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Speaking of Iran

What it's Like to Be Gay in Iran

January 12, 2015
Speaking of Iran
What it's Like to Be Gay in Iran
What it's Like to Be Gay in Iran

THE WEEK

BY SUNE ENGEL RASMUSSEN

Saeed was 20 years old when he sat his father down and told him he was gay. Trembling, he recounted how, as a child, he hid cutouts of male underwear models from foreign magazines under his pillow, and would gaze at them for hours when he was alone. His mother, sitting speechless in a chair next to her husband, went pale.

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