Baku Gay Travel Gui – Hotels & Important Safety Tips

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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.

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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.

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 *

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Gay Azeris face difficulty exprsg their sexual inti bee most people the untry are simply nfed about homosexualy.

AZERBAIJAN: ANTI-GAY CRACKDOWN

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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.

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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.

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 *

“Comg out” as a gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr person is therefore rare and dividual LGBT people are aaid of the nsequenc.

AZERBAIJAN WORST PLACE TO BE GAY EUROPE, FDS LGBTI X

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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.

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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.

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 *

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. 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.

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 *

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.

Anyway, male or female, straight or gay, take preutns, HIV fectn levels are on the rise Azerbaijan.

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

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.”  * gay 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.

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