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Ali & Emily Sweat All Over The Nation's Capital
Date: August 14, 2011 at 5:36 pm- by Ali- Comment(s): 43
Um, you people really like T-shirts, huh? I am currently swimming in emails, Tweets, Facebook messages and comments from people demanding "I Heart Sweat" shirts.
So here's the deal with the shirts: I was informed over the weekend that the shirts left at JackRabbit are already sold out.
That's good news for me, because it means lots of money is on its way to the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation!
But of course it's bad news for those of you who are craving a shirt that proudly displays your sweat affection.
I'm planning to order more shirts this week. They will take a few weeks (2–3) to arrive in stores, but I'm looking into an online ordering system so those of you not in NYC can get your hands on these lovely little shirts.
Go "Like" my Ali Run For The Rabbit Facebook page for T-shirt updates.
And again, thank you all so much for your continued support. Marathon training is fun. Marathon training when you get to raise money and bring people together is even better.
Now let's talk about the weekend, because it was divine.
I spent it in Washington, D.C. I was joined by my handsome friend.
We went to visit Emily and a handsome man of her own.
I don't remember when I first decided a trip to D.C. to visit my favorite sweat monster was in order.
Probably back in June, after a very magical weekend.
So on Friday around 2:30 pm — peak traffic time, just so you know — Handsome Friend and I boarded a BoltBus bound for Union Station in D.C.
The bus ride took for-freaking-ever. Is it necessary for the bus to make a 15 minute rest stop when we're already 2 hours behind schedule?
No. No, it's not.
But we eventually made it to Emily and her Rocketship's apartment. People in D.C. have bigger apartments than people in NYC. They also have a washer/dryer. I was sad I wasn't told to bring my dirty laundry. Oh well.
We were immediately greeted with wine and carbohydrates.
Do they know me or what?
We stuffed our faces and were in bed somewhere in the 11 o'clock hour.
Lately I've been waking up at 5 am during the week and on Saturdays to run. It was amazing to sleep until 6:30 yesterday morning! The weather in D.C. was perfect for my long run. Sure it was humid and I produced enough sweat to fill several Olympic-sized pools, but it was overcast and not too hot. So I win.
Coach Cane's big plan for me yesterday: Run 20 miles.
No. Big. Deal.
I couldn't have asked for a better way to cover a giant distance than in a new city with an Ironman friend.
Oh that's right. Emily just completed an Ironman. But when I told her I had 20 miles on my schedule, she jumped right in.
Emily took me around all of D.C.'s historic monuments, including the Jefferson Memorial, the Washington Monument and, of course, right up to my beloved Abe Lincoln.
We stopped to refuel with Lincoln and seized the opportunity to take a few sweat shots.
Lincoln would have wanted me to sweat in his presence. Obviously.
We covered about 11.5 miles together before Emily passed the imaginary baton to my handsome friend, who joined me for the final miles.
The second half of the run was basically the same loop, including a jaunt toward the Capitol Building, which I think is stunning and sexy and quite desirable.
It was at this point — roughly 16 miles in — that I started to feel more dead than alive.
But I forced a smile, choked down the last of my Chomps…
…and powered through.
I was so happy when my trusty watch beeped signaling the completion of 20 freakin' miles.
20 miles. 6 Gu Chomps. (Probably not enough.) 2 laps past Honest Abe. 3 hours on my feet.
One very happy, tired and sweaty girl.
The first half was speedier than the second half. Note to self: swap that on marathon day. Negative splitting is cool.
What does one do after running 20 miles?
Eat and drink and play games.
So that's what we all did for the rest of the day.
We ate apples, chips and salsa, pita chips and hummus, pad thai, Brussels sprouts and basically anything else anyone put in front of us.
We played Apples to Apples and drank roughly 36 mimosas…each.
And then we drank some other things, like wine.
The boys went late-night swimming. Emily and I did not.
Emily and I got up to run this morning.
The boys did not.
Somehow I managed to wake up this morning feeling surprisingly OK. My legs were tired, but not too sore, and my stomach was rumbling but not terribly hungover feeling.
Coach Cane requested a 4-mile recovery run. In fact, he described it as "the easiest 4 mile recovery run you ever did."
Was it easy? Not so much.
Was it super slow? You bet it was.
Naturally we went to visit Sir Abe again. We performed dances in his honor. Celine Dion was playing in my head, of course.
Then I got sad, because finishing the run meant it was time to shower, go to brunch and leave D.C.
Now I'm on the BoltBus, with its sad little Internet connection (I gave up on it and am being powered by Handsome Friend's trusty little iPhone), and I'm not too thrilled about returning to real life tomorrow.
The weekend was fabulous.
Also, I ran 20 miles.
Hamptons Marathon, I will kick your ass. And then I will kick Crohn's Disease right in the face.
Good things are happening.
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43 Responses to "Ali & Emily Sweat All Over The Nation's Capital"
Yay!!!! I mean, I neverrr had any doubt you would kill 20 miles. Can't not wait for you to do the same on marathon morning! Your dedication is contagious!
And I'm so glad I snagged the coveted tee on Thursday 🙂
Running friends are THE BEST!!!! Looks like such a fun weekend and the perfect combo of working out and all the other fun stuff. Amazing job on your 20 miler – marathon day is getting so close 🙂
You know what they say…if you can run 20, you can run 26!
amazing first 20 miler, my friend! You are awesome. And it must have been great to have such different scenery! Hooray for great, sweaty weekends. See you this week?
When you said the shirts were sold out and that it was bad news for us out-of-towners, I thought you meant no shirts for us! And my heart was about to cry.
Nice run! And what are those on the side of your omelet, chips? Looks delish!
congrats on your 20 miler!! Huge milestone right there. Also, I am so bummed I missed out on the Jack Rabbit event because I really want one of those shirts!!! Will they be getting more in?
Oooh gosh u rock, 20 miles ahhh. My ten miler this friday still scares membut I am hoping to do it in NYC although no clue where I am going!
congrats on your run! i love d.c. and i've made it one of my goals to at some point in my life go for a run around the city and all of the monuments 🙂
Congrats on the run!!! What a great way to get 20 miles done. Running in new cities is always a blast. I wonder if I can justify a trip just to get my 20 miler/s in this cycle….
20 miles 20 miles 20 miles!!! it's all down hill from here! Enjoy the rest of your training! be safe, you're going to feel great when you cross that finish line!
This is my favorite Ali post ever. Doesn't 20 miles feel awesome? ! Good job!!!
Linda says: August 14, 2011 at 6:34 pm
This was a lovely blog post. Your happiness just jumps off the screen. 🙂 Congratulations on hitting 20 miles! Amazing.
Woooo! 🙂 Congrats on the 20 miler! Awesome and it just gets easier next time. You will be so ready. Looks like a fantastic weekend!
So glad I got a shirt! 🙂
Congrats on your 20 mile run! That is freakin' awesome!!! It is nice that you had two different wonderful people to run with – and I am sure the sights in DC made everything go by rather quickly!
Clearly you run with a photo decide… is it your phone? I want to take my iPhone with meto snap pictures.. but I am afraid it will fall out of any sort of case I put it in and I will have to have a funeral for it.
GREAT JOB!!!!! You ran twice what I did and still finished in only an hour longer ( numbers are fun!) haha so you should be super proud! I'm going to DC soon, too….maybe I'll throw my sneaks in the bag??? Could be fun.
A run is one of the best ways to see a city! Congratulations on your first 20! You're going to have a great race!
I am wearing my shirt right now! Probably should actually take a shower since my workout finished a while ago 🙂 I suck at recovery runs, I just can't mentally get through them. Any suggestions?
20 miles??!?? Thats absolutely amazing. I hope I can get there one day! And what a beautiful place to run!
amy says: August 14, 2011 at 8:24 pm
SO glad you had a wonderful, sweaty weekend and that you ate 20 miles for breakfast. Way to rock it. (And life, but we can focus on running…)Good things ARE happening.
If I stil have a "I heart sweat" t shirt reserved than yayy!! Can't wait to run in it! If not, include me in your next order PLEASE!!
(Also, next time you need a "slowest 4 miles(or less…) run" in nyc I'm your gaL 😉 legit. Welcome to my specialty)
Congrats on your 20! I am not looking forward to that run. Awesome that you made a weekend around it.
Love that your handsome friend was censored by a stop sign. Also find it ironic and impressive that you ran 20 miles in DC in 3 hours….the politicians there haven't been that productive all year…(sorry for the politics reference, I know you just cringed)
I love the title of this post 🙂 You'll be glad to know I wore my I <3 sweat shirt this morning. It got very wet from the rain a.k.a. I washed it.
You rocked those 20 miles, longest run ever, right?!
Ahhh sounds like an amazing run!!!
Congrats on 20! You will dominate the marathon, no problem.
I wore my sweat shirt all over Manhattan Saturday and got lots of comments from "where can I get one of those" to "hmmummm gurrrl I wanna see you sweat." Then, I ran in the rain in it this morning. And, my pillow pet wore it. Tshirt is going EVERYWHERE.
What an amazing twenty miler! I have no doubt you are going to blow through your marathon coming up. So awesome!
Congrats on the 20!!! I ran in my shirt today. 🙂
Awesome job on the twenty… It is always nice to run in a new place
wow. in awe. congrats on 20 miles. after doing craptastic in my half yesterday, I am just thankful to have finished, reading your post about your happy 20 miles, makes me want to do it all over again to prove that I can.
Carina says: August 15, 2011 at 8:39 am
Please try Clif Shot Bloks in Strawberry. I'm not surprised you have to choke down Chomps…they're disgusting! I can't stand 'em. Clif Shot Bloks. Try them. Please. For my sake.
I actually like the Gu Chomps better than the Shot Bloks — and I've done both in Strawberry, which is my favorite flavor in life in general, always. I found the Chomps easier to chew than the Shot Bloks.
Carina says: August 20, 2011 at 8:58 pm
Fair enough! As long as you stick with Strawberry. Mmmmhmm. 🙂
Congratulations!!! I never had any doubt that you would dominate your 20 mile run!! But you did amazing! I'm glad you had some awesome friends to help you through it – breaking up the run and doing it with others makes it so much more manageable.
Sounds like an amazing weekend all around! Do you want to come back to DC the weekend of October 30th?? I heard there might be a marathon then…and all the cool kids will be there. 😉
NICE JOB ALI! Great pace, too!! You are so gonna be ready for this marathon!!!
PS – saw your t-shirt tweet and I am interested in a shirt!!
Looks like an awesome urban adventure run!!! I was dreading my run (I HATE when that happens) but at mile 3 I shifted my mind set to '18-miles of exploring' and it was fun!!
Your first 20 miler is huge!! Congrats, Ali! And what better way to run it then with an awesome sweaty friend 🙂
Congrats on the 20!!!!
you are mad inspiration.


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When you have been working to restore your hormonal health and have committed to your goal of banishing your PMS, or managing your PCOS, or preventing your horrible period cramps each month, then a desire to overindulge, binge, or eat hormonally-toxic foods is less likely to come from within you, and more likely to be down to pressure from family and friends to do as they do and forgo your health for the sake of preserving tradition. It's hard enough to turn away the mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes covered in marshmallow, the cookies, the cocktails, but it can be even harder when you're a lone health ranger in your family.
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By most accounts, the majority of the footballing community would agree that Arsenal have made a disappointing start to the 2014/15 campaign. The Gunners currently sit sixth in the Premier League, 15 points behind leaders Chelsea.
While several Arsenal fans have been calling for Wenger's head among this season's concerns, injuries to key players have certainly blighted any progress that his side intended to make in 2014/15.
However, as this excuse seems to crop up annually for the Gunners in their attempt to restore the glory days of the famed 'Invincibles' era, is there some kind of injury curse beginning to surface down at the Emirates?
This season has seen several influential figures, who would certainly make up Wenger's starting XI if he had them all at his disposal, fall victim to a series of short and long term injuries that have been nothing but frustrating for the Arsenal fans. The Gunners' French boss has seldom been able to use the dream combo of Ozil – Sanchez- Wallcott up front this season, and no matter what side of the fence you reside on regarding Arsenal, that comes as an overall shame.
Aaron Ramsey, Jack Wilshere, Mikel Arteta and Laurent Koscielny make up the remainder of big names to be consistently absent from first team action this season due to injury, with the latter figure in particular proving to be a big loss. In Koscielny's absence, the Gunners have been restricted to using both Nacho Monreal and Mathieu Debuchy at centre-back, which is a move a club the size of Arsenal should never be making.
So just what is the reason behind this injury crisis? Well, for this season the 2014 World Cup certainly had a role to play in inflicting injury to some of the stars at the Emirates. For Wenger's German contingency in particular, the extended football season over the summer has pushed some of Arsenal's players to the very edge of their physical performance. For some, the burden has been simply too much to bare.
As well as this, Arsene Wenger has been quick to use the Champions League as another excuse behind his side's current injury woes. In a recent press conference, the French boss was quick to remind everyone; "Let's not forget, we have played eight Champions League games since the start of the season."
Perhaps this notion has had a physical effect on his players, but this is no more than a weak excuse deployed by Wenger. Every team wanting to win the Champions League has to play through it, and if Arsenal's summer recruitment hasn't held up over the testing winter period that they always knew they were going to face, than perhaps that is the real factor behind the club's current problems.
Regardless of who is to blame for Arsenal's injury crisis, this has not been a problem that is exclusive to just the 2014/15 season. Aaron Ramsey and Jack Wilshere seem incapable of playing out a full campaign because of injuries, whilst Robin Van Persie was always keeping the physio busy at Arsenal, yet somehow seemed in stronger shape than ever when he first joined rivals Manchester United in 2012.
Ultimately, to the widespread frustration of all Gunners fans, it does in-fact seem that there is some kind of injury curse inflicting key players at the Emirates. If a similar issue were to happen to the Premier League's other front runners, each club would most like suffer in the same way Arsenal have.
While it has been an important issue for the Gunners however, too much emphasis cannot be placed on such a phenomenon. Overall injuries simply aren't the only factor behind the club's indifferent start to the first half of the 2014/15 campaign.


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Don't use those convenience checks your credit card company sends you.
They are called "convenience checks" for a reason–they are easy to use! You just fill it out and you can pay for something, which then appears on your credit card on the next statement. It normally has a much higher interest rate than normal charges, too.
These convenience checks are just like cash advances–you don't want to use them within 90-180 days before you file. If you are using them to transfer a balance from one card to another, I would recommend waiting a year before you file. When you transfer the balance, one creditor gets paid in full, while the other has a new, much higher balance.
I have seen some cases where the attorney argued that the convenience checks plainly ask you to transfer a higher balance to get a lower interest rate, so these checks shouldn't make any difference before filing for bankruptcy. A lot of people in bankruptcy have been playing the "credit card shuffle" to get a 0% interest rate so they can try to pay down their balance, but sometimes it's not the cure-all they sought.
If you are transferring one credit card balance to another card regularly, it might be time to sit down with a bankruptcy attorney to see if that may be a better long-term solution for you.


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Interesting Ideas On How To Write An Essay: The Benefits Of Using Examples
Essay writing is an interesting academic task because it gives you the opportunity to express your opinions on a given subject. This is a good practice for students to improve their writing skills as well as convey your ideas to the audience. When you start writing these assignments in primary grades, you will find it comparatively easy and interesting. All you have to do in the earlier grades is to pen down a few sentences about your favorite subject. This is simple because you do not have to worry about following a certain style or type. The structure of your essay remains the same and you begin with an introduction to present the topic to the audience and hook them with the rest of your paper. The second thing will be the body of your assignment where you present your major arguments. Finally, you will compose a conclusion to summarize everything you have discussed so far.
Why we use examples
One of the best things to do with your writing is to include an example. This gives a sense of relevance to your readers and makes it easier for them to relate to your paper. You can start your first paragraph of the paper with an example or use them as supporting evidence in your body paragraphs. Whether you are writing a formal academic paper or having an informal discussion you can use examples to act as an illustration for what you are discussing.
How and when to use examples
The type of assignment in which you use examples to support your stance and make it clearer for your audience is called an illustration paper. You need to determine how many examples you will use in your paper and what will be the order of these examples. This will help in shaping your paper and making it easier for you to organize it. You should also determine the purpose of these examples in your paper whether you are trying to persuade someone to create an argument or only inform the audience. You cannot choose one single pattern to apply to all kinds of papers. Sometimes one strategy will be effective for one type of assignment and others will not suit it.
There is no specific limit of using examples in your writing but they should be enough to make a valid point


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Catching the bus in time
In 2006 Phanindra Sama, a BITS Pilani graduate and working in Bangalore, wanted to visit Hyderabad to spend time with his family during Diwali. Like most people trying to make reservation at the last minute during the festival season he was unable to get a seat on a bus. However, every travel agent after making a few calls would tell him to try a different travel agent as they could possibly secure him a seat. Intrigued by this behaviour, Sama did some research and designed software that bus ticket agents could use to check availability. That was how the country's largest bus ticketing company http://www.redbus.in was started.
Redbus since than has launched operations in 22 states, offers services on over 25,000 routes and has built a network of over 12,000 bus operators. They have also tied up with five RTCs an have many more in the pipeline. "If you buy any printed bus ticket in the country it is most likely that Redbus makes a profit from it as we have sold out software as well as tied up with the largest online ticket sellers," says Sama.
Redbus.in was started with Rs. 5,00,000 that was put together by Sama and his friends but received funding from venture capitalists as also mentoring from TiE. "The mentors really helped us set up the company and gave us direction. We would have not been here without their help. Many people come up with various modes but it is necessary to be given the correct navigation by incubation centres," says Sama.
Talking about safety of buses in the light of the recent incidents that have taken place, Sama says that one of the ways to control the speed of buses is that they are now planning to ask android users to keep their redbus android application on during the journey and by this they will be able to track the speed of the bus by using GPS. If a bus is found to be speeding they will then inform the company that runs the bus. In June this year redbus.in was bought by Ibibo, a South African group for a large sum and Sarma is now looking for further study. At being asked if he has the next start-up idea in his head already he just smiles. Sama has been selected as a high impact entrepreneur by Endeavour that is run by the alumni of Harvard University and is only the second Indian to do so.
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Sean Dyche believes his time as Clarets boss has brought him a long way since leaving Watford in 2012.
Dyche managed Watford in the Championship during the 2011/12 season and guided them to 11th place - their highest league finish in four years at the time.
But he had his contract terminated in the summer of 2012 – a decision that was not popular amongst the Watford fans at the time.
After arriving at Turf Moor with just one year of managerial experience under his belt, he is aware of how far a journey he has been on during five-years in the Clarets hotseat.
He said: "I've been in the game all my life but it's not the same as when you get in the hotseat and you're the manager.
"All the different things that have gone on regarding helping to structure a club off the pitch and bring success on the pitch; professionally it takes you a long way.
"Over years of service you get more of a feel on what to do when, just from years of going down that pathway so many times.
"As a rounded person - let alone a professional football person - I think I've changed considerably."
The modern game is often a difficult environment for relatively new managers, and Dyche appreciates the support that he has been given by the board and fans at Burnley since his arrival.
He added: "I've been fortunate here. I've had a board that have been very understanding of the realities. Not all boards are like that and certainly not all fans.
"They've (the fans) been understanding of what we're trying to do, the ups and downs and how I've had this base to work from to continue to improve. Not many get that now.
"When it comes to management, the demand to get in the Premier League from the Championship is massive, and then once you're in the Premier League the demand to stay is massive."
Dyche looks back on his time at Vicarage Road fondly but believes the club has changed considerably since then.
He said: "I had a fantastic time there. "They've got a way of working that does work.
"It's not everyone's cup of tea across the realms of football, but it's clearly a complete business model change and they've done that very successfully.
"They've got in the Premier League which was their intention. They've developed a stand and training ground, and found a system of recruitment that's worked for them.
"I think from my time there's only Troy (Deeney) and Maps (Adrian Mariappa) went for a little bit and came back.
"They are the only ones (from his former squad) that are still active there, and two fine professionals."
From the opposing camp
Manager Javi Gracia: "Burnley are having an amazing season, but I am only focused on trying to make sure they lose their next game.
"I see in this moment my players with ambition, they are very demanding of each other, and we will see where Watford finish at the end of the season.
"We will try to get three points and reduce the gap to six points. That is my objective in this moment."
Match stats
The Clarets are looking for their first league double over Watford since the 2010/11 season in the Championship.
Burnley are looking to secure four consecutive top-flight wins for the first time since a run of six victories in 1968.
The Hornets have conceded 27 first half league goals this season – more than any other side in the top-flight and the same amount as Burnley have conceded in total.
Sean Dyche's side have already picked up six league wins away from home this season which is more than their total for their previous three top-flight campaigns.
Injury News
Johann Berg Gudmundsson is rated "touch-and-go" after missing last week's trip to West Brom, while Ben Mee could miss out with a knock.
Tom Heaton is likely to return to the squad, while Scott Arfield is still out with a calf problem and John Walters is not yet ready to make a return.
Christian Kabasele could return to the Watford side but Gerard Deulofeu and former Claret Nathaniel Chalobah are unlikely to feature.
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MakerBot and 3D Printing
14th November 2013
3D Printers will soon be Commonplace
At this year's Consumer Electronics Show, I spent some time scouting out 3D printers. These are devices that can build or construct a three-dimensional solid object. For a couple of months, I studied the literature and researched several models via the Internet.
A couple of months later while I was in New York City, I stopped by a store in downtown Manhattan. It's not your usual store – it's for "techies" like me. MakerBot, a manufacturer of 3D printers had opened a store right in Manhattan. If the staff could prove to me that using their Replicator 2 was simple, I'd buy one.
And that's exactly what happened. A ten minute demo convinced me that I'd be able to operate their technological marvel. I ordered one to be shipped back to Grand Rapids and it was waiting for me by the time I returned home.
I found the technology in this device to be amazing and thought that some of you might want to know how it works.
Why do I have one?
The short answer is that I want to understand the technology and learn the uses of 3D printing. I believe these devices are going to become very commonplace soon. The Replicator 2 sells for about $2500, a relatively modest price. But they are already they are widely used in industry with companies eager to earn significant savings when making prototypes of their products.
Coincidentally, I received an email from MakerBot this morning. They are starting a campaign to "put a 3D printer into every school". If you brush aside the fact that the promotion is self-serving, the idea of educating our younger generation about this amazing technology is certainly worth considering.
MakerBot oversees a rather large "library" of 3D designs called the Thingiverse. It has more than 100,000 items to choose from and most of the designs are free. You can download the designs and run it through their Makerware software (included with the Replicator 2) to convert for printing. Copy the program to the SD-card and you're ready to construct a new 3D design.
For more information about the Replicator 2, please visit MakerBot.
Written by: Arnie Lee
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Current Genetics 57:6 (2011), pp. 421–430.
doi: 10.1007/s00294-011-0356-0
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The eukaryotic nonsense-mediated mRNA (NMD) is a specialized pathway that leads to the recognition and rapid degradation of mRNAs with premature termination codons, and importantly some natural mRNAs as well. Natural mRNAs with atypically long 3′-untranslated regions (UTRs) are degraded by NMD in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. A number of S. cerevisiae mRNAs undergo alternative 3′-end processing producing mRNA isoforms that differ in their 3′-UTR lengths. Some of these alternatively 3′-end processed mRNA isoforms have atypically long 3′-UTRs and would be likely targets for NMD-mediated degradation. Here, we investigated the role NMD plays in the regulation of expression of CTR2, which encodes a vacuolar membrane copper transporter. CTR2 pre-mRNA undergoes alternative 3′-end processing to produce two mRNA isoforms with 300-nt and 2-kb 3′-UTRs. We show that both CTR2 mRNA isoforms are differentially regulated by NMD. The regulation of CTR2 mRNA by NMD has physiological consequences, since nmd mutants are more tolerant to toxic levels of copper relative to wild-type yeast cells and the copper tolerance of nmd mutants is dependent on the presence of CTR2.


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LGBT rights in Iran
|Same-sex relations illegal: Islamic law is applied.
|Imprisonment, lashing, execution
|Gender identity
|Sex reassignment surgery, which is required to change legal gender, is legalized and is partially paid for by the government.
|Discrimination protections
|Family rights
|Recognition of relationships
|No recognition of same-sex unions
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the Islamic Republic of Iran face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. While people can legally change their sex, sexual activity between members of the same sex is illegal and can be punishable by death.
LGBT rights in Iran have come in conflict with the penal code since the 1930s.[1] In post-revolutionary Iran, any type of sexual activity outside a heterosexual marriage is forbidden. Same-sex sexual activities are punishable by imprisonment,[2] corporal punishment, or execution. Gay men have faced stricter enforcement actions under the law than lesbians.
Transgender identity is recognized through a sex reassignment surgery. Sex reassignment surgeries are partially financially supported by the state. Some homosexual individuals in Iran have been pressured to undergo sex reassignment surgery in order to avoid legal and social persecution.[3] Iran carries out more sex reassignment surgeries than any other country in the world after Thailand.
LGBT history in Iran[edit]
Around 250 BC, during the Parthian Empire, the Zoroastrian text Vendidad was written. It contains provisions that are part of sexual code promoting procreative sexuality that is interpreted to prohibit same-sex intercourse as sinful. Ancient commentary on this passage suggests that those engaging in sodomy could be killed without permission from a high priest. However, a strong homosexual tradition in Iran is attested to by Greek historians from the 5th century onward, and so the prohibition apparently had little effect on Iranian attitudes or sexual behavior outside the ranks of devout Zoroastrians in rural eastern Iran.[4][5][6][7][8]
There is a significant amount of literature in Persian that contain explicit same-sex illustrations.[9] A few Persian love poems and texts from prominent medieval Persian poet Saadi Shirazi's Bustan and Gulistan have also been interpreted as homoerotic poems.[10]
Under the rule of Mohammad Reza Shah, the last monarch of the Pahlavi dynasty, homosexuality was tolerated, even to the point of allowing news coverage of a same-sex wedding. Janet Afary has argued that the 1979 Revolution was partly motivated by moral outrage against the Shah's government, and in particular against a mock same-sex wedding between two young men with ties to the court. She says that this explains the virulence of the anti-homosexual oppression in Iran.[11] After the 1979 Revolution, thousands of people were executed in public, including homosexuals.[12][13]
A Safavid Persian miniature from 1627, depicting Abbas I of Iran with a page. Louvre, Paris.
A Safavid Persian miniature from 1660, depicting two men engaged in anal sex. Kinsey Institution, Bloomington.
A Safavid Persian miniature from 1720, depicting two men engaged in anal sex. Kinsey Institution, Bloomington.
A depiction of a youth conversing with suitors from Jami's Haft Awrang, in the story A Father Advises his Son About Love. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
Men and youths depicted on a Safavid ceramic panel from Chehel Sotoun, Isfahan. Louvre, Paris.
Legality of same-sex sexual activity[edit]
Since the 1979 Revolution, the legal code has been based on Islamic law. All sexual activities that occur outside a traditional, heterosexual marriage (i.e., sodomy or adultery) are illegal. Same-sex sexual activities that occur between consenting adults are criminalized and carry a maximum punishment of death—though not generally implemented. Rape, whether same-sex or opposite-sex, often results in execution, but is related to adultery and sodomy in Iran's penal code rather than being classified as "sexual assault". The death penalty is legal for those above 18, and if a murder was committed, legal at the age of 15. Approved by the Parliament on July 30, 1991, and finally ratified by the Guardian Council on November 28, 1991, articles 108 through 140 distinctly deal with same-sex sexual activities and their punishments in detail.[citation needed]
Male same-sex sexual activity[edit]
According to Articles 108 to 113, sodomy (lavāt) can in certain circumstances be a crime for which both partners can be punished by death. If the participants are adults, of sound mind and consenting, the method of execution is for the judge to decide. If one person is non-consenting (i.e., rape), the punishment would only apply to the rapist. A non-adult who engages in consensual sodomy is subject to a punishment of 74 lashes. Articles 114 to 119 assert that sodomy is proved either if a person confesses four times to having committed sodomy or by the testimony of four righteous men. Testimony of women alone or together with a man does not prove sodomy. According to Articles 125 and 126, if sodomy, or any lesser crime referred to above, is proved by confession and the person concerned repents, the judge may request that he be pardoned. If a person who has committed the lesser crimes referred to above repents before the giving of testimony by the witnesses, the punishment is quashed. The judge may punish the person for lesser crimes at his discretion.
Female same-sex sexual activity[edit]
According to Articles 127, 129, and 130, the punishment for female same-sex sexual activity (mosāheqe) involving persons who are mature, of sound mind and consenting, is 50 lashes. If the act is repeated three times and punishment is enforced each time, the death sentence will apply on the fourth occasion. Article 128 asserts that the ways of proving female same-sex sexual activity in court are the same as for sodomy. Article 130 says that both Muslims and non-Muslims are subject to the punishment. According to Articles 132 and 133, the rules for the quashing of sentences, or for pardoning, are the same as for the lesser male homosexual offenses. According to Article 134, women who "stand naked under one cover without necessity" and are not relatives may receive a punishment of 50 lashes.
At the discretion of the Iranian court, fines, prison sentences, and corporal punishment are usually carried out rather than the death penalty, unless the crime was a rape.[citation needed]
The charges of same-sex sexual activity have in a few occasions been used in political crimes. Other charges had been paired with the sodomy crime, such as rape or acts against the state, and convictions are obtained in grossly flawed trials. On March 14, 1994, famous dissident writer Ali Akbar Saidi Sirjani was charged with offenses ranging from drug dealing to espionage to homosexual activity. He died in prison under disputed circumstances.[14]
Capital punishment[edit]
Some human rights activists and opponents of the government in Iran claim between 4,000 and 6,000 gay men and lesbians have been executed in Iran for crimes related to their sexual orientation since 1979.[15][16] According to The Boroumand Foundation,[17] there are records of at least 107 executions with charges related to homosexuality between 1979 and 1990.[18] According to Amnesty International, at least 5 people convicted of "homosexual tendencies", three men and two women, were executed in January 1990, as a result of the government's policy of calling for the execution of those who "practice homosexuality".[19]
In a November 2007 meeting with his British counterpart, Iranian member of parliament Mohsen Yahyavi admitted that the government in Iran believes in the death penalty for homosexuality. According to Yahyavi, gays deserve to be tortured, executed, or both.[20]
Rape (tajāvoz, zenā be onf) is punishable by death by hanging. Ten to fifteen percent of executions in Iran are for rape. The rape victim may settle the case by accepting compensation (jirat) in exchange for withdrawing the charges or forgiving the rapist.[citation needed] This is similar to diyya, but equal to a woman's dowry. A woman can also receive diyya for injuries sustained. Normally, the rapist still faces tazir penalties, such as 100 lashes and jail time for immoral acts, and often faces further penalties for other crimes committed alongside the rape, such as kidnapping, assault, and disruption of public order.
On July 19, 2005, Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni two teenagers from the province of Khorasan were convicted by the court of having raped a 13-year-old boy were publicly hanged. The case attracted international media attention, and the British LGBT group OutRage! alleged that the teenagers were executed for consensual homosexual acts and not rape.[21] It was disputed in the media as to whether the executions of the two teenagers, or that of three other men who were executed in 2011 in the province of Khuzestan, were punishment for other crimes or carried out specifically because of their same-sex sexual activity.[22] Human Rights Watch, while condemning the executions of the juveniles, stated "there is no evidence that this was a consensual act", and observed that "the bulk of evidence suggests that the youths were tried on allegations of raping a 13-year-old, with the suggestion that they were tried for consensual homosexual conduct seemingly based almost entirely on mistranslations and on cursory news reporting magnified by the Western press".[23] It also stated that it was "deeply disturbed by the apparent indifference of many people to the alleged rape of a 13-year old".[23]
Another controversial execution was that of Makwan Moloudzadeh on December 6, 2007. He was convicted of lavāt be onf (sodomy rape) and executed for raping three teenage boys when he was 13, even though all witnesses had retracted their accusations and Moloudzadeh withdrew a confession. As a 13-year-old, he was ineligible for the death penalty under the law in Iran.[24][25] Despite international outcry and a nullification of the death sentence by Chief Justice Ayatollah Seyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrud, Moloudzadeh was hanged without his family or his attorney being informed until after the fact.[26][27] The execution provoked international outcry since it violated two international treaties signed by the government in Iran that outlaw capital punishment for crimes committed by minors—the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.[28]
Few consenting participants of sodomy (lavāt) are sentenced to death, but prior to 2012, both partners could receive the death penalty. On March 15, 2005, the daily newspaper Etemad reported that the Tehran Criminal Court sentenced two men to death following the discovery of a video showing them engaged in sexual acts. Another two men were allegedly hanged publicly in the northern town of Gorgan for sodomy in November 2005.[29] In July 2006, two youths in north-eastern Iran were hanged for "sex crimes", probably consensual homosexual acts.[2] On November 16, 2006, the State-run news agency reported the public execution of a man convicted of sodomy in the western city of Kermanshah.[citation needed]
On January 23, 2008, Hamzeh Chavi, 18, and Loghman Hamzehpour, 19, were arrested in Sardasht, West Azerbaijan, for homosexual activity. An on-line petition for their release began to circulate around the internet.[30] They apparently confessed to the authorities that they were in a relationship and in love, prompting a court to charge them with mohārebe ("waging war against God") and lavāt (sodomy).
There were two reported crackdowns in Isfahan, Iran's third-largest city. On May 10, 2007, Isfahan police arrested 87 people at a birthday party, including 80 suspected gay men, beating and detaining them through the weekend.[31] All but 17 of the men were released. Those who remained in custody were believed to have been wearing women's clothing.[32] Photos of the beaten men were released by the Toronto-based Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees.[33] According to Human Rights Watch, in February 2008, the police in Isfahan raided a party in a private home and arrested 30 men, who were held indefinitely without a lawyer on suspicion of homosexual activity.[34]
In April 2017, 30 men were arrested in a raid in Isfahan Province, "charged with sodomy, drinking alcohol and using psychedelic drugs".[35]
Recognition of same-sex relationships[edit]
Same-sex marriage and civil unions are not legally recognized in Iran. Traditional Iranian families often exercise strong influence in who, and when, their children marry and even what profession they chose.[36] Few LGBT Iranians come out to family for the fear of being rejected. No legislation exists to address discrimination or bias motivated violence on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.[citation needed]
Traditional Iranian families tend to prohibit their children from dating, as it is not a part of Iranian culture, although this has become somewhat more tolerated, among liberals.[36] In 2004, an independent film was released, directed by Maryam Keshavarz, that examined the changing mores of Iranian youth when it comes to sex and dating.[37]
Gay Iranian couples are often afraid to be seen together [38] in public, and report that LGBT people were widely stereotyped as being sex-obsessed child molesters, rapists, and disease-ridden.[39] A popular Iranian derogatory slur against is that of a, "evakhahar", typically a very effeminate gay man who seeks casual sex in public.[40]
Gender identity and expression[edit]
As Article 20 in Clause 14 states, a person who has done a sex reassignment surgery can legally change their name and gender on the birth certification upon the order of court.
Those who are in favor of legitimately being able to reassign one's sex surgically utilize article 215 of Iran's civil code, stating that the acts of every person should be subject to rational benefit, meaning gender reassignment surgery would be in the best interest of whomever is appealing for governmental support. Caveats, however, include the need to have medical approval from a doctor that supports a dissonance between assigned gender and their true gender.
Although legally recognized by the current Supreme Leader in Iran, Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Grand Ayatollah Yousef Madani Tabrizi addresses gender reassignment surgery as "unlawful" and "not permissible by Sharia (Islamic law)".[clarification needed] Reasons for his contestation include the altering of God's creation and disfiguration of vital organs as being unlawful.[41][unreliable source?]
In Islam, the term mukhannathun ("effeminate ones") is used to describe gender-variant people, usually transgender people who are transitioning from male to female. Neither this term nor the equivalent for "eunuch" occurs in the Quran, but the term does appear in the Hadith, the sayings of Muhammad, which have a secondary status to the central text. Moreover, within Islam, there is a tradition on the elaboration and refinement of extended religious doctrines through scholarship.[citation needed]
While Iran has outlawed homosexual activity, Iranian Shia thinkers such as Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini have allowed for transsexuals to reassign their sex so that they can enter heterosexual relationships. This position has been confirmed by the current Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and is also supported by many other Iranian clerics. The state will pay a portion of the cost for a gender reassignment operation.[citation needed]
Since the mid-1980s, the Iranian government has legalized the practice of sex reassignment surgery (under medical approval) and the modification of pertinent legal documents to reflect the reassigned gender. In 1983, Khomeini passed a fatwa allowing gender reassignment operations as a cure for "diagnosed transsexuals", allowing for the basis of this practice becoming legal.[42][43] This religious decree was first issued for Maryam Khatoon Molkara, who has since become the leader of an Iranian transsexual organization. Hojatoleslam Kariminia, a mid-level Islamic cleric in Iran, is another advocate for transsexual rights, having called publicly for greater respect for the rights of Iranian transsexuals. However, transsexuality is still a taboo topic within Iranian society, and no laws exist to protect post-operative transsexuals from discrimination.
Some homosexual individuals in Iran have been pressured to undergo sex reassignment surgery in order to avoid legal and social persecution.[3][3] Tanaz Eshaghian's 2008 documentary Be Like Others highlighted this.[3] The documentary explores issues of gender and sexual identity while following the personal stories of some of the patients at a gender reassignment clinic in Tehran. The film was featured at the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival, winning three awards.[44] Sarah Farizan's novel If You Could Be Mine explores the relationship between two young girls, Sahar and Nisrin, who live in Iran through gender identity and the possibility of undergoing gender reassignment surgery. In order for the two to be in an open relationship, Sahar considers surgery to work within the confines of law which permits relationships after transitioning due to the relationship being between a male and female.
In 2002, a book entitled Witness Play by Cyrus Shamisa was banned from shelves (despite being initially approved) because it said that certain notable Persian writers were homosexuals or bisexuals.[45]
In 2004, the government in Iran loaned an Iranian collection of artwork that was locked away since the 1979 Revolution by the Tate Britain gallery for six months. The artwork included explicit homoerotic artwork by Francis Bacon and the government in Iran stated that upon its return, it would also be put on display in Iran.[46]
In 2005, the Iranian Reformist paper Shargh was shut down by the government after it interviewed an Iranian author, living in Canada. While the interview never mentioned the sexual orientation of Saghi Ghahreman, it did quote her as stating that, "sexual boundaries must be flexible... The immoral is imposed by culture on the body".[47] The conservative paper Kayhan attacked the interview and the paper, "Shargh has interviewed this homosexual while aware of her sick sexual identity, dissident views and porno-personality."[47] To avoid being permanently shut down, the paper issued a public apology stating it was unaware of the author's "personal traits" and promised to "avoid such people and movements."[47]
Exiled political parties and groups[edit]
The government in Iran does not allow a political party or organization to endorse LGBT rights. Vague support for LGBT rights in Iran has fallen to a handful of exiled political organizations.
The Green Party of Iran has an English translation of its website that states, "Every Iranian citizen is equal by law, regardless of gender, age, race, nationality, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or political beliefs" and calls for a "separation of state and religion".[48]
The Worker Communist Party of Iran homepage has an English translation of its manifesto that supports the right of "All adults, women or men" to be "completely free in deciding over their sexual relationships with other adults. Voluntary relationship of adults with each other is their private affair and no person or authority has the right to scrutinize it, interfere with it or make it public".[49]
The leftist Worker's Way, the liberal Glorious Frontiers Party, and the center-right Constitutionalist Party of Iran have all expressed support for the separation of religion and the state, which might promote LGBT rights.
LGBT rights movement[edit]
In 1972, scholar Saviz Shafai gave a public lecture on homosexuality at Shiraz University and in 1976 would research sexual orientation and gender issues at Syracuse University. In the 1990s, he joined the first human rights group for LGBT Iranians, HOMAN, and continued his work until he died of cancer in 2000.[50]
In 2001, an online Iranian LGBT rights organization called "Rainbow" was founded by Arsham Parsi, a well-known Iranian gay activist, followed by a clandestine organization named the "Persian Gay and Lesbian Organization". As of 2008, this group has been renamed as the "Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees" (IRQR). While the founder of this group had to flee Iran and continue his work as an exile, there is an underground LGBT rights movement in Iran.[51]
Ali Mafi, an openly gay Iranian-born comedian started his career in 2016. In all his shows, Ali mentions his status as an Iranian citizen and his commitment to being proud of who he is regardless. Ali currently resides in San Francisco, California, which hosts a prominent gay community.
In 2007, the Canadian CBC TV produced a documentary that interviewed several LGBT Iranians who talked about their struggles.
During protests against the outcome of the Iranian election in July 2009, it was reported that several openly gay Iranians joined crowds of protesters in the United Kingdom and were welcomed with mostly positive attitudes towards LGBT rights.[52]
In 2010, a group of LGBT activists inside Iran declared a day to be Iran Pride Day. The day is on the fourth Friday of July and is and celebrated annually in secret.[53]
As of 2012, OutRight Action International develops an online resource for LGBTIQ Iranians in Persian.
JoopeA organized the Iran in Amsterdam Pride as the Iran Boat (Dutch: Iraanse Boot) in the Amsterdam Gay Pride festival in 2017 and 2018. The Iran Boat won the Best of Pride Amsterdam 2018 (Dutch: Publieksprijs) award.[54][55]
Despite the deeply conservative character of the government in Iran, its efforts to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS have been quite progressive.[56] The first official reports of HIV/AIDS in Iran were reported in 1987, and a government commission was formed, albeit it was not until the 1990s that a comprehensive policy began to arise.[56]
In 1997, Dr. Arash Alaei and his brother, Kamiar, were given permission to open up a small office for HIV/AIDS research among prisoners and with a few years, despite public protests, they helped open the first general HIV/AIDS clinics. A booklet was approved, with explanation of condoms, and distributed to high school students. By the late 1990s, a comprehensive educational campaign existed. Several clinics opened up to offer free testing and counseling. Government funds were allocated to distribute condoms to prostitutes, clean needles and drug rehabilitation to addicts and programs aired on television advocating the use of condoms.[56] While there are shortages, medication is given to all Iranian citizens free of charge.
The Alaei brothers were joined in their educational campaign by Dr. Minoo Mohraz, who was also an early proponent of greater HIV/AIDS education, who chairs a research center in Tehran. Along with government funding, UNICEF has funded several Iranian volunteer based groups that seek to promote greater education about the pandemic and to combat the prejudice that often follows Iranians who have it.[57][58]
In June 2008, the Alaei brothers were detained, without charge, by the government in Iran, after attending an international conference on HIV/AIDS.[59] The government has since accused the two doctors of attending the conference as part of a larger plotting to overthrow the government.[60]
In 2007, the government in Iran stated that 18,320 Iranians had been infected with HIV, bringing the official number of deaths to 2,800, although critics claimed that the actual number might've been much higher.[61] Officially, drug addiction is the most common way that Iranians become infected.
While educational programs exist for prostitutes and drug addicts, no educational campaign for LGBT has been allowed to exist. In talking about the situation Kaveh Khoshnood stated, "Some people would be able to talk about their own drug addiction or their family members, but they find it incredibly difficult to talk about homosexuality in any way". "If you're not acknowledging its existence, you're certainly not going to be developing any programs [for gays]".[62]
Asylum cases[edit]
Some middle-class Iranians have received an education in a Western nation. There is a small population of gay Iranian immigrants who live in Western nations.
In 2001, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights rejected a plea from an Iranian man who escaped from an Iranian prison after being convicted and sentenced to death for the crime of homosexual activity.[63] Part of the problem with this case was that the man had entered the country illegally and was later convicted of killing his boyfriend, after he discovered that he had been unfaithful.
In 2005, the Japanese government rejected an asylum plea from another Iranian gay man. That same year, the Swedish government also rejected a similar claim by an Iranian gay man's appeal. The Netherlands is also going through a review of its asylum policies in regard to Iranians claiming to be victims of the anti-gay policies in Iran.
In 2006, the Netherlands stopped deporting gay men back to Iran temporarily. In March 2006, Dutch Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk said that it was now clear "that there is no question of executions or death sentences based solely on the fact that a defendant is gay", adding that homosexuality was never the primary charge against people. However, in October 2006, after pressure from both within and outside the Netherlands, Verdonk changed her position and announced that Iranian LGBTs would not be deported.[64]
The United Kingdom came under fire for its continued deporting, especially due to news reports documenting gay Iranians who committed suicide when faced with deportation. Some cases have provoked lengthy campaigning on behalf of potential deportees, sometimes resulting in gay Iranians being granted asylum, as in the cases of Kiana Firouz[65] and Mehdi Kazemi.[66]
Views of the government on homosexuality[edit]
Iran's state media have shown their hatred toward homosexuality on many occasions. In particular, Mashregh News, a news website "close to the security and intelligence organizations", has described homosexuals in an article as "individuals who have become mentally troubled in natural human tendencies, have lost their balance, and require psychological support and treatment".[67]
One outlet, the website of Press TV, an English-language TV news channel owned by the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, formerly had a written policy that banned homophobic comments.[68]
In 2007, former president of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking to Columbia University, stated that "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals", though a spokesperson later stated that his comments were misunderstood.[69]
In a November 2007 meeting with his British counterpart, Iranian member of parliament Mohsen Yahyavi admitted that the government in Iran believes in the death penalty for homosexuality. According to Yahyavi, gays deserve to be tortured, executed, or both.[20]
In June 2019, in a press conference held in Tehran between Mohammad Javad Zarif Minister of Foreign Affairs and Heiko Maas Minister of Foreign Affairs, openly gay German journalist Paul Ronzheimer of the tabloid Bild asked Zarif "Why are homosexuals executed in Iran because of their sexual orientation?", to which Zarif defended the execution of gay people on 'moral principles' by responding that his "society has principles. And we live according to these principles. These are moral principles concerning the behavior of people in general, and that means that the law is respected and the law is obeyed."[70][71][72]
Human rights reports[edit]
United States Department of State[edit]
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices of 2017[edit]
The review noted many concerns, including discrimination against girls; children with disabilities; unregistered, refugee, and migrant children; and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) minors.[73]
Acts of Violence, Discrimination, and Other Abuses Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
The law criminalizes consensual same-sex sexual activity, which is punishable by death, flogging, or a lesser punishment. The law does not distinguish between consensual and nonconsensual same sex intercourse, and NGOs reported this lack of clarity led to both the victim and the perpetrator being held criminally liable under the law in cases of assault. The law does not prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Security forces harassed, arrested, and detained individuals they suspected of being gay or transgender. In some cases security forces raided houses and monitored internet sites for information on LGBTI persons. Those accused of "sodomy" often faced summary trials, and evidentiary standards were not always met. Punishment for same-sex sexual activity between men was more severe than between women. According to international and local media reports, on April 13 at least 30 men suspected of homosexual conduct were arrested by IRGC agents at a private party in Isfahan Province. The agents reportedly fired weapons and used electric Tasers during the raid. According to the Canadian-based nonprofit organization Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees, those arrested were taken to Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan, where they were led to the prison yard and told they would be executed. The Iranian LGBTI activist group 6Rang noted that, following similar raids, those arrested and similarly charged were subjected to forced "anal" or "sodomy" tests and other degrading treatment and sexual insults.
The government censored all materials related to LGBTI issues. Authorities particularly blocked websites or content within sites that discussed LGBTI issues, including the censorship of Wikipedia pages defining LGBTI and other related topics. There were active, unregistered LGBTI NGOs in the country. Hate crime laws or other criminal justice mechanisms did not exist to aid in the prosecution of bias-motivated crimes.
The law requires all male citizens over age 18 to serve in the military but exempts gay and transgender women, who are classified as having mental disorders. New military identity cards listed the subsection of the law dictating the exemption.
According to 6Rang this practice identified the men as gay or transgender and put them at risk of physical abuse and discrimination.
The government provided transgender persons financial assistance in the form of grants of up to 45 million rials $1,240 and loans up to 55 million rials $1,500 to undergo gender reassignment surgery. Additionally, the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor, and Social Welfare required health insurers to cover the cost of such surgery. Individuals who undergo gender reassignment surgery may petition a court for new identity documents with corrected gender data, which the government reportedly provided efficiently and transparently. NGOs reported that authorities pressured LGBTI persons to undergo gender reassignment surgery.[73]
Summary table[edit]
|Same-sex sexual activity legal
|Imprisonment, corporal punishment, execution.
|Equal age of consent
|Anti-discrimination laws in employment only
|Anti-discrimination laws in the provision of goods and services
|Anti-discrimination laws in all other areas (incl. indirect discrimination, hate speech)
|Same-sex marriages
|Recognition of same-sex couples
|Step-child adoption by same-sex couples
|Joint adoption by same-sex couples
|Gays and lesbians allowed to serve openly in the military
|Based on Article 33 of the army's medical exemption regulations, "moral and sexual deviancy, such as transsexuality" is considered to be grounds for a medical exemption from the military service, which is mandatory for eligible male individuals over 18.[74] According to Human Rights Watch, in order to "prove" their sexual orientation or gender identity, men seeking a military exemption on that basis would be required to undergo "numerous" "humiliating" physical and psychological tests, which may be costly, and they may also encounter administrative barriers, such as "few doctors" to perform such tests and doctors that refuse to perform them without parental accompaniment.[74]
|Right to change legal gender
|Applied through a sex reassignment surgery.
|Access to IVF for lesbians
|Commercial surrogacy for gay male couples
|MSM allowed to donate blood
See also[edit]
- LGBT rights in Asia
- Gender Identity Organization of Iran
- Be Like Others, a documentary film about transsexuality in Iran
- Transgender rights in Iran
- Human rights in Iran
- Death penalty for homosexuality
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The "Leaf Project" started my "White Period" of shooting objects against a white background. (That was a joke by the way! :-))
I met my friend Lynda on a weekend late November last year. I had told her I wanted to collect leaves and she was eager to join me. But where can you find them in the middle of New York City? In Central Park of course.
We met on the Upper West Side and made our way over to the park. I had a few big paper bags with me to try to get whatever I would find home undamaged. The moment we entered Central Park we were in leaf heaven.
Leaves everywhere. All these different forms and colors how exciting! I felt like a five year old kid again mesmerized by something so utterly unimportant to an adult as a leaf. I had to think about how sad it is that we very often loose our "eyes of wonder" when we grow up because as soon as we see something we project past experiences onto it.
It is not necessary to look at a leaf because as adults we know how a leaf looks like. Over the years we have seen many of them. What could be so exciting about it? Why bother to look? I'm doing the same. Twenty years must have passed since I looked at a leaf closely and here I am in the middle of Central Park, in New York City the greatest city in the world where you can get anything you want ( as long as you have the money to pay for it) and I'm jumping up and down because I'm so excited about the leaf that I just found.
This time my search has a purpose though, I'm collecting them to take photographs. This is why I love what I do.
I would not have looked at these leaves or at the trash on Grand Street if I would not own a camera. As a matter of fact there are many things I'm not interested in at all but that completely changes when there is even the slightest chance to take photographs of them. Then I'm a child again, the excitement is back and I look at the world with eyes of wonder.
Two hours later Lynda and I were sitting at Starbucks with bags full of leaves having Soy Chai Latte. When I got back to the loft I laid them out and I must have had a few hundred of them.
Over the next couple of days I shot 34 images on film and uploaded the final 19 selects onto my website today.
"Leaves" Williamsburg/Brookly/"Leaf Project" November 2008
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