Remember in 2007 when the then president of Iran told students at Columbia University, "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like in your country?" The response was laughter, but I had a sinking feeling that something more serious than denial was going on. It did indeed turn out that Iran's "solution" to freely chosen same-sex relationships was to criminalize them and to subsidize and even compel sexual reassignment surgery. I doubt I would have been so suspicious if his words hadn't hit memories of four decades ago when I began traveling as a feminist organizer.