Abstract The current Islamic Republic of Iran distinguishes between homosexuals and same-
sex sexual activity: the former is not recognized as an identity, while state apparatuses …

the turn of the nineteenth century, Europeans referred to same-sex relationships as the
“Persian disease,” the “Turkish disease,” or the “Egyptian vice.” In an interesting reversal …

Today Turkey is one of the few Muslim-majority countries in which same-sex sexual acts,
counternormative sexual identities, and expressions of gender nonconformism are not …

Despite its some of its more liberal and democratic characteristics-when compared to many
other countries in the Middle East-the more conservative elements within Turkish politics …

To be gay in Iran means to live in the shadow of death. The country's harsh Islamic code of
Lavat is used to execute gay men, and LGBT individuals who avoid execution are often …

" Professing Selves is one of the best recent works on contemporary Iran. Arguing that
transsexuals' legal and psychiatric negotiations reveal more general processes of …

In the account of “sex-change” in Tehran before and after the 1979 revolution that
established the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), feminist historian Afsaneh Najmabadi shows …

What happens when almost 3,000 men, women and transgender people march down the
main street of a major Muslim metropolis, chanting against patriarchy, the military and …

As in Many other Countries Around the World, A Gender based double standard (one set of
social and moral norms governing the male and another governing the female) has always …

More than thirty years after the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the protests filling the streets of
Tehran in 2011 (and indeed the streets of neighboring Cairo, Marrakesh and Manama) are …