Source: Out Impact - Feb 9 By Lorette C. Luzajic Which would you prefer- to be chopped in two with a sword, or beheaded by the same weapon? Maybe it sounds like more fun to be thrown from a mountain or high building, or, go out with the good old fashioned Old Testament stoning. It’s not the kind of thing I spend my days mulling over, not when there’s a new-ish Pet Shop Boys album and Cheap Martini Wednesday at Lola Lounge. But what if, upon leaving the martini festivities tomorrow, everyone at the party is executed? If you’re queer in the theocracy ...

by Lorette C. Luzajic Which would you prefer- to be chopped in two with a sword, or beheaded by the same weapon? Maybe it sounds like more fun to be thrown from a mountain or high building, or, go out with the good old fashioned Old Testament stoning. It’s not the kind of thing I spend my days mulling over, not when there’s a new-ish Pet Shop Boys album and Cheap Martini Wednesday at Lola Lounge. But what if, upon leaving the martini festivities tomorrow, everyone at the party is executed? If you’re queer in the theocracy of Iran, none of the ...

As I’ve written about quite a bit, the persecution faced by LGBT people in Iran is crushing. Recall that homosexuality is punishable by death in Iran, although its President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that homosexuality does not exist in Iran. Fearing for his life Asghar Hedayat, a forty-year-old gay Iranian, in 2002 fled his home country, but, now, after years of appealing for asylum based on his sexual orientation, Hedayatis facing deportation from Norway back to his unstable homeland within the next 48 hours. Via UK Gay News: Asghar fled Iran in March 2002 for Denmark, where he applied ...