Chechnya’s Horrific ‘Gay Purge’: A 4-Year Timele of Abductn, Torture and Murr | Hor, the Queer Social Network

Contents:

• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• GAY MAN TORTURED AND KILLED CANCúN AFTER REVEALG HE WAS LIVG WH HIV
• GAY MEN ‘ELECTROCUTED AND STNG UP BY LEGS’ NEW WAVE OF TORTURE CHECHNYA, SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP
• HOLN WHE, GAY TEEN TORTURED ON GRDR DATE, SEEKS HATE CRIME CHARG
• ABDUCTN, BEATGS, ELECTROCUTN: GAY MAN SCRIB TORTURE CHECHNYA
• 'TORTURED WH ELECTRICY': CHECHEN GAY MEN REUNT DAYS OF ABE
• CHECHNYA’S HORRIFIC ‘GAY PURGE’: A 4-YEAR TIMELE OF ABDUCTN, TORTURE AND MURR

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

It is unclear how many of the men publicly or privately intified as gay or were part of gay muni and works that had been tablished Germany before the Nazi rise to power. However, the Nazi mpaign agast homosexualy and the regime’s zealo enforcement of Paragraph 175 ma life Nazi Germany dangero for gay men. The latter term dated to 1869, when a pamphlet advotg for crimalizatn of sexual relatns between men ed the term “Homosexualät” (“homosexualy”).

In ntrast, the work of gay men that veloped around thor Adolf Brand and his anizatn Gemeschaft r Eigenen (The Communy of Kdred Spirs) took a different approach.

Gay newspapers and journals, such as Die Frndschaft (Friendship) and Der Eigene (translated varly, but this ntext implyg “his own man”), ntributed to the growth of gay works. In a further latn, the Nazis ed new laws and police practic to arrt and ta whout trial a limed number of gay men begng late 1933 and early 1934. Three events the years 1934–1936 radilized the Nazi regime’s mpaign agast homosexualy and led to more systematic opprsn of gay men.

GAY MAN TORTURED AND KILLED CANCúN AFTER REVEALG HE WAS LIVG WH HIV

Fally, 1936 SS lear and Chief of the German Police Herich Himmler tablished the Reich Central Office for the Combatg of Homosexualy and Abortn (Reichszentrale zur Bekämpfung r Homosexualät und r Abtreibung). The notorly homophobic Himmler saw both homosexualy and abortn as threats to the German birth rate and th to the fate of the German people. Unverg the histori of gay men durg the Nazi era was difficult for much of the twentieth century bee of ntued prejudice agast same-sex sexualy and the ongog enforcement of Paragraph 175.

The efforts of scholars and German gay rights anizatns have helped to brg the persecutn of gay men unr the Nazis to the public eye. In the 1990s, the German ernment acknowledged “persecuted homosexuals” (“verfolgten Homosexuellen”) as victims of the Nazi regime. For the first time, gay men who had suffered at the hands of the Nazis beme eligible for moary pensatn om the German ernment for jtic perpetrated agast them.

A few years later, May 2008, the Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted unr Nazism (Denkmal für die im Natnalsozialism verfolgten Homosexuellen) was unveiled nearby Tiergarten park central Berl. One gay man told me how, Syria, he had been taed for four months, durg which he and other male tae were raped anally wh sticks and bottl.

GAY MEN ‘ELECTROCUTED AND STNG UP BY LEGS’ NEW WAVE OF TORTURE CHECHNYA, SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP

There’s a creepy, homoerotic-horror feel to the film, and Rubenste mak a likable, good-lookg lead- which mak what happens to him all the more upsettg. He travels to the untry to meet his boyiend’s mother who had no ia her ad son was gay or had a lover, and the sry brother Francis (Pierre-Yv Cardal).

HOLN WHE, GAY TEEN TORTURED ON GRDR DATE, SEEKS HATE CRIME CHARG

For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsGay men are beg electrocuted and stng up by their legs a new wave of torture Chechnya, acrdg to a human rights Rights Watch said terviewed four gay men who claimed they fled the nservative, predomantly Mlim regn after police allegedly beat and shocked them wh electric currents while they were stng up by their ternatnal group, headquartered New York, said the acunts ma by the men, who were allegedly taed for between three and 20 days between December 2018 and Febary 2019, were nsistent wh a plat an LGBT+ activist filed , January this year, a warng appeared on social media urgg all vulnerable men and women to flee Chechnya as was feared a new “anti-gay purge” was 2017, activists said more than 100 gay men were taed and tortured Chechnya durg a “purge”, and that some were killed. LGBT+ rights around the globeShow all 9There was no immediate ment on the report om Chechen officials, who rejected the allegatns Rights Watch said a report on Wednday that the men terviewed reported beg beaten, huiated and held for up to 20 days wh limed four said terrogators also mand rmatn about other gay men Chechnya, acrdg to the man said he had been livg elsewhere but returned to Chechnya to attend a fay weddg. Support ee-thkg journalism and attend Inpennt eventsHuman Rights Watch said thought the 2017 mistreatment of gay men was not aquately Loksha, the anisatn’s associate director for Europe and Central Asia, said: “The absolute impuny for the anti-gay purge of 2017 embolns the perpetrators.

A teenager who was horrifilly tortured after meetg someone on gay datg app Grdr has reunted the oral as he prs for hate crime Whe, then 18, was throttled, had his wrists cut and neck sliced a bathtub of bloody water June 2020. The attack happened when he met Chance Sene, 19, for a first date, he, who is om Louisiana and is openly gay, was physilly srred for life. —Warng: This report ntas graphic and upsettg tails—Whe and Sene met on Grdr, which is primarily ed by gay and bisexual men, and had been msagg for about a month before meetg up at Sene's home.

ABDUCTN, BEATGS, ELECTROCUTN: GAY MAN SCRIB TORTURE CHECHNYA

Lafayette Police Department said they are not vtigatg the cint as a hate crime, but Whe and his fay say the attack was homophobilly pot to a Facebook acunt, purportedly belongg to Sene, that featur a profile picture of Jefey Dahmer, the nnibal serial killer who murred 16 men and boys om 1978 to 1991, as evince. Rayette Gaspard said her son was a "good kid, " addg: "He stands for the gay Pri thg, he's won all sorts of trophi for actg, he's a good kid, he don't do dgs. Six police officers have been spend after beg acced of beatg and torturg a gay uple for over four hours bee they were homosexual.

'TORTURED WH ELECTRICY': CHECHEN GAY MEN REUNT DAYS OF ABE

Acrdg to lol media, six ps om the cy of Santo Tome the northern Argente provce of Santa Fe have been spend followg an alleged attack on a gay uple. The two men were then taken to the police statn where the police disvered that they were both gay and, acrdg to one of the victims, thgs beme worse om there.

He speculated that his “different appearance” is probably what ma thori spect he’s Denber, the puty director of Human Rights Watch’s Europe and Central Asia divisn, said that Ahmed is far om beg the only person to face this type of police quiry Rights Watch has terviewed several men who have been taed Chechnya on spicn of beg gay or bisexual. He did not specify which untry, to protect his safety, but he said his partner liv a European untry where gay rights are highly rpected. ” In 2017, followg the reports of the ial “anti-gay purge, ” Karimov stated, “You n't ta and opprs those who don't exist the republic, ” seemgly nyg the existence of any gay people Chechnya.

CHECHNYA’S HORRIFIC ‘GAY PURGE’: A 4-YEAR TIMELE OF ABDUCTN, TORTURE AND MURR

"It's a feelg like they are breakg every bone of every jot your body at the same time, " he is a gay man om Chechnya, the predomantly Mlim regn southern Rsia where dozens of men spected of beg gay were reportedly taed and tortured, and at least three of them were allegedly his oral, Anzor fled Chechnya and is now hidg Mosw, fearg not only for his own life but for the safety of his relativ.

Gay rights activists' requts to hold ralli are routely rejected by officials and any ralli that do take place are often attacked by anti-gay thugs. But "this anti-gay purge, sanctned by top lol thori, is unprecented, " said Tanya Loksha, the Rsia program ordator for Human Rights Watch.

Another gay man, who spoke on ndn of anonymy for fear of reprisals, told the AP that he was also arrted Chechnya and held wh dozens of others. "Related: Rsian Police Deta Gay-Rights Activists at May Day MarchThe abe was first reported April by the pennt newspaper Novaya Gazeta, which said that about 100 men spected of beg gay were round up and tortured, and that at least three were killed.