EdgeBoston.com – by Kilian Melloy – EDGE Contributor
When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed last year that there were no homosexuals in Iran, the world reacted with skepticism. A new documentary film on how the Iranian government deals with gays might shed some light on what seems like an extraordinary claim.
As reported in an Aug. 26 article posted by the Canadian Broadcasting Company, filmmaker Tanaz Eshaghian, born in Iran but now based in New York, has created a documentary titled be Like Others that explains how the Iranian government allows its gays men to do exactly that–by becoming other than the people they were born as.