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Canada’s Foreign Affairs and Citizenship Ministers are doing a lot of pro-gay PR these days. While John Baird vaunts his efforts on same-sex decriminalization on the global stage, Jason Kenney touts himself as pro-gay for Iranian refugees to over 10,000 people in an unsolicited e-mail. Queer activists suspect pinkwashing.

After last week’s The Butch Factor, the Thursday night Image + Nation screening for Aires Libres continues TONIGHT (June 14) with the projection of Circumstance, which won the 2011 audience choice award at the festival.

New report of 4 men to be executed in Iran under accusations of sodomy. Iran, which is one of seven countries that continue to impose the death penalty for homosexuality, has been criticized the world over for human rights record, as attested to by a forthcoming report from the Peter Tatchell Foundation

Iran Human Rights has reported that three men were executed by the regime on Sept 4th for charges of sodomy. While there are not currently many details available about the event. The regime rarely makes public announcements regarding death sentences for homosexuality, a phenomenon which President Ahmadinejad has claimed does not exist in Iran.

The European Parliament on March 10 adopted a resolution urging Iran to “stop discriminating against people on the basis of their sexual orientation” and denouncing “the inhumane and medieval practice of
sentencing people to death for alleged offences pertaining to choice of partners or sexual practices.”