Coming Out to a Persian Family with Mahtub Zare

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Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Growing up in a Persian family presents unique challenges around cultural identity and acceptance. Mal's friend Mahtub shares her experience of feeling like an outsider growing up with a single mom in Ohio, not knowing who her father is, and struggling to come out. She reflects on her understanding of sexuality and how the Iranian women's movement affected her coming out journey. ⁠Follow our guest ⁠@persianlikethepup⁠, follow the channel ⁠@madeitout⁠ and follow Mal @malglowenke Check out our new show, Out For A Drive, and please remember to subscribe, engage, like, comment, show us some love babyyyy! ⁠ 👉 Subscribe, like & comment to support queer content! For all other inquiries, please email ⁠⁠⁠madeitout@mgmt-entertainment.com⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, y'all. Welcome back to Made It Out. Today I'm here with my friend, Matub's there, who's also a writer and
0:05.5	comedian. And we're talking about her growing up with a single Persian mom and searching for her dad
0:13.0	her whole life and also her coming out story, which is very interesting and it has a shocking
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1:07.6	Thank you for being here. Yeah. And matching with me.
1:10.5	Oh, my God.
1:30.7	We didn't even plan on this. Matching outfits, matching broken toes. We both broke our toes yesterday. Left foot. Yeah. Love foot. Yeah. Love foot. Okay. I want to talk about you, your background. You grew up in a Persian family. You had to come out to a Persian family. Can you tell me a little bit about your childhood and what that was like?
1:30.7	Yes. You grew up in a Persian family. You had to come out to a Persian family. Can you tell me a little bit about your childhood and what that was like?
1:31.6	Yes.
1:36.2	So family is Persian, but I grew up in like the least Persian place ever.
1:38.7	So I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1:40.8	I think I was like conceived in Denmark.
1:42.4	It's like still a TBD.
1:46.2	I don't know who my dad is. Like he's fully Iranian, but I think like born and raised in Denmark. It's like still a TBD. I don't know who my dad is. I like he's fully Iranian, but I think like born and raised in Denmark. And like while my mom was pregnant, she just went to
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