Sergey Bagirov is a 35-year-old gay man om Baku. For the past 20 years, he has had no ntact wh his parents. “My problems wh the fay started when I realized that I was gay,” Bagirov said. “At the time, I was somehow ashamed of and nfsed everythg to my parents, pecially bee was necsary to expla why I was beaten at school every day… My father threw me out of the hoe that same day. I was 14 years old. They did not even give me my documents. I am now over 30 years old and still do not have a passport.”
Contents:
- BAKU GAY TRAVEL
- GAY LIFE AZERBAIJAN
- AZERBAIJAN: ANTI-GAY CRACKDOWN
- GAY AZERBAIJAN TRAVEL GUI
- DOZENS OF GAYS REPORTED ARRTED IN AZERBAIJANI POLICE CRACKDOWN
- AZERBAIJAN WORST PLACE TO BE GAY EUROPE, FDS LGBTI X
- BEG GAY AZERBAIJAN
- AZERBAIJAN DETAS DOZENS OF GAY AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE
- TMP YEARS WERE TERRIFYG FOR GAY ASYLUM-SEEKER
- DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
BAKU GAY TRAVEL
wolfyy's Baku gay travel gui, based on first-hand experience. Hotels & where to stay, thgs to do, rtrants, LGBT safety & lol gay life. * gay azerbaijan *
I had ncerns about visg Baku as a gay person, as would many travelers attracted to betiful ci nservative untri. Baku is still not so easy for lols, even though there are no longer any laws prohibg homosexualy, gay life. If you do not have a VPN app on your phone, then be sure to turn off any lotn-based datg or other gay apps.
My personal goal as a gay traveler is to tt out the gay travel experience Baku and other ci around the world. This way I n relay the most important rmatn to other gay dividuals about what different cultur and ci are like.
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GAY LIFE AZERBAIJAN
In Azerjaijan the crimalizatn of nsensual same-sex male acts occurred 2000; human rights improved. But gays are still closeted. * gay azerbaijan *
Gay Azeris face difficulty exprsg their sexual inti bee most people the untry are simply nfed about homosexualy. Many cizens of Azerbaijan do not posss the knowledge or have the rourc to unrstand that homosexualy is normal.
More than 80 LGBT+ dividuals were arrted September 2017 durg a ernment crackdown targetg Baku gay lols. Although homosexual acts between nsentg male adults were officially crimalized, reports about police ab agast gays, maly male prostut, persisted durg the last year.
AZERBAIJAN: ANTI-GAY CRACKDOWN
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It has been observed that the state ntrolled media outlets e homosexualy as a tool to harass and discred crics of the ernment and opposn journalist. Homosexualy Azerbaijan is an issue surround by nfn, ignorance, secrecy and a lack of nceptual unrstandg at the most basic level. There is hardly any objective and rrect rmatn on the psychologil, soclogil and legal aspects of homosexualy Azerbaijan, wh the rult that the majory of society simply do not know what homosexualy is.
GAY AZERBAIJAN TRAVEL GUI
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“Comg out” as a gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr person is therefore rare and dividual LGBT people are aaid of the nsequenc. Some, particular those who are fancially pennt and livg Baku, are able to lead a safe life as a LGBT person, as long as they ‘practice’ their homosexualy the private sphere.
But not all is well for LGBT people Azerbaijan; is, spe some reforms and secularism, still a Mlim-based untry where homophobia has ep roots i the relign. As reported this BBC story, one gay artist was forced to flee his untry bee of persecutn and threats.
DOZENS OF GAYS REPORTED ARRTED IN AZERBAIJANI POLICE CRACKDOWN
In Azerbaijan, beg openly gay n mean alg wh sults, threats, and even vlence. Rights groups have sgled out the untry's ernment for failg to protect s LGBT muny. One young woman Baku scribed her experienc after g out to her fay and universy classmat. (RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service) * gay azerbaijan *
Officials Azerbaijan sist gay visors are wele to the 2012 Eurovisn song ntt when the event, which has an enthiastic gay followg, is hosted the pal, Baku. However, such assuranc jar wh those who have had first-hand experience of how homosexuals are treated Azeri society.
“My brother has vowed to kill me, and then kill himself, ” says Babi Badalov (photo right), a radil gay Azeri artist who has recently been granted polil asylum France.
AZERBAIJAN WORST PLACE TO BE GAY EUROPE, FDS LGBTI X
Police Azerbaijan have nducted a vlent mpaign, arrtg and torturg men prumed to be gay or bisexual, as well as transgenr women, Human Rights Watch said today. * gay azerbaijan *
“Homosexualy here is seen as worse than prostutn, ” says Yadigyar Sadykov, a human rights activist om Mr Badalov’s native regn. I have heard of many suicis of spected homosexuals – I have never met an openly gay person around here. “Durg Eurovisn, no-one will bother gay foreigners Baku, ” says Alekper Aliyev, a wrer and an thor of a ntroversial book about a gay relatnship between an Azeri and a man om Armenia, the untry’s historic enemy.
BEG GAY AZERBAIJAN
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“Recently there has been much ill-rmed speculatn by some expatriat about how we treat our homosexual muny, ” says Elnur Aslanov, a senr official om the printial admistratn. “Everyone knows that after midnight not far om this hotel you n get gay sex wh a transvte prostute. Homosexualy is not well seen and public homosexual behavr not tolerated, although a uple of bars seem to work as meetg plac for the gay and lbian muny.
Currently article 150 only prcrib punishment for vlent homosexual terurse, which is punishable by 3-15 year imprisonment. Lbian and non-perative gay sex between nsentg adults is not explicly mentned the laws as a crimal offense. In a recent printial amnty, prisoners nvicted for homosexual acts were exclud om those released.
AZERBAIJAN DETAS DOZENS OF GAY AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE
Human rights groups have voiced severe ncern and sought ways to help after activists said dozens of gay people had been jailed followg raids by the thori Azerbaijan recent weeks. * gay azerbaijan *
Anyway, male or female, straight or gay, take preutns, HIV fectn levels are on the rise Azerbaijan. As far as I n remember, an anizatn, official reprentativ of LGBT muny Azerbaijan, exists om 2006 – 2007 [this was ‘Azeri Gay Communy’]. We would like to have discsns about homosexualy an aquate, lite and rmed way universi and schools and mass media on the required level.
Gay Marriage⚭✖ UnregnizedCensorship✔ No censorshipNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsConversn Therapy✖ Not banned. Suggt Public Opn DataPublic OpnPerceptns of lol area as a "good place" for gay and lbian people? LGBT employment discrimatn Azerbaijan is no protectns Excerpt: "Gay and lbians n be th unfairly dismissed om their jobs, and homophobia is mon.
TMP YEARS WERE TERRIFYG FOR GAY ASYLUM-SEEKER
Authori Azerbaijan are rejectg accatns of a crackdown on gay and transgenr people the ex-Soviet natn. * gay azerbaijan *
The report suggts that prciple, there aren't any legal rtrictns around adoptg as an dividual — gay or straight — however, all dividuals are ually nied the right to adopt. (Berl) – Police Azerbaijan have nducted a vlent mpaign, arrtg and torturg men prumed to be gay or bisexual, as well as transgenr women, Human Rights Watch said today.
Human Rights Watch terviews wh released tae and lawyers nfirmed that sce mid-September, police Baku, Azerbaijan’s pal, have taed dozens of people on dub charg, beatg and g electric shocks on some of them to erce brib and rmatn about other gay men. “The round-ups Azerbaijan f a faiar horrifyg narrative that explos so-lled tradnal valu to jtify vlence agast sexual and genr mori, ” said Graeme Reid, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights director at Human Rights Watch. “Authori are targetg gay and bisexual men and transgenr women g tactics that dite an tent to ntue, and win, the crackdown.
DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
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Human Rights Watch terviewed five gay men, three of whom had been taed durg the September 2017 round-ups, as well as human rights activists and lawyers reprentg dozens of tae var urts Baku. Lawyers Human Rights Watch spoke wh nfirmed the nam of 45 gay and bisexual men, and transgenr women, who were taed and sent by urts to up to 30 days’ admistrative tentn September, along wh at least 10 others who were fed and released immediately.
In addn, one of the lawyers said that while the official charge is listed as disobeyg police orrs, “In some wrten official materials at the police statns, I saw that police had wrten that the dividuals were gay or transgenr, and that they were arrted on siwalks as they were shoutg or arrangg sex work. On September 27, Ehsan Zahidov, spokman for the Internal Affairs Mistry, said that police were rpondg to plats om Baku rints that gay men were visible on the streets.
” He claimed that gay men arrted were tted for sexually transmted diseas, cludg HIV and syphilis.