As for television, one of the most inspiring TV shows for me and for millions of others kids and adults in Iran was Kolah Ghermezi. I totally think of the little puppets in the show as queer. The show was full of gender role-play in different forms. I loved the parts where Kolah Ghermezi put on make-up and a veil and impersonated a pregnant woman who was allergic to all kinds of food except chocolate! In a way Kolah-Ghermezi became an iconic gay figure for me; his emotional responses, his tone of talking, it was all very different from a typical “young boy”. He was the embodiment of a kind of gender non-conformity in young people.

When The Kid Was A Kid - Wild Gender Monday, April 7, 2014 @ 11:01pm