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There Are No Homosexuals in Iran

Laurence Rasti

Edition Patrick Frey

Publication date : 2017/10/01
English language
Dimension 25 x 19 cm / 156 pages
ISBN 9783906803388

Speaking at Columbia University on September 24, 2007, Iranian president at the time Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proclaimed: “In Iran, we do not have homosexuals like in your country.”

While most Western nations now officially accept homosexuality and some even same-sex marriage, homosexuality is still punishable by death in Iran. Homosexuals are not allowed to live out their sexuality there. Their only options are either to choose transsexuality, which is tolerated by law but considered pathological, or to flee.

In Denizli, a town in Turkey, hundreds of gay Iranians are stuck in a transit zone, their lives on hold, hoping against hope to be welcomed into a host country someday where they can start afresh and come out of the closet. Set in this state of limbo, where anonymity is the best protection, my photographs explore the sensitive concepts of identity and gender and seek to restore to each of these men the face their country stole from them.

Mon objectif n’est pas de les dépeindre comme des victimes de l’oppression politique et de souvenirs pénibles, mais de me concentrer sur leur situation difficile actuelle et sur leurs espoirs d’une vie meilleure, plus libre, dans laquelle ils pourraient exprimer leur amour et leur sexualité ouvertement, hors de portée des diktats sexuels et de genre étroits. Les photographies juxtaposent paradoxalement des éléments légers, simples, parfois même festifs, à la gravité du sujet et à la précarité de la situation de ses sujets. Alternant visages couverts et découverts, la série met en évidence les difficultés de ces hommes à se réapproprier l’espace identitaire dont ils ont été privés. (Laurence Rasti, Carouge 2016)

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