Beg gay is no longer a crime Tajikistan, but police ignore hate crim. They have been known to blackmail closeted dividuals.
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GAY LIFE TAJIKSTAN
But police are are reticent to addrs hate crim, cludg the murr of a gay man Dhanbe 2011. Enclose here are three reports that offer analysis and overview of the challeng faced by LGBT activists and cizens their efforts to brg about an acceptable “GayLife Tajikstan”.
WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY TAJIKISTAN
It was there that I first realized that I liked men and I began to go to gay bars and parks where men met.
” Tajikistan’s lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny (LGBT) remas one of the most closed and secretive parts of Tajik society. “Homosexualy is ntrary to nature, ” said an official om the Mistry of Health, who spoke to on ndn of anonymy bee she is not thorized to speak to the prs. “Although [homosexualy] has been removed om the [ernment’s] list of treatable illns, many doctors still see as a disease which n be treated wh medice.
GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK
Whereas the Soviet Unn homosexualy was punishable by up to five years prison, Tajikistan was -crimalized 1998.