Gay Afghanistan, After the Taliban. Homosexualy as Tradn

Contents:

• TALIBAN SHOT GAY AFGHAN MAN AD AND SENT GRAPHIC FOOTAGE OF THE MURR TO HIS LOVED ON, BOYIEND SAYS
• GAY AFGHANISTAN: HOMOEROTICISM AMONG KABUL'S WARRRS
• GAY AFGHANISTAN, AFTER THE TALIBAN. HOMOSEXUALY AS TRADN
• AFGHAN BOYS GAY PORN - AFGHAN BOYS & YOUNG GAY BOYS VIOS
• GAY AFGHAN: THE TALIBAN KILLED MY BOYIEND
• HOW A GAY AFGHAN BOY PED WAR-TORN KABUL AND FOUND HIMSELF
• 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

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

A gay 22-year-old Afghan man was kidnapped and killed by the Taliban, Pk News reported.

A gay Afghan man was kidnapped and shot to ath by the Taliban, acrdg to activists who knew him, Pk News was the first to Sabouri of Kabul, Afghanistan, died on Augt 5, activists said. In a statement to Insir, Nemat Sadat, Roshaniya's executive director, said: "Hamed Sabouri was a gay man wh big dreams that have now been shattered. "Sadat said Sabouri, who had wanted to be a doctor, had "endured discrimatn his whole life for beg gay and his life me to an abpt end wh no one there to help him.

"Bahar (his nickname, ed to protect his inty), a gay Afghan man a relatnship wh Sabouri, was one of the recipients of the vio. Bahar scribed his former boyiend as a "very kd boy" who was "btally killed" bee of his said he thought Sabouri was jokg when he told him July that the Taliban was targetg him and was " danger" for beg gay.

GAY AFGHANISTAN: HOMOEROTICISM AMONG KABUL'S WARRRS

"When the Taliban took over, Insir spoke to several gay men Afghanistan who scribed how they were livg fear.

One Afghan activist predicted gay people Afghanistan would be "weed out and extermated. In the two years between 9/11 and my vis to Afghanistan, my cursy about the untry’s gay life was also piqued.

I equently ran across articl htg at wispread tradnal Afghan acceptance of homosexualy. 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.

GAY AFGHANISTAN, AFTER THE TALIBAN. HOMOSEXUALY AS TRADN

To the bt of my knowledge, no gay Wterner had filtrated gay Afghan life. I also found that homosexualy easily me up nversatn, even wh some ernment officials. The cy wh the greatt reputatn for active homosexualy was Kandahar, the headquarters of the Taliban.

Apparently, tradns of homoerotic behavr have e down om ancient tim Afghanistan.

” 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. Kandahar’s reputatn for homosexualy also me up discsns wh some young men I photographed Kabul’s Babur Garns pool.

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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.

Perhaps 20 men all gathered and quickly realized I was gay, based on my tert the handsomt man.

It proved to be no problem at all; some of the olr men phed together, askg, “You like homosex? My most tertg peek to gay life happened much the way that would the Wt. 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.

Homosexual behavr might simply be a replacement for physil timacy they n not get otherwise their liv––a workaround.

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.

HOW A GAY AFGHAN BOY PED WAR-TORN KABUL AND FOUND HIMSELF

So proclaims a vigoroly relig ‘imam’ om his Inter pulp, makg clear the posn of the vast majory of Mlims regardg homosexualy. 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.

There has always been heterosexual attractn and there has always been homosexual attractn. 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.

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

Homoerotic affectns, legends and myths n ep to the human heart and far back to the haze of history.