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AFGHANISTAN'S ACCINTAL GAY PRI
Now Balkhi says that rare acceptance has put all their liv at risk, as the new Taliban learship Kabul unleash a wave of physil vlence and fear on Afghanistan’s gay, lbian and transgenr populatn. No official statement has been ma, but an terview wh Germany’s Bild newspaper July, one Taliban judge said there were only two punishments for homosexualy – stong or beg cshed unr a wall. Balkhi said one gay man her neighborhood had been raped after beg found by the Taliban.
“Homosexualy was wily seen as taboo and cent, ” the report said. Nemat Sadat, an LGBTQ Afghan thor who liv the Uned Stat, said the untry’s gay, lbian and transgenr cizens had helped the untry’s cultural life flourish the 20 years sce the Taliban’s last le.
LGBTQ people who spoke to CNN said while very few felt fortable or safe enough to be openly gay, lbian or transgenr before the takeover, many were able to quietly build liv te to their inti.