By Amir
Special to The Washington Post
[Amir is an activist in Tehran whose name is being withheld for his safety.]
“In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals like in your country. ... In Iran, we do not have this phenomenon. I don’t know who’s told you that we have it.”
TEHRAN — I’m one of those people Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says don’t exist. I’m a 25-year-old Iranian, and I’m gay.
I live in Tehran with my parents and younger brother and am studying to be a computer software engineer. I’ve known that I was different from my brother and other boys for as long as I can remember.
I was born in 1982, two years after the start of the Iran-Iraq War, and when I was growing up, most boys loved to play with toy guns, pretending to be soldiers in the war. I liked painting, and playing with dolls. My brother preferred to play with the other boys, so most of the time I was lonely.
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