It's a well documented fact that the Iranian government executes suspected homosexuals, yet president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continues to deny such atrocities.

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Larry King has a well-earned reputation for launching soft balls to his interview subjects, but not so when it comes to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was in town addressing the United Nations.

While some mainstream media types avoid getting into gay speak, King grilled Ahmadinejad about his country's homophobic human rights record.

[Gay action starts at about the 1:43 mark.]

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Logo patted itself on the back when announced their Jason Bellini-hosted 30-minute weekly news show. Veteran political journalist Doug Ireland, however, wants to slap them across the corporate face for their failure to mention consistently anti-gay Iran during their end-of-the-year spectacular. The frequent Gay City News contributor wrote to Jason directly:

I just watched your half-hour end-of-the-year "news" review on LOGO. And I was truly appalled when, in your oh-so-brief inclusion of Ahmadinejad's infamous "no homosexuals in Iran" statement among the top ten stories of the year, there was not a word about the horrific, lethal campaign of persecution of LGBT people in Iran by its theocratic regime.

Coming just days after Iran's hanging of 21-year-old Makwan Moloudzadeh — for having had sex (at the age of 13) with other boys his own age — aroused worldwide revulsion, your glaring omission of any word about the skein of daily repression which same-sexers face in Iran — Internet entrapment, raids on private homes and parties, arrests, torture, imprisonment, lashings, forced sex-change operations, executions, and the rest — is stunning and incomprehensible.

Your broadcast found time to talk about Ellen's dog (twice) and about the feud between Mr. Trump and Ms. O'Donnell (twice) and other entertainment trivialities, but about the unspeakable persecutions visited on gay people in Iran you and your colleagues were utterly silent. By the way, I have yet to hear a word about the hanging of Makwan on your air. And still you call this show-biz fluff you're doing "news"?

No word on whether Bellini's responded to Ireland's irate missive.

A Western translator misquoted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said an Iranian presidential aide. Ahmadinejad became an international laughing stock last month when he allegedly told a Columbia University audience, "In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals like in your country."

Now, weeks later, an aide insists the translator got it wrong:

What Ahmadinejad said was not a political answer. He said that, compared to American society, we don’t have many homosexuals.

An astute Queerty clarifies further:

…His translator really screwed him. As a Farsi speaker, it was very clear what he really said, he said, “We do not have any execution of gays our country”, the translator missed it, the man has bad luck and cant' catch a break.

Considering Mahmoud's bad politics, the distinction's pretty moot.

Saturday Night Live finally made us laugh two weeks ago when they sent up Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in an "I Ran So Far Away" spoof.

Unfortunately, A Flock of Seagulls and their copyright lawyers weren't laughing.

As part of his new segment, Gay Roundup, Comedy Central's Steven Colbert invited gay sexpert Dan Savage to explain the newly passed Matthew Shepard Act.

And, of course, what gay roundup would be complete with a little look at Larry Craig and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The results? Hilarious.

Saturday Night Live premiered its 5 billionth season this weekend. By some comedic miracle, the long-running sketch show made us laugh. Incredible, right? Above you'll see a hilarious Andy Samberg, Adam Levine and Fred Armisen send up of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Oh, and Jake Gyllenhaal pops up, too.

And, after the jump, the return of the Ambiguously Gay Duo! Hoo-rah!

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"Meltdown". That's one word a friend used when describing the trans-centric squabbling over the ENDA. Politicians, lobbyists and journalists have been debating over whether or not transgendered people should be included under ENDA, which could forbid discrimination based on perceived or actual sexual orientation and gender identity. A test vote showed that the majority of politicians objected to the trans-inclusion. Under such pressure, openly gay Representative Barney Frank, who co-sponsored the inclusive ENDA draft, slipped into acquiescence. To keep the bill above water, Frank effectively split ENDA in two: one version protecting gays and another for trans folk. They're now floating alone in an ocean of inequality.

Our government - and much of our culture - deny transgenders their rights because, quite frankly, they can't understand the trans's existence. Our culture does not have mechanisms to deal with "gender deviants." Trannies are a threat to our nation's very foundations. The Alliance Defense Fund's Doug Napier said the law will "strike at the very heart of our American liberties." He must be using the word "liberties" liberally. Napier's not alone, of course. Millions of people - gay and straight - simply cannot muster the imagination to consider trans folk equal. What's more, we have no use for trans people. And, as contributor Dan Avery and editor Andrew Belonsky assert, the American stonewall against trans rights goes much further than 1974 - and even our borders. "Trans" populations exist all over the world and crop up in seemingly unlikely locales, like Iran.

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Iranian Queer Organization in Toronto received this letter from a 19-year old student:

I have got very surprised, very angry of this article and I do not understand really what is point of President of Iran. If Iran do not have any homosexual then I do not understand who I am then because I am an Iranian Gay and I have so many problem back my country where is Iran because of my sexual orientation my is in danger in Iran then what is that?

My purpose of this letter is to kind of answering President Ahmadinejad and to say that I do exist as an Iranian homosexual and it does not matter where I am.

Best regards,
Mehdi

Mehdi escaped Iran for Britain, but failed to get asylum. He now lives in the Netherlands. He's become a vocal, but exiled champion for gay Iranians.

• Exterface does it again. (Previous example of "it" here.)

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While Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's "no homo" remarks left people shaking their fists, Mo Rocca's scratching his head.

How could old Mahmoud forget Tehran's most raucous, sodomy-filled gay hot spots?

Our vote: "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Mullahs" - that place makes Gomorrah look like Eden!

Radar's list of gay Iranian evidence proves President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wrong.

[PS: Do you think Ahmadinejad knew his comments would spark such a hilarious sensation? The entire Western world's laughing at him. And it's glorious...]

Cartoonists John Cox and Allen Forkum offer their take on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's absurd proclamation:

In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals like in your country. We don’t have that in our country. In Iran, We do not have this phenomenon. I do not know who has told you that we have it.

Hmm, this perhaps?

Here's Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad discussing about gays in Iran. Or, rather, the "lack" thereof…

HRC head honcho Joe Solmonese released a statement on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's ridiculous assertion that his nation has no gays. Says Solmonese:

Today’s assertions by President Ahmadinejad that there are no homosexuals in Iran would be simply absurd were it not for the fact that international human rights watchers have long documented some of the most horrific acts of persecution and violence committed against gay people in Iran. These acts of terror have included incarcerations, beatings, and brutal executions. Ahmadinejad’s denial that there are gay people in Iran shows the extent to which he devalues the lives of the many citizens his government has and continues to violate.

Do we really expect more from a man who denies the Holocaust?