“The only difference between before and now is that earlier, we uld be sent to jail for beg gay. Now, we will be shot ad.”
Contents:
- GAY AFGHANISTAN: HOMOEROTICISM AMONG KABUL'S WARRRS
- AFGHANISTAN: GAY MAN KABUL 'RAPED AND BEATEN' BY TALIBAN AFTER BEG TRICKED TO MEETG
- GAY AFGHANISTAN, AFTER THE TALIBAN. HOMOSEXUALY AS TRADN
- ‘IF THEY FD OUT I’M GAY, THEY WILL KILL ME ON THE SPOT’: LIFE UNR TALIBAN RULE
- GAY ARMY SOLDIER AFGHANISTAN ON ‘DON’T ASK DON’T TELL’
- 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 AFGHANISTAN: HOMOEROTICISM AMONG KABUL'S WARRRS
Afghan men skatg along the edg of gay life Last fall (2004) I found myself Afghanistan, a natn at the center of the upheaval and change roilg * gay afghanistan soldiers *
Durg the two s that the Uned Stat occupied the untry, homosexualy remaed crimalized by vague legal language that endangered all queer people, forcg them to sentially live unrground.
“In the first week of the takeover, the Taliban beiend a gay man on Facebook and told him that they n get him out of Afghanistan.
AFGHANISTAN: GAY MAN KABUL 'RAPED AND BEATEN' BY TALIBAN AFTER BEG TRICKED TO MEETG
* gay afghanistan soldiers *
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.
GAY AFGHANISTAN, AFTER THE TALIBAN. HOMOSEXUALY AS TRADN
” 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.
‘IF THEY FD OUT I’M GAY, THEY WILL KILL ME ON THE SPOT’: LIFE UNR TALIBAN RULE
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.
I don’t thk I’ll fet those nights Munir’s hoe, but provid I thk only a ht at what homosocial and homosexual behavr means Afghanistan. Troops and diplomats didn't have enough to worry about tryg to unrstand Afghan culture, a new report suggts an entire regn the untry is pg wh a sexual inty unclassified study om a ary rearch un southern Afghanistan tails how homosexual behavr is unually mon among men the large ethnic group known as Pashtuns -- though they seem to be plete nial about study, obtaed by Fox News, found that Pashtun men monly have sex wh other men, admire other men physilly, have sexual relatnships wh boys and shun women both socially and sexually -- yet they pletely reject the label of "homosexual.
Army medic and her lleagu had wh Afghan men the southern provce of one stance, a group of lol male terpreters had ntracted gonorrhea anally but refed to believe they uld have ntracted sexually -- "bee they were not homosexuals.
GAY ARMY SOLDIER AFGHANISTAN ON ‘DON’T ASK DON’T TELL’
"Apparently, acrdg to the report, Pashtun men terpret the Islamic prohibn on homosexualy to mean they nnot "love" another man -- but that don't mean they n't e men for "sexual gratifitn.
"The report nclud that the wispread homosexual behavr stems om several factors, cludg the "severe segregatn" of women the society and the "prohibive" st of U.
THE TALIBAN RAPED AND BEAT A GAY MAN KABUL AFTER TRICKG HIM TO A MEETG WH A PROMISE OF PE OM AFGHANISTAN, SAYS REPORT
Troops are monly tght trag for Afghanistan that the "effemate characteristics" of Pashtun men are "normal" and not an ditor of homosexualy, the report said U.
Forc should not "dismiss" the unique versn of homosexualy that is actually practiced the regn "out of sire to avoid wtern disfort. Report by ITV News digal journalist Jocelyn Evans"Two people raped him, they beat him, and then mand his father's number so they uld tell him his son was gay.