Sergey Bagirov is a 35-year-old gay man om Baku. For the past 20 years, he has had no ntact wh his parents. “My problems wh the fay started when I realized that I was gay,” Bagirov said. “At the time, I was somehow ashamed of and nfsed everythg to my parents, pecially bee was necsary to expla why I was beaten at school every day… My father threw me out of the hoe that same day. I was 14 years old. They did not even give me my documents. I am now over 30 years old and still do not have a passport.”
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BEG GAY AZERBAIJAN
LGBT Rights Azerbaijan: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * lgbt public opinion azerbaijan *
Gay Marriage⚭✖ UnregnizedCensorship✔ No censorshipChangg Genr✖ Legal, but requir surgeryNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsConversn Therapy✖ Not banned.
HistoryHomosexual activy Azerbaijan? Homosexual activy Azerbaijan is legal. LGBT employment discrimatn Azerbaijan is no protectns Excerpt: "Gay and lbians n be th unfairly dismissed om their jobs, and homophobia is mon.
The report suggts that prciple, there aren't any legal rtrictns around adoptg as an dividual — gay or straight — however, all dividuals are ually nied the right to adopt. Those unr arrt have been threatened and blackmailed by the police to make them provi rmatn about gay and transsexual people have been arrted their apartments.