The government even offers an exemption from compulsory military service for men who have sex with men. Gay hook-up apps like Grindr, Scruff, and Hornet are easy to access and increasing in popularity. Transgender individuals live and work openly in Tehran, the government will even pay for sex reassignment surgery for those who want it. More and more, I see gay and lesbian couples being openly affectionate on the streets. My friends tell me that since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - who infamously denied the existence of gay people in Iran - left office, there has been a thaw in official policy towards LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people. Curiously, “lustful” kissing between two men is punishable by only 60 lashes.ĭespite this draconian statutory prohibition, homosexuality is an open secret. If two men not related by blood are found “under one cover without necessity” they can be given 99 lashes (for some reason the same offence with two women is 100 lashes).
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