I intended to include this in my next sundries post, but I felt it far too important for such marginalization.

Homosexuality in the Muslim world is one of the easiest ways to get yourself killed — or at least jailed and subjected to forced hormone and psychological treatment, years and even lifetimes in jail, lashings and other torture, public humiliation, amputated from society, and otherwise subjected to treatment so harsh as to make the fundamentalist Christian and conservative movements in America seem like the ACLU.

Gay Iranians are trying to organize so that their voices might be heard and their plight for equality understood.  While you can not possibly hope to resolve all of the challenges they face, you can show your solidarity and support by signing this petition.  Don’t hesitate; demonstrate your conviction that “all [humans] are created equal” by showing them they are not alone.

And remember, this is the only issue that the U.S. government agreed with the Iranian government on: subjugation of gays and the elimination of equality.