The Five Stans gay group tour will take you to the route of the Silk Road and will troduce you ci of betiful archecture and unfettable bety of nature. You will dive to the culture and history of the five Central Asian untri visg Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan and will learn what has been nnectg natns of those untri for centuri.
Contents:
- GAY LIFE UZBEKISTAN
- MURR IN TASHKENT: KILLG OF GAY MAN SPOTLIGHTS PLIGHT OF UZBEK LGBT COMMUNY
- ATTACK ON BLOGGER DRIV UZBEK GAY MUNY UNRGROUND
- GAY UZBEKISTAN TODAY
- EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS TASHKENT
- UZBEK BLOGGER WHO CALLED FOR GAY RIGHTS HOSPALIZED AFTER ATTACK
- DANCG BOYS AND GAY ESPAS F--SIèCLE TASHKENT: A SKETCH OM A QUEER HISTORY OF CENTRAL ASIA
- GAY LIFE TAJIKSTAN
GAY LIFE UZBEKISTAN
The recent killg of a gay man Tashkent has put a spotlight on the plight of sexual mori Uzbekistan as they mand protectn om the thori. * tashkent vita gay *
But the urse of nversatns and terviews ’s bee obv that this crimalisatn is wily ed to blackmail and threaten om prosecutn for their sexual orientatn, gay Uzbek men experience daily harassment om the public at large.
MURR IN TASHKENT: KILLG OF GAY MAN SPOTLIGHTS PLIGHT OF UZBEK LGBT COMMUNY
Members of Uzbekistan's LGBT muny say they have been driven unrground fear of a vlent backlash after a blogger and some of his supporters were attacked last month followg social media posts llg for gay ralli at Mlim holy s. * tashkent vita gay *
The three stori show that spe danger and antagonism towards them, lbians and gay men Uzbekistan are no longer willg to “remake themselv”, as one person scribed . I once told everyone at work about : lleagu asked what I thought about gays and I said: “Well, what n I thk about gays when I’m one myself? If someone don’t unrstand what beg gay means, or they only know the stereotyp, I try to expla that we don’t choose our orientatn and that we n’t change .
ATTACK ON BLOGGER DRIV UZBEK GAY MUNY UNRGROUND
Global Gay Gui Network's Directory for Asia : Uzbekistan : Tashkent. Up2date listgs where to go and what to do. * tashkent vita gay *
We don’t have a separate subculture: you don’t ever fd people meetg up wh iends, bumpg to other gays and hangg out wh people jt bee they’re also gay. It’s also tertg that I’ve enuntered much more homophobia Mosw than Tashkent – I’ve never been lled a “paedo” here or been threatened, whereas Mosw ’s happened que often. As soon as I accepted myself I stopped beg aaid of other people, avoidg them or disguisg my gayns, although I never advertised or tried to show off.
GAY UZBEKISTAN TODAY
Attackers beat blogger Miraziz Bazarov, protters harass group believed to be gay rights activists amid bate over Uzbek law banng same-sex relatnships * tashkent vita gay *
His whole extend fay followed his social media posts and they were hysterics about his homosexualy, and he eventually closed his acunt and left Uzbekistan bee he was tired of all. But people this untry have no tert what homosexualy is and why there’s no such thg as homosexual propaganda – no one unrstands that if you’re not born a homosexual, you’re not gog to turn to one jt by gog on a uple of Gay paras.
And sex tn general is a disaster this untry – children don’t know where they e om, what “hetero-“ and “gay” mean and so girliend and I are thkg about how to fill this gap: how we n n a urse to expla the basic thgs to people. I uld go reason they don’t want to repeal the article is, I thk, bee the powers that be are homophob - they have a distorted ia of and believe that we prent a threat to our untry.
EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS TASHKENT
Beg gay is no longer a crime Tajikistan, but police ignore hate crim. They have been known to blackmail closeted dividuals. * tashkent vita gay *
The lg dictatorship Uzbekistan has jailed Maxim Popov, a 28-year-old psychologist and AIDS activist the pal of Tashkent, for seven years for promotg homosexualy and th rptg mors through his HIV-preventn work. Agence France-Prs reported a dispatch: “Authori have long been spic that foreign aid anizatns have been tryg to spread homosexualy and dg e, said an activist who also requted anonymy.
” Khamidov’s broadsts on a private rad statn regularly alt wh such forbidn issu as homosexualy, prostutn, and rptn, mostly through his poems.
A short-lived newspaper that Khamidov found and ran, Odamlar Orasida (Among the People), which achieved a circulatn of 24, 000 only five months of publitn, discsed the same issu, cludg homosexualy, and was closed 2007 by thori, acrdg to a report earlier this year on the webse of Rad Free Europe/ Rad Liberty.
UZBEK BLOGGER WHO CALLED FOR GAY RIGHTS HOSPALIZED AFTER ATTACK
There is an obscure reference the RFE/ RL report to the charg agast Khamidov beg related to his “personal life, ” and some ments by Uzbeks on var other webs suggt that the “banned group” referred to by thori the charg agast Khamidov was the homosexual muny.
Bee homosexualy is illegal, Uzbek police not only regularly harass gays but also subject them to extortn by tag them and threateng them wh prosecutn, acrdg to an article Cha Daily. The JTA dispatch reported that acrdg to a lear Tashkent’s Jewish populatn of 30, 000, “many the Jewish muny there believed Vail’s murr was related to ‘Whe Whe Black Stork’ and s homosexual ntent.
A Google search revealed only one sentence mentng Popov the New York Tim, which appeared at the tail end of an Associated Prs dispatch on the paper’s webse; accurately stated, “In late Febary, Uzbek activist Maxim Popov, who distributed brochur sayg ndoms and disposable syrg n help prevent HIV, was nvicted of rptg mors by promotg homosexualy, prostutn, and dg e.
DANCG BOYS AND GAY ESPAS F--SIèCLE TASHKENT: A SKETCH OM A QUEER HISTORY OF CENTRAL ASIA
The London-based Gay Tim onle magaze stat that Uzbekistan is a “eply homophobic” untry and that the rights of gay and lbian Uzbeks are “poorly rpected”.
Acrdg to a 24 July 2003 Cha Daily article, gay Uzbek men terviewed by the newspaper dited that homosexuals Uzbekistan regularly experience police “harassment” and that gay tablishments are “forced to close or [are] heavily monored by police.
” The men further noted that homosexuals are also subject to extortn by the police, who “routely” ta them and “threaten them wh prosecutn. A January 2006 World Organisatn agast Torture (Organisatn mondiale ntre la torture, OMCT) report on human rights vlatns Uzbekistan stat that “athough the crime of homosexualy]has a very high level of latency, law-enforcement bodi n e the charge some fabrited s to huiate the acced or to blackmail homosexuals” In 2003, followg a trial that Amnty Internatnal (AI) scrib as “unfair, ” Uzbek journalist and human rights fenr Surlan Sharipov was charged wh homosexualy and sexual relatns wh a mor and sentenced to five and half years jail. Acrdg to Gay Tim, there is “no gay scene as such” Uzbekistan; however, 1993, a gay rights group was tablished and, 2000, a “gay muny” web se was created.
GAY LIFE TAJIKSTAN
Informatn on legal reurse and protectn available to homosexuals who have been subject to ill-treatment uld not be found among the sourc nsulted by the Rearch Directorate wh the time nstrats of this Rponse.
I never actually discsed homosexualy wh Uzbek iends, but I did learn about their views om passg ments and nversatns between my host fai and iends.
The btal killg of a 25-year-old gay man Uzbekistan's pal, Tashkent, last week has raised ncerns wh the lol lbian and gay muny, which has been largely ostracized the predomantly Mlim Central Asian untry. "This barbaric killg shows obv signs of homophobia, " one lol activist for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr (LGBT) rights told RFE/RL's Uzbek Service. But Uzbekistan, where homosexualy is a crime, was brave and darg, phg the l of how gay people Uzbekistan n live and mandg the sort of digny he knew that gay people had elsewhere.