Ahmed Reza, the gay snitch, was identifying everyone as the cops beat us up. One of our party was a trans-sexual - the cops slapped her face so hard they busted her eardrum and she wound up in hospital. When someone tried to stop them beating up the host of the party, they were hit with pepper spray. The door opened, and the cops swarmed in, insulting us - screaming ‘who’s the bottom? Who’s the top?’ and beating us, led by Colonel Javanmardi. Ahmed waited until everyone was there, then called the Office for Promotion of Virtue and Prohibition of Vice, headed in Shiraz by Colonel Safaniya, who a few minutes later raided the party. One of the kids, Ahmed Reza - whose father was a colonel in the intelligence services, and who was known to the police to be gay - snitched on us, and alerted the authorities this private party was going to happen. “I was at a private gay party, about 25 young people there, all of us close friends. But nobody in my family knew I was gay.” Amir’s first arrest for being gay occurred two years ago. I had my first sexual experience with a man when I was 13. If Amir is denied asylum and sent back to Iran, he will most certainly be killed.įor more information, read Doug’s article in the latest edition of Ga圜ity News as well as his post at his blog.Īmir, who grew up with his mother, an older brother and two sisters, says “I’ve known I was gay since I was about 5 or 6 - I always preferred to play with girls. The estimable Doug Ireland has been bringing continuous up-to-date information on the situation, including an exclusive phone interview with Amir as he awaits his fate in Turkey. Recent attention was drawn to Iran’s suppression of gay when two teenage boys were executed by hanging. Amir, like many gays and lesbians worldwide suffers from the criminalization of homosexuality. These are the words of Amir, a 22-year-old gay man from Iran who has recently escaped brutal torture and who is now currently seeking asylum in Turkey. I just hope they don’t send me back to Iran.
I don’t know what’s going to happen to me. Really bad! We are constantly harassed in public, walking down the street, going to the store, going home…anywhere and anywhere, everyone, everyone! One of my dear friends, Nima, commited suicide a month ago in Shiraz. The gays and lesbians in Iran are under unbelievable pressure - they need help, they need outside intervention. They would beat me up and tell me to confess to things I hadn’t done, and I would do it. “The situation of gays in Iran is dreadful.
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“People need to understand that words have weight and are really powerful and can profoundly damage someone beyond repair.”Ī 2019 survey from the Trevor Project, an LGBTQ youth suicide prevention nonprofit group, found that youth who have at least one accepting adult in their life were 40 percent less likely to report a suicide attempt in the past year.Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. “Whether they’re said or whether they’re typed, words can be devastating, or they can be lifesaving,” he said. Miller said he also hopes all parents teach their children that words are powerful. Almost half of students also reported experiencing electronic harassment in 2019 via text messages or postings on Facebook, also known as cyberbullying. Nearly 70 percent of students have reported experiencing verbal harassment at school based on their sexual orientation, and more than half said they experienced this type of harassment based on their gender expression (57 percent) or gender identity (54 percent), according to GLSEN, which advocates for LGBTQ students. “Furthermore, it is our responsibility as professionals to provide a safe and caring setting for every student.” “Our district’s commitment is to ensure we have a positive and inclusive school experience in which all students can thrive academically within an affirming school community,” part of the district’s statement read. The La Grande School District has not responded to a request for comment regarding that incident, but in response to the movie’s upcoming release, the district issued an in-depth statement about the resources it offers to students who are in crisis and LGBTQ students seeking support, such as counseling.
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“I hope that the message this movie sends will make us all more vigilant, and inclined to safeguard the well-being of young people who deserve the opportunity to thrive.” 'I know that you're with me on this walk'īell told Salon in 2013 that he and Jadin went to the school about the bullying, but he said that the school didn’t suspend one of the main bullies until three weeks after Jadin’s death, and only after the student started bullying someone else. “But that misses the important message,” she said in the statement.