Protecting Gay Employees Where Being Gay Is a Crime

Flights to Iran, murder in Bangladesh, and the patchwork of nations where homosexuality can be a capital offense.
Photographer: Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images
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When Air France-KLM resumed regular flights to Iran last month after an eight-year hiatus, gay flight attendants urged Chief Executive Officer Frederic Gagey to let them take a pass, given that homosexuality can get you executed in the Islamic Republic.

"It's inconceivable to force someone to go to a country where his kind are condemned to death for who they are," stated their online petition, signed by almost 30,000 people.