the advocate - may 2014

HOW MORMONS COULD SUDDENLY DO RIGHT BY LGBTS
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What is STRIBILD?
STRIBILD is a prescription medicine
used to treat HIV-1 in adults who
have never taken HIV-1 medicines
before. It combines 4 medicines into
1 pill to be taken once a day with
food. STRIBILD is a complete
single-tablet regimen and should not
be used with other HIV-1 medicines.
STRIBILD does not cure HIV-1
infection or AIDS. To control HIV-1
infection and decrease HIV-related
illnesses you must keep taking

STRIBILD. Ask your healthcare
provider if you have questions about
how to reduce the risk of passing
HIV-1 to others. Always practice
safer sex and use condoms to lower
the chance of sexual contact with
body fl uids. Never reuse or share
needles or other items that have
body fl uids on them.
IMPORTANT SAFETY
INFORMATION
What is the most important
information I should know
about STRIBILD?
STRIBILD can cause serious
side effects:
t Build-up of an acid in your
blood (lactic acidosis), which is
a serious medical emergency.
Symptoms of lactic acidosis include
feeling very weak or tired, unusual
(not normal) muscle pain, trouble
breathing, stomach pain with
nausea or vomiting, feeling cold
especially in your arms and legs,
feeling dizzy or lightheaded, and/or
a fast or irregular heartbeat.
t Serious liver problems. The liver
may become large (hepatomegaly)
and fatty (steatosis). Symptoms of

liver problems include your skin or
the white part of your eyes turns
yellow (jaundice), dark “tea-colored”
urine, light-colored bowel movements
(stools), loss of appetite for several
days or longer, nausea, and/or
stomach pain.
t You may be more likely to get
lactic acidosis or serious liver
problems if you are female, very
overweight (obese), or have been
taking STRIBILD for a long time. In
some cases, these serious conditions
have led to death. Call your healthcare
provider right away if you have any
symptoms of these conditions.
t Worsening of hepatitis B (HBV)
infection. If you also have HBV
and stop taking STRIBILD, your
hepatitis may suddenly get worse.
Do not stop taking STRIBILD
without fi rst talking to your
healthcare provider, as they will
need to monitor your health.
STRIBILD is not approved for the
treatment of HBV.
Who should not take STRIBILD?
Do not take STRIBILD if you:
t Take a medicine that contains:
alfuzosin, dihydroergotamine,

ergotamine, methylergonovine,
cisapride, lovastatin, simvastatin,
pimozide, sildenafi l when used for
lung problems (Revatio
®
), triazolam,
oral midazolam, rifampin or the herb
St. John’s wort.
t For a list of brand names for these
medicines, please see the Brief
Summary on the following pages.
t Take any other medicines to
treat HIV-1 infection, or the
medicine adefovir (Hepsera
®
).
What are the other possible
side effects of STRIBILD?
Serious side effects of STRIBILD
may also include:
t New or worse kidney problems,
including kidney failure. Your
healthcare provider should do
regular blood and urine tests to
check your kidneys before and
during treatment with STRIBILD.
If you develop kidney problems,
your healthcare provider may tell
you to stop taking STRIBILD.
t Bone problems, including bone

pain or bones getting soft or thin,
which may lead to fractures. Your
healthcare provider may do tests to
check your bones.
t Changes in body fat can happen
in people taking HIV-1 medicines.
t Changes in your immune system.
Your immune system may get
stronger and begin to fi ght
infections. Tell your healthcare
provider if you have any new
symptoms after you start taking
STRIBILD.
The most common side effects
of STRIBILD include nausea and
diarrhea. Tell your healthcare provider
if you have any side effects that
bother you or don’t go away.
What should I tell my
healthcare provider before
taking STRIBILD?
t All your health problems. Be
sure to tell your healthcare provider
if you have or had any kidney, bone,
or liver problems, including hepatitis
virus infection.
t All the medicines you take,
including prescription and
nonprescription medicines, vitamins,
and herbal supplements. STRIBILD

may affect the way other medicines
work, and other medicines may
affect how STRIBILD works. Keep
a list of all your medicines and
show it to your healthcare provider
and pharmacist. Do not start any
new medicines while taking
STRIBILD without fi rst talking
with your healthcare provider.
t If you take hormone-based
birth control (pills, patches, rings,
shots, etc).
t If you take antacids. Take
antacids at least 2 hours
before or after you take
STRIBILD.
t If you are pregnant
or plan to become
pregnant. It is not
known if STRIBILD
can harm your
unborn baby. Tell your
healthcare provider
if you become pregnant
while taking STRIBILD.
t If you are breastfeeding
(nursing) or plan to
breastfeed. Do not
breastfeed. HIV-1 can
be passed to the baby

in breast milk. Also,
some medicines in
STRIBILD can pass
into breast milk, and it
is not known if this can
harm the baby.
You are encouraged to report
negative side effects of
prescription drugs to the FDA.
Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch,
or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
Please see Brief Summary of
full Prescribing Information with
important warnings on the
following pages.
STRIBILD is a prescription medicine used as
a complete single-tablet regimen to treat HIV-1 in
adults who have never taken HIV-1 medicines
before. STRIBILD does not cure HIV-1 or AIDS.
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Talk to your healthcare provider
about starting treatment.
STRIBILD is a complete HIV-1
treatment in 1 pill, once a day.
Ask if it’s right for you.
Patient Information
STRIBILD
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(STRY-bild)

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What is the most important information I should know
about STRIBILD?
STRIBILD can cause serious side effects, including:
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You may be more likely to get lactic acidosis or severe liver
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STRIBILD is not for use in people who are less than 18 years old.
What are the possible side effects of STRIBILD?
STRIBILD may cause the following serious side effects:
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What should I tell my healthcare provider before taking STRIBILD?
Tell your healthcare provider about all your medical conditions,
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features
San Francisco:
The First AIDS-
Free City
From the epicenter of the epidemic to the
world’s model for care, the city by the
bay is vying to claim the title of the first
AIDS-free city. But how could that be

accomplished if the city does not help the
poor and marginalized?
By Jeremy Lybarger 46
(Safe) Sexual
Imagery
Visual imagery has always been one
of the most effective tools in the fight
against HIV. We examine some of the
most successful and how the imagery has
changed since the beginning. 52
46
Whatever
Happened to the
Mighty GMHC?
The organization that once led the battle
against AIDS has experienced troubles
with leadership, expensive real estate, and
dropping contributions. Will the GMHC
be able to right its course for the sake
of its clients in need?
By Tim Murphy 56

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advance
Bucking the Trend
Executive orders were the starting
point for past civil rights actions.

Why not for employment? 19
Study Guide: Iran
A new president cannot change the
regime’s anti-LGBT policies. 22
Civil Survey: Going Blonde
Our survey of attendees to a tribute to
Carol Channing on who has more fun,
matchmaking, and Nixon. 29
Britney, One More Time
We love to love Britne y Spears.
But are we just absolving our guilt at
what fame has cost her? 32

By the Numbers:
The Catholic Church
Will it change and survive? The data
show it’s in dire straits. 34
religion & culture
Ghost of Future Present
Derek Jarman’s legacy has been
burnished since his death. Justin
Torres seeks the iconoclastic. 67
The O-Factor
Diane Anderson-Minshall on the life-
changing voyage on an Olivia cruise. 70
His and His and His
When three is not a crowd. Mikel
Wadewitz writes a love letter
to both of the men he loves. 74
Marry, Me?

Michael Musto is feeling the pressure
to pair off, even from his TV set. 76
A List: Chris O’Dowd
Brandon Voss catches up
with Irish hearthrob about mous-
taches, smooching, and his
Broadway debut. 80
spectator
Mormons, God, and Gays
The Mormon church could change
course on LGBT acceptance like no
other global religion. So what if God
suddenly said gay is OK?
By Matthew Breen 42
Mexico’s Muxes
A look at Mesoamericas’s third gender,
the mysterious and revered muxes.
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The Indestructable Man
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ather by accident, this issue
has taken on a subtheme, one of
challenging behemoth, established
institutions: GMHC, which was for
many years the juggernaut in bat-
tling AIDS; the Mormon Church, the
global religion of 14 million members
that, as an institution, leads the fight
to prevent gays and lesbians from
marrying in California; and even Britney Spears, unde-
niably a gay icon. I imagine that we’re going to get a lot of
correspondence calling our good sense and provenance
into question.

Much of what we do in LGBT media and activism is
taking on fights, but still, I’m girding my loins for this
first one in particular. It’s a look at whether Britney
Spears should be considered a gay icon in the classic
sense. The answer, in short, is no—not yet. (Hold your
righteous outrage until you’ve read the piece starting
on page 32). Spears can churn out a pop hit, and she’s an
extremely hard worker—neither point seems refutable.
She even seems like a pretty nice person. But whenever
I see her perform I can’t help thinking that it looks like
she’d rather be doing something else. I see in her my own
desire to take a nice, long vacation. I can just read it on
her face. But her devotees are legion. After the premiere
of Spears’ Vegas residency, one acquaintance of mine
who posted dozens of his own snapshots and videos of
her performance in many posts on Facebook, was chal-
lenged to give it a rest, and yet stood his ground: He’d
rather have you unfriend him than temper his admira-
tion for Britney even the tiniest bit. I, for one, can’t wait
to see what she gets up to when it’s really up to her. Even
if that’s retirement.
In “Whatever Happened to the Mighty GMHC,”
(page 56) contributor Tim Murphy looks at the proto-
type organization that began when writer Larry
Kramer and 80 other men met in Kramer’s apartment to
respond to the “gay cancer” plaguing New York City and
San Francisco. GMHC sponsored the first major AIDS
fundraising event in 1983 (interestingly, a Ringling Bros.
and Barnum & Bailey Circus performance), and the
organization was sought by the CDC in planning public

conferences on AIDS the following year—all before the
discovery of the HIV virus. They’ve had some rather
public missteps in recent years as detailed in Murphy’s
reporting, but the thing that jumps right out of the piece
is the analysis that the original donor base of mostly
white, mostly gay men, has dropped the funding ball
rather dramatically. Have they decided that HIV/AIDS
isn’t a crisis any longer, that it’s a chronic yet manageable
disease? Or did they give all their money to marriage
fights? Or could it be because the disease now dispropor-
tionately affects men and women of color. If the latter is
the case, and we cannot see beyond our own proverbial
front steps and acknowledge how the disease affects
others, I worry for the both the health of the organiza-
tion and our future as a multifaceted community.
Also in this issue I posit a theory about how Mormon-
ism, given its unique structure, could suddenly become
the world’s first truly 21st century religion, and embrace
LGBTs (page 42). Ever since the stunning overturn-
ing of the Utah state constitution’s marriage ban, I’ve
been turning over in my head how to frame the issue of
equality in my home state. A high school friend tipped
me off that she was working on the legal challenge to the
ban, and it’s to my own discredit that I didn’t follow up,
thinking, as many others did, that progress cannot be
made there, it will have to be imposed externally. That
was a mistake to be sure. In that court decision and
other moves I see opportunity for a new openness in the
dominant religious and political force in Utah.
The successes of the past few years have beaten some

cynicism out me. It’s a good time to take on the giants.
Matthew Breen, editor in chief
Editor’s Letter
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DAVIDE MONTELEONE (RUSSIA PHOTOGRAPHY)
shattered a lot of
misconceptions
I had about the
sexual minori-
ties in Russia, but
confirmed also a
supposition, that
queer folk have
not escaped the condemna-
tion of the church and, in
fact, once the supposedly
atheistic USSR collapsed,
the Russian Orthodox
authorities have been a
major force in the passage
of homophobic laws. Putin
knows his Seneca and is the
beneficiary of both the working
class gullibility and his own
unhesitating use of dogma to
wield power.”
Reader Jeffrey Kassel
emailed this letter: “Your

article on Russia advocated the
West sitting back and leaving
Russian gays alone. This is a
dangerous proposition. When
I first went to the Soviet Union
in 1975, I was told by a Rus-
sian friend that Russians were
taught that all homosexuals
were former prisoners who
had no choice but to be that
way… homosexuals needed to
be feared because, as paroled
prisoners, they were violent.
Of course, nonsense, but that
is what they were taught. The
writer of the article goes on to
say that there is no history of a
civil rights movement in Rus-
LOVE IN PUTIN’S RUSSIA
Contributor Chadwick Moore
spent time in Russia on assign-
ment, assessing what daily life
is like for gay Muscovites under
the antigay Putin regime.
Several readers referred to it
in terms like “Eye-opening,”
and “educational.” And a few
more sent simple messages of
compassion, presumably to the
subjects of the article: “May

they all be safe from harm,”
and “xxoo.” Reader David
Ladabouche shared his own
memories of his time in the
U.S.S.R.: “I was in
the Soviet Union
before it broke up
and gay people
couldn’t let straight
friends or relatives
know for fear of
prison and being
thrown out of state
owned apartments
and loss of employ-
ment. Putin was in
the powerful KGB
then and is bringing all this
back to the modern day Russia.
I feel sorry for the everyday
citizens that they have lost
much of their freedom and
are pretty much powerless
to do anything about it.” He
continues with his belief that
American conservatives are
supporting Putin’s ideas on
these shores, and elsewhere:
“Unfortunately they have,
through their religious beliefs

and small mindedness, fought
to do what Putin is doing now
when it comes to LGBT and
women’s rights, even going as
far as siding with Putin and
sending delegations to African
nations to help craft legislation
to criminalize LGBT citizens
of those countries. They have
influenced anti gay laws now in
two African countries!”
Reader Max Erickson com-
mented, “This is by far the
best article on the topic
around!” James M. Martin
commented, “I got my Advocate
by mail today and devoured
Chadwick Moore’s brilliantly-
written portrait of LGBT/
queer people in Russia. Moore
Feedback
end is a moron. Sexual orienta-
tion obviously does not impart
greater wisdom.”
Jordan Rogers wrote, “Just
proves that gay people
come in all stripes, even
crazy paranoid stripes.”
Tawny Bradley was sym-
pathetic to the notion: “My

wife and I aren’t full out
preppers, but do have some
prepper tendencies and our
own stockpiles. Whoever
submitted for this article
should start a page and
invite me.” Steven Publicover
won most likes for his com-
ment. “I bet the bunkers are
to die for!”
WAS NORMAL ROCKWELL GAY?
That’s the question asked by
Jerry Portwood in his review
of Deborah Solomon’s book
American Mirror: The Life and
Art of Norman Rockwell. Reader
Jennifer Schwab asked, “Who
cares whether or not he was
gay? He was a great artist.
And if he was closeted in life,
do you really think he’d want
to be outed after death? I don’t
understand the need to dig into
his privacy.” Jordan Krueger
replied: “If one of America’s
most cherished artists is a
homosexual, it’s not only
another example how gays
contributed to American
history, but it also casts a

new light on his work.” X
sia. This is not correct. Andrei
Sakharov, for instance led a
civil & human rights movement
that ultimately resulted in the
collapse of the Soviet Union.
Also, a very important civil
rights movement was the cause
of Soviet Jews who wished to
live free of anti-Semitism. It
was the pressure from the West
that resulted in the further-
ance of Jewish rights, including
emigration. The gay movement
in Russia has a lesson to be
learned from these previous
civil rights struggles. They can-
not go-it alone. We are all in
this together.”
Commentor Jen Doe wrote,
“OMG, I’m from Russia and I
can’t follow the link! It says
‘forbidden in your country’!
Please post elsewhere.” “I
sent you a message with a .pdf
of the article. Cheers!” respond-
ed reader Pedro Carvalho.
(Thanks for the assist Pedro!)
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN
GAYS JOIN RIGHT-WING

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reported on LGBT “preppers.”
Richard Reed declared the
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T
he only thing as stunning as the rever-
sal of fortune for marriage equality

from 2004-2014 is the way in which
workplace fairness for LGBT Americans
has languished at the federal level. True,
the Senate made an impressive push to
pass employment protections last year, but
the House of Representatives remains a
sizeable hurdle to their final passage.
The juxtaposition is particularly inter-
esting if you compare the progression of
the gay rights movement to that of the civil
rights movement of the 20th century—a
model LGBT leaders and historians have
often looked to for benchmarks and inspi-
ration. The civil rights movement moved
from integration of the armed forces
(1948) to the desegregation of schools
(1954) to prohibitions on discrimination
in public accommodations, the workplace,
and voting (1964–1965), and finally to the
eradication of the anti-miscegenation laws
that banned interracial marriage (1967).
President Barack Obama, a keen student
of civil rights history, reminded me of this
order when I interviewed him on the cam-
paign trail in 2008.
At the time, I was pushing him on his
stance on civil unions. “Is it fair for the
LGBT community to ask for leadership
[on marriage equality]?” I asked him at his
Chicago-based campaign headquarters in

April 2008. “In 1963, President Kennedy
made civil rights a moral issue for the
country,” I continued, referring to JFK’s
historic address to the nation.
Then-Senator Obama pushed back with
a strategy argument. “But he didn’t over-
turn anti-miscegenation. Right?” he asked.
“I’m the product of a mixed marriage
that would have been illegal in 12 states
when I was born,” he explained. “That
doesn’t mean that had I been an adviser to
Dr. King back then, I would have told him
to lead with repealing an anti-miscege-
BUCKING
THE TREND
The civil rights movement of the 20th Century
has been a good template for LGBT rights—
except on employment. Why? We’re still missing
a key executive order of the kind that helped
level the playing field for racial minorities.
BY KERRY ELEVELD
ADVANCE
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CITIZENSHIP, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS; YOICHI R. OKAMOTO (JOHNSON);
nation law, because it just might not have
been the best strategy in terms of moving
broader equality forward.”
But six years later, the march toward

marriage equality has hit the fast track,
while federal employment protections—
a critical advancement for the civil rights
movement—have practically stalled.
Indeed, at the time of this writing, the
number of marriage equality states has
now caught up to the number of states
that prohibit discrimination against LGBT
employees: 17. (This does not include pend-
ing marriage cases in Utah and Oklahoma.)
In part, this progression reflects a dis-
tinctive difference between the adversi-
ties faced by LGBT Americans and black
Americans. Gays did not need to be eman-
cipated, granted citizenship, or given the
right to vote. Generally speaking, LGBT
citizens have not needed to be “let in”
because they already existed in every cor-
ner of American life, though often without
detection. What they have really needed is
to be seen and counted by the federal gov-
ernment (a major failing during the onset
of the AIDS crisis) and then given the nec-
essary protections from being expelled
once they were known. The clearest form
of government-sponsored discrimination
against lesbians and gays was “don’t ask,
don’t tell,” and it was the first to go. But
employment protections were perhaps
prioritized early on by civil rights leaders

because people of color often faced being
shut out of gainful employment altogether,
while LGBT workers have typically been at
greater risk of being harassed or fired once
they were discovered.
In fact, in the run up to United States’s
involvement in World War II, A. Philip
Randolph and other black leaders
demanded a presidential executive order
that would prohibit race-based discrimi-
nation by federal defense contractors,
which were quickly becoming the nation’s
economic engine. After the leaders threat-
ened to march on Washington, Franklin D.
Roosevelt signed the order in 1941, a major
milestone for the civil rights movement.
That order was subsequently enhanced
by Republican and Democratic presidents
alike until Lyndon Johnson signed Execu-
tive Order 11246 in 1965 requiring all fed-
eral contractors to ensure fair employ-
ment practices regardless of race, color,
religion, sex, or national origin. Congress
also followed the early lead of the execu-
tive branch by enacting federal workplace
protections through Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964.
LGBT advocates have long sought a
similar executive order that would pro-
hibit federal contractors from discriminat-

ing against gay, bisexual, and transgender
employees. Such an order would provide
binding legal protections for some 28 mil-
lion workers, of which more than 6% are
likely to be gay or transgender, based on
workforce estimates from the Williams
Institute. As the Human Rights Campaign
noted in a 2008 transition document pre-
pared for the incoming Obama administra-
tion, “When the federal government hires
private companies to perform government
functions with public funds, it can and
should expect the contractors to adhere to
the same civil rights standards as the gov-
ernment would if it were doing the work.”
Meanwhile, the Defense of Marriage
Act has effectively been gutted and we
June 25, 1941
President Franklin
D. Roosevelt signs
Executive Order 8802
prohibiting racial
discrimination in the
national defense
industry.
July 26, 1948
President Harry S.
Truman signs Executive
Order 9981 abolishing
racial discrimination

in the United States
Armed Forces.
May 17, 1954 The SCOTUS decision
in Brown v. Board of Education
declares laws establishing separate
public schools for black and white
students unconstitutional.
March 6, 1961
President John F. Kennedy signs
Executive Order 10925, requiring
government contractors to “take
affirmative action” to ensure that
applicants and employees are treated
equally without regard to their race,
creed, color, or national origin.
July 2, 1964
The Civil Rights Act
of 1964 outlawed
major forms of
discrimination
against racial,
ethnic, national and
religious minorities,
and women, in public
accommodations and
the workplace.
August 6, 1965
The Voting Rights Act
of 1965 prohibits
discrimination in voting.

September 24, 1965
President Lyndon B.
Johnson signs Executive
Order 11246 requiring
all federal contractors to
ensure fair employment
practices regardless of
race, color, religion, sex, or
national origin.
June 12, 1967
The SCOTUS decision
in Loving v. Virginia in-
validates laws prohibiting
interracial marriage.
Executive Orders First? A Timeline
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are fast approaching the day when the
Supreme Court will hear a second case
arguing that same-sex marriage is a funda-
mental constitutional right.
It’s a curious turn of events. In politics,
as in journalism, you go where the energy
is, and there are many reasons why work-
place fairness still hasn’t caught the fire
that the “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal and
marriage equality have. But at least one
of them is executive influence. President
Obama famously inserted 32 words into

his 2010 State of the Union address that
started the clock ticking on the gay ban.
He also took to the airwaves in 2012 to
announce his change of heart on same-sex
marriage. While neither of these actions
definitively altered the trajectory of either
issue, they most certainly catapulted them
forward at an accelerated pace.
But had I asked him in 2008 whether he
anticipated that marriage equality would
start to sweep the nation before basic
employment protections were extended
to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and
queer Americans, I suspect he would have
said, “No.” X
October 28, 2009
President Barack Obama signs
the Matthew Shepard and James
Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention
Act, which extends federal hate-
crime law to crimes motivated by
gender, sexual orientation, gender
identity, or disability.
September 20, 2011
The legislative repeal
of “don’t ask, don’t
tell,” which prohibits
openly gay, lesbian, or
bisexuals from serving
in the United States

Armed Forces, goes
into effect.
June 26, 2013
The SCOTUS
decision in
United States v.
Windsor declares
that restricting
U.S. federal
interpretations
of “marriage”
and “spouse”
to apply only to
heterosexual
unions is
unconstitutional.
Such an order
would provide
binding legal
protections
for some
28 million
workers, of
which more
than 6%
are likely
to be gay or
transgender.”
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W
ith the election last June of Hassan Rouhani
as Iran’s president, there were hopes for a Per-
sian Spring that would improve human rights
for the country’s struggling LGBT community. Those
hopes have not been borne out.
Two new studies addressing the plight of the LGBT
community in the Islamic Republic—and a detailed
letter from human rights organizations to Rouhani—
mandate an alarming conclusion: Iran’s authoritar-
ian regime continues to enforce anti-LGBT repres-
sion, and sanctions that reflect lethal homophobia
remain codified in law.
Rouhani declared prior to his election victory: “All
Iranian people should feel there is justice” and “Long
live citizen rights!” His rhetoric proved to be empty.

The United Nations special rapporteur on the
situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic
of Iran, Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, published a scathing
indictment of violence against LGBT Iranians last
October. Under the section headed “Other Forms
of Cruel and Inhuman Punishment,” Shaheed chas-
tised Iran’s authorities for meting out the penalty of
flogging for “illicit relationships and nonpenetrative
homosexual acts.”
Shaheed, widely considered one of the world’s
top human rights experts, noted in his report that
Iran’s effort to revise its Islamic Penal Code failed
to expunge “homosexual acts” from the list of capi-
tal offenses.
Shari’a—what is commonly referred to as Islamic
law—plays a critical role in the application of pun-
ishment, particularly the death penalty, under
Iranian law. Shari’a law codifies punishments
called hudud, which are applied to a defined set of
crimes, including acts of sodomy. Separately, there
is a form of punishment labeled ta’zir, to be meted
out at a judge’s discretion; this usually includes
“other homosexual acts.”
Iranian Islamic law differentiates between passive
and active sodomy convictions. A convicted passive
partner faces the death penalty, whereas an active
partner, if unmarried, may receive 100 lashes. A mar-
ried active partner faces execution.
The regime vehemently rejects Shaheed’s report.
In January, Mullah Mostafa Pour Mohammadi,

Rouhani’s justice minister, called Shaheed a “cor-
rupt person.” As deputy intelligence minister, Pour
Mohammadi was one of a circle of top officials
responsible for the slaughter of thousands of politi-
cal prisoners in 1988.
All this helps explain the bleak outlook for the
realization of Rouhani’s promises of reform. “Noth-
ing essential has changed. The structure is still the
same. It’s a play, a comic and ugly performance.
They’re relying on the naiveté of people to be able to
succeed,” the gay Iranian poet Payam Feili said about
Rouhani’s administration. Feili’s poetry cannot be
published because he is on a blacklist.
A second report, entitled “Denied Identity: Human
NO PERSIAN
THAW
Two reports indicate that despite
a new president’s overtures to the
contrary, Iran will remain a deadly
place for LGBTs.
BY BENJAMIN WEINTHAL
ADVANCE STUDY GUIDE
There is no indication that the situation of
Iran’s LGBT persons will change, in law or in
practice, in the near future.”
JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES; ATTA KENARE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES (ROUHANI)
Rights Abuses Against Iran’s LGBT Community,”
was published in November by the Iran Human
Rights Documentation Center. In contrast to Sha-
heed’s report, which covers ethnic, sexual, and

religious minorities, the New Haven-based center
devoted the entirety of its 60-page study to Iran’s
LGBT community, and conducted scores of inter-
views with gay, lesbian, and transgender Iranians.
In testimony, Maryam Ahmadi, described what
took place after a prison surveillance camera filmed
her kissing her girlfriend, Sara, as they were await-
ing trial for hosting a party “celebrating their union”:
“I don’t know if [guards] actually struck us 50 times
or however many times it was. I fainted. When I
gained consciousness, I noticed they’d placed me
next to a small garden and splashed water on me. I
don’t know if they continued to strike the 100 lashes
I was to receive while unconscious.”
The center’s disturbing conclusion: “There is no
indication that the situation of Iran’s LGBT persons
will change, in law or in practice, in the near future.”
The ongoing repression of LGBT Iranians
prompted four human rights organizations—
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch,
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Com-
mission, and Iranian Queer Organization—to write
Rouhani in late December, 2013. The groups called
for Iran to repeal its laws imposing anti-LGBT pun-
ishments “ranging from 100 lashes for consensual
sexual relations between women to the death pen-
alty for consensual intercourse between men.”
The Islamic Penal Code criminalizes same-sex
touching and intimate kissing, which are punish-
able by up to 74 lashes.

The letter detailed a bill of particulars of violence
against LGBT Iranians, including the storming of a
birthday party with mostly LGBT-identified guests
in the city of Kermanshah, in western Iran, by 50
members of the Nabi Akram Brigade of the Revolu-
tionary Guards in October. “Armed members of the
security forces verbally abused, assaulted, and beat
many of the 80 or so people attending the party, as
well as waiters and other staff.”
Kermanshah Province’s Basij Forces—a state-
sponsored gang of thugs—issued a statement saying
their aim was to end a “homosexual and Satan-wor-
shiping network with dozens of [members].”
While the major world powers are understand-
ably focused on stopping Iran’s drive toward nuclear
weapons, the wretched condition of LGBT Iranians
is not a front-and-center concern. In January, Berlin
LGBT magazine Siegessäule asked why the LGBT
community in the West remains “silent” about their
counterparts in the Islamic Republic. X
UGANDA
Ugandan President
Museveni demanded
“scientific evidence”
that gays are
abnormal before he
will sign draconian
Anti-Homosexuality
bill passed by
Parliament in 2013.

NIGERIA
Arrests have been
made in the states
of Anambra, Enugu,
Imo, and Oyo since
President Goodluck
Jonathan signed the
Same Sex Marriage
(Prohibition) Act into
law which punishes
offenders by up to 14
years in prison.
SOUTH AFRICA
Lesbians are often
subject to violent
“corrective rape”
in an attempt to
make them straight;
perpertrators often
go unconvicted. South
Africa is the “rape
capital of the world”
with over 500,000
rapes each year.
RUSSIA
Prior to the Sochi
Olympic Games the
Kremlin-orchestrated
Gay Propaganda
prohibition has

been cited in the
persecution of artists,
the imprisonment
of activists, and the
arrest of journalists.
AROUND THE
WORLD
Demonstrations against
LGBT rights abuses in Iran at
the Berlin Pride Celebration
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Iran’s president
Hassan Rouhani
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CIVIL SURVEY:
GOING BLONDE EDITION
Canvassing attitudes on
retirement, hair color, and
matchmaking at Gentlemen
Prefer Blondes.
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CIVIL SURVEY ADVANCE
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ADVANCE
It was a night made in homo heaven when queer chanteuse
Justin Vivian Bond sat down to talk with three-time Tony
Award winner Carol Channing about her 70-plus years of

iconic performing on the 50th anniversary of the premiere
of Hello Dolly! The event, produced in January at New
York’s Town Hall by gay nightlife fixture Daniel Nardicio, was
called Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: An Intimate Evening with
Carol Channing and Justin Vivian Bond, and attendees spoke
out on the important issues.
Age:
Gender:
Orientation:
Carol Channing is nearly 93
and still working. I expect to
retire:
Before age 55 4%
Age 56–65 19% (“and eat ramen”)
Age 65–70 12%
After 70 8%
I won’t retire, I’ll keep working
42% (“I love my job”)
I’m already retired 8%
I don’t work 8% (“I don’t have her
energy”)
Other 8% (“Let’s see where life
takes us”)
Carol Channing was a
member of the Lowell
Forensic Society, the nation’s
oldest high school debate
team, but she often plays a
dizzy blonde. Have you ever
faked being less intelligent

than you are?
No, I never hide
my intellect
Yes, but only for a
person I fancy
Yes, but only if it’ll get me
something, e.g., out of a traffic
ticket / a freebie / an audition
No, I try to act more intelligent
than I think I am
I’ve never
colored
my hair
31%
In Hello Dolly! Channing plays
a brassy matchmaker. Have
you ever let someone else
arrange a date for you?
Did it, but will never do it again 38%
Many times, but it’s always
a disaster 15%
Yes, I found a long-term
relationship that way 8%
I’d never allow someone to play
matchmaker for me 31%
Not telling 8%
Channing has said that being on Richard Nixon’s “enemies list”
was the highest honor in her career. Do you have enemies?
I came here tonight:
62%

Because
I love Carol
Channing
12%
Because
I love Justin
Vivian Bond
27%
Because
I love Channing
and Bond
8%
Don’t know either
one, I’m here
because this is
such a gay event
12%
I love
Hello Dolly!
8%
Other
(“My girlfriend’s
birthday.”)
Classified
7%
I have no enemies
12%
I have one
archenemy,
he/she knows it,

and the feeling
is mutual
19%
I’ve got lots of
enemies, but I’d
never let them
know I think that
about them
8%
I’ve got enemies,
and they all know
exactly how I feel
about them
8%
Tonight’s show is called
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Have you ever been blonde?
I’m naturally
blonde
23%
I was blonde for a
time, or occasionally
46%
(“Legally Blonde
premiere”)
NONE OF
YOUR BIZ
7%
31–40
23%

41–50
23%
51–60
12%
OTHER
8%
MALE
69%
FEMALE
23%
OTHER
11%
GAY
58%
LESBIAN
4%
QUEER
4%
35%
15%
38%
12%
STRAIGHT
23%
21–30
35%
A few people get under
my skin, but I don’t have
any real enemies
42%

I have no enemies, but
there are people who view
me as an enemy
4%
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