UK Gay News reports:
In his latest broadside against the pro-democracy protesters in Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused his political opponents of ‘officially recognising thieves, homosexuals and scumbags’ in order to win their votes.
The remarks were made in a televised victory speech – the speech was quickly given the “dirt and dust” tag.
“The old tyrant has let the cat of the bag,” the human rights activist Peter Tatchell told UK Gay News this morning. “Gay people exist in Iran and they voted against him.”
. . . Nearly 600 people – both gay and straight – joined last night’s demonstration in London in solidarity with the Iranian people’s mass protests for democracy and human rights.
The rally was held outside the Iranian Embassy and included a gay contingent comprising members of OutRage!, Iraqi LGBT and Gay Muslims.
. . . [Tatchell said], “We joined the rally to show our solidarity with the heroic freedom struggle of the Iranian people.
Recall that two years ago, at Columbia, President Ahmadinejad insisted that there were no gays in Iran.
20. June 2009 at 7:04 pm
Religious extremists love to bait queers. It’s one of many things in common between Ahmadinejad and Bush.