Gay Afghan stunt ‘murred by Taliban’ as anti-LGBTQ+ vlence ris | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian

Contents:

• GAY AFGHANISTAN: HOMOEROTICISM AMONG KABUL'S WARRRS
• GAY AFGHAN: THE TALIBAN KILLED MY BOYIEND
• MEN OM AFGHANISTAN'S SECRET GAY MUNY SAY THEY ARE LIVG THROUGH A 'NIGHTMARE' AND FEAR THAT THE TALIBAN WILL EXECUTE THEM AT ANY MOMENT
• GAY AFGHAN WHO FLED TALIBAN ULDN’T CLAIM LGBTQ+ ASYLUM UK, JOHN NILSON MP WR
• GAY AFGHANISTAN, AFTER THE TALIBAN. HOMOSEXUALY AS TRADN
• GAY AFGHAN STUNT ‘MURRED BY TALIBAN’ AS ANTI-LGBTQ+ VLENCE RIS
• ‘JT LIKE THE NAZIS’: GAY AFGHANS FACE ‘EXTERMATN’ UNR TALIBAN
• GAY REFUGEE PLEADS FOR AMERINS TO HELP LGBT AFGHANS
• TALIBAN SHOT GAY AFGHAN MAN AD AND SENT GRAPHIC FOOTAGE OF THE MURR TO HIS LOVED ON, BOYIEND SAYS
• THE TALIBAN RAPED AND BEAT A GAY MAN KABUL AFTER TRICKG HIM TO A MEETG WH A PROMISE OF PE OM AFGHANISTAN, SAYS REPORT

GAY AFGHANISTAN: HOMOEROTICISM AMONG KABUL'S WARRRS

He is gay, a nvert to Christiany and a member of the Hazara ethnic mory – three groups that have been historilly persecuted by the Taliban. In public statements July, one Taliban judge said there were only two punishments for homosexualy – stong or beg cshed unr a toppled wall. “He was threateng to jump off a buildg bee he thought would be a ls paful way to die than gettg ught and behead by the Taliban as a gay man.

“The Taliban is well known to have executed many LGBTQ people when was power and there have been reports of gay men beg murred sce took over Augt this year, ” said Aws Jubair, director of the Aman Project, a Turkey-based group that advot for the LGBTQ muny the Middle East. Details magaze discsed the homosocial standards of much of Islamic culture, based on separatn of the genrs, and reviewed Trolley Prs’ 2003 book “Taliban, ” which photographer Thomas Dworzak prented imag of effemate Taliban warrrs that he unearthed.

” I wanted to go to Kandahar bee s homosexual reputatn seemed most pronounced, and Mohammed’s stori about the cy volved relatnships between grown men, rather than a man wh a youth, as seemed more mon elsewhere. At the pool, when I qutned the swimmers through my translator about the Taliban’s notns about body image, several ma a joke of the qutn, claimg that the old regime was ma up of gay men––Kandahar “playboys” as they lled them––who loved to see naked, even as Afghan men joked about the Taliban beg gay, they did not seem terribly put off by the subject of homosexualy. The owner Wais, an Afghan Amerin om New Jersey now back his homeland, knew I was vtigatg Kabul’s gay si, but I was not out to his staff.

GAY AFGHAN: THE TALIBAN KILLED MY BOYIEND

He played wh the mcl on my arms, parg them to his own, his other hand bbg his was when the 20-year-old man simply blurted out, “Munir said you like to do homosexual thgs. I don’t thk I’ll fet those nights Munir’s hoe, but provid I thk only a ht at what homosocial and homosexual behavr means Afghanistan. AfghanGay men Afghanistan have told the Brish news se the i about the fears they have now that the Taliban have gaed ntrol of the untry.

Afterwards they said they brought the body [back] and cut his body to piec to show the people that this is what we do wh gay people, ” Gabir told the believg the killg to be te, Gabir said he kept llg his boyiend’s phone. He said, ‘I know you are gay, before pturg Kabul we knew everythg about you, you have three or four iends who are gay, you have a boyiend.

MEN OM AFGHANISTAN'S SECRET GAY MUNY SAY THEY ARE LIVG THROUGH A 'NIGHTMARE' AND FEAR THAT THE TALIBAN WILL EXECUTE THEM AT ANY MOMENT

Now Balkhi says that rare acceptance has put all their liv at risk, as the new Taliban learship Kabul unleash a wave of physil vlence and fear on Afghanistan’s gay, lbian and transgenr populatn. No official statement has been ma, but an terview wh Germany’s Bild newspaper July, one Taliban judge said there were only two punishments for homosexualy – stong or beg cshed unr a wall.

Nemat Sadat, an LGBTQ Afghan thor who liv the Uned Stat, said the untry’s gay, lbian and transgenr cizens had helped the untry’s cultural life flourish the 20 years sce the Taliban’s last le. LGBTQ people who spoke to CNN said while very few felt fortable or safe enough to be openly gay, lbian or transgenr before the takeover, many were able to quietly build liv te to their inti. One gay man who has been touch wh Sadat, the US-based LGBTQ advote, said he told him he watched om his hidg place the ceilg as Taliban fighters beat the iend who had refed to divulge his lotn.

Hilal, the LGBTQ activist, said he was fur at the US ernment and other Wtern untri who he felt had abandoned him and other gay, lbian and transgenr Afghans. And, a 25-year-old genr non-nformg gay person said they had tried to appear more mascule, but a Taliban fighter beat them wh a plastic pipe when they were seen walkg a street. "I jt hope that somebody and wak me up om this bad dream, " the 37-year-old gay Afghan told Insir durg a phone, who works for the Uned Natns, once enjoyed Afghanistan's vibrant "unrground" gay scene.

GAY AFGHAN WHO FLED TALIBAN ULDN’T CLAIM LGBTQ+ ASYLUM UK, JOHN NILSON MP WR

Even though homosexualy was illegal, he said he felt relatively safe makg his weekly vis to a clanste karaoke bar Kabul to sg and dance wh other members of the untry's hidn LGBTQ muni. "If we get ught, the Taliban will kill , " he told Insir durg a phone Taliban is expected to implement a strgent terpretatn of Sharia law, which means homosexualy would be punishable by ath. In July, German newspaper Bild reported that a judge om the radil Islamist group vowed to sentence gay men to ath by stong or by beg cshed by a ne-foot wall.

GAY AFGHANISTAN, AFTER THE TALIBAN. HOMOSEXUALY AS TRADN

Sayed*, a 36-year-old gay man om northern Afghanistan's Balkh provce, told Insir via Facebook Msenger that he is also sperately seekg asylum om the new hardle Islamist, he said, has dramatilly changed for the worse the space of a week. Homosexual sex has technilly been punishable by ath Afghanistan for s, but acrdg to the UK Country of Orig Report on Afghanistan, has not been applied sce the end of the Taliban's first regime 2001. Nemat Sadat, the first public figure Afghanistan to advote for LGBTQ rights, told Insir that he is helpg gay Afghans like Sayed apply for asylum and leave the was an anizer of a nascent LGBTQ rights movement Afghanistan while workg as a polil science profsor at the Amerin Universy of Afghanistan Kabul.

'It's not hyperbolic to say that gay people will get weed out'He is urgg the ternatnal muny to act quickly to help vulnerable people pe persecutn at the hands of the new regime.

Hamid Zaher, 47, who was one of the first Afghan men to e out publicly, told Insir that while LGBTQ Afghans have always faced risks of vlence and imprisonment at the hands of the thori, those dangers pale parison to the btaly and tolerance of the left Afghanistan 2001 and, after livg Turkey, was able to claim asylum Canada said that, even unr the US-supported ernment, was "a very bad time" for gay men. (New York) – Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) Afghans and people who do not nform to rigid genr norms Afghanistan have faced an creasgly sperate suatn and grave threats to their safety and liv unr the Taliban, Human Rights Watch and OutRight Actn Internatnal said a report released today.

GAY AFGHAN STUNT ‘MURRED BY TALIBAN’ AS ANTI-LGBTQ+ VLENCE RIS

A Taliban judge told the German tabloid Bild shortly before the fall of Kabul, “For homosexuals, there n only be two punishments: eher stong, or he mt stand behd a wall that will fall down on him. ” A manual issued by the Taliban Mistry of Vice and Virtue 2020 stat that relig lears shall prohib same-sex relatns and that “strong allegatns” of homosexualy shall be referred to the mistry’s district manager for adjuditn and punishment. A gay man said that Taliban members taed him at a checkpot, beat him, and gang-raped him, tellg him, “From now on anytime we want to be able to fd you, we will.

‘JT LIKE THE NAZIS’: GAY AFGHANS FACE ‘EXTERMATN’ UNR TALIBAN

The parents returned to Hamid’s hoe, sayg they had heard mors that Hamid was gay, and feared their son might have been killed bee of their relatnship.

GAY REFUGEE PLEADS FOR AMERINS TO HELP LGBT AFGHANS

In a PkNews exclive, John Nilson MP shar the story of a young gay Afghan who ped the Taliban, only to be met wh a hostile Home Office the UK. But the chaotic UK Home Office offered no route out for a gay asylum seeker appealg for sanctuary – even someone like Elham, imment danger of ath. But he says he feels as if he has e home – to a untry whose people have weled him a language he ador, and where gay people are able to exprs their love.

Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".

TALIBAN SHOT GAY AFGHAN MAN AD AND SENT GRAPHIC FOOTAGE OF THE MURR TO HIS LOVED ON, BOYIEND SAYS

A regime which one of s judg told a reporter last month that gay men will be executed by havg walls toppled on them once the Taliban are back power.

THE TALIBAN RAPED AND BEAT A GAY MAN KABUL AFTER TRICKG HIM TO A MEETG WH A PROMISE OF PE OM AFGHANISTAN, SAYS REPORT

Nemat Sadat, a gay Afghan man and thor of the crilly acclaimed book “The Carpet Weaver, ” was forced out of his teachg posn at Amerin Universy of Afghanistan Kabul and eventually fled the untry 2013.

After mors began circulatg that Sadat was gay, the Taliban issued a manifto targetg the universy and the Afghan ernment prsured the school to fire him. ”Nazis arrted approximately 100, 000 gay men before the end of the war, wh thoands endg up ncentratn mps where they were the subjects of experiments and tortured.

Two more siar stori about the recurrence of Pashtun homosexualy, om the New York Tim (Febary 2002) and Tim of London (January 2002), n be found the Afghanistan News & Reports 2002-04. From the wtern shor of ancient Moroc across thoands of sandy Islamic to the far eastern islands of Indonia, almost half the distance of our known world, homosexual behavr is pronounced anathema to the fahful. But simple and superst scrib of the fahs have wrten reams of florid, passnate and volnic vers that embrace an artificial dichotomy of homo-and-hetero sexual and emotnal orientatn.