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Contents:

• TALIBAN SHOT GAY AFGHAN MAN AD AND SENT GRAPHIC FOOTAGE OF THE MURR TO HIS LOVED ON, BOYIEND SAYS
• GAY UNR THE TALIBAN
• ‘JT LIKE THE NAZIS’: GAY AFGHANS FACE ‘EXTERMATN’ UNR TALIBAN
• GAY AFGHANISTAN: HOMOEROTICISM AMONG KABUL'S WARRRS
• THE TALIBAN RAPED AND BEAT A GAY MAN KABUL AFTER TRICKG HIM TO A MEETG WH A PROMISE OF PE OM AFGHANISTAN, SAYS REPORT
• GAY AFGHAN STUNT ‘MURRED BY TALIBAN’ AS ANTI-LGBTQ+ VLENCE RIS
• GAY AFGHANISTAN, AFTER THE TALIBAN. HOMOSEXUALY AS TRADN
• GAY AFGHAN: THE TALIBAN KILLED MY BOYIEND
• ‘A VIRTUAL ATH SENTENCE’: GAY AFGHANS BRACE FOR UNCERTA FUTURE UNR TALIBAN
• GAY MEN AFGHANISTAN SAY LIFE UNR TALIBAN 'NIGHTMARE,' ULD BE KILLED ON THE SPOT
• 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
• AFGHANISTAN: GAY MAN KABUL 'RAPED AND BEATEN' BY TALIBAN AFTER BEG TRICKED TO MEETG
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

TALIBAN SHOT GAY AFGHAN MAN AD AND SENT GRAPHIC FOOTAGE OF THE MURR TO HIS LOVED ON, BOYIEND SAYS

A gay Afghan man was kidnapped and shot to ath by the Taliban, acrdg to activists who knew him, Pk News was the first to Sabouri of Kabul, Afghanistan, died on Augt 5, activists said. In a statement to Insir, Nemat Sadat, Roshaniya's executive director, said: "Hamed Sabouri was a gay man wh big dreams that have now been shattered.

"Sadat said Sabouri, who had wanted to be a doctor, had "endured discrimatn his whole life for beg gay and his life me to an abpt end wh no one there to help him.

Bahar scribed his former boyiend as a "very kd boy" who was "btally killed" bee of his said he thought Sabouri was jokg when he told him July that the Taliban was targetg him and was " danger" for beg gay.

GAY UNR THE TALIBAN

He is gay, a nvert to Christiany and a member of the Hazara ethnic mory – three groups that have been historilly persecuted by the Taliban. In public statements July, one Taliban judge said there were only two punishments for homosexualy – stong or beg cshed unr a toppled wall. “He was threateng to jump off a buildg bee he thought would be a ls paful way to die than gettg ught and behead by the Taliban as a gay man.

“The Taliban is well known to have executed many LGBTQ people when was power and there have been reports of gay men beg murred sce took over Augt this year, ” said Aws Jubair, director of the Aman Project, a Turkey-based group that advot for the LGBTQ muny the Middle East. "Life is hell for every LGBT Afghan, " Bahar, a gay man and member of Behht Collective, told the outlet, also addg that, "Taliban terrorists are worse than wild animals.

Some gay men the untry have been scbbg or even letg their social media acunts, as the Taliban will regularly search for profil wh LGBTQ+ ntent. "Sadat, an activist who helps gay men flee across the borr to neighborg Pakistan, said he has chosen to stay the untry and help others pe the year, a gay man g the psdonym Gabir reported his boyiend had been seized by the Taliban. "The ath of Hamed Sabouri is further proof that the Taliban will not stop until they eradite all gay people om Afghanistan, " Sadat said.

‘JT LIKE THE NAZIS’: GAY AFGHANS FACE ‘EXTERMATN’ UNR TALIBAN

Rameen, a young gay Afghan, has lost unt of the number of tim they’ve been lured to dangero suatns by men they believed they were meetg for Photos/Massoud Hossai. “As soon as the Taliban know that I am a gay man, they will kill me whout even thkg about , ” 36-year-old “Sayed” told Bs Insir Saturday. Its prev regime killed at least a dozen homosexual men by cshg them to ath unr stone walls toppled by tanks or bulldozers, acrdg to a report issued by the Atralian ernment.

“It’s not hyperbolic to say that gay people will get weed out and extermated by the Taliban, jt like the Nazis did, ” said Nemat Sadat, a former profsor at Kabul’s Amerin Universy of Afghanistan who fled to Los Angel 2013 after receivg ath threats. Details magaze discsed the homosocial standards of much of Islamic culture, based on separatn of the genrs, and reviewed Trolley Prs’ 2003 book “Taliban, ” which photographer Thomas Dworzak prented imag of effemate Taliban warrrs that he unearthed. ” I wanted to go to Kandahar bee s homosexual reputatn seemed most pronounced, and Mohammed’s stori about the cy volved relatnships between grown men, rather than a man wh a youth, as seemed more mon elsewhere.

At the pool, when I qutned the swimmers through my translator about the Taliban’s notns about body image, several ma a joke of the qutn, claimg that the old regime was ma up of gay men––Kandahar “playboys” as they lled them––who loved to see naked, even as Afghan men joked about the Taliban beg gay, they did not seem terribly put off by the subject of homosexualy.

GAY AFGHANISTAN: HOMOEROTICISM AMONG KABUL'S WARRRS

The owner Wais, an Afghan Amerin om New Jersey now back his homeland, knew I was vtigatg Kabul’s gay si, but I was not out to his staff. He played wh the mcl on my arms, parg them to his own, his other hand bbg his was when the 20-year-old man simply blurted out, “Munir said you like to do homosexual thgs. The Taliban raped and beat a gay man after dupg him to meetg them, a report om ITV outlet said that Hanan, a psdonym given to protect his inty, had been speakg to a man on social media who promised to help him fd a safe way out of LGBTQ people have been sperately tryg to flee the untry followg the Taliban agreed to meet the man Kabul after speakg for three weeks onle, who unbeknownst to him were actually Taliban men.

THE TALIBAN RAPED AND BEAT A GAY MAN KABUL AFTER TRICKG HIM TO A MEETG WH A PROMISE OF PE OM AFGHANISTAN, SAYS REPORT

Insir recently spoke to men om Afghanistan's secret gay muny, who said they are livg through a "nightmare" and fear of their futur unr Taliban le. In July, German newspaper Bild reported that a Taliban judge vowed to sentence gay men to ath by stong or beg cshed by a ne-foot activists told Insir that gay men would be lured to their aths through social media even durg the prev ernments. This was unr Ashraf Ghani and Hamid Karzai, " he Zaher, an Afghan thor and gay rights activist, told Insir that gay people would often vanish after meetg up wh men they met on social media, who turned out to be ernment officials warned that the Taliban were likely to e the same tactics.

The abductn, torture and murr of a gay aspirg medil stunt, who was stopped at a traffic checkpot by Taliban gunmen, is the latt victim of a strg of vlence agast Afghanistan’s LGBTQ+ muny, human rights groups Sabouri’s fay and partner says he was taed at a checkpot Kabul Augt and tortured for three days before beg shot. Two more siar stori about the recurrence of Pashtun homosexualy, om the New York Tim (Febary 2002) and Tim of London (January 2002), n be found the Afghanistan News & Reports 2002-04.

GAY AFGHAN STUNT ‘MURRED BY TALIBAN’ AS ANTI-LGBTQ+ VLENCE RIS

From the wtern shor of ancient Moroc across thoands of sandy Islamic to the far eastern islands of Indonia, almost half the distance of our known world, homosexual behavr is pronounced anathema to the fahful.

GAY AFGHANISTAN, AFTER THE TALIBAN. HOMOSEXUALY AS TRADN

But simple and superst scrib of the fahs have wrten reams of florid, passnate and volnic vers that embrace an artificial dichotomy of homo-and-hetero sexual and emotnal orientatn. Bis s natural occurrence our gen and nrons, another reason homosexual behavr and sire has not been stamped out by every nceivable type of secular cure and sacred persecutn is that homosexualy serv both relign and culture well. It is perhaps one of the great anthropologil paradox (if not hypocrisi) that the history and behavr of homosexualy has been rried down through fifteen centuri by genr-segregated Mlim cultur and, as well, by male Christian monastic nferatns.

GAY AFGHAN: THE TALIBAN KILLED MY BOYIEND

A thoughtful rear who engag cross-cultural studi will not get far before they disver what many wtern lbigay people already know about the digeno and hidn homosexual tradn practiced, lol varieti, by untls unmarried and married men Arab/Mlim untri. (6) The great Mlim emphasis on fay life renrs homosexualy far ls threateng to Mlim societi than to Wtern on (Mlim men seekg formally to marry each other remas unimagable). In most morn Islamic ‘cultural’ (premaral) homosexual behavr there is a mute unrstandg that sex is mutually nsensual, temporary and that ’s a form of pannship, if not affectn, among peers.

Whether the activy is mutual or forceful, there is an almost universal attu the eastern cultur that such sexual dulgence is not ‘gay’, that is, ’s not sex or love between two men who intify as homosexuals. ) Rather, a llective mental shell game the meang of sex is re-amed: heterosexual men engage homosexual behavr which the younger guy is not a ‘fem’ but obedient and passive and the olr one is not a ‘butch queer’ but assertive and active. It stirs up, aga, trigug issu of homosexual inty vs homosexual behavr: do behavr fe inty or is inty separate om behavr–and how do behavr and inty terface wh sexual orientatn…?

The rult is that vlatns of ternatnal human rights, pecially for women and gays, are jtified by opprsive ernments g the ‘higher’ Koranic dictat.

‘A VIRTUAL ATH SENTENCE’: GAY AFGHANS BRACE FOR UNCERTA FUTURE UNR TALIBAN

And perhaps bee the ethnic Phtuns who domate Kandahar are the most religly nservative of Afghanistan’s major ethnic groups, they have, by most acunts, a higher cince of homosexual relatns.

” Followg the mullah’s math, this suggts that between 18% and 45% of men here engage homosexual sex–signifintly higher than the 3% to 7% of Amerin men who, acrdg to studi, intify themselv as homosexual. It’s not only relig thori who scribe homosexual sex as mon among the Mohammed Nasem Zafar, a profsor at Kandahar Medil College, timat that about 50% of the cy’s male rints have sex wh men or boys at some pot their liv.

Richardson, the psychiatry profsor, says would be wrong to ll Afghan men homosexual, sce their cisn to have sex wh men is not a reflectn of what Wterners ll genr inty. Homosexualy is not unrstood as anythg natural or acceptable and the ia of mutual same-sex pleasure or romance is alien to the vast majory who have never enuntered such ias.

GAY MEN AFGHANISTAN SAY LIFE UNR TALIBAN 'NIGHTMARE,' ULD BE KILLED ON THE SPOT

For some of the married-wh-kids men, ’s also possible that some of them are really gay and this tradnal nqut of younger guys serv their secret very well.

But even here the gay man ns a risk sce the younger man is probably heterosexual and knows (after parg not wh his own peers) the rol and lims expected of both of them.

Rather ’s a larger overview of the new ernment’s hoped-for attu toward legislatg human rights to a long opprsed populace–cludg gay and lbian cizens. 22 will disntue executns of people charged wh sodomy and will likely adopt a more tolerant policy on human rights for gays, acrdg to a spokperson for the Northern Alliance, the Afghan ary factn that fought agast the Taliban.

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

Am said he uld not predict how the new terim ernment would addrs specific human rights issu, such as anti-gay persecutn, but said he was certa the ernment-sponsored ab of women and mori unr the Taliban ernment would be disntued. Bmberg said that while Afghanistan’s nservative, Islamic tradns would make unlikely that Karzai would openly embrace gay rights, he said the changg ndns brought about by the oter of the Taliban will enable Karzai to at least put an end to dranian practice such as summary executns of gays. Sce the Uned Stat began s war agast terrorism late September, gay rights advot have exprsed ncern that many of the Arab and Islamic untri that signed on as aln partners the war routely treat gays as crimals.

Gay rights anizatns, cludg the Internatnal Lbian & Gay Human Rights Commissn, said they regnize the need for the Uned Stat to align self wh Islamic and Arab natns the war agast terrorism. But they said the Uned Stat and other Wtern alli should e their relatnship wh Arab and Islamic untri to persua those ernments to improve ndns for gays. Hodgett said that while the Bonn agreement is silent on the qutn of anti-gay persecutn, he is hopeful that the agreement’s ll for the tablishment of an pennt judiciary and the creatn of a pluralistic mocracy would lay the groundwork for curtailg persecutn of mori, cludg gays.

AFGHANISTAN: GAY MAN KABUL 'RAPED AND BEATEN' BY TALIBAN AFTER BEG TRICKED TO MEETG

Gay Mlims hopeful Faisal Alam, founr of the gay Islamic group Al Fatiha (), said his group is monorg the latt velopments Afghanistan and is utly optimistic that the climate for gays there will improve, at least somewhat. ” Alam said that while groups have formed over the years reprentg gays a number of Islamic untri, he is unaware of the existence of any gay Afghan group. The lack of such an anizatn, and the lack of any visible prence of a gay muny Afghanistan, means that those who favor improvements the treatment of gays Afghanistan mt direct their attentn “to our own ernments, ” Alam said.

Alam and Michael Hefl, director of Out Front, an Amnty Internatnal project that monors anti-gay persecutn, said RAWA’s strong human rights posns and s outspoken efforts to end discrimatn agast women Afghanistan make the group a potential ally for Afghan gays.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

Bmberg noted that, wh Rabbani’s alli playg a signifint role the new terim ernment, the issue of whether anti-gay persecutn will end remas qutn. To ll for trials or vtigatns of past human rights vlatns, cludg the persecutn of gays, “will open a n of worms for the new people g to power, ” Bmberg said, bee many of them have been volved such vlatns. Two more siar stori about the recurrence of Pashtun homosexualy, om the New York Tim (Febary 2002) and Tim of London (January 2002), n be found the Afghanistan News & Reports 2002-04 this se.