Women's Closet.

During past few days I was reading Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey by Alison Wearing. It somehow made me ashamed and at the same time proud of Iran. The book is about journey of Alison, a Canadian journalist, along with her gay roommate (they pretended to be a married couple in their honeymoon), to Iran in mid 90's. During her journey she met all sort of Iranian people, from fundamentalist to modern ones. Despite her poetic vision she described many of our problems realistically. Especially as this is one of best descriptions of life under hejab means for women, after reading it I realized what a horrible kind of leaving it is. I always thought leaving for queer boys like me is worst kind of social nightmare, but reading Alison along with other women groups of Iran, I confess being a woman in Iran is much worse. One of other things that made me feel really bad is how an Iraqi prisoner described tortures in Abu Ghraib. He told reporters: "They wanted us to feel as though we were women, the way women feel and this is the worst insult, to feel like a woman". I think one of the reasons of Persian men hatred toward gays is this hatred toward woman. Their sacred manhood and its importance for whole universe. Actually I think the first and most important group that need to come out of their closets in Iran are women. Until this majority didn't understand and defend their rights, minorities like gays had no chance of acceptance in Iran.
And I just wish Ian, Alison gay friend, also wrote something about his journey in Iran. I love to see Iran through a queer eye. But anyway thanks to Alison for portraying my country as it is. And thanks for thinking Iranian boys have effeminate gestures!

... And Beyond Divinity is released. As I wrote before it's prequel, Divine Divinity, was one of few games that let you choose to be gay. For me it wasn't important that the occasion was in a brothel. It made my day. But Beyond Divinity has some cons. First of all is terrible voice of Death Knight. It's really like Kermit the Frog and doesn't suit the dark and suppose to be powerful character of Death Knight. Also there are some problems in game play and I prefer the graphic of previous game. What a pity. Nowadays RPG games with deep stories and believable characters are so rare that missing a good game means waiting another year, and wishing to see something comparable to Planescape: Torment. I just wish they added some gay scenes in this one too. Perhaps a queer Imp! But anyway starting a slash on a boy hero and the Death Knight is not a bad idea at all. What a sick mind!