My cultural awakening: a Rihanna song showed me how to live as a gay man in Iran
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<p>My sexuality had to be hidden from my friends, my parents, not to mention the authorities. Then I found freedom at house parties and one song that sums up me finally being able to be myself</p><p>I was raised in Tehran, under the Ayatollah’s sharia law and daily watch of Basij<em> – </em>the “morality police”. My parents fell in love with the Islamic Revolution when I was a baby and welcomed life under its strict religious rules. The Ayatollah’s face sta
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<p>My sexuality had to be hidden from my friends, my parents, not to mention the authorities. Then I found freedom at house parties and one song that sums up me finally being able to be myself</p><p>I was raised in Tehran, under the Ayatollah’s sharia law and daily watch of Basij<em> – </em>the “morality police”. My parents fell in love with the Islamic Revolution when I was a baby and welcomed life under its strict religious rules. The Ayatollah’s face sta
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