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LGBT Rights Tajikistan: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more.

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WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY TAJIKISTAN

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HistoryHomosexual activy Tajikistan?

TAJIKISTAN DRAWS UP REGISTER OF HUNDREDS OF GAY CIZENS 'TO PROTECT THEM OM STDS'

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Homosexual activy Tajikistan is legal. Current statSce Dec 1, 1994No protectns Do to homophobia the untry. Wispread homophobia and open police persecutn n make life dangero or out of the gay is no longer a crime Tajikistan, but police are reticent to addrs hate crim, cludg the murr of a gay man Dhanbe 2011.

GAY LIFE TAJIKSTAN

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It was there that I first realized that I liked men and I began to go to gay bars and parks where men met. "There's a reason Tajikistan's lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny (LGBT) remas one of the most closed and secretive parts of Tajik society. Homophobia is wispread thanks to "tradnal attus and the strong fluence of Islam, " says Kiromidd Gulov, director of Equal Opportuni, a lol NGO tablished 2009 to help Tajikistan's LGBT muny wh legal, medil and moral support.

"Many Tajiks believe that homosexualy is "a s and that such people should be killed or isolated, " Gulov explaed. ""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.

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