A proposal to hold a gay pri para durg this year’s Eurovisn Song Contt Baku has sparked anger among nservativ the maly Mlim state of Azerbaijan. A legatn om Dseldorf, Germany, hand over a key on January 25 to symbolise Baku’s stat as this year’s pal of Eurovisn, a ntt which sgers om all across Europe pete. Hostg the flamboyant petn is a mark of ternatnal pri for Azerbaijan, but gay activists fear lacks the crentials for the event, which wtern Europe has an enthiastic gay followg.
Contents:
- GAY PARA CONTROVERSY AZERBAIJAN
- GAY PARA CONTROVERSY AZERBAIJAN
- GAY LIFE AZERBAIJAN
- BAKU GAY TRAVEL
- AZERBAIJAN: FIRST EVER GAY PRI ‘MI RALLY’ HELD UNTRY PAL WH NO ARRTS OR HARASSMENT
GAY PARA CONTROVERSY AZERBAIJAN
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Gay Para Controversy Azerbaijan Proposal for march ahead of Eurovisn ntt meets strong opposn. A proposal to hold a gay pri para durg this year’s Eurovisn Song Contt Baku has sparked anger among nservativ the maly Mlim state of Azerbaijan. Hostg the flamboyant petn is a mark of ternatnal pri for Azerbaijan, but gay activists fear lacks the crentials for the event, which wtern Europe has an enthiastic gay News, Europe’s largt gay news service, reported broad ncerns last year that Azerbaijan gay rights rerd “mak eply unsuable” as a host ternatnal gay webse ially floated the ia of a para takg place between March 22 and March 26, the lead-up to the fals May, but then removed the proposal days then, 113 people have joed a Facebook page opposg the plan and a lol gay group has received a ath Mirgulamli, who joed the page, sisted the Facebook mpaign was not homophobic.
“We don’t have anythg agast gays, we jt don’t want this to be held Baku, ” he said. ”Rlan Balh, -founr of the Azeri webse, said gay people the untry would theoretilly like to hold a para, but was out of the qutn the current climate.
“Basilly, among Baku’s gays and lbians there is no one even dreamg of monstratns or paras. ”Although lol gay rights activists say they had no volvement the proposal, a man intifyg himself as Iman Mammadov emailed threateng to kill gay Azeris if they anised a pri event.
GAY PARA CONTROVERSY AZERBAIJAN
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“We do not know this Iman Mammadov, and the anisatn or otherwise of such a para is not the rponsibily of the mistry, ” mistry spokwoman Zohra Aliyeva 19-year-old gay man Baku said he would happily jo a para but feared for his safety, addg that many gay Azeris only me out of the closet if they wanted to seek asylum abroad. “Even if the ernment allowed the march, you’d still have to fear our homophobic fellow cizens.
”Outsi Baku, at least one official has reassured foreign fans that the ntt won’t take place a homophobic environment. Rpondg to ncerns about gay rights The Tim newspaper last year, Baku’s ambassador to Bra Fahradd Gurbanov said the untry’s laws did not discrimate agast sexual mori. The untry is rolutely secular and all Eurovisn fans would be wele, he Baku, officials said a gay para would stand a fair chance of Kerimli, head of the Eurovisn-2012 workg group, told the APA news agency that people were ee to anise paras as long as they plied wh the law.
“If an applitn for a gay para is submted, you n be sure the Baku thori will turn down whout givg any explanatn, and whout worryg that this is vlatn of the nstutn. A proposal to hold a gay pri para durg this year's Eurovisn Song Contt Baku has sparked anger among nservativ the maly Mlim state of Azerbaijan. Hostg the flamboyant petn is a mark of ternatnal pri for Azerbaijan, but gay activists fear lacks the crentials for the event, which wtern Europe has an enthiastic gay followg.
GAY LIFE AZERBAIJAN
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Pk News, Europe's largt gay news service, reported broad ncerns last year that Azerbaijan gay rights rerd "mak eply unsuable" as a host untry. The ternatnal gay webse ially floated the ia of a para takg place between March 22 and March 26, the lead-up to the fals May, but then removed the proposal days later. Sce then, 113 people have joed a Facebook page opposg the plan and a lol gay group has received a ath threat.
BAKU GAY TRAVEL
Fuad Mirgulamli, who joed the page, sisted the Facebook mpaign was not homophobic. "We don't have anythg agast gays, we jt don't want this to be held Baku, " he said.
AZERBAIJAN: FIRST EVER GAY PRI ‘MI RALLY’ HELD UNTRY PAL WH NO ARRTS OR HARASSMENT
Rlan Balh, -founr of the Azeri webse, said gay people the untry would theoretilly like to hold a para, but was out of the qutn the current climate. "Basilly, among Baku's gays and lbians there is no one even dreamg of monstratns or paras. Although lol gay rights activists say they had no volvement the proposal, a man intifyg himself as Iman Mammadov emailed threateng to kill gay Azeris if they anised a pri event.
One 19-year-old gay man Baku said he would happily jo a para but feared for his safety, addg that many gay Azeris only me out of the closet if they wanted to seek asylum abroad. "Even if the ernment allowed the march, you'd still have to fear our homophobic fellow cizens.