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New Iranian Protest - Stop killing gays

OutRage! News Service | 30.09.2005 14:35 | Gender | Repression | Social Struggles | London | World

OutRage! and axm magazine call for mass protest against the homophobic atrocities in Iran outside the Iranian Embassy, London from 1pm on Tuesday 4th October.

Time: 1pm
Place: Embassy of Iran, 16 Prince’s Gate, London SW7 1PT
Getting there: The Iranian Embassy is near the Royal Albert Hall, by the junction of Kensington Road and Exhibition Road. Nearest underground stations are South Kensington and Gloucester Road.

Everyone urged to attend – show the Iranian government we won’t stand by while they murder LGBTs.

axm magazine has joined forces with Outrage! to spearhead a further protest against the Iranian Government’s persecution, torture and execution of homosexuals. Britain’s gay community is being mobilised by axm magazine and a wider press campaign, as well as through a grass roots campaign across the London gay scene and gay web message boards on the weekend of 30th September – 2nd October.

The aim of the protest is to put pressure on Iran, not least by gaining the widespread press and broadcast media coverage that has so far eluded this ongoing tragedy. To this end, high profile figures and celebrities are being canvassed for support through both statements and their presence at the rally. Already, statements of support are coming in from parties as diverse as Little Britain star Matt Lucas, boy-band Westlife and League Of Gentlemen member Mark Gatis, with the likes of Scott Cappurro and Josh Rafter confirmed to attend on the day.

Axm and uk.gay.com are working hard to build a large attendance at this protest and will hand over a petition signed by over 1,500 axm magazine readers so far. The events in July, when Iran’s clerical regime executed two teenagers, apparently for committing the ‘crime’ of homosexuality, have shocked and mobilised axm readers who are travelling from as far afield as Scotland, Cornwall and Yorkshire to attend the protest on Tuesday.
States axm magazine editor Matthew Miles:
‘The shocking images of the executed Iranian teenagers have galvanised our print and online readers, with well over 1,500 people signing our petition in a ten day period. As LGBT people in the West finally gain most of the rights we deserve, it seems we are proving that there is such a thing as a global gay community by focusing on the struggle for equality in more hostile parts of the world. Protest is only a step but, as organisations such as Amnesty International and Outrage! have proved, it can and does bring change and that's why, along with Outrage!, axm magazine will be protesting against the Iranian Government from 1pm on Tuesday 4th October.'

Sign the petition against Iran online, or by post.
Online: www.axm-mag.com

Axm Magazine Protest Against Iran – Petition Handover
Date: 4th October

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Comments

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Not again.

30.09.2005 16:56

Go away CIA.

Iran is a REVOLUTIONARY society. Islam - thrid world socialism.

b.d.


Ask yourselves a few questions

30.09.2005 17:21

Outrage - stop, you're being unhelpful. The Zionazi US wants the world to believe that Iran is an oppressive state in order that it might have seem to have reason to invade it. It wants to do this because

a)Iran has oil
b)Isreal knows that it can't corrupt the Iranian people as it is trying to corrupt other Arabs.

Americans kill gays too. British people kill gays too. Should America invade itself? Should America invade Britain?

Oh, and I'm gay, before you ask.

Michael


Iran isn't buckling to the neo-cons

30.09.2005 18:06

It's hard to see them being persuaded by a Little Britain star, a boy band and 1500 readers of a gay lifestyle magazine.

Outrage! appears to exist for the sole purpose of trying to forment left wing condemnation of nu-Labour and Republican's targetted "bad" states.




Peter Tatchell's left buttock.


Consistent moral values?

30.09.2005 18:39

b.d. and Michael,
b.d. - So Iran is a revolutionary society on the path to socialism eh? I would really like to know how you define socialism. I am sure that if it is anything that is represented by the Iranian state then it has no connection whatsoever to what progressives all over the world are fighting for.
Michael - I know that the west is hardly a utopia for gays yet they are still not severly punished by the state as is the case in Iran and last time i checked it wasnt illegal.
Being critical of Iran doesnt mean that you are being supportive of US or British policy in the region.
I think that we should apply our values in a consistent manner even if this means being critical of those regimes that are currently the target of western imperialism.

Steve


Iran Government needs to be overthrown.

30.09.2005 22:03

You guys assume that anyone who is anti-american must be your ally. The Iraninian government is just a bunch of capitalist/fascist cronies who use anti-american propaganda to divert the attention of the Iranian public. Anyways, America is the best country in the world, it is Capitalism that is the problem. Capitalism is international, it capitalism that people are angry at....the capitalists just use America as a scapegoat. You guys know nothing about America or Americans...or Anarchism...

American Anarchist


American Anarchist is right

27.10.2005 20:17

Racism towards Jews and Americans is not the way to go about creating a better world, bearing in mind America is no more a capitalist superpower than Europe. The way America and Europe treated gays in the past was horrific and no better exemplified than by the way the gay holocaust survivors were re-imprisoned following the allied victory and treated like criminals instead of victims. Today in Europe and North America (and even I daresay in Latin America) things are slowly but surely getting better, in the Arab world, Persia and most of Central Asia on the other hand, the way gay men and lesbians are treated only mirrors how they have been treated over here in the past and it only seems to be getting worse. Supporting these America-hating, Brit-hating, Jew-hating, gay-hating fascists that run the likes of the occupied territories and Persia (call it Iran if you want, I'm sure it would please Ahmadenijad and I know how much you so called "anti-imperialists" like to be in the good books of muslim thugs) is nothing short of masochistic.

Dave