Gay City News: Ongoing debate about hanging of Iranian youth

Today's issue of Gay City News continues to report on the ongoing fissures among activists regarding the hanging last year of two Iranian youths possibly for being gay. It's a fascinating if painful debate that only seems to widen as the days go by. The related articles are as follows:

• The Fog of Debate by Duncan Osbourne
• Iran: Setting the record straight by Doug Ireland (in response to an OpEd by Scott Long last week)
• Letter from the Editor by Paul Schindler
• People-to-people dialogue key to human rights progress by the founders of the Queer Iran Alliance

We had previously written about this when an as of then internal debate on the hangings broke out publicly and after we attended an event at the LGBT Center put together by Human Rights Watch and IGLHRC, among others, on the same day that public demonstrations were happening elsewhere in New York and the world.