Actually, I had no idea that I was going to do that. I specifically wanted to make the show so that it would give me that kind of platform to do it. That sounds a little shady, but…it worked. I haven’t talked to him about it since, but I had no idea he was going to do that. I specifically unbuttoned my shirt to the point where you can see my tattoo that reads “Women. Life. Liberty.” And that was going to be the statement but I had written the poster and I kept it in my bag until the last moment. When the music was on and we were all in line and about to leave, I was like, “Fuck it, I’m going to do it.”
How has the response been? How has that been for you?
It has been great. She achieved the goal that I wanted which was to go viral. So Vogue Italia and Vogue Poland put it on their Instagram. A lot of the Iranian news online published it but of course they haven’t tagged me because of the whole porn thing. Which is fine, because I don’t really care, but it bothers me a little that even within my own community there is still a stigma when it comes to homosexuality, pornography, and sex work.
I have a friend who works at one of the biggest Persian-Iranian news agencies. He wanted to tell me a story about the whole thing. They said, “Yeah, this is great. This is amazing.” And then at the end of the meeting, he told them I did porn and they were like, “Oh no, we can’t. We can’t do anything. We can’t even post the picture of him.”
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