Source: İpek İzci, “Kürdistanlı Bir Eşcselim Demek Zor!,” (“It is difficult to say I am Kurdish and gay”) Radikal, 22 October 2013, There is a new LGBT enty Turkey: Hêvî LGBTI. The activists of Hêvî talk about the first and only Kurdish LGBT associatn Istanbul... “The experience of sharg durg the Gezi…
Contents:
- IRAN CHARG FAMO KURDISH SGER WH BEG GAY, FAC EXECUTN
- KURDISH, GAY AND PROUD DIYARBAKIR
- FROM DIYARBAKIR WH LOVE: KURDISH, GAY AND PROUD
- TURKISH GAYS FACE GRADG TTS TO AVOID ARMY
- IRAN CHARG FAMO KURDISH SGER MOHSEN LORTANI WH BEG GAY, FAC EXECUTN
- OBSCURED EXISTENCE OF HOMOSEXUALY AND TRANSSEXUALY SI KURDISH CULTURE; CASE STUDI OF GAYS AND LBIANS KURDISTAN AND DIASPORA
- KURDISH GAYS LIVE LIFE THE SHADOWS IRANIAN KURDISTAN
- IRAQI KURDISH GAY MARRI UNR FLAND’S NEW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LAW
- BRAVE IRAQI REFUGEE FLED TO THE UK AFTER BEG BTALLY BEATEN AND THROWN PRISON JT FOR BEG GAY
- “IT IS DIFFICULT TO SAY I AM KURDISH AND GAY!”
IRAN CHARG FAMO KURDISH SGER WH BEG GAY, FAC EXECUTN
On September 4, members of the Kurdistan Regnal Government Iraq proposed an od bill to Parliament that, if passed, would punish any dividual or group who advot for the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people. * kurdish gay *
On September 4, members of the Kurdistan Regnal Government Iraq proposed an od bill to Parliament that, if passed, would punish any dividual or group who advot for the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people. Acrdg to the “Bill on the Prohibn of Promotg Homosexualy, ” anyone who advot for LGBT rights or “promot homosexualy” would face imprisonment up to one year, and a fe of up to five ln dars (US$3, 430).
The bill would also spend, for up to one month, the licens of media pani and civil society anizatns that “promote homosexualy. Iran has alleged that a proment sger is gay and unr the Islamic Republic’s anti-homosexual laws he uld face the ath journalist Ali Hamedani tweeted on Sunday that “A famo Iranian sger om the Kurdish provce of Kermanshah has been ‘acced’ of beg a homosexual and uld face executn. ” A famo Iranian sger om the Kurdish provce of #Kermanshah has been “acced” of beg a #homosexual and uld face executn.
KURDISH, GAY AND PROUD DIYARBAKIR
LGBT muny Iraqi Kurdistan. Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr/Transsexual) and tersex muny the Kurdish regn * kurdish gay *
Ali Hamedani (@BBCHamedani) October 6, 2019 Volker Beck, a German Green Party polician and LGBTQ activist, told The Jesalem Post that "It is a perversn of unjt stat like Iran and Sdi Arabia that alleged or actual homosexualy is prented as an accatn that n st you your life.
FROM DIYARBAKIR WH LOVE: KURDISH, GAY AND PROUD
Kurdish lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people do exist have many stori to tell. * kurdish gay *
— Iran News Wire (@IranNW) October 2, 2019 The Jesalem Post first reported on the Iranian regime’s public hangg of a homosexual January based on the untry’s anti-gay law. Acrdg to a 2008 Brish WikiLeaks dispatch, Iran’s mullah regime has executed “between 4, 000 and 6, 000 gays and lbians” sce the Islamic Revolutn 2016, The Jesalem Post reported that 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 homosexualy.
Kurds rarely make onto the ternatnal media, and that’s even more so for Kurdish lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people, yet they do exist and have many stori to tell.
So Gay Middle East traveled to the cy of Diyarbakir Eastern Turkey (or North Kurdistan), the center of the Kurdish culture the regn. (photo right: gay flag displayed Diyarbakir for Newroz New Year ftival 2008; photo cred–).
TURKISH GAYS FACE GRADG TTS TO AVOID ARMY
Gay men Turkey seekg exemptn om the untry's mandatory ary service mt prove their homosexualy, the BBC reports, even though many army physicians realize 's medilly impossible to terme sexual orientatn. * kurdish gay *
Privately fundg an office space is problematic bee most openly gay, bi and trans people are forced to limed employment optns such as sex work, although some have managed to n their own small bs.
The film tells the (real) story of Ahmet Yildiz, a young Kurdish gay man who left Diyarbakir to Istanbul to live his life hontly and openly only to be murred by his father for ‘shamg’ the fay.
IRAN CHARG FAMO KURDISH SGER MOHSEN LORTANI WH BEG GAY, FAC EXECUTN
Iran charg famo Kurdish sger Mohsen Lortani wh beg gay, fac executn. The sger was charged wh ‘rptn on earth’ by a urt Tehran * kurdish gay *
My father would kill me if he found out that I’m gay, he’s a very relig man who has lived Sdi Arabia for many years. Kurds rarely make onto the ternatnal media – and that’s even more so for Kurdish lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people, yet they do exist have many stori to tell.
OBSCURED EXISTENCE OF HOMOSEXUALY AND TRANSSEXUALY SI KURDISH CULTURE; CASE STUDI OF GAYS AND LBIANS KURDISTAN AND DIASPORA
Obscured existence of homosexualy and transsexualy si Kurdish culture; Case studi of Gays and lbians Kurdistan and diaspora * kurdish gay *
WorldGay men Turkey seekg exemptn om the untry's mandatory ary service mt prove their homosexualy, the BBC reports, even though many army physicians realize 's medilly impossible to terme sexual orientatn.
A BBC report says gay Turks wishg to avoid ary service mt prove their homosexualy, often by submtg explic photos or answerg qutnnair om a health panel. (Associated Prs)Gay men Turkey seekg exemptn om the untry's mandatory ary service mt prove their homosexualy, the BBC reports, even though many army physicians realize 's medilly impossible to terme sexual rultg procs to obta a so-lled "pk certifite" allowg gays to dodge nscriptn — and potentially dangero ployments to bat Kurdish separatists — is often huiatg, the Brish public broadster says a documentary airg Tuday. 'They asked me if I liked football, whether I wore women's cloth or ed women's perfume'—Ahmet, gay nscript TurkeyIt's mon for gay men to subm explic photographs, unrgo personaly tts and answer qutnnair about their sexual preferenc.
KURDISH GAYS LIVE LIFE THE SHADOWS IRANIAN KURDISTAN
Kurdish gays live life the shadows Iranian Kurdistan. Compared to big ci, life Iran’s nservative Kurdish regns * kurdish gay *
Lackg any valid "diagnostic tools, " a physician told the BBC World Service, potential gay drafte mt prepare whatever evince they n to nvce a ary health panel of their homosexualy, sometim emed as a "psychosexual disorr.
""They asked me if I liked football, whether I wore women's cloth or ed women's perfume, " said one gay nscript his man, g the name Ahmet to protect his te inty, said he refed requts to show a health panel pictur of himself drsed as a woman. (Murad Sezer/Associated Prs)One former army psychiatrist said doctors feel prsure om ary manrs to diagnose homosexualy, "even though there really are no diagnostic tools to terme sexual orientatn.
IRAQI KURDISH GAY MARRI UNR FLAND’S NEW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LAW
A refugee, who is livg the UK, says he fled his home Iraq after beg badly beaten and thrown prison three tim for beg gay. * kurdish gay *
"''It is medilly impossible, and not at all ethil, " he are no laws explicly banng homosexualy Turkey and thoands marched the 2011 gay pri para Istanbul.
Still, homosexualy is not wily tolerated and gays n still face discrimatn by employers and are nsired unf for ary service as they n e "disciplary problems" and would require separate lodggs and washrooms, a retired manr, Armagan Kuloglu, reasoned. But homosexuals n serve as long as they keep their sexual orientatns secret, he said, drawg parallels to the U.
Although homosexualy is not wily tolerated Turkey due to social stigma, the possibily that straight men might feign beg gay to avoid ary service is a ncern for the army, acrdg to the BBC report. TEHRAN, — Iran has alleged that a proment Kurdish sger is gay and unr the Islamic Republic’s anti-homosexual laws he uld face the ath penalty. BBC journalist Ali Hamedani tweeted on Sunday that “A famo Iranian sger om the Kurdish provce of Kermanshah [Iranian Kurdistan] has been ‘acced’ of beg a homosexual and uld face executn.
BRAVE IRAQI REFUGEE FLED TO THE UK AFTER BEG BTALLY BEATEN AND THROWN PRISON JT FOR BEG GAY
Volker Beck, a German Green Party polician and LGBTQ activist, told The Jesalem Post that “It is a perversn of unjt stat like Iran and Sdi Arabia that alleged or actual homosexualy is prented as an accatn that n st you your life.
The Iranian regime’s has hanged a homosexual January 2019 based on the untry’s anti-gay law. Acrdg to a 2008 Brish WikiLeaks dispatch, Iran’s mullah regime has executed “between 4, 000 and 6, 000 gays and lbians” sce the Islamic Revolutn 1979. In 2011, Iran’s regime executed three Iranian men after beg found guilty of charg related to homosexualy.
“IT IS DIFFICULT TO SAY I AM KURDISH AND GAY!”
The plight of Iraq's lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and qutng or queer (LGBTQ) muny returned to the spotlight last week when Kurdish secury forc Sulaymaniyah reportedly arrted several gay men. Members of the muny told VOA the arrts of at least eight gay men on April 1 stilled fear among them, particularly after secury forc reportedly attempted to force the men to unrgo physil examatns. Durg s dranian le Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State terror group published vios showg s members killg gay men by throwg them off buildg rooftops.