Closer ti wh Rsia and strict new laws mean gay people live fear as vlence go unpunished. Coda Story reports
Contents:
- RABOW RAGE: KYRGYZ RAIL AGAST LGBT COMMUNY AFTER CENTRAL ASIA'S 'FIRST' GAY-PRI MARCH
- GAY LIFE KYRGYZSTAN
- GAYS FEAR NEW LAW WILL DRIVE THEM OUT OF KYRGYZSTAN
- 'ALL OF WILL BE VICTIMS AT SOME POT': WHY BISHKEK'S ONLY GAY CLUB CLOSED
- KYRGYZSTAN GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN SEPTEMBER 2023
- ANTI-GAY BILL SPIR ATTACKS KYRGYZSTAN
- ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN KYRGYZSTAN PROMPTS FEAR OF RSIAN FLUENCE
- NFL ACH BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. MEN’S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY
RABOW RAGE: KYRGYZ RAIL AGAST LGBT COMMUNY AFTER CENTRAL ASIA'S 'FIRST' GAY-PRI MARCH
LGBT Rights Kyrgyzstan: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * gay in kyrgyzstan *
Suggt Public Opn DataPublic OpnAcceptance of homosexuals as neighbors?
3%) Mentned homosexualsDid not mentn homosexuals (26.
GAY LIFE KYRGYZSTAN
The fact that a small group of LGBT supporters joed a Women's Day march Bishkek has unleashed a storm of anger, wh one lawmaker warng agast turng Kyrgyzstan to "Gayistan." * gay in kyrgyzstan *
HistoryHomosexual activy Kyrgyzstan?
GAYS FEAR NEW LAW WILL DRIVE THEM OUT OF KYRGYZSTAN
* gay in kyrgyzstan *
Homosexual activy Kyrgyzstan is legal.
'ALL OF WILL BE VICTIMS AT SOME POT': WHY BISHKEK'S ONLY GAY CLUB CLOSED
Kyrgyzstan prents a difficult challenge for homosexual people. It is polilly unstable wh a recent history of vlence among major ethnic groups; is mostly ral wh a populatn that is 80% Mlim and tn levels are low. Corptn is mon which rults wispread poverty. In such an environment any chance for tolerance of gays is slim spe the fact that same-sex activy was crimalized 1998, before the breakdown of the Soviet lers Kyrgyzstan. * gay in kyrgyzstan *
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KYRGYZSTAN GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN SEPTEMBER 2023
A draft law banng "homosexual propaganda" Kyrgyzstan uld be the last straw for the Central Asian untry's ightened gay muny. * gay in kyrgyzstan *
What many nsir the first gay-pri march ever held Central Asia has unleashed a storm of ntroversy Kyrgyzstan, wh threats of vlence agast participants, unterprotts, and fiery parliamentary bate over whether to re civil society.
"The men who do not want to have children and the girls who do not want to pour not only be cursed, they mt be beaten, " Kyrgyz parliament puty Jyldyz Mabekova wrote on Facebook of the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) supporters who took part the march the Kyrgyz pal, wh several of them rryg rabow flags.
From behd two heavy metal doors, Nika, a gay man who recently set up a small LGBT support group Kyrgyzstan’s pal, ggerly opens the door. Popularly known as the “anti-gay propaganda law” has unleashed a mpaign of vlence and timidatn agast the LGBT muny, wh a near 300% crease reported attacks sce the legislatn was people have been asslted, cludg one gay man who was beaten unnsc and gang-raped this year. It’s a iends’ get-together – except this is now the only safe way they n meet bee of the spate of homophobic attacks.
ANTI-GAY BILL SPIR ATTACKS KYRGYZSTAN
Kev Maxen, an assistant strength and ndng ach for the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach major U.S. profsnal men's sports to publicly e out as gay. * gay in kyrgyzstan *
“If I uld afford , I would leave tomorrow, ” says Sergo, one of his ’s dner party: ‘The new law enuraged everyone to go after , whout fear of beg punished’ Illtratn: Andrew North/Coda StoryLeang eastIt was never easy beg lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr Kyrgyzstan’s patriarchal, Mlim-majory society.
Until recently there were even several gay clubs over the past few years, ternal and external forc have “dragged the LGBT muny to a battle for Kyrgyz inty, ” says Met Tiulegenov, chair of ternatnal and parative polics at the Amerin Universy and landlocked, Kyrgyzstan has been a geopolil and enomic supplint ever sce beme pennt after the llapse of the Soviet Unn, always vulnerable to bigger powers. First me a virtual clone of Mosw’s offensive on NGOs, wh legislatn mandg all groups receivg external fundg clare themselv as “foreign agents”, targeted at human rights groups, cludg those advotg for the LGBT, March 2014, MPs om the lg aln announced the “anti-gay propaganda” measur, wh even harsher penalti on paper than the Rsian versn. In effect, beg anti-wtern and homophobic have bee two ends of the same bone a Kyrgyz versn of dog-whistle polics.
“Beg anti-LGBT has been very profable for the natnalists, ” says the meantime, homophobic vlence has risen.
ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN KYRGYZSTAN PROMPTS FEAR OF RSIAN FLUENCE
Rsian TV channels, wh their explic anti-wtern, homophobic bias, have a solid dience.
“It mak me feel guilty about beg gay when I hear some Rsian programm, ” says Nika.
“‘Look there’s the faggot’ another stunt shouted out when he saw me my universy fé, ” says Ilya, another dner more than two years sce the Kyrgyz parliament first troduced the “anti-gay propaganda” measur amid a flurry of pro-Rsian rhetoric, has stalled on actually makg law.
NFL ACH BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. MEN’S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY
MPs gave the bill large majori on s ial two readgs, but no date has been set for the necsary third readg, and would still need the print’s signature ’s siar uncertaty over the “foreign agents” bill targetg NGOs, which was first troduced 2013 – no one knows if or when parliament will bate them so, the police have reportedly been g the anti-gay propaganda legislatn to jtify gog after LGBT dividuals and then extortg brib. “They say they are enforcg the law, ” says Pasha, a gay man who was forced to hand over 4, 000 Kyrgyz Som (about £41) – a large sum a untry wh an average wage of ls than £200 per Kyrgyz journalists have reportedly rorted to self-censorg stori on homophobic attacks, or anythg to do wh the LGBT muny, se they are acced of publishg “pro-gay” propaganda. Dpe repeated requts to talk to Kyrgyz MPs and other officials about their Rsian-spired legislative plans, all said they were too by, or never returned any troductn of the so-lled ‘gay propaganda law’ has seen the suatn for the LGBT muny terrate.
“They would jt say ‘we don’t take s om gays’.
In May last year activists om a Bishkek activist group lled Labrys and several other LGBT advocy anisatns were gatherg at a rtrant for the Internatnal Day agast Homophobia and Transphobia when they were attacked by a stormed the rtrant, chantg abe, and one woman was jured. Same-sex sexual activy was crimalized Kyrgyzstan 1998, but the Kyrgyz lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) muny experienc route discrimatn and vlence. Emulatg Rsia’s 2013 law banng “homosexual propaganda, ” pos a threat to the human rights of the LGBT muny the untry and the regn at large.