“The only important thing is that some day I could walk and breathe freely in this county.”

Inside Iran’s Secret Gay World [CBC report]

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Also on Phatic Communion:

• Direland
• We’re Here, We’re Queer
• Mahmoud and Ayaz

Update:  And now, speaking Monday at Columbia University, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad exhibits himself:

He provoked derisive laughter by responding to a question about Iran’s execution of homosexuals by saying: “In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country … I don’t know who’s told you that we have this.”

Update#2:  Yellow Limes was live-blogging the questions from the audience:

*Update 5*

He’s falling apart. Now he’s talking about how drug traffickers and “people who break into homes and shoot people” are the ones being executed.

Wow!!!!!
He just got jeered and laughed at by the crowd and is getting booed!!! Ahmadinejad just claimed that there are not homosexuals in Iran like there are in the U.S.

2:50pm EDT