Drag Race, and so much more. Here’s what he had to say…A post shared by Alex Mohajer (@alexmohajer)QUEERTY: You’ve talked openly and proudly about your identity as a gay Iranian man.
How does this enhance your candidacy for state senate in California?MOHAJER: We have the largest diaspora of Iranians in the state of California, outside of Iran.
Yet we have no Iranians in the California legislature. There was a great exodus out of Iran in the 1970s, when that country was overthrown by religious extremists.
My family was a part of that first wave of ex-pats that came to the U.S., hoping to give their kids opportunities that they didn’t have.