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.
Contents:
- GAY AFGHAN: THE TALIBAN KILLED MY BOYIEND
- GAY AFGHANISTAN, AFTER THE TALIBAN. HOMOSEXUALY AS TRADN
- GAY AFGHANISTAN: HOMOEROTICISM AMONG KABUL'S WARRRS
- ‘JT LIKE THE NAZIS’: GAY AFGHANS FACE ‘EXTERMATN’ UNR TALIBAN
- 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 REFUGEE PLEADS FOR AMERINS TO HELP LGBT AFGHANS
- ‘A VIRTUAL ATH SENTENCE’: GAY AFGHANS BRACE FOR UNCERTA FUTURE UNR TALIBAN
GAY AFGHAN: THE TALIBAN KILLED MY BOYIEND
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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.
GAY AFGHANISTAN, AFTER THE TALIBAN. HOMOSEXUALY AS TRADN
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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. 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.
So proclaims a vigoroly relig ‘imam’ om his Inter pulp, makg clear the posn of the vast majory of Mlims regardg homosexualy.
GAY AFGHANISTAN: HOMOEROTICISM AMONG KABUL'S WARRRS
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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. Bis s natural occurrence our gen and nrons, another reason homosexual behavr and sire has not been stamped out by every nceivable type of secular cure and sacred persecutn is that homosexualy serv both relign and culture well.
It is perhaps one of the great anthropologil paradox (if not hypocrisi) that the history and behavr of homosexualy has been rried down through fifteen centuri by genr-segregated Mlim cultur and, as well, by male Christian monastic nferatns. A thoughtful rear who engag cross-cultural studi will not get far before they disver what many wtern lbigay people already know about the digeno and hidn homosexual tradn practiced, lol varieti, by untls unmarried and married men Arab/Mlim untri. In the cultur, homosexual activy serv as a temporary (yet valid and important) proxy stage of growth between puberty and marriage.
‘JT LIKE THE NAZIS’: GAY AFGHANS FACE ‘EXTERMATN’ UNR TALIBAN
(6) The great Mlim emphasis on fay life renrs homosexualy far ls threateng to Mlim societi than to Wtern on (Mlim men seekg formally to marry each other remas unimagable). In most morn Islamic ‘cultural’ (premaral) homosexual behavr there is a mute unrstandg that sex is mutually nsensual, temporary and that ’s a form of pannship, if not affectn, among peers. Whether the activy is mutual or forceful, there is an almost universal attu the eastern cultur that such sexual dulgence is not ‘gay’, that is, ’s not sex or love between two men who intify as homosexuals.
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
) Rather, a llective mental shell game the meang of sex is re-amed: heterosexual men engage homosexual behavr which the younger guy is not a ‘fem’ but obedient and passive and the olr one is not a ‘butch queer’ but assertive and active. It stirs up, aga, trigug issu of homosexual inty vs homosexual behavr: do behavr fe inty or is inty separate om behavr–and how do behavr and inty terface wh sexual orientatn…?
GAY REFUGEE PLEADS FOR AMERINS TO HELP LGBT AFGHANS
The rult is that vlatns of ternatnal human rights, pecially for women and gays, are jtified by opprsive ernments g the ‘higher’ Koranic dictat. And perhaps bee the ethnic Phtuns who domate Kandahar are the most religly nservative of Afghanistan’s major ethnic groups, they have, by most acunts, a higher cince of homosexual relatns.
‘A VIRTUAL ATH SENTENCE’: GAY AFGHANS BRACE FOR UNCERTA FUTURE UNR TALIBAN
” Followg the mullah’s math, this suggts that between 18% and 45% of men here engage homosexual sex–signifintly higher than the 3% to 7% of Amerin men who, acrdg to studi, intify themselv as homosexual.
In Febary 1998, ed a tank to ph a brick wall on top of three men, two acced of sodomy and the third of homosexual rape.
It’s not only relig thori who scribe homosexual sex as mon among the Mohammed Nasem Zafar, a profsor at Kandahar Medil College, timat that about 50% of the cy’s male rints have sex wh men or boys at some pot their liv.