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Contents:

• THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY
• SDI MASS EXECUTN – FIVE BEHEAD VICTIMS WERE GAY LOVERS URT DOCS CLAIM AMID FEARS THEY WERE TORTURED TO TERROR NFSNS
• ALIREZA FAZELI MONFARED WANTED TO LIVE AS A EE GAY MAN THE WT. HIS FAY IRAN BEHEAD HIM DAYS BEFORE HIS DREAM ME TE, SAY ACTIVISTS.
• IRAN PURPORTEDLY EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
• ISIS EXECUTN OF GAY MAN SHOWS THE MEDIEVAL BTALY JIHADISTS WOULD BRG TO THE WT
• IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN ON SODOMY CHARG, HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP REPORTS
• IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN ACCED OF 'FORCIBLE SODOMY,' HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
• IRAN EXECUT TWO MEN FOR BEG GAY
• PASTOR SAYS 'SOLUTN' TO GAY PEOPLE IS EXECUTNS: IT'S THE BIBLE
• IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
• IRAN EXECUT A GAY MAN UNR LABEL OF SODOMY, SAYS EXPERT
• BNEI STONG: WHICH PLAC HAVE THE ATH PENALTY FOR GAY SEX?
• HAMAS EXECUT PROMENT COMMANR AFTER ACCATNS OF GAY SEX

THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY

They had nsensual the Aceh provce of Indonia, homosexualy is a crime that n be punished this btal and gradg More: Disturbg Details of Executns Emerge From Chechnya's 'Gay Torture Camps': ReportEverywhere the world, LGBTQ people are routely harassed, discrimated agast, beaten, and even murred for simply beg who they are.

Stong to ath is another form of public executn  a untry that kills hundreds of people each More: Taiwan Be First Place Asia to Legalize Same-Sex MarriageNigeriaRunng unter to much of the rt of the world, Nigeria’s print cid to strengthen anti-homosexual laws 2014. Earlier this year, two men were shot public by the terrorist group after beg found havg More: Lebanon Jt Celebrated Its Very First Gay Pri ParaSudanThe first two tim a person gets ught havg gay sex Sudan n lead to 100 lash and imprisonment up to five years.

SDI MASS EXECUTN – FIVE BEHEAD VICTIMS WERE GAY LOVERS URT DOCS CLAIM AMID FEARS THEY WERE TORTURED TO TERROR NFSNS

The activist hop the vios rm people of queer people's liv Iran, where punishments for beg gay range om 100 lash of the whip to, the munitns director for the Center for Human Rights Iran, said homophobia was wispread the untry. The Islamic Republic of Iran publicly hanged a 31-year-old Iranian man after he was found guilty of charg related to vlatns of Iran’s anti-gay laws, acrdg to the state-ntrolled Iranian Stunts’ News unintified man was hanged on January 10 the southwtern cy of Kazeroon based on crimal vlatns of “lavat-e be onf” – sexual terurse between two men, as well as kidnappg charg, acrdg to ISNA. “Iran is not only the most dangero threat to Israel’s secury, is also a champn the state murr of actual or perceived homosexuals, ” said Volker Beck, a German Party Green Party polician and a lecturer at the Center for Studi Relig Scienc (CERES) at the Ruhr Universy Bochum.

ALIREZA FAZELI MONFARED WANTED TO LIVE AS A EE GAY MAN THE WT. HIS FAY IRAN BEHEAD HIM DAYS BEFORE HIS DREAM ME TE, SAY ACTIVISTS.

” The statement about cizens of Kazeroon uld not be penntly 2016, The Jesalem Post reported Iran’s regime had executed a gay adolcent that year – the first nfirmed executn of someone nvicted as a juvenile the Islamic Afshar, 19, was hanged Arak Prison Iran’s Markazi Provce on July 18, 2016, after he was nvicted of “forced male-to-male anal terurse” early 2011, Iran’s regime executed three Iranian men after beg found guilty of charg related to M. Hochre, a spokman for the Hirschfeld-Eddy-Stiftung Foundatn, which fights to advance the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people, told the Post:“Iran is one of the worst stat for the persecutn of LGBTI.

IRAN PURPORTEDLY EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG

Thrown om a roof, stoned to ath and ccified: While the world reacts wh horror to terror Europe, new ISIS executns show the medieval btaly jihadists would brg to the WtISIS have released photographic evince of a seri of horrific executnsThey show two men hurled om the top of a tower block for beg gayAnother shows a woman acced of adultery beg btally stoned to athTwo men acced of bandry were shown tied to makhift metal crossThe ccified men are then shot by IS fighters ont of the bayg crowd Published: 20:04 BST, 16 January 2015 | Updated: 12:29 BST, 18 January 2015. Two men were hurled om the top of a tower block, two more were ccified ont of a bayg crowd and a woman was stoned to ath the latt seri of horrific executns by men were thrown om the roof down to the crowd below the btal punishment for beg gay. Readg om a list, he clar the men are guilty of engagg homosexual activi and should be punished by ath, acrdance wh Islamic State’s radil terpretatn of Sharia down for vio Imag om ISIS purport to show two men beg thrown om a tall buildg Neveh, Syria- their crime was beg gay Pictur show the large crowd gathered at the bottom of the tower to watch the btal killgDown on the ground, two men acced of bandry have been tied to makhift metal up tightly wh yellow and green ribbon around their wrists, the men were hanged om the cross, wcg agony’They had been tied up and transported the back of a whe pickup tck to the public executn sight the Iraqi cy of prisoners are shown wearg sual clothg rather than the standard orange jumpsu, monly worn by many Islamic State prisoners recent many high profile executn vios.

The men had their charg announced by a masked Islamic State fighter, g a small handheld rad, before they were thrown om the roof A bayg crowd had gathered below to wns the shockg executn of the two men They were executed ont of the crowd after the IS fighter proclaimed them guilty of engagg homosexual activi and that they should be punished by ath, acrdance wh Islamic State’s radil terpretatn of Sharia lawThe horrific punishment was reportedly rried out the Iraqi provce of al-Furat.

Homosexualy is illegal Iran, and LGBTQ+ muni face discrimatn, prosecutn, and beg year, Insir reported that Alireza Fazeli Monfared, a 20-year-old Iranian man, was killed an alleged "honor killg" by fay members after learng that he was gay. All four prisoners executed at Maragheh were officially charged wh rape but human rights activists say the Iranian regime routely charg homosexuals wh crim other than sodomy orr to avoid ternatnal nmnatn.

ISIS EXECUTN OF GAY MAN SHOWS THE MEDIEVAL BTALY JIHADISTS WOULD BRG TO THE WT

"Sunday's sermon is not the first time members of the Stedfast Baptist Church have preached anti-LGBT year, Shelley, who has repeatedly lled for the ath of gay people, celebrated the ath of a gay man at a Pri para. An attorney for Grant, Sarah Jernigan, said a statement to CNN on Thursday, “John Grant took full rponsibily for the murr of Gay Carter, and he spent his years on ath row tryg to unrstand and atone for his actns, more than any other client I have worked wh. Iran executed ten people on Wednday, cludg a gay man, Karaj, the pal of the Alborz Provce, jt outsi of anizatn Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported on Thursday about the latt wave of executns the Islamic Republic.

Iran: Stop Killg Gays (cred: Wikimedia Commons)He noted that the executns this week took place directly after the trip of the top EU foreign relatns official Josep Borrell to Iran to discs Tehran’s re-entry to the nuclear acrd.

I am wrg a longer seri of articl on the crimalisatn of homosexualy Rsia after the October revolutn, how homosexualy was subsequently viewed, how the burecratic generatn of the Rsian revolutn also slowly suffoted the eedoms won by homosexuals, and fally the build up to re-crimalisatn 1934.

IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN ON SODOMY CHARG, HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP REPORTS

I will not, therefore al wh the qutns tail the 1930s, after the crimalisatn of homosexualy the Soviet Unn, the Stalist Communist Internatnal beme permeated wh homophobia and almost all those untri where Stalist regim me to power, homosexualy was crimalised, om Eastern Europe, to Cha, to Cuba.

The German Communist Party prr to the rise of Hler 1933 was favour of homosexual emancipatn, and would have been unimagable to members of that party that, the mid-1930s, the very same anti-gay laws troduced by Hler would also be adopted by adopted the same anti-gay laws as Hler the mid-30s / Image: public domaA brief look at the 1920s shows that, the early years, there was a general qutng of the old valu that had domated Rsian society unr the Tsar.

IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN ACCED OF 'FORCIBLE SODOMY,' HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP SAYS

Already, before the actual crimalisatn of homosexualy 1934, the regime unr Stal had been makg life more difficult for fate of KuzmThe fate of one proment figure, Mikhail Kuzm, a famo poet and thor, highlights the procs.

In the subsequent years, thoands of homosexuals end up Stal’s prisons and labour se of Harry Whyte, a Brish CommunistBefore the 1934 crimalisatn the Soviet Unn, the Communist parti Europe had been mpaigng for homosexual emancipatn, pecially Germany where there was a strong and anised gay rights movement – which was to be subsequently btally clamped down on by Hler, wh many homosexuals endg up the ncentratn mps. It is an irony of history that the Stalist regime nounced homosexualy as a bourgeois pravy, quotg Germany and the Nazis as exampl, precisely when Hler was movg exactly the same directn as Stal on this qutn! Harry Whyte, reflectg the thkg of a loyal party member, believed that only homosexuals volved genue unter-revolutnary activi would be prosecuted, but was very quickly to disver that the law applied to all had Whyte’s letter archived, but first add his own note, “An idt and a generate”, a clear reference to the thor of the letter.

IRAN EXECUT TWO MEN FOR BEG GAY

In reference to the crimalisatn of homosexualy after the revolutn, he explaed that legislatn had been fluenced by thkg the Wt which viewed homosexualy as an illns and not a is worth quotg a sectn of his speech, which giv a taste of the burecracy’s rampant homophobia:“In our environment, the environment of the workers takg the pot of view of normal relatns between the sex, who are buildg their society on healthy prcipl, we don’t need ltle gentlemen of this type. Once the task of rootg out all potential dissent had been rried out, wh imprisonment, labour mps, torture, nfsns and executns, the law ntued to be acted on, but seems wh ls were persecuted by the burecracy / Image: public domaStal would disver, however, that homosexualy nnot be creed out of existence. As such the legacy of Stalism is s clear ntributg factor to the appallg treatment LGBT Rsians face many gay people suffered the huiatn of trial and imprisonment durg the long 59-year perd which Soviet law crimalised homosexualy?

PASTOR SAYS 'SOLUTN' TO GAY PEOPLE IS EXECUTNS: IT'S THE BIBLE

From the 1960s through to the 1970s there was actually an crease the number of men prosecuted for homosexual activi, the peak beg reached 1977-78 when over 1, 300 were nvicted each of those other Stalist untriPrr to 1933-34, Communist Parti different untri – as we have seen – had a posn of llg for the emancipatn of homosexuals. This was to radilly change once homosexualy had been re-crimalised the Soviet should not surprise , as the Communist Internatnal and s natnal sectns were no longer that vibrant, livg, revolutnary force of the first four world ngrs.

Stal’s rise was also the rise of the petty burecrat wh petty nservative this environment homophobia spread throughout the Comtern, and later, when regim molled on the burecratised Soviet Unn were put place Eastern Europe, a siar hostile environment towards homosexuals was created. In Romania anti-gay legislatn was particularly severe, wh prison sentenc that uld be as high as 10 Yugoslavia, which was not a satelle of the Soviet Unn, each republic that ma up the feratn had tonomy such legislatn.

IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS

Homosexualy was eventually clamped down upon Cuba, although attus have improved markedly sce / Image: public domaIn Cuba also, after the g to power of Castro and also unr the fluence of the Soviet Unn, homosexualy was crimalised.

In the immediate aftermath of the Cuban Revolutn, many proment artists and tellectuals of a gay orientatn were sympathetic to the new regime, seeg the prospect of social jtice, cludg a liberalisatn of attus towards homosexualy.

It was only the mid-1970s that a more tolerant approach began to emerge and 1979 same-sex acts were happened unr the Maoist regime is of particular tert bee Cha historilly had had a tradn of accepted homosexualy gog back to the very early perd of s ancient civilisatn. Even then, official attus towards same-sex activy were that was an ‘abnormaly’ banned homosexualy / Image: public domaVietnam is very different, where there is no rerd of homosexualy ever havg been crimalised.

IRAN EXECUT A GAY MAN UNR LABEL OF SODOMY, SAYS EXPERT

It was often prented as a social evil and at one pot there were lls for a law banng same-sex activi, but nothg me of ’s Stalists and Maoists mt give an answerAs we n see, most of the Stalist regim after the Send World War crimalised homosexualy or rried over prev anti-gay legislatn to their crimal s. But this would be missg one very important 1922, at the time of Len and Trotsky, when the Soviet Unn was still a relatively healthy workers’ state and the procs of burecratic generatn was only s very early stag, unr Bolshevik power, homosexualy was crimalised. Unr Stal and Mao if you were a gay person – not to mentn transgenr – you would suffer terrible treatment, huiatn and Stalists who adopt tersectnaly gore their own historil tradns of abg and opprsg LGBT people / Image: public domaOther former Stalists have abandoned any pretence of beg Marxist or Communist and have moved over to the mp of bourgeois liberalism, and so dog have embraced ias which serve to divi the opprsed, rather than une them.

The term “Bolshevik” is often ed to scribe the party and the ernment of the early 1920s as well as the later Stalist totalarian burecratic Dire Revolutnary Rsia, by Dan Healey, Universy of Chigo Prs, 2001Sexual Revolutn Bolshevik Rsia, by Gregory Carleton, Universy of Ptsburgh Prs, 2005Gay Men and the Sexual History of the Polil Left, eded by Gert Hekma, Harry Oosterhuis and Jam Steakley, Harrgton Park Prs, 1995Articl:Can a homosexual be a munist? By Lasz Szulc, 24 October 2017Cha: Informatn on treatment of homosexuals, published by Uned Stat Bure of Cizenship and Immigratn Servic, 1 March 2001A History Of Homosexualy In Cha by Hayn Bla, Updated: 2 November 2016Mikhail Kuzm’s short novel, Wgs, is also available English, published by Hpes Prs Limed 2007.

Conmnatn of homosexualy is ubiquo IS propaganda, where is most often characterized as "the actns of the people of Lot" -- referrg to vers the Quran and saygs attributed to the Prophet Muhammad (hadh) that nmn the ancient figure Lot and his people for acts of sodomy. Given the labor vtigatn required to prove such "offens" and the often-differg opns of Mlim jurists on the matter, is unclear how often this prohibn has been enforced throughout history and how much var Islamic societi have tacly accepted homosexuals.

BNEI STONG: WHICH PLAC HAVE THE ATH PENALTY FOR GAY SEX?

The document go on to list the acts that should be punished: blasphemy (agast God, the Prophet, or relign), adultery, homosexualy, theft, alhol nsumptn, lumny, "spyg on behalf of the terts of unbelievers, " apostasy, and highway robbery. Siarly, an October 2015 Wilayat Halab picture say showg the executn of gay men, tled "God's Law Regardg Whoever Commted the 'Act of the People of Lot, '" this argument about the need to apply Islamic law as a means of jtifyg the stong of gay men.

This clus articl the group's English and French-language magaz (Dabiq and Dar al-Islam) and vios that pict punishg homosexuals as a means of both exactg retributn agast unbelievers and "matag virtue and terrg immoraly. Based on a database llected by the thors, sce the Islamic State announced self as a liphate June 2014, s Diwan al-Hisba (Moral Policg Admistratn) and onle media apparat have publicly announced twenty-seven executns of allegedly gay men. The ma method ed to kill the men has been to throw them off the roofs of high-rise buildgs, based on a hadh which the Prophet's succsor, Abu Bakr, prcrib throwg a man off a cliff for engagg homosexual acts.

" Acrdg to leaked fil om Samir Abd Muhammad al-Khlifawi (aka Haji Bakr) -- head of the group's ary uncil and archect of s plans to nquer and admister terrory until his ath January 2014 -- IS told s spi to intify homosexuals when filtratg new terrori so that they uld later be blackmailed.

HAMAS EXECUT PROMENT COMMANR AFTER ACCATNS OF GAY SEX

Once a gay man is ught and sentenced by an Islamic State sharia urt, the group rri out the same tragic b of theatril propaganda rerv for other pal offens: the person is taken to a town square or siar area where a large crowd is prent. While there is still no evince that IS directly stcted Mateen to attack a well-known gay nightclub Orlando, the cint uld dite a new trend of jihadi vigilantism that blends the type of terrorist acts typilly seen the Wt (wanton killg spre or explosns civilian centers) wh a refn of the spe and applitn of Islamic law -- this se, to bypass the more nuanced tradnal legal fns, procs, and stutns and enurage targeted vlence agast LGBT muni and culture by dividual lay Mlims.

Image source, Getty ImagBnei is troducg new laws that make sex between men an offence punishable by stong to jos Iran, Sdi Arabia, Yemen, Sudan, Mrania and parts of Nigeria and Somalia, which also impose the ath penalty for same-sex relatnships, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA).