Wasn't he actually TG? I think he might have been the person who approached the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran with an appeal for acceptance as a woman? Things were not very good in the Muslim world for gay folk. Perhaps he feared being executed for being gay? His approach to the Ayatollah was novel in that when the guard opened the door to the cleric's home, he threw his shoes in the door. Apparently it is a custom there that if a supplicant does this then the Cleric is bound by custom to speak to him.