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This Iranian activist wants to give every LGBTQ refugee a new chance at life – Mashable –
This Iranian activist wants to give every LGBTQ refugee a new chance at life Mashable
Every day of Pride Month, Mashable will be sharing illuminating conversations with members of the LGBTQ community who are making history right now. Arsham Parsi has been an activist for close to 18 years, and he’s not planning on stopping anytime soon. Parsi, who is gay, was living in Iran in 2001 when he started Rangin Kamin (Rainbow Group), a group for LGBTQ Iranians which he later renamed Persian Gay and Lesbian Organization, and which was later renamed again as the Iranian Queer Organization (IRQO). Because homosexuality is illegal in Iran and can be punished with death, Parsi registere…
– June 4, 2019 at 10:37AM
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