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. Whereas the Soviet Unn homosexualy was punishable by up to five years prison, Tajikistan was -crimalized 1998.
GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK
Though Tajikistan’s crimal do not prohib homosexualy and homosexual relatnships, LGBT dividuals are still sgled out for persecutn by some officials. The paper lists regular s of blackmail, arbrary arrt and physil vlence agast LGBT dividuals, mostly gay men. When 23-year-old office worker Said told his bt iend that he was gay, he did not realize the mistake he was makg.
In 2011, after beg subjected to ntuo blackmail, a 20-year-old gay flight attendant, Ravshan Uzakov hanged himself, the BBC’s Rsian language service reported.