No Homosexuals, Adulterers or Other Maleficents

For the past year and more, I and others in the LGBT press and bloggers have been covering the inhumanity which is being perpetrated against members of the LGBT community in both Iraq and Iran.

For over a year, I have had a communication relationship with Ali Hili, a spokesman based in the UK for the advocacy group Iraqi LGBT.

Were it not for Ali many of us who write about LGBT issues and rights would not know of the plight which LGBTs face day in and day out not only in Iraq, but also Iran and a great deal of the Middle East.

Unlike some other reporters, writers and bloggers, I am protective of and do not disclose exactly where Ali is based, as he has had countless death threats and for all intents and purposes has a price on his head.

The Iraqi LGBT organization itself is based in London and accepts donations to help in a modern day underground railroad which moves LGBTs from place to place in Iraq for their own protection until they can get out of the country.

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