Gay hotshot exits closet to shame ‘honour culture’
A rising politician and son of Assyrian refugees from Iraq made waves in Sweden on Monday by coming out as a homosexual, and renouncing the "honour culture" that had previously kept him in the closet.
“I realized that I couldn’t be credible if I didn’t practice what I preach. I needed to deal with it and stop lying to myself and everyone else,” human rights lawyer Robert Hannah, 28, told The Local.
Hannah had much of Sweden talking on Monday after he come out as a homosexual in a personal account published in the Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper.
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