Contents:
- GAY UZBEKISTAN TODAY
- GAY-BATA MAPS
- EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS SAMARKAND
- GAY-BATA DETAILED MAPS
- GAY-BATA 2D MAPS
- HOTéIS GAY E GAY IENDLY EM SAMARKAND
- GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS SAMARKAND
- DETAILED ROAD MAP OF GAY-BATA
GAY UZBEKISTAN TODAY
People who digrs om the signated norm are viewed wh spicn, srn or as illegimate such as gypsi, polil opponents, human rights activists, foreign NGOs and of urse homosexuals, which both untri crimalize (the only natns the World Health Organizatn’s Europe Regn to do so). What a visor will not see Uzbekistan is a gay muny bee same-sex activy if disvered is punishable wh a prison sentence.
They mean bs here sce this is sentially a police state wh zero tolerance for phg back agast polil supprsn or tntg the thori wh a flash mob rally for gay rights.
(It’s ironic that due to the harsh reprsn of homosexualy new gay HIV fectns are low. The massacre only ma thgs worse for the LGBT muny a untry that was already hostile to gays.
GAY-BATA MAPS
Dpe ocsnal sry headl of “arrts and ab of cizens by the police for havg an timate relatnship wh another man”, there is no active wch hunt for gays the bars, clubs, sports venu or universi.
But I have read that police ocsnally e ter stg operatns to bt gays. ’ to which I said ‘y, 25 years’ to which he bbed two forefgers together sayg ‘gay? Beg gay UZB is a lson stealth livg.
EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS SAMARKAND
Few people want to hear or know about or unrstand the nature of homosexual orientatn.
There is no gay scene here as people live paranoid fear of police tsn to their personal liv if they step out of le and e any social or polil ffle. Beg gay is illegal but the much greater hibg force is brgg shame and dishonor to one’s fay, which n be a lot of people sce tradnally there were five to twelve children born of one uple. (photo right, homoerotic Turkish bath hoe Bozori Kord and massage Samarkand).
GAY-BATA DETAILED MAPS
Dpe several efforts to fd a live LGBT person UZB I did not enunter a sgle one–at least as far as I uld tell; gays are not readily visible. However, there was a well-known and rpected actor and director the Ilkhom Theatre who is openly gay but, as I found out after arrivg Tashkent, he moved to New York where he liv today, provg the pot that beg a succsful LGBT Uzbek means emigratg to another untry. One day, durg a pleasant vis to a landmark shre to the ancient ler Bobur a park named after him I asked her ( private) if I uld pose a personal qutn: how would she and her parents react if someone her fay, for example her brother or sister, told them he or she were gay?
I said I knew someone Turkey who was killed by his father for beg gay; shot him daylight on the street. ” As for her own reactn to a gay siblg, “I would want them to leave the untry and not see them aga. She spoke lmly and wh assurance, whout annoyance, that this was the rrect Mlim thg to do agast a gay person; they have no place this culture.
Then, asi, I asked him what his fay’s reactn would be to disverg a siblg as gay or lbian. Kamol said beg gay would be grounds for killg.
GAY-BATA 2D MAPS
Kamol said he recently saw a gay guy on the street (how did he know? I said a gay man n have sex wh a women, physilly have terurse, but that was not what he sired. A gay man’s natural sire was toward other men–but not all men.
Many gay men are married the world–ed most gay men– orr to be accepted society and fay and avoid the son and curse of homosexualy.
(A young Mlim gay man om Yemen recently told me the same thg; he will marry orr not to lose this fay or his untry.
HOTéIS GAY E GAY IENDLY EM SAMARKAND
Komol thought beg gay was a sudn choice whereby a person wanted to be gay and went that way. I said that beg gay was somethg natural om birth, for most LGBTs.
(photo left, Uzbek fay; is the boy on the left gay? He was not surprised when I asked him about the gay brother or sister issue to which he replied, “ pends on which culture the fay is om: Orthodox or Mlim–Christian Rsian or Mlim Uzbeki.
GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS SAMARKAND
More likely there would be ser upset and the gay person would be stigmatized and perhaps asked to live somewhere else, or not. The Rsian anti-gay propaganda law that passed Mosw last year which crimaliz LGBT people if they try to advote or promote gay rights public was damagg for LGBT people. The fluence of that pernic law has spread over wi regns of the Rsian far east and throughout Central Asia, om Vladivostok to Ukrae wh a signifint crease homophobic vlence, phg LGBTs further back to the closet.
A Rsian-Uzbek fay would certaly feel the overt or subtle impact of that law and very likely strengthen the dismay and anger toward a gay son or dghter. “There is much hostily Uzbekistan toward LGBT people, first bee is a crimal offense (although the law is rarely enforce, he thought) but mostly bee people are irratnally relig–whether church-goers or not–and aaid (read, ignorant) of homosexualy.
For gays they live fear they might be found out and brg a “horrifyg dishonor” to their fay not to mentn shamg judgment om neighbors and extend fay.
DETAILED ROAD MAP OF GAY-BATA
So gays stay silent or emigrate.
David said this was all the more sorry bee the ancient arts of the ‘Stans’ was replete wh homoerotic referenc, mic, poetry, dance.
But even Rsia, foreign rints are now often the target of prejudice and hostily pecially sce the passage of the anti-gay law last year which has whipped up rentment agast ‘others’.