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• MEN OM AFGHANISTAN'S SECRET GAY MUNY SAY THEY ARE LIVG THROUGH A 'NIGHTMARE' AND FEAR THAT THE TALIBAN WILL EXECUTE THEM AT ANY MOMENT
• GAY AFGHANISTAN: HOMOEROTICISM AMONG KABUL'S WARRRS
• ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: WHO WAS OMAR MATEEN?
• GAY REFUGEE PLEADS FOR AMERINS TO HELP LGBT AFGHANS
• SHOOTER ORLANDO GAY CLUB NAMED AS US CIZEN OF AFGHAN SCENT
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

MEN OM AFGHANISTAN'S SECRET GAY MUNY SAY THEY ARE LIVG THROUGH A 'NIGHTMARE' AND FEAR THAT THE TALIBAN WILL EXECUTE THEM AT ANY MOMENT

Several gay Afghans spoke to Insir and scribed how they live fear of their life after the Taliban's victory. Unr the prev perd of Taliban le, the ant group executed gay men. One Afghan activist predicted gay people Afghanistan would be "weed out and extermated" by the Taliban.

"I jt hope that somebody and wak me up om this bad dream, " the 37-year-old gay Afghan told Insir durg a phone, who works for the Uned Natns, once enjoyed Afghanistan's vibrant "unrground" gay scene.

Even though homosexualy was illegal, he said he felt relatively safe makg his weekly vis to a clanste karaoke bar Kabul to sg and dance wh other members of the untry's hidn LGBTQ muni. "It was fantastic and so much fun, " Rameen days, Rameen's life, like so many gay Afghans, has been turned upsi down.

GAY AFGHANISTAN: HOMOEROTICISM AMONG KABUL'S WARRRS

"If we get ught, the Taliban will kill , " he told Insir durg a phone Taliban is expected to implement a strgent terpretatn of Sharia law, which means homosexualy would be punishable by ath.

In July, German newspaper Bild reported that a judge om the radil Islamist group vowed to sentence gay men to ath by stong or by beg cshed by a ne-foot wall. Ghulam is so terrified of beg intified as gay and put to ath, that he has not left his home sce the Taliban took over.

ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: WHO WAS OMAR MATEEN?

Sayed*, a 36-year-old gay man om northern Afghanistan's Balkh provce, told Insir via Facebook Msenger that he is also sperately seekg asylum om the new hardle Islamist, he said, has dramatilly changed for the worse the space of a week. Homosexual sex has technilly been punishable by ath Afghanistan for s, but acrdg to the UK Country of Orig Report on Afghanistan, has not been applied sce the end of the Taliban's first regime 2001.

"It's clear to me that as soon as the Taliban know that I am a gay man, they will kill me whout even thkg about , " he said. Sayed told Insir he dreams of one day livg thentilly as a gay man Canada. Activist Nemat Sadat fears that gay people Afghanistan will be "weed out and extermated" by the Taliban.

Nemat Sadat, the first public figure Afghanistan to advote for LGBTQ rights, told Insir that he is helpg gay Afghans like Sayed apply for asylum and leave the was an anizer of a nascent LGBTQ rights movement Afghanistan while workg as a polil science profsor at the Amerin Universy of Afghanistan Kabul. 'It's not hyperbolic to say that gay people will get weed out'He is urgg the ternatnal muny to act quickly to help vulnerable people pe persecutn at the hands of the new regime. "It's not hyperbolic to say that gay people will get weed out and extermated by the Taliban, jt like the Nazis did, " he said.

GAY REFUGEE PLEADS FOR AMERINS TO HELP LGBT AFGHANS

Hamid Zaher, 47, who was one of the first Afghan men to e out publicly, told Insir that while LGBTQ Afghans have always faced risks of vlence and imprisonment at the hands of the thori, those dangers pale parison to the btaly and tolerance of the left Afghanistan 2001 and, after livg Turkey, was able to claim asylum Canada said that, even unr the US-supported ernment, was "a very bad time" for gay men.

SHOOTER ORLANDO GAY CLUB NAMED AS US CIZEN OF AFGHAN SCENT

The msage to the policians, burecrats, and officials the Wt om the gay people of Afghanistan is clear. (* The nam of the gay people that Insir spoke to Afghanistan have been changed to protect their inti).

Now Balkhi says that rare acceptance has put all their liv at risk, as the new Taliban learship Kabul unleash a wave of physil vlence and fear on Afghanistan’s gay, lbian and transgenr populatn. No official statement has been ma, but an terview wh Germany’s Bild newspaper July, one Taliban judge said there were only two punishments for homosexualy – stong or beg cshed unr a wall.

Balkhi said one gay man her neighborhood had been raped after beg found by the Taliban.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

“Homosexualy was wily seen as taboo and cent, ” the report said. Nemat Sadat, an LGBTQ Afghan thor who liv the Uned Stat, said the untry’s gay, lbian and transgenr cizens had helped the untry’s cultural life flourish the 20 years sce the Taliban’s last le. LGBTQ people who spoke to CNN said while very few felt fortable or safe enough to be openly gay, lbian or transgenr before the takeover, many were able to quietly build liv te to their inti.

Hilal, a 25-year-old gay man, said he ed to have a boyiend and had even worked openly to advote for LGBTQ rights Afghanistan. Unr the Taliban’s terpretatn of Sharia law, homosexualy n be punished by ath. One gay man who has been touch wh Sadat, the US-based LGBTQ advote, said he told him he watched om his hidg place the ceilg as Taliban fighters beat the iend who had refed to divulge his lotn.

Another gay man CNN is llg Hasan said he had been hidg a iend’s hoe Kabul for more than a month and was nng out of food and money.

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Hilal, the LGBTQ activist, said he was fur at the US ernment and other Wtern untri who he felt had abandoned him and other gay, lbian and transgenr Afghans. And, a 25-year-old genr non-nformg gay person said they had tried to appear more mascule, but a Taliban fighter beat them wh a plastic pipe when they were seen walkg a street.

Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Afghanistan, and others who do not nform to rigid genr norms, have faced an creasgly sperate suatn and grave threats to their safety and liv sce the Taliban took full ntrol of the untry on Augt 15, 2021. ”[3] A Taliban judge told the German tabloid Bild shortly before the fall of Kabul, “For homosexuals, there n only be two punishments: eher stong, or he mt stand behd a wall that will fall down on him.

”[4] A manual issued by the Taliban’s Mistry of Vice and Virtue 2020 stat that relig lears shall prohib same-sex relatns and that “strong allegatns” of homosexualy shall be referred to the mistry’s district manager for adjuditn and punishment. Gay: A synonym for homosexual many parts of the world; this report, ed specifilly to refer to the sexual orientatn of a man whose primary sexual and romantic attractn is toward other men.