article_snippet.sent: Iran is a difficult place to be gay or lesbian.
article_snippet.sent: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former President of Iran, famously said during a 2007 trip to the United States, "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like in Iran.
article_snippet.sent: Of course, homosexuals do live there, in fear of being discovered.
article_snippet.sent: Others have been pressured to undergo gender reassignment.
article_snippet.sent: Psychologists in Iran have reportedly pushed LGBT patients toward hormone therapy and eventually surgery.
article_snippet.sent: Some flee Iran before surgery, as do other homosexuals who believe Some may be outed.
article_snippet.sent: Many come to Turkey, and the small town of Denizli is host to hundreds of gays and lesbians from Iran who are now in limbo.
article_snippet.sent: I couldn't understand that in Iran (homosexuality) isn't accepted," her said recently by phone from Geneva.
article_snippet.sent: And for me it was a huge cultural difference between Europe and Iran.
article_snippet.sent: A few will return to Iran, hoping to keep their kin homosexuality a secret.
highlights_snippet.sent: Homosexuality is illegal in Iran .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Denizli, Turkey, is host to hundreds of gays and lesbians from Iran .
  