Australian gay rights organisation defends Iran even though the country’s regime executes homosexuals

•  LGBTI Rights Australia defends Iran

By STEPHEN JOHNSON FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

Published: 22:29 BST, 17 June 2025 | Updated: 22:31 BST, 17 June 2025

An Australian gay rights group has endorsed Iran’s military campaign against Israel – even though the fundamentalist Muslim theocracy executes homosexual men. 

LGBTI Rights Australia divided opinion on Facebook with a post which said: ‘Iran has a right to defend itself.’

The group – billing itself as ‘Australia’s largest online community advocating and campaigning for LGBTI rights’ – has a series of social media posts condemning Israel, one of the few nations in the Middle East that holds gay pride rallies.

The latest post was made on Monday afternoon, three days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorised a bombing campaign on Iran’s nuclear facilities that has so far killed 224 people, including 14 nuclear scientists.

Iran responded by firing rockets to Israel, killing 24 people, after Netanyahu accused the Muslim theocracy of having enough enriched uranium to develop a nuclear bomb to eradicate Israel, the world’s only Jewish state.

Amnesty International estimates more than 5,000 gay men and lesbians have been executed since the Ayatollah came to power in 1979.

Same-sex attracted men in Iran are also pressured to undergo gender reassignment surgery even if they don’t suffer from gender dysphoria. 

An Australian gay rights group has endorsed Iran ‘s military campaign against Israel – even though the fundamentalist Muslim theocracy executes homosexual men (pictured is Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras)

LGBTI Rights Australia divided opinion on Facebook with a post which said: ‘Iran has a right to defend itself’

Iran, led by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei (pictured), has also been known to fund terrorist groups including Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen

Women are also imprisoned and tortured in Iran for refusing to wear a hijab in public.

A Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Amini died in custody in 2022 after being detained by the morality police for refusing for not wearing her headscarf properly.

Iran, led by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has also been known to fund terrorist groups including Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen.

LGBTI Rights Australia is far from the only gay rights group endorsing Israel’s enemies, with the University of Sydney home to a ‘Queers for Palestine’ group despite Hamas torturing gay men. 

Many Aussies unleashed about the LGBTI Rights Group supporting Iran. 

‘The Islamic Republic does not represent the Iranian people and have been brutally suppressing them and the LGTBQI+ community for decades. The women of Iran have been begging for your attention’.

‘I am horrified by the war, but defending the Islamic Republic and their incredible cruelty and devastation across the region isn’t going to help,’ she said.

Another said: ‘A huge number of Iranian’s are very supportive of a West/Israeli action to overthrow the current regime. They want help getting out from under the rule of oppressive religious extremists that currently hold all the power.’

‘The current Iranian regime is no friend of the LGBTI cause, let alone women’s rights and patriarchy. 

LGBTI Rights Australia is far from the only gay rights group endorsing Israel’s enemies, with the University of Sydney home to a ‘Queers for Palestine’ group despite Hamas torturing gay men.

Another said: You’re condemning Israel — the only country in the Middle East where LGBTQ+ people can live openly, serve in parliament, host Pride parades, and get legal protections — while cheerleading Iran, where being gay is literally punishable by death? 

‘You don’t have to love Israeli policy to admit this: if you’re queer, Iran is a regime that wants you erased. Israel is not.’

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Australian gay rights organisation defends Iran even though the country’s regime executes homosexuals

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