Gay-Bata, Samarkand, Uzbekistan: Maps

Contents:

• GAY UZBEKISTAN TODAY
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS SAMARKAND
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS SAMARKAND
• GAY-BATA MAPS
• GAY-BATA HOTELS – FD & BOOK A HOTEL GAY-BATA
• GAY-BATA MAP — SATELLE IMAG OF GAY-BATA
• MEET GAY SGL SAMARKAND
• GAY AND LBIAN SAMARKAND - UZBEKISTAN

GAY UZBEKISTAN TODAY

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.

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 . 1: “Beg gay Tashkent isn’t that sry”The thor of this story is a 25 year old man.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS SAMARKAND

I’ve known I was gay ever sce I was a child.

Naturally, they didn’t work my close iends know that I’m gay. 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? I don’t know why – whether bee I was gay or bee they thought I lacked thory.

But I wouldn’t want to lk this to my sexual orientatn: I’m agree that people might not want to talk to me if I’m gay. But refg to work bee of that… I thk ’s more a qutn of the whole, ’s not that difficult to be gay Tashkent. We beme iends and I told him I was gay.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS SAMARKAND

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 .

Gay men don’t live together as muni – no one wants to do that and basilly nobody r. 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.

GAY-BATA MAPS

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. But, on the other hand, I don’t want to overdo and sre people to thkg that gays have a really hard time our untry.

Gay men Tashkent generally e social works to make ntact wh one another, but they all e nam and hi their inti, out of fear. But aga, wouldn’t be bee I’m gay, but jt bee ’s generally not safe there.

I’m neher hetero nor homo: I’m somewhere -between. 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. As for awarens raisg, I feel the need to expla homosexualy to people dividually, bee is not the same as paedophilia.

GAY-BATA HOTELS – FD & BOOK A HOTEL GAY-BATA

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. And if gay people won’t nfs, they beat them and torture them to the pot where they will start prayg for mercy and do everythg they ask.

That’s the tth, as some police officers even for the Uzbek public, gay men are often victims of rmal urts. “They beat me up bee I was gay”, or “I was ught and beaten up while I was havg sex wh another man’.

GAY-BATA MAP — SATELLE IMAG OF GAY-BATA

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. Islam preach that there n be no mercy for homosexuals, only ath, and that by stong or beg thrown om the top of a high buildg. Killg a homosexual brgs a promise of Paradise, as a good ed and reward (both a spirual one after ath and a material one life).

If the people knew anythg about , homophobia like this wouldn’t exist.

People who digrs om the signated norm are viewed wh spicn, srn or as illegimate such as gypsi, polil opponents, human rights activists, foreign NGOs and of urse homosexuals, which both untri crimalize (the only natns the World Health Organizatn’s Europe Regn to do so). What a visor will not see Uzbekistan is a gay muny bee same-sex activy if disvered is punishable wh a prison sentence. They mean bs here sce this is sentially a police state wh zero tolerance for phg back agast polil supprsn or tntg the thori wh a flash mob rally for gay rights.

MEET GAY SGL SAMARKAND

(It’s ironic that due to the harsh reprsn of homosexualy new gay HIV fectns are low. The massacre only ma thgs worse for the LGBT muny a untry that was already hostile to gays. Dpe ocsnal sry headl of “arrts and ab of cizens by the police for havg an timate relatnship wh another man”, there is no active wch hunt for gays the bars, clubs, sports venu or universi.

But I have read that police ocsnally e ter stg operatns to bt gays. ’ to which I said ‘y, 25 years’ to which he bbed two forefgers together sayg ‘gay? Beg gay UZB is a lson stealth livg.

Few people want to hear or know about or unrstand the nature of homosexual orientatn.

GAY AND LBIAN SAMARKAND - UZBEKISTAN

There is no gay scene here as people live paranoid fear of police tsn to their personal liv if they step out of le and e any social or polil ffle. Beg gay is illegal but the much greater hibg force is brgg shame and dishonor to one’s fay, which n be a lot of people sce tradnally there were five to twelve children born of one uple. (photo right, homoerotic Turkish bath hoe Bozori Kord and massage Samarkand).

Dpe several efforts to fd a live LGBT person UZB I did not enunter a sgle one–at least as far as I uld tell; gays are not readily visible. However, there was a well-known and rpected actor and director the Ilkhom Theatre who is openly gay but, as I found out after arrivg Tashkent, he moved to New York where he liv today, provg the pot that beg a succsful LGBT Uzbek means emigratg to another untry.

One day, durg a pleasant vis to a landmark shre to the ancient ler Bobur a park named after him I asked her ( private) if I uld pose a personal qutn: how would she and her parents react if someone her fay, for example her brother or sister, told them he or she were gay? I said I knew someone Turkey who was killed by his father for beg gay; shot him daylight on the street.