Members of Uzbekistan's LGBT muny say they have been driven unrground fear of a vlent backlash after a blogger and some of his supporters were attacked last month followg social media posts llg for gay ralli at Mlim holy s.
Contents:
- MURR IN TASHKENT: KILLG OF GAY MAN SPOTLIGHTS PLIGHT OF UZBEK LGBT COMMUNY
- GAY UZBEKISTAN TODAY
- GAY LIFE UZBEKISTAN
- EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS TASHKENT
- L’UZBEKISTAN è UN PAE GAY IENDLY?
- ATTACK ON BLOGGER DRIV UZBEK GAY MUNY UNRGROUND
MURR IN TASHKENT: KILLG OF GAY MAN SPOTLIGHTS PLIGHT OF UZBEK LGBT COMMUNY
The recent killg of a gay man Tashkent has put a spotlight on the plight of sexual mori Uzbekistan as they mand protectn om the thori. * tashkent gay *
But the urse of nversatns and terviews ’s bee obv that this crimalisatn is wily ed to blackmail and threaten om prosecutn for their sexual orientatn, gay Uzbek men experience daily harassment om the public at large.
The three stori show that spe danger and antagonism towards them, lbians and gay men Uzbekistan are no longer willg to “remake themselv”, as one person scribed .
GAY UZBEKISTAN TODAY
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I once told everyone at work about : lleagu asked what I thought about gays and I said: “Well, what n I thk about gays when I’m one myself? But I wouldn’t want to lk this to my sexual orientatn: I’m agree that people might not want to talk to me if I’m gay.
If someone don’t unrstand what beg gay means, or they only know the stereotyp, I try to expla that we don’t choose our orientatn and that we n’t change .
We don’t have a separate subculture: you don’t ever fd people meetg up wh iends, bumpg to other gays and hangg out wh people jt bee they’re also gay. It’s also tertg that I’ve enuntered much more homophobia Mosw than Tashkent – I’ve never been lled a “paedo” here or been threatened, whereas Mosw ’s happened que often. As soon as I accepted myself I stopped beg aaid of other people, avoidg them or disguisg my gayns, although I never advertised or tried to show off.
GAY LIFE UZBEKISTAN
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But, on the other hand, I don’t want to overdo and sre people to thkg that gays have a really hard time our untry. Gay men Tashkent generally e social works to make ntact wh one another, but they all e nam and hi their inti, out of fear.
His whole extend fay followed his social media posts and they were hysterics about his homosexualy, and he eventually closed his acunt and left Uzbekistan bee he was tired of all. As for awarens raisg, I feel the need to expla homosexualy to people dividually, bee is not the same as paedophilia.
EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS TASHKENT
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But people this untry have no tert what homosexualy is and why there’s no such thg as homosexual propaganda – no one unrstands that if you’re not born a homosexual, you’re not gog to turn to one jt by gog on a uple of Gay paras.
And sex tn general is a disaster this untry – children don’t know where they e om, what “hetero-“ and “gay” mean and so girliend and I are thkg about how to fill this gap: how we n n a urse to expla the basic thgs to people.
L’UZBEKISTAN è UN PAE GAY IENDLY?
And if gay people won’t nfs, they beat them and torture them to the pot where they will start prayg for mercy and do everythg they ask. I uld go reason they don’t want to repeal the article is, I thk, bee the powers that be are homophob - they have a distorted ia of and believe that we prent a threat to our untry.
Islam preach that there n be no mercy for homosexuals, only ath, and that by stong or beg thrown om the top of a high buildg. Killg a homosexual brgs a promise of Paradise, as a good ed and reward (both a spirual one after ath and a material one life). The btal killg of a 25-year-old gay man Uzbekistan's pal, Tashkent, last week has raised ncerns wh the lol lbian and gay muny, which has been largely ostracized the predomantly Mlim Central Asian untry.
The body of Shokir Shavkatov was found an apartment Tashkent on September 12, jt days after he "me out" as gay an Instagram post. "This barbaric killg shows obv signs of homophobia, " one lol activist for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr (LGBT) rights told RFE/RL's Uzbek Service.
ATTACK ON BLOGGER DRIV UZBEK GAY MUNY UNRGROUND
One of his iends claimed that shortly before the attack, Shavkatov was seen a Tashkent nightclub popular wh members of the gay muny.
The activist said the police had raid the same nightclub on September 10 -- a day before the attack -- and took away some 10 homosexuals. The vio appeal me after police reportedly arrted two gay men unr the sodomy law Tashkent's Chilonzor district July.
People who digrs om the signated norm are viewed wh spicn, srn or as illegimate such as gypsi, polil opponents, human rights activists, foreign NGOs and of urse homosexuals, which both untri crimalize (the only natns the World Health Organizatn’s Europe Regn to do so). What a visor will not see Uzbekistan is a gay muny bee same-sex activy if disvered is punishable wh a prison sentence. They mean bs here sce this is sentially a police state wh zero tolerance for phg back agast polil supprsn or tntg the thori wh a flash mob rally for gay rights.