with the support of human rights organizations and he arrived in Pennsylvania eight months later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thought it was over basically\u2014I had been shot and he had been arrested and the prospect of being together didn\u2019t seem realistic,\u201d Haghjoo says of his relationship with Najid. But during two years apart they spoke on Skype every single day, sometimes for up to six hours. \u201cThe first thing that kept us together was love,\u201d Haghjoo says. And then Najid, who had been detained in another city during the protests, decided to similarly seek asylum, which he was granted. He finally met up with Haghjoo in Philadelphia in late 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is terrible that we are not able to be ourselves in our own country,\u201d Haghjoo says now. And he\u2019s had to come to terms with the fact he may never return to see his homeland, immediate family, and friends. \u201cThinking about that makes me emotional,\u201d he says and begins to choke up. \u201cI wish I could live as comfortably inside Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haghjoo has been openly gay since he was 20 years old, after a therapist he consulted after a difficult breakup revealed his sexual orientation to his family. Fearing they would reject him, Haghjoo says he was \u201cstunned\u201d that his parents accepted him. \u201cMy father said, \u2018You are part of me how could I reject you?\u2019\u201d he remembers.<\/p>\n<p>From then on, he began tell his friends. \u201dI was surprised to see how easily they took the information and accepted me and I also realized how uninformed they are about the LGBT community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They thought, he remembers, that homosexuality was a disease and that gay males tried to be girls. This was, he says, \u201cthe information that was distributed through the official media and what families had been communicating to each other generation after generation.\u201d Haghjoo, then a psychology student, explained what he had read in his textbooks: \u201cI was born with it,\u201d he told them.<\/p>\n<p>But many others in Iran haven\u2019t had the open reception afforded to Haghjoo. In his work now, he tracks down and interviews family members and associates of those executed by the Islamic Republic of Iran for the D.C.-based\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iranrights.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boroumand Foundation<\/a>, an Iranian rights group. He\u2019s helping the Foundation build a searchable\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iranrights.org\/english\/memorial-browse-1.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">database<\/a>\u00a0of every victim of capital punishment since 1979. The undertaking is massive: In January 2014 alone, Iran has executed more than 90 citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are executing homosexuals but no one knows how much, it\u2019s impossible to determine who has been executed for what,\u201d says Roya Boroumand, the foundation\u2019s co-founder and executive director. She says 150 have been executed for sodomy since the revolution, but many more under false charges of rape. \u201cWe don\u2019t even have the tip of the iceberg.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haghjoo connected with Boroumand at a protest in DC, where she asked him about life as a LGBT Iranian. His reply, that \u201cthey managed,\u201d didn\u2019t satisfy her. \u201cIt seemed the fact that they are arrested and released, or arrested flogged and released, or that they are considered as mentally ill has become accepted as OK,\u201d she remembers. Later she adds: \u201cPeople like Ramin are often not aware how many rights are violated in their everyday life.\u201d So, she gave him a task: Find gay parties that were busted and track down what had happened to those arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Gatherings of LGBT people in Iran are incredibly dangerous, especially outside of the large capital. In 2007, Haghjoo\u2019s boyfriend at the time was arrested along with 85 homosexuals and transexuals in Isfahan, a large city south of Tehran. The arrests were particularly brutal, and they were detained in one of the area\u2019s most infamous prisons for a week until international pressure led to the release of all but 17, who were tried and sentenced to fines. Four received 80 lashes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really tragic because, after the bust, friendships were broken, relationships were broken, families didn\u2019t allow children to meet each other again\u2014nothing was like before,\u201d Haghjoo says. \u201cSo, for many of these people who had been forced to deny their own identity and be subjected to this treatment, they had very serious psychological aftermath to this arrest. They had to get medical help, and their lives were changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parties in Iran are often planned around strict precautions, since the music, fashion, and alcohol consumption are against Islamic laws. For Haghjoo\u2019s birthday in 2008, he threw a party with 120 LGBT friends. Instead of telling them the location outright, he led them from neighborhood to neighborhood in small groups via text message. If police had raided it, they would most likely be charged with encouraging moral corruption and prostitution. \u201cIf we were busted and the police saw that there are 120 very well-dressed boys, with some of them wearing makeup, they would immediately know what is happening,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>The administration in Iran has changed since Haghjoo and Najid left, but they\u2019re not buying into new President Hassan Rouhani\u2019s promises of reform. In fact, Haghjoo says he believes Rouhani would have the same answer to questions of Iran\u2019s homosexuals in Iran as Ahmadinejad gave in 2007\u2014just \u00a0\u201ca little bit more polite.\u201d True progress for human rights, he says, can only come through separation of Islam and state. \u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2014as long as these laws are based on religion\u2014I have a place to live in the country,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Boroumand agrees, calling the rate of executions a hidden warning from the regime: \u201cDon\u2019t think that just because there\u2019s a new government and we are compromising with outside world you can feel comfortable\u2014don\u2019t feel comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In recent days, anti-gay discrimination has been bubbling in United States, as Arizona and Kansas toy with laws that would allow businesses to refuse service to LGBT on religious grounds. \u201cFor me, this is unacceptable, this is going back to the past,\u201d Haghjoo says. Being denied services due to his sexuality would just feel like living in Iran, he adds. \u201cWhat these people have to understand is that before anything else we are human beings, regardless of sexual identity or religious beliefs, and as such we have to respect each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Facebook, Haghjoo\u2019s profile picture shows him and Najid smiling in the Humans of New York shot, donning their stylish and, in his boyfriend\u2019s case, colorful, outfits. \u201cBecause we are gay we are always looking fresh,\u201d Haghjoo laughs. He\u2019d love to live in New York City, which he says, \u201cis the same as Tehran\u201d\u2014busy, cosmopolitan, just with key constitutional differences. But he knows his candid \u201cBasic Information\u201d section would never fly in his hometown, 6,000 miles away:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gender:<\/strong>\u00a0Male\u00a0<strong>Interested In<\/strong>: Men\u00a0<strong>Relationship Status:<\/strong>\u00a0In a relationship<\/p>\n<p>By Nina Strochlic<\/p>\n<p>Source: http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/02\/27\/gay-iranian-and-stylish-in-exile.html<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-news-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gay, Iranian And Stylish in Exile - 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