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AXEGHANISTAN DAY 3: TALIBAN GONE, GAYS COME OUT

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SOON AFTER Amerin troops entered Afghanistan followg the events of 9/11/2001, reports began to appear major prs outlets documentg a phenomenon that had prevly received snt attentn: wispread homosexual activy among Afghan men, particular among the Pashtun of the southern regn of Kandahar. It seemed that Wtern forc sent to Afghanistan to liberate Afghan women had unwtgly liberated Afghan homosexuals, and Wtern journalists weren’t sure what to make of that. The ia of homosexualy among gged Afghan fighters was treated—often wh the same article—both as a cultural cursy and as an stance of abive pedophilia.

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