Film Explores Sex Changes in Iran
By Nadia L. Farjood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Published: Friday, March 04, 2011
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/3/4/sex-iran-country-grungras/ (http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/3/4/sex-iran-country-grungras/)
Iran is one of eight countries where homosexuality is a crime punishable by death—but also a country in which sex-change operations are legal, said Organization for Refuge Asylum and Migration founder Neil Grungras in a discussion last night about LGBT rights in the Middle East.
The event featured a 30-minute screening of the movie "Be Like Others," an official selection of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival which explored the nuanced and complicated social phenomenon of sex reassignment surgery in the Islamic Republic of Iran.