“Milestone Reached in the age of new civic media” (i.e. twitter) from the NY Times

U.S. Steps Gingerly Into Tumult in Iran

By MARK LANDLER and BRIAN STELTER
Published: June 16, 2009

Published on the New York Times Website and retrieved on Jun, 17 2009.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration says it has tried to avoid words or deeds that could be portrayed as American meddling in Iran’s presidential election and its tumultuous aftermath.

Yet on Monday afternoon, a 27-year-old State Department official, Jared Cohen, e-mailed the social-networking site Twitter with an unusual request: delay scheduled maintenance of its global network, which would have cut off service while Iranians were using Twitter to swap information and inform the outside world about the mushrooming protests around Tehran. (Read Full Article)

Iran - People are hanged for the "crime" of Homosexuality

Picture taken from this site. It supposedly portrays 2 lovers being hanged in Iran. (Hopefully, new civic media can make this recurring event so relevant that no one on earth will ever have to live or die through this injustice again)

“When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men – and a discharge for loving one” Leonard Matlovich (a gay Vietnam Veteran)