Maryam Namazie

Maryam Namazie is a political activist, campaigner and blogger

Tag: vancouver

  • Pride parade in Vancouver rejects Iranian over veil float

    The below piece was first published in The Freethinker. Iranian Shawn Shirazi and his group Cirque de So Gay were denied entry to the Pride Parade in Vancouver, Canada this year because their float criticising the veil was deemed to be ‘culturally [in]sensitive’. In the application for Cirque de So Gay, he wrote: Our entry in the…