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Contents:
- 2 GAY IRAQI SOLDIERS FOUND LOVE AMID WAR. THEN THE ATH THREATS STARTED
- WHAT IS LIKE TO BE A GAY MAN LIVG IRAQ?
- THIS NEW MOVIE TELLS THE TORTURED LOVE STORY OF TWO GAY IRAQI SOLDIERS
- DYG TO COME OUT: THE WAR ON GAYS IRAQ
- HOW ISLAMIST GANGS E TER TO TRACK, TORTURE AND KILL IRAQI GAYS
- GROUP RCU GAY MEN TARGETED IN IRAQ
- IRAQI GAYS TARGETED, BTALLY KILLED: HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
- TORTURED AND KILLED IRAQ FOR BEG GAY
2 GAY IRAQI SOLDIERS FOUND LOVE AMID WAR. THEN THE ATH THREATS STARTED
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ISIS, which held large swaths of Iraqi terrory until recently, has also targeted gay men, tossg many to their aths om tall buildgs. Even durg the days of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, when the US did not officially allow gay people to serve the ary, Hrebid says a base officer allowed them to spend time together at the Amerin base. Followg on om our report March, OutNews Global spoke exclively wh two gay men om Sulaymaniyah about what life is really like for LGBT+ people Iraq.
Forced to flee Kamaran* scrib life for a gay man Iraq as a relentls stggle: “It’s like beg between four walls and hidg who you are om the muny, and even yourself.
WHAT IS LIKE TO BE A GAY MAN LIVG IRAQ?
Ali Hili is a gay Iraqi whose ernment forced him to spy on other homosexuals. Now, after a darg pe om his home untry, Hili is dog everythg he n to make up for the past * gay iraqi men *
“There are still homophobic people that are also refuge om other untri, and once they know you are gay they make fun of you and verbally abe you.
THIS NEW MOVIE TELLS THE TORTURED LOVE STORY OF TWO GAY IRAQI SOLDIERS
Iraqi ias filtrate ter gay chatrooms to hunt their quarry – and hundreds are feared to be victims * gay iraqi men *
In a untry wh such strong relig and culture beliefs that ntue to fuel a fire of homophobia society, mt be challengg to meet other LGBT+ the first place? In the plac, beg gay is still seen as a s or disease to be routed out, which has taken the form of gay men beg hurled om the top of buildgs or stoned to ath.
DYG TO COME OUT: THE WAR ON GAYS IRAQ
Miliamen are torturg and killg gay Iraqi men wh impuny a systematic mpaign that has spread om Baghdad to several other ci, a proment human rights group said a report. * gay iraqi men *
TIME spoke to the uple featured a film that spans a and four untri about what was like to grow up that part of the world, why they ma this film and how feels to watch gay refuge flee persecutn the Middle East now that they’re safe Washgton state. And if they fd about [ beg gay], of urse we will get killed or be tortured to be exampl for others … It ma me feel like they’re tyg my hands and my legs and I nnot move.
HOW ISLAMIST GANGS E TER TO TRACK, TORTURE AND KILL IRAQI GAYS
Reports of ath squads and torture of gay men Iraq have been on the rise. In an article for New York Magaze, Matthew McAllter scrib the wave of attacks agast gays Iraq, and how a few New Yorkers have built an unrground railroad to rcue them. * gay iraqi men *
Like other sgers of a certa pathos, Dalida enjoyed a huge gay followg throughout the Middle East and pecially Baghdad the 1990s, when Hili worked as a DJ gay-iendly clubs at the Palte Hotel and the luxur al-Rashid Hotel.
GROUP RCU GAY MEN TARGETED IN IRAQ
Iraqi Gays Targeted, Btally Killed: Human Rights Watch * gay iraqi men *
From a crowd office London, they work to protect gays still si Iraq, where for more than a year, the midst of the wav of chaotic vlence, an pecially btal mpaign has been waged specifilly agast homosexuals.
Then he found the unifyg thread: Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the sgle most powerful relig figure Iraq today—a man the Bh admistratn plays up as a partner peace and many have promoted for a Nobel Peace Prize—had posted a fatwa agast gays on his Web se October 2005. The Badr Organizatn is reportedly rponsible for many of the antigay crafted a prs release about the fatwa and received some mor media attentn.
And they tablished sixteen safe ho wh Iraq, where they shelter gays and transsexuals who n’t hi their sexual orientatn and are imment danger.
IRAQI GAYS TARGETED, BTALLY KILLED: HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
They serted a hot metal object si me, and they damaged , “ he tells me softly, as if scribg a botched ntal, Hili’s lawyer, says his client was jt an ordary gay man and that they ed that fact to turn him to a spy.
TORTURED AND KILLED IRAQ FOR BEG GAY
Hili secured a short-term visa, but Turkey would be a ad end, a place where gays are no ls reviled and where the telligence agents were likely to fd them. “ Eventually, they ved Hili to stay an apartment they owned, along wh a number of other gay men they’d met siar, before droppg him off for the night, they stopped at their bank and whdrew 1, 500 ros for him, a huge sum of money to be givg to a stranger.