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Contents:
- 'ALL OF WILL BE VICTIMS AT SOME POT': WHY BISHKEK'S ONLY GAY CLUB CLOSED
- GAY LIFE KYRGYZSTAN
- RABOW RAGE: KYRGYZ RAIL AGAST LGBT COMMUNY AFTER CENTRAL ASIA'S 'FIRST' GAY-PRI MARCH
- EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS BISHKEK
- GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS BISHKEK
- KAZAKHSTAN AND KYRGYZSTAN: GAY MATCHMAKG AND CULTURE
'ALL OF WILL BE VICTIMS AT SOME POT': WHY BISHKEK'S ONLY GAY CLUB CLOSED
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In Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, homosexualy is still a crime punishable by a prison sentence. Gay people those untri often choose to move overseas if they n, live secrecy at their own risk of exposure, or live double liv.
Some openly speak out about their inti and rally for their rights, but social stigma, homophobia, and harassment are wispread the nservative, predomantly Mlim societi. We also heard Dastan Kasmamytov, a gay activist om Kyrgyzstan, talk about his mpaign to crease the visibily of queer people Central Asia by raisg a rabow flag on the world’s hight peaks. So symbolilly, for me was very important to wave a rabow flag the most homophobic part of homophobic Rsia.
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GAY LIFE KYRGYZSTAN
Kyrgyzstan prents a difficult challenge for homosexual people. It is polilly unstable wh a recent history of vlence among major ethnic groups; is mostly ral wh a populatn that is 80% Mlim and tn levels are low. Corptn is mon which rults wispread poverty. In such an environment any chance for tolerance of gays is slim spe the fact that same-sex activy was crimalized 1998, before the breakdown of the Soviet lers Kyrgyzstan. * gay bishkek *
”Anara is not the only gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr person to fall victim of hate crime Kyrgyzstan. Wh s dited gay clubs and largely different populatn, the pal once served as a relatively safe haven for Kyrgyzstan’s LGBT 2014, the ernment lnched a seri of legal reforms that marked a dramatic shift away om the wtern valu that had earned Bishkek a reputatn as Central Asia’s most socially liberal Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, homosexual nduct is crimalised, rryg a maximum prison sentence of two and three years rpectively. Wh go wispread and ep-rooted homophobia and discrimatn, cludg among law enforcement officials and medil personnel.
Turkmen people taed and charged wh sodomy are forced to unrgo examatns wh the purported objective of fdg “proof” of homosexual suatn is not much better Kazakhstan, where many LGBT people choose to nceal their sexual orientatn or genr inty for fear of reprisal.
RABOW RAGE: KYRGYZ RAIL AGAST LGBT COMMUNY AFTER CENTRAL ASIA'S 'FIRST' GAY-PRI MARCH
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Acrdg to activists at the LGBT anisatn Labrys, the polil shift and proposed legislatn led to a near 300% crease attacks agast LGBT people the cy and forced Bishkek’s gay muny to the shadows. “If you have your own place, or n rent an apartment, then ’s still safe to be gay here, ” says one bsman, Kyrgyz and gay himself.
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“We cid to start the gay club as we saw the need for a space where the LGBT muny felt safe and uld really get to know each other, ” says a -founr of the event, who also requted anonymy. “The problem is that people don’t unrstand what a gay club is, ” says one of the -founrs.
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The e of morn technology, though, has not elimated the risk of a worryg new trend, homophobic hate gangs and members of the police are g social works to lote, film and then bribe members of the LGBT muny. “The effects of that attack n a lot eper than I first appreciated, but that’s jt somethg we have to al wh if we are gay or transgenr, ” she says.
Kyrgyzstan prents a difficult challenge for homosexual people. In such an environment any chance for tolerance toward “Gay Life Kyrgyzstan” is slim spe the fact that same-sex activy was crimalized 1998, before the breakdown of the Soviet lers Kyrgyzstan.
KAZAKHSTAN AND KYRGYZSTAN: GAY MATCHMAKG AND CULTURE
This 65-page report found that gay and bisexual men have been subjected to a range of ab at the hands of police Kyrgyzstan, cludg physil, sexual, and psychologil vlence; arbrary tentn; and extortn unr the threat of vlence or of exposg victims’ sexual orientatn to iends and fay. * gay bishkek *
Labrys is mted to improvg the suatn of Lbians, Bisexual women, Gay men and Transgenr people Kyrgyzstan through empowerg LGBT themselv and workg wh general public to tegrate LGBT. A send qutn regardg LBT issu was whether the issue of homophobia was vered efforts of the Kyrgyz Republic to elimate genr stereotyp tn.
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