The start of a normal day for Arash and Anima, but for them just walking out the door, is a reminder they're no longer at home, in Iran.
The LGBT community is part of a vulnerable class of Iranian society.
Arash left Iran for Turkey 9 months ago.
He now works as a film-maker, and shot this video to help document his new life.
Iran's conservative Islamic laws leave little room for homosexuality.
But it's something Iranians are slowly being forced to confront, often in film.
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Such films though, are not being made in Iran.
And, at least at the highest levels, denial is the rule.
As evidenced by comments Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made to students at New York's columbian university in 2007.
"In Iran, we don't have homosexuals like in you're country. In Iran we do not have this phenomenon."
"I don't know who has told you that we have it."
Fareed, another Iranian exile living in Turkey, said on Youtube the feeling of oppression permeates Iran's everyday life.
"When you walk down the street you feel you're being assaulted from all sides - or being looked at like a third gender."
One place gay Iranians have found refuge is here in the United States, where, despite controversy, some states, and Washington DC, have been extended more rights - including the right to get married.
Molly Kisagaree was born in Iran in 1958, and in 2004 she married her Partner Elizabeth Kristen, in California.
In the US, people's rights are respected. When I entered the US, I found this is a place I can be myself.
Such attitudes are a long way from being accepted in Iran.
Still, from the Iranian diaspora, singers like Shoreff are pushing back, as in this Music Video..
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"The reason why I used the gay flag in my video was to support these people. Families should know that their children should not be blamed for being gay. They have been gay since childhood."
For now, couples like Arash and Neema can only wonder what it would be like to live as themselves, in their own country.
"I want to bring their face in front of the movie camera, so that heterosexuals understand gays better, so that a day may come where the two may co-exist."
To many gay Iranians, that day still seems a long way off.
