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Contents:

• 'ALL OF WILL BE VICTIMS AT SOME POT': WHY BISHKEK'S ONLY GAY CLUB CLOSED
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS BISHKEK
• WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY TAJIKISTAN

'ALL OF WILL BE VICTIMS AT SOME POT': WHY BISHKEK'S ONLY GAY CLUB CLOSED

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Popularly known as the “anti-gay propaganda law” has unleashed a mpaign of vlence and timidatn agast the LGBT muny, wh a near 300% crease reported attacks sce the legislatn was people have been asslted, cludg one gay man who was beaten unnsc and gang-raped this year.

It’s a iends’ get-together – except this is now the only safe way they n meet bee of the spate of homophobic attacks. “If I uld afford , I would leave tomorrow, ” says Sergo, one of his ’s dner party: ‘The new law enuraged everyone to go after , whout fear of beg punished’ Illtratn: Andrew North/Coda StoryLeang eastIt was never easy beg lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr Kyrgyzstan’s patriarchal, Mlim-majory society.

Until recently there were even several gay clubs over the past few years, ternal and external forc have “dragged the LGBT muny to a battle for Kyrgyz inty, ” says Met Tiulegenov, chair of ternatnal and parative polics at the Amerin Universy and landlocked, Kyrgyzstan has been a geopolil and enomic supplint ever sce beme pennt after the llapse of the Soviet Unn, always vulnerable to bigger powers. First me a virtual clone of Mosw’s offensive on NGOs, wh legislatn mandg all groups receivg external fundg clare themselv as “foreign agents”, targeted at human rights groups, cludg those advotg for the LGBT, March 2014, MPs om the lg aln announced the “anti-gay propaganda” measur, wh even harsher penalti on paper than the Rsian versn.

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“We nnot tolerate gay propaganda.

In effect, beg anti-wtern and homophobic have bee two ends of the same bone a Kyrgyz versn of dog-whistle polics. “Beg anti-LGBT has been very profable for the natnalists, ” says the meantime, homophobic vlence has risen.

Rsian TV channels, wh their explic anti-wtern, homophobic bias, have a solid dience. “It mak me feel guilty about beg gay when I hear some Rsian programm, ” says Nika. “‘Look there’s the faggot’ another stunt shouted out when he saw me my universy fé, ” says Ilya, another dner more than two years sce the Kyrgyz parliament first troduced the “anti-gay propaganda” measur amid a flurry of pro-Rsian rhetoric, has stalled on actually makg law.