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		<title>Brief Intro to Iran&#8217;s Gay Blogging Recent History</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I Am Gay.  I am Lonely. It Was Not Always Like This. On the turn of the 20st century Western culture found its way into Iran. Huge households shrunk to fit smaller group of family-members. That too, later on, gave way to the nuclear family; husband and a wife and their children would be considered [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saghifarsipoetry4.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20850052&amp;post=54&amp;subd=saghifarsipoetry4&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LGBT in Iran losing most basic human rights to a revolution gone wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LGBT community in Iran took its first steps towards earning civil rights some 35 years[1] ago, only, with a revolution gone wrong, not the community was stopped from proceeding, but it lost even its most basic human rights. Right after the revolution, execution of Gay and Transsexuals began, by the ruling clergies, illegally; it was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saghifarsipoetry4.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20850052&amp;post=46&amp;subd=saghifarsipoetry4&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;before a generation’s share of life-time is over</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jenny: You’re living in Canada now, how long have you been there? Saghi: I left Iran on the end of summer 1983, three years after the revolution; spent about 5 years in Turkey waiting for refugee status and visa for Canada; arrived in Canada as refugee on December 1978. Jenny: Why did you have to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saghifarsipoetry4.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20850052&amp;post=41&amp;subd=saghifarsipoetry4&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A delicious enemy we can`t resist to fight</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ms. Ghahraman, you are an Iranian woman and a Canadian, you are a mother and queer, you are a member of an intellectual community, a migrant and more. What is identity for you? Identity is the slogan; it is the battle field where I fight all my fights. At times, also I fight to redefine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saghifarsipoetry4.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20850052&amp;post=36&amp;subd=saghifarsipoetry4&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Few questions answered</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- One woman I interviewed said lesbians who are jailed have been raped in prison. Is it true? Raping women in prisons of Iran has been practice even before the Islamic Regime came to power. Documents from the before Islamic Revolution only speaks about raping of women political activists, but the fact is that all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saghifarsipoetry4.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20850052&amp;post=24&amp;subd=saghifarsipoetry4&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interviewed by Helmout Gabel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 02:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could you please describe what are the goals of IRQO? IRQO is a union of like-minded human rights activists &#8211; gay, lesbian and straight &#8211; who are committed to attaining and maintaining the civil and human rights of the Iranian LGBT community living in Iran and abroad. In IRQO we are working for decriminalizing homosexuality. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saghifarsipoetry4.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20850052&amp;post=15&amp;subd=saghifarsipoetry4&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interviewed by Radio 1, Austria</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 02:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a short moment we had the impression that new times were broken in, in Iran. The opposition was ruling the streets, protesting against Ahmadinedjad who took power with a doubtful election result and defended it with police force. Censorship and show-trials have let the so-called green movement disappear – really? An exile Iranian contradicts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saghifarsipoetry4.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20850052&amp;post=13&amp;subd=saghifarsipoetry4&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>qoutes from critics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 02:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happens in Saghi Ghahraman’s poetry is a rare phenomenon, and one can say with the boldest words, that &#8211; with respect to the abundance of our feminist literature(Farsi)- it is the extreme divulgence of the feminine language in the shape of poetry.  Reza FarrokhFall, writer, literary critic, McGill University April 2000, Sokhan’e Azad, literary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saghifarsipoetry4.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20850052&amp;post=11&amp;subd=saghifarsipoetry4&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Right to The Left and vice versa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 01:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toronto is a region of neighbourhoods, every neighbourhood a different country. During the last decade &#38; a half, wherever I moved I’ve arrived in a different Canada all over again. Thanks to colonialism, &#38; globalization of media, neither the white shadow of main-stream Canada, and nor the bold presence of China Town have been “unfamiliar”. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saghifarsipoetry4.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20850052&amp;post=1&amp;subd=saghifarsipoetry4&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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