Internet critical for Iran’s embattled gay community, new study finds
New research by the UK-based non-profit Small Media has found that Iran’s gay community — a group that operates largely underground because homosexual activity is punishable by death in the Islamic Republic — relies heavily on online activity.
The “LGBT Republic of Iran: An Online reality?” study drew from online interactions with users in Iran to reveal a highly-active virtual network.
Researchers tracked initiatives like Ketabkhaneh88, an online gay book fair launched from abroad by a pair of Iranian gay rights activists and poets who also started a Toronto publishing firm to print Iranian books on the topic.
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