Refworld | Beg Gay Azerbaijan

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

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.

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GAY LIFE 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.

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.

AZERBAIJAN: ANTI-GAY CRACKDOWN

“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.

GAY AZERBAIJAN TRAVEL GUI

As reported this BBC story, one gay artist was forced to flee his untry bee of persecutn and threats. 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. “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. “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.

DOZENS OF GAYS REPORTED ARRTED IN AZERBAIJANI POLICE CRACKDOWN

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.

AZERBAIJAN WORST PLACE TO BE GAY EUROPE, FDS LGBTI X

In a recent printial amnty, prisoners nvicted for homosexual acts were exclud om those released.

BEG 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.

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.

AZERBAIJAN DETAS DOZENS OF GAY AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE

(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.

TMP YEARS WERE TERRIFYG FOR GAY ASYLUM-SEEKER

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. 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.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

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.

While the protectn of public health is a legimate tert of the state, nnot jtify the arbrary tentn of dozens of gay men and transgenr women. “Official jtifitns for this anti-gay crackdown are as bog and dangero as the charg police have ed to arrt people, ” Reid said. In s 2016 review of Azerbaijan, the UN Human Rights Commtee exprsed ncern about “discrimatn and vlence agast persons on the basis of their sexual orientatn and genr inty, cludg wh the fay and by police and prison officials…and extortn of money om lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr persons some police statns return for not disclosg their sexual orientatn or genr inty.

One of the five gay men terviewed, “Ram, ” who, like others terviewed, is intified by a psdonym for their protectn, told Human Rights Watch: “On September 19, my iend received a Whatsapp msage that a gay guy, whom he did not know before, wanted to meet him to have sex.