Gay Afghanistan: Homoeroticism Among Kabul

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

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.

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.

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

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. 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 AFGHANISTAN, AFTER THE TALIBAN. HOMOSEXUALY AS TRADN

"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.

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.

‘IF THEY FD OUT I’M GAY, THEY WILL KILL ME ON THE SPOT’: LIFE UNR TALIBAN RULE

"In Taliban-ntrolled Afghanistan, this is the realy for LGBT+ people livg the victim, we'll ll Hanan to protect his inty, had been talkg to a man on social media for three weeks before agreeg to meet, a gay man terrified sce the Taliban took ntrol of the untry, had been promised a safe way out of the was ceived - two members of the Taliban met him and rried out their btal survived but is livg silence, shock, and shame unr a regime tent on not jt nyg, but extguishg the existence of him and we who are like him. “As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, ” Sunak told MP. Promisg the ernment would implement the “vast majory” of Etherton’s remendatns, Wallace said he would fully update the Commons a formal bate about the issue after the about pensatn, Wallace said he hoped to fd “an elegant solutn that match the need and the requirements of those dividuals”, promisg to set this out after Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, was among mpaigners who weled the apology.

Starmer said one of his nstuents, Ken Wright, a former RAF service member who was “forced to leave the job he loved simply bee he was gay”, was the public gallery to hear the apology. 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 ARMY SOLDIER AFGHANISTAN ON ‘DON’T ASK DON’T TELL’

So proclaims a vigoroly relig ‘imam’ om his Inter pulp, makg clear the posn of the vast majory of Mlims regardg homosexualy. 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. 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.

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

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.

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.