Month: February 2017

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To light a candle

Elham Melkpoor (EL)

A writing from Elham Malekpoor (EL)

You believe or not we are living in the darkest time of the human history and one of the reason is because we simply do not believe it, even though the bare fact is front of our eyes.

How they let this tragedy happen? I’ve asked this question all the time when I was confronting with the history we passed. In which condition human being is able to be indifference about one another? I’ve questioned when can be seen the fatal indifference of those of us who think I do nothing and no blood is on my hands. we are living in the darkest time of the human being history the time when we lose our hope to light a candle because we lost the flame of our hopes and our dreams because we do not believe we are related. I have still the faith in human being and the way which makes us be able to light our torch again is being conscious, compassionate and responsible.

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We are the rainbow!

We are proud to present that Zamaneh Media and JoopeA are selected to run Iran boat for the first time during Amsterdam Canal Parade 2017.

Amsterdam has unique sort of LGBTI Pride Parade because groups and organizations are on boats passing by through canals of the city.

Amsterdam gay pride

This is the second national event in the Netherlands after the King’s day.

Although group of Iranians has been marched among other nationalities before, but this is the first time that Iranians are going to march in Amsterdam LGBTI Pride Parade independently.

This year’s theme of parade is “This is my pride”. The boats parade will take place on Saturday, August 5th 2017.

We are Iranian, we are part of LGBTI and alliances community, we are for equal rights, and this is our pride!

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ILGA & JoopeA

It’s nothing new that JoopeA has been active in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Intersex & Queer (LGBTIQ) Rights since beginning.

But sometimes, it’s good it to go through our history and introduce the activities that has been done in our long run.

JoopeA has been established in 2009 in Iran. Unfortunately, restrictions of Iranian Government against LGBTIQ and generally all social activists, made us to work underground for a better society in Iran. Yet, it didn’t stopped us from connecting to our fellow activist groups. JoopeA was one of the first Iranian organizations which became part of ILGA from inside Iran. Below is the certificate of membership from ILGA:

JoopeA has been registered officially in October 2014 in the Netherlands.

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