{"id":2395,"date":"2016-02-28T18:12:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T00:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2395"},"modified":"2016-02-28T18:12:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T00:12:07","slug":"graphic-novel-explores-struggles-of-gay-men-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2395","title":{"rendered":"Graphic Novel Explores Struggles of Gay Men in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Ashley R. Lierman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A graphic novel by artists Amir Soltani and Khalil Bendi describes the experience of being a gay man in Iran, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.out.com\/art-books\/2016\/2\/25\/groundbreaking-graphic-novel-highlights-struggle-being-gay-iran\">Out.com<\/a>. &#8220;Yousef and Farhad,&#8221; developed in partnership with OutRight Action International, follows the relationship between two young men and its repercussions in a society where homosexuality is outlawed.<\/p>\n<p>The series can be viewed online via the following links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/outright-action-international\/gay-love-iran-yousef-farhad_b_9112364.html?utm_hp_ref=world\">Part One<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/outright-action-international\/gay-iran-yousef-farhad-2_b_9253748.html?1455821048=\">Part Two<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/outright-action-international\/gay-iran-yousef-farhad-3_b_9274856.html?utm_hp_ref=queer-voices&amp;ir=Queer%20Voices\">Part Three<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ashley R. Lierman A graphic novel by artists Amir Soltani and Khalil Bendi describes the experience of being a gay man in Iran, reports Out.com. &#8220;Yousef and Farhad,&#8221; developed in partnership with OutRight Action International, follows the relationship between two young men and its repercussions in a society where homosexuality is outlawed. The series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[632,601,634,633,635],"class_list":["post-2395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note","tag-amir-soltani","tag-glbt-graphic-novels","tag-glbt-literature","tag-khalil-bendi","tag-yousef-and-farhad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}