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Contents:
- GAY LIFE TAJIKSTAN
- WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY TAJIKISTAN
- TAJIKISTAN GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN JULY 2023
- GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK
- TAJIKISTAN DRAWS UP REGISTER OF HUNDREDS OF GAY CIZENS 'TO PROTECT THEM OM STDS'
- QUALATIVE EXAMATN OF ENACTED STIGMA TOWARDS GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN AND RELATED HEALTH OUT TAJIKISTAN, CENTRAL ASIA
- GAY IENDLY HOTELS TAJIKISTAN
- TAJIKISTAN GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN AUGT 2023
GAY LIFE TAJIKSTAN
Beg gay is no longer a crime Tajikistan, but police ignore hate crim. They have been known to blackmail closeted dividuals. * tajikistan gay *
Enclose here are three reports that offer analysis and overview of the challeng faced by LGBT activists and cizens their efforts to brg about an acceptable “GayLife Tajikstan”. It was there that I first realized that I liked men and I began to go to gay bars and parks where men met.
WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY TAJIKISTAN
LGBT Rights Tajikistan: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * tajikistan gay *
” Tajikistan’s lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny (LGBT) remas one of the most closed and secretive parts of Tajik society.
TAJIKISTAN GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN JULY 2023
When Alisher’s father disvered his son was gay, he beat him wh an army belt, kept him at home for a month, then sent him om Tajikistan to a relig llege Iran to “knock the nonsense out of him”. It did not end there. While Iran, Alisher learned that his father had hired men to beat up his boyiend, so he fled the llege for Rsia, where he now works on a market stall. * tajikistan gay *
“Homosexualy is ntrary to nature, ” said an official om the Mistry of Health, who spoke to on ndn of anonymy bee she is not thorized to speak to the prs. “Although [homosexualy] has been removed om the [ernment’s] list of treatable illns, many doctors still see as a disease which n be treated wh medice.
GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK
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Whereas the Soviet Unn homosexualy was punishable by up to five years prison, Tajikistan was -crimalized 1998. Though Tajikistan’s crimal do not prohib homosexualy and homosexual relatnships, LGBT dividuals are still sgled out for persecutn by some officials. The paper lists regular s of blackmail, arbrary arrt and physil vlence agast LGBT dividuals, mostly gay men.
When 23-year-old office worker Said told his bt iend that he was gay, he did not realize the mistake he was makg. In 2011, after beg subjected to ntuo blackmail, a 20-year-old gay flight attendant, Ravshan Uzakov hanged himself, the BBC’s Rsian language service reported.
For Parviz, there is only one solutn – the relative safety of Rsia, where hate crim agast homosexuals occur neverthels. A report last week om the Instute for War and Peace Reportg (IWPR) found that homophobia is enmic the central Asian former Soviet untry of Tajikistan. Gay rights groups and dividuals told the IWPR about threats of public beatgs and police harassment Tajikistan.
TAJIKISTAN DRAWS UP REGISTER OF HUNDREDS OF GAY CIZENS 'TO PROTECT THEM OM STDS'
In relatively more liberal neighborg Kyrgyzstan there are about a dozen gay rights anizatns the pal Bishkek, but Tajikistan only has one. Human Rights Watch World Report 2012’s chapter on Tajikistan do not mentn LGBT rights at all, further evince that human rights groups are overlookg gay rights the regn.
QUALATIVE EXAMATN OF ENACTED STIGMA TOWARDS GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN AND RELATED HEALTH OUT TAJIKISTAN, CENTRAL ASIA
Homosexualy was crimalized Tajikistan 1998, but the director of Equal Opportuni, Kiromid Gulov, told the BBC that the way the majory of the public treat LGBT people has not changed. ‘In Tajikistan, spe the aboln of the article [agast homosexualy] the crimal , homophobia remas a very big problem. Gays and lbians do not go to the police for fear of publicy and blackmail, ’ he said a BBC terview April last year.
A jot report om Equal Opportuni and the Kyrgyzstan-based gay rights group Labrys said: ‘sexual and physil vlence agast gay and bisexual men perpetrated by the police… [ the rpective untri] is very mon, ” and that many gay people flee for Rsia or Kazakstan. Efforts to advote the rights of the gay muny Tajikistan, cludg HIV/AIDS awarens, face an uphill battle given tradnal Islamic valu and a general tolerance towards homosexualy. In early 2003, a small survey measurg public opn was iated by the NGO, revealg a particularly negative attu towards gay people, wh some people sayg they should be killed.
GAY IENDLY HOTELS TAJIKISTAN
Acrdg to the NGO worker, some gay Tajiks were forced to promisg posns by the police, who blackmailed them to disclosg the inty of other members of the MSM muny.
Wispread homophobia and open police persecutn n make life dangero or out of the gay is no longer a crime Tajikistan, but police are reticent to addrs hate crim, cludg the murr of a gay man Dhanbe 2011. "There's a reason Tajikistan's lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny (LGBT) remas one of the most closed and secretive parts of Tajik society.
TAJIKISTAN GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN AUGT 2023
Homophobia is wispread thanks to "tradnal attus and the strong fluence of Islam, " says Kiromidd Gulov, director of Equal Opportuni, a lol NGO tablished 2009 to help Tajikistan's LGBT muny wh legal, medil and moral support.
"Many Tajiks believe that homosexualy is "a s and that such people should be killed or isolated, " Gulov explaed. ""Homosexualy is ntrary to nature, " said an official om the Mistry of Health, who spoke to on ndn of anonymy bee she is not thorized to speak to the prs. "Although [homosexualy] has been removed om the [ernment's] list of treatable illns, many doctors still see as a disease which n be treated wh medice.
Though Tajikistan's crimal do not prohib homosexualy and homosexual relatnships, LGBT dividuals are still sgled out for persecutn by some officials. The paper lists regular s of blackmail, arbrary arrt and physil vlence agast LGBT dividuals, mostly gay 23-year-old office worker Said told his bt iend that he was gay, he did not realize the mistake he was makg. In 2011, after beg subjected to ntuo blackmail, a 20-year-old gay flight attendant, Ravshan Uzakov hanged himself, the BBC's Rsian language service reported.