Iran Drops ‘Bombs’ on LGBTQ People
Examining the systemic repression of LGBTQ individuals under Iran’s theocratic regime.
Throughout history, the prime stimulus keeping oppression toward LGBTQ people locked firmly in place and enacted in societies — on the personal/interpersonal, institutional, and societal levels — resulted from the destructive doctrines and judgments radiating from primarily orthodox and fundamentalist religious communities.
Individuals and organizations have utilized “religion” to justify the marginalization, harassment, denial of rights, persecution, oppression, and murder of entire groups of people based on their social identities.
At various historical periods, people have applied their texts and legal statutes, sometimes taken in tandem, and at other times used selectively, to establish and maintain hierarchical positions of power, domination, and privilege over individuals and groups targeted by these texts and codes.
We have seen this throughout the Christian world, from Roman Emperors Constantine I and Theodosius, to the Spanish Inquisition, Queen Elizabeth I of England, through Colonial America, Nazi Germany, to the present.
