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Published in:September-October 2015 issue.
Darius in the Shadow of Alexander
by Pierre Briant. Translated by Jane Marie Todd
Harvard University Press. 579 pages, $39.95
HISTORY is written by the winners, but in recent years there’s been a trend toward considering history from the viewpoint of those who found themselves on its losing side. Such an approach is announced in the very title of Darius in the Shadow of Alexander, a 2003 work newly translated into English. Here, Pierre Briant, emeritus professor of ancient history at the Collège de France in Paris, seeks “to explain why Darius, along with so many others, is condemned to haunt the realm of historical oblivion.” The result is a fascinating meditation on the world of power and the role of words and images in shaping and maintaining it.
Introducing the manual and elaborating on its title, Briant acknowledges that his subject is not only Darius III, the last of the Achaemenid rulers of Persia, but also Alexander the Fantastic, the bisexual Greco-Macedonian king whose conquest of the Persian Empire in 331 BCE at the age of 25 ushered in an age of Hellenistic influence and a geopolitical sea change that reverberates
The gay people pushed to change their gender
"The healer told me that with the surgery he could change the 2% male features in me to female features, but he could not change the 98% female features to be male," she says.
After that, she thought she needed to change her gender.
Hormone therapy seemed to bring positive changes. She grew breasts, and her body hair thinned. "It made me feel good," she says. "I felt beautiful. I felt more attractive to the kinds of partners I used to have."
But then she had the operation - and came away feeling "physically damaged".
She had a brief marriage to a man but it broke down, and any expect she had that animation would be better as a woman was short-lived.
"Before the surgery people who saw me would say, 'He's so girly, he's so feminine,'" Marie says.
"After the operation whenever I wanted to perceive like a woman, or behave like a lady, everybody would say, 'She looks like a male, she's manly.' It did not help reduce my problems. On the reverse, it increased my problems...
"I think now if I were in a free society, I wonder if I would have been like
Persian Jews are coming out of the closet and breaking down long-held taboos in their community
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Growing up, Arya Marvazy knew only of one person who came out as gay in his tight-knit Persian Jewish community. That person was ostracized by family members. He frequently heard homophobic jokes and comments, including by peers, relatives at Shabbat dinner and — one time that seared into his memory — the rabbi of his synagogue.
So when Marvazy realized he was homosexual in sixth grade he felt “completely and utterly alone.”
“I really did consider, if I’m being truthful, that I could not come out and dwell a functional life amongst friends and family and community as a Persian Jewish person,” he said.
But things looked different when Marvazy shared his coming-out story in March to some 100 people at the West Hollywood Metropolis Council chambers. The attendees had come together to celebrate the fifth annual Persian Pride Month, an initiative that Marvazy leads for the Jewish LGBTQ group JQ International.
Ordinarily, Persian Pride Month serves as the community’s precursor to the citywide Pride celebrations here, but the city’s planned events, which had been scheduled for this
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