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• GAY AFGHAN STUNT ‘MURRED BY TALIBAN’ AS ANTI-LGBTQ+ VLENCE RIS
• GAY UNR THE TALIBAN
• TALIBAN SHOT GAY AFGHAN MAN AD AND SENT GRAPHIC FOOTAGE OF THE MURR TO HIS LOVED ON, BOYIEND SAYS
• TALIBAN WILL ‘WEED OUT AND EXTERMATE’ LGBT+ PEOPLE AFGHANISTAN, WARNS EXILED GAY THOR
• GAY MEN AFGHANISTAN SAY LIFE UNR TALIBAN 'NIGHTMARE,' ULD BE KILLED ON THE SPOT
• THIS GAY MAN ESPED FROM AFGHANISTAN. AMERI HAS ABANDONED HIM A ‘TERRIFYG’ LIMBO.‘I AM IN A PRISON’THE PLIGHT OF A GAY AFGHAN MAN WHO PED THE UNTRY BUT IS NOW LANGUISHG A REFUGEE MP A HOMOPHOBIC UNTRY IS SHARED BY HUNDREDS OF OTHERS, SAY LGBTQ MPAIGNERS.TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED DEC. 16, 2021 1:08PM EST / PUBLISHED DEC. 16, 2021 12:42PM EST EXCLIVEPHOTO ILLTRATN BY ELIZABETH BROCKWAY/THE DAILY BEAST/GETTYC SAYS ALL HE N SEE ARE TALL BUILDGS SURROUNDG HIM. “IT FEELS LIKE I HAVE PED ATH, BUT NOW I AM A PRISON,” HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THROUGH A TRANSLATOR. “I AM A BOUNDARY SURROUND BY FOUR WALLS, NOT ALLOWED TO GO ANYWHERE.”C IS 26, GAY, ORIGALLY OM KABUL, AND HAS BEEN A REFUGEE MP FOR TWO AND A HALF MONTHS, HAVG PED AFGHANISTAN SEPTEMBER FEAR FOR HIS LIFE. C ASKS THE DAILY BEAST TO NOT E HIS REAL NAME. HIS FAY IS STILL AFGHANISTAN, AND HE WORRI ABOUT BOTH THEIR REJECTN AND WHAT THE TALIBAN WOULD DO TO THEM IF HIS INTY WERE KNOWN. HE ALSO ASKS NOT TO NAME THE REFUGEE MP, OR S LOTN, AS HE FEARS FOR HIS OWN LIFE AND SAFETY WH THE MP SHOULD HIS SEXUALY BE DISVERED. C FEELS FOTTEN BY AMERI, AND WORRIED THAT HE WILL BE PORTED BACK TO AFGHANISTAN “WHERE I FEAR I WILL BE KILLED,” HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. HE IS NOT ALONE. THE ADVOCY ANIZATN RABOW RAILROAD, WHICH HAS BEEN HELPG FACILATE THE PE AND RETTLEMENT OF QUEER AFGHANS, TIMAT THERE MAY BE “HUNDREDS” LIKE HIM—LGBTQ PEOPLE WHO MANAGED TO PE THE UNTRY, BUT WHO HAVE NOT YET MA TO THE U.S., THE UK OR OTHER WTERN UNTRI, AND ARE STEAD REFUGEE MPS UNTRI HOSTILE TO LGBTQ RIGHTS AND PEOPLE.JILL KELLEY, A FORMER HONORARY AMBASSADOR TO U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND WHO HELPED EVACUATE HUNDREDS—CLUDG C—DURG THE CHAOTIC DASH TO LEAVE THE UNTRY WHEN THE TALIBAN ASSUMED NTROL OF , SAYS THE STATE DEPARTMENT HAS “BEHAVED TERRIBLY” TOWARDS C, AND OTHER LGBTQ AFGHANS LIKE HIM. “HE IS AN NOCENT LGBTQ ACTIVIST. THIS IS WHAT HUMANARIAN EFFORTS ARE MA FOR,” KELLEY TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “IF HE IS ULTIMATELY SENT BACK TO AFGHANISTAN, OUR ERNMENT HAS FAILED HORRIBLY. IT IS TERRIFYG AND SHAMG. LGBTQ RIGHTS ARE A KEY PART OF THE BIN ADMISTRATN’S PLATFORM, AND ’S TIME FOR THEM TO PUT THEIR MONEY WHERE THEIR MOUTH IS. WE ARE SUPPOSED TO SET AN EXAMPLE TO THE WORLD AROUND HUMAN RIGHTS. THE LENS OF OUR VALU AND OUR MOCRACY WILL BE SHOWN BY WHATEVER THIS YOUNG MAN’S FATE IS.”MARK PFEIFLE, PUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT AND PUTY NATNAL SECURY ADVISER FOR STRATEGIC MUNITNS AND GLOBAL OUTREACH AT THE WHE HOE OM 2007 TO 2009, ALSO HELPED C’S EVACUATN. HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT THE UNED STAT “MT BRG PEOPLE HERE WHOSE LIV WILL BE STROYED IF THEY ARE SENT BACK TO AFGHANISTAN. THEY SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO A PLACE WHERE THEY N LIVE AND HAVE A FUTURE.”THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT DID NOT RPOND TO REPEATED REQUTS FOR MENT ON C’S SPECIFIC SE, AND WHY HE WAS STILL THE MP HE IS —OR WHAT WAS DOG FOR LGBTQ AFGHANS REFUGEE MPS ANTI-LGBTQ UNTRI.INSTEAD, ASKED THE DAILY BEAST TO LAY PUBLISHG THIS STORY UNTIL AFTER S ANNOUNCEMENT OF A SPECIAL ENVOY FOR AFGHAN WOMEN, GIRLS AND AT-RISK POPULATNS ON THURSDAY. THIS PERSON, AN OFFICIAL DITED, WOULD BE FOCED ON ISSU FACG LGBTQ AFGHANS. THE OFFICIAL ALSO SENT A TAILED LIST OF THE VAR WAYS REFUGE N APPLY TO ENTER AMERI. KELLEY AND PFEIFLE SIST THEY HAVE PASSED ON C’S TAILS TO OFFICIALS, AND TRIED TO RAISE HIS SE NUMERO TIM TO NO AVAIL. THE DAILY BEAST—WH C’S NSENT—HAS OFFERED TO PASS HIS TAILS TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT, BUT NO OFFICIAL HAS, AT THE TIME OF WRG, BEEN TOUCH TO TAKE THEM.KIMAHLI POWELL, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF RABOW RAILROAD, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT THE CHAOS AND SPERATN OF LATE AUGT MANY AFGHANS, CLUDG LGBTQ PEOPLE, SHED TO GET OUT OF THE UNTRY ANY WAY THEY ULD, SOMETIM WHOUT KNOWG WHICH UNTRI THEY WERE GOG TO. “THE ERNMENT HAS SIGNALED TO THAT THEY ARE VERY AWARE OF PEOPLE LIKE THE MAN YOU ARE REPORTG ON. WE WOULD JT LIKE TO SEE THEM MOVE FASTER TO HELP THEM.”— KIMAHLI POWELL THE ANIZATN, POWELL SAID, HAD ONLY FACILATED TRAVEL TO UNTRI WHERE LGBTQ AFGHANS’ SAFETY ULD BE GUARANTEED, “BEE WE WERE NCERNED ABOUT LGBTQ PEOPLE BEG PUT NEIGHBORG UNTRI WHICH WERE STILL HOSTILE TO LGBTQ PERSONS.” MANY THOANDS OF DISPLACED AFGHANS THE REGN ARE AWAG RETTLEMENT, CLUDG LGBTQ PEOPLE, POWELL SAID. THE ANIZATN HAD RECEIVED 900 REQUTS FOR HELP TOTAL, AND POWELL TIMATED THAT HUNDREDS OF LGBTQ AFGHANS WERE A SIAR POSN TO C REFUGEE MPS ANTI-LGBTQ UNTRI, WHERE THEY MAY BE NIED ACCS TO SERVIC, WHILE FEARG EXPOSURE, PREJUDICE AND VLENCE OM FELLOW MPMAT WHO MAY BE HOMOPHOBIC AND TRANSPHOBIC.“THEY LIKELY HAVE A PRER STAT IF THEY HAVE ANY VISA STAT, AND THE UNTRY CRIMALIZ LGBTQ PEOPLE OR IS HOSTILE TO THEM,” POWELL SAID. “MOST OF THE UNTRI DON’T WANT REFUGE THE FIRST PLACE. THAT’S WHEN LGBTQ REFUGE’ SAFETY BE A NCERN, BEE WH A PRER VISA STAT THEY FACE PORTATN BACK TO AFGHANISTAN WHERE THEY FACE ALMOST CERTA PUNISHMENT AND POTENTIAL ATH BY THE TALIBAN.”POWELL WENT ON: “THAT’S WHY WE WANT THE U.S. ERNMENT TO FIGURE OUT A PATHWAY TO GET THE PEOPLE OUT IMMEDIATELY. THE ERNMENT HAS SIGNALED TO THAT THEY ARE VERY AWARE OF PEOPLE LIKE THE MAN YOU ARE REPORTG ON. WE WOULD JT LIKE TO SEE THEM MOVE FASTER TO HELP THEM. WE WANT THEM TO WORK WH CIVIL SOCIETY ANIZATNS ON THE GROUND, SO WE N INTIFY AND IMMEDIATELY RELOTE PEOPLE LIKE THE MAN YOU HAVE INTIFIED. IF YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN WHOUT ADVOCY, THAT’S HOW YOU GET LOST.” “ALL MY HOP WERE WASHED AWAY. THERE WAS NOTHG.”C, A STUNT AND SOCIAL ACTIVIST, KNOWS THE VLENCE OF THE TALIBAN ALL TOO WELL. “THEY KILLED MY FATHER, WHO WAS A POLICE OFFICER. THEY BURNED HIS WHOLE BODY. I AM VERY SRED, I DO NOT WANT TO ENDANGER MY FAY. THEY ARE DANGER RIGHT NOW BEE OF ME, AND BEE OF MY FATHER.”HE FIRST REALIZED HE WAS GAY WHEN HE WAS YOUNG. “IT WAS VERY HARD FOR ME. I DID NOT ACCEPT , BEE I WAS NOT FULLY AWARE OF BEG GAY.” WHEN HE DID ACCEPT HIMSELF AROUND THREE YEARS AGO, HE SAYS HE WAS RELIEVED.HIS FAY DO NOT KNOW THAT C IS GAY. “LGBTQ PEOPLE ARE NOT ACCEPTED AFGHANISTAN, AND MY FAY WOULD FEEL ASHAMED,” HE SAYS. HIS MOTHER DIED 16 YEARS AGO, AND HE SAYS HE WAS AAID TO E OUT “BEE I WAS WORRIED I WOULD LOSE MY FAY, AND THEY WOULD KICK ME OUT, WHICH I DID NOT WANT AFTER THE ATH OF MY FATHER.” HE IS ALSO THE FAY’S ONLY BREADWNER, SO HE WANTS TO BEG WORKG TO FANCIALLY SUPPORT THEM AS SOON AS HE N. KIMAHLI POWELL ATTENDS THE GAY TIM HONOURS 2021 AT MAGAZE LONDON ON NOV. 19, 2021 LONDON, ENGLAND.KARWAI TANG/WIREIMAGE/GETTY LIFE THE REFUGEE MP IS HARD, AND HE IS MENTALLY SUFFERG. “THERE ARE THOANDS OF AFGHANS HERE, AND IF ANYONE FDS OUT I WILL BE HARASSED HERE,” C SAYS. “I DO NOT KNOW ANY OTHER LGBTQ PEOPLE HERE. I AM NOT NTACT WH ANY HOMOSEXUALS. THAT’S WHY MY MENTAL STATE IS NOT GOOD. I HAVE NOT BEEN NTACT WH ANYONE FOR THREE MONTHS.” C ALSO HAS A PARTNER WHO HE HAS NOT SEEN FOR A LONG TIME. “I MISS HIM. I WANT HIM TO BE MY ARMS, BUT HE IS NOT. HE IS ALSO G TO AMERI, AND ONE DAY I HOPE WE WILL BE RNED.”“SCE AFGHANISTAN IS A NSERVATIVE SOCIETY, PEOPLE ARE NOT MATURE WHEN TO THE SORTS OF ISSU,” C SAYS ABOUT GROWG UP GAY THE UNTRY. “IT’S NOT A SAFE PLACE FOR LGBTQ PEOPLE, EVEN BEFORE THE TALIBAN PTURED THE ERNMENT, BUT AT LEAST THEN THERE WAS A CHANCE OF LIVG. I WAS LIVG. YOU ULD HAVE PARTI AT NIGHT, MEET IENDS, ENJOY LIFE A B. BUT I ULD NOT BE OPEN ABOUT WHO I AM, PEOPLE WOULD TEASE ME ABOUT , AND NOW IF PEOPLE KNEW THEY WOULD PROBABLY KILL ME.” “WHEN THE ERNMENT LLAPSED AND THE TALIBAN TOOK OVER THE UNTRY. I FELT, ‘I AM AD.’”— "C" “WHEN THE ERNMENT LLAPSED AND THE TALIBAN TOOK OVER THE UNTRY, I FELT, ‘I AM AD.’ ALL MY HOP WERE WASHED AWAY. THERE WAS NOTHG. NOW YOU NNOT LISTEN TO MIC, OR WEAR WHAT YOU WANT. THE TALIBAN SAID THEY WERE FIVG PEOPLE. THIS IS FALSE. THEY ARE TAKG PEOPLE AWAY, AND KILLG THEM. I FEEL VERY HOPELS, AND ALSO DISAPPOTED AT WHAT IS HAPPENG TO MY UNTRY RIGHT NOW.”“THE BIGGT FEAR PEOPLE REACH OUT TO ABOUT IS BEG OUTED AND HAVG THEIR INTY EXPOSED,” POWELL SAID, BOTH SI REFUGEE MPS AND ALSO WH AFGHANISTAN. BEFORE THE TALIBAN TAKEOVER, WHILE NDNS WERE “NOT GREAT” FOR LGBTQ PEOPLE THE UNTRY, SAID POWELL, “AT LEAST THERE WAS SOME GREE OF MUNY. NOW THAT SENSE OF SECURY HAS BEEN PROMISED.” THE ANIZATN HAS HEARD STORI OF THE TALIBAN SEARCHG HOM, BEATG PEOPLE UP, AND THREATENG TO RETURN. LGBTQ PEOPLE FACG SUCH SUATNS THE UNTRY ARE “UALLY HIDG OR LIVG UNR PRER CIRCUMSTANC, WORRIED THEY N’T STAY ONE PLACE FOR LONG,” SAID POWELL. “THE AMOUNT OF DISPLACEMENT IS HUGE RIGHT NOW.”C SAID AFTER THE TALIBAN TOOK NTROL OF THE UNTRY HE HAD BEEN UNABLE TO SLEEP. “EVERY SGLE MOMENT AND MOMENT I WAS TERRIFIED THAT I WOULD BE EXECUTED. I WAS LIVG A LIFE OF TERROR, PG ONE PLACE AND THEN ANOTHER PLACE.” “I WAS NOT AAID. ALL I ULD THK ABOUT WAS GETTG OUT OF AFGHANISTAN. I WAS READY TO TAKE ANY RISKS.”— "C" KELLEY, C SAID, HAD KEPT HIM SAFE FOR THE FOLLOWG THREE WEEKS, -ORDATG SAFE HOE AFTER SAFE HOE, AND PROTECTN AND GUIDANCE LEADG TO HIS ULTIMATE EVACUATN. HE WAS AT KABUL AIRPORT, HOPG TO GET ON A FLIGHT OUT OF THE UNTRY, THE DAY OF THE SUICI BOMB BLAST THAT KILLED AT LEAST 183 PEOPLE. “I WAS 20 METERS AWAY. I WAS NOT AAID. ALL I ULD THK ABOUT WAS GETTG OUT OF AFGHANISTAN. I WAS READY TO TAKE ANY RISKS. I WAS WORRIED ABOUT THE PEOPLE AROUND ME THE SAFE HO. WERE THEY SPI? BUT THEY WERE JT PEOPLE LIKE ME, WH SAD, SAD STORI ABOUT WHY THEY HAD TO LEAVE THE UNTRY. WE WERE ALL HOPG FOR BETTER LIV. JILL’S SUPPORT WAS AMAZG. SHE KEPT ME GOG ALL THE WAY THROUGH.”C FELT SAFE WHEN, MANY WEEKS LATER, HIS PLANE TO EEDOM WAS THE AIR. “IT STARTED TAKG OFF, THEN STOPPED. I FELT TERRIBLE AND WORRIED, AND THOUGHT, ‘IS SOMEONE G TO TAKE ME OFF? I’M A AD MAN.’ BUT WAS A TECHNIL ISSUE. WE TOOK OFF AGA, AND 15 MUT LATER I WAS HAPPY. AT LAST I HAD MA . I STARTED REJOICG.” C SAID HE KNEW OF FOUR OTHER LGBTQ PEOPLE WHO HAD PED AFGHANISTAN­—TWO ARE THE U.K., AND TWO ARE PAKISTAN AWAG RETTLEMENT CANADA OR THE U.K. “I DREAM EVERY NIGHT OF BEG ABLE TO LIVE OPENLY AS WHO I AM.”C SAID THE FUTURE FOR LGBTQ PEOPLE AFGHANISTAN WAS BLEAK. “THEY NNOT LIVE THERE. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO LIVE THERE. YOU EHER HAVE TO FET ABOUT YOUR FEELGS OR ACCEPT YOU N’T LIVE THERE. THE TALIBAN DO NOT BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE OF THE SAME SEX N HAVE THOSE FEELGS FOR EACH OTHER. THERE IS NO POSSIBILY OF CHANGG THIS PERCEPTN, AND THERE IS NOTHG ELSE BUT THEIR TENTN TO JT KILL OR GET RID OF LGBTQ PEOPLE.”HE ADD: “IF THEY E TO KNOW SOMEONE IS LGBTQ, THEY WILL FELY KILL THEM. IT IS VERY HARD FOR PEOPLE LIKE ME. YOU HAVE TO LEAVE THE UNTRY BEE THERE IS NO POSSIBILY TO LIVE THERE BEE OF WHO YOU ARE. BUT THIS IS THE UNTRY WHERE YOU WERE BORN, AND YOU NNOT LIVE THERE BEE OF WHAT YOU ARE. THE ONLY OPTN IS NOT TO LIVE THERE. LGBTQ PEOPLE AFGHANISTAN, AND REFUGE LIKE ME, NEED THE HELP OF WTERN UNTRI TO HELP THEM GET OUT OF THERE.”IN OCTOBER, RABOW RAILROAD FACILATED THE SAFE PASSAGE OF 29 LGBTQ AFGHANS TO THE U.K., AND POWELL SAID THE GROUP ULD HELP OVERSEE SIAR RELOTN EFFORTS. “WE JT NEED ERNMENTS TO E TO THE TABLE. WE WILL SUPPORT THE LGBTQ PEOPLE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE AS WE WA FOR THE ERNMENT TO LIVE UP TO S MMENTS AND PROMISE.”KELLEY TOLD THE DAILY BEAST SHE OFFERED HER HELP TO EVACUATE C, BEE LIKE OTHER DIVIDUALS TO WHOM SHE OFFERED THE SAME ASSISTANCE, “I FEARED HE WOULD SUFFER THE MOST HORRIBLE, BARBARIC ATH IF THE TALIBAN FOUND HIM.” THEY STAYED TOUCH BY TEXT, CLUDG TERRIFYG MOMENTS SUCH AS DURG A GUNFIGHT, OR WHEN C, THE TNK OF A R, ULD HEAR THE TALIBAN ASKG QUTNS OF THE DRIVER. “I AM ATHLY AAID THAT HE MAY BE SENT BACK TO AFGHANISTAN. WE NNOT LET THAT HAPPEN.”— JILL KELLEY “I EMAILED OUR POLIL LEARS ABOUT THIS LGBTQ ACTIVIST, AND NO ONE RPOND,” KELLEY TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “I THOUGHT, ‘HOW DARE WE LET THIS HAPPEN? THIS IS WHY I PAY MY TAX DOLLARS.’ IF I DIDN’T HELP HIM, WHO WOULD? IT’S STILL JT AS BAD. MY LAWYERS ARE TRATED WH THE STATE DEPARTMENT, AND HOW PETENT AND UNANIZED THEY SEEM TO BE. I JT HOPE THE STATE DEPARTMENT LETS HIM, AND OTHERS, EVENTUALLY, SO HE N BE EE TO BE GAY HERE. I AM ATHLY AAID THAT HE MAY BE SENT BACK TO AFGHANISTAN. WE NNOT LET THAT HAPPEN.” KELLEY SAID SHE HAD OVERSEEN A VETTG OF C HERSELF WHEN HELPG HIM PE, TO ENSURE THAT HE DID NOT REPRENT ANY KD OF DANGER.PFEIFLE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT HE WAS ALSO TERMED TO HELP C. “I N ONLY IMAGE WHAT MT BE LIKE TO BE THE TNK OF A R, SRED FOR YOUR LIFE, YOUR CELLPHONE BATTERY GOG DOWN, HEARG WHAT IS GOG ON OUTSI. THE WORRY NOW IS THAT AFGHAN WHDRAWAL CHALLENG HAVE FAD OFF TO THE SUNSET. SOUTHERN BORR ISSU HAVE BEE THE FOC OF EVERYONE’S ATTENTN, AND PEOPLE LIKE THIS MAN ARE GETTG LOST BURECRACY AND FOTTEN ABOUT. I AM EXTRAORDARILY WORRIED ABOUT HIS AND OTHER LGBTQ REFUGE’ SAFETY AND WELL-BEG.” “I AM VERY STRONG. I DO NOT ACCEPT FEAT AT ALL.”— "C" “THE PEOPLE AT THE TOP OF THE U.S. ERNMENT NEED TO ASSIGN PEOPLE TO FOC ON THIS. IT’S A FIGHT AGAST TIME. WE VAD THAT UNTRY 2001, WE HAD AN CREDIBLE NUMBER OF IENDS AND ALLI ON THE GROUND WHO HELPED . NOW WE NEED TO HELP THEM, AND THE GROUPS WHO ARE MOST VULNERABLE UNR TALIBAN LE WE NEED TO BRG TO SAFE PLAC WHERE THEY N LIVE AND HAVE A FUTURE. THAT IS OUR DUTY. THIS MAN REPRENTS ALL THAT’S GOOD, ALL THAT’S POSSIBLE ABOUT OUR FUTURE, AND SHOULD BE A PRRY OF ANY ADMISTRATN—CLUDG THE CURRENT ONE—TO DO EVERYTHG N TO BRG HIM TO A PLACE WHERE HE N LIVE AND PROSPER. WHOUT THAT, I FEAR THE WORST.”OF HIS OWN FUTURE, WHICH HE HOP IS AMERI, C SAYS, “IT’S DIFFICULT AND HARD. NOTHG IS KNOWN YET.” IF HE FALLY MAK TO AMERI, C WANTS TO NTUE HIS STUDI POLIL SCIENCE, NTUE HIS SOCIAL ACTIVISM THROUGH YOUTUBE AND OTHER MEDIA, AND THEN GET “ANY JOB” UNTIL HE N SPECIALIZE HIS CHOSEN FIELD OF IT.“I DREAM EVERY NIGHT OF BEG ABLE TO LIVE OPENLY AS WHO I AM, SPENDG TIME WH OTHER LGBTQ PEOPLE, SHARG AND LIVG WH THEM. I AM LIVG FOR .” C TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “PHYSILLY, I AM GOOD, BUT PSYCHOLOGILLY I WANT TO BE WH SOMEONE. I HAVEN’T SPOKEN WH ANYONE, OR SHARED MY FEELGS, WH ANYONE FOR SO LONG. I ACHE TO BE WH MY PARTNER, A MAN I N LOVE.”KELLEY SAID C WAS “VERY DOWN. ALL I TELL HIM IS, ‘DON’T WORRY, WE’RE GOG TO FIX THIS. I AM GOG TO HELP YOU. YOU’VE GOT TO STAY STRONG. KEEP FIGHTG.’”“I AM VERY STRONG,” C TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “I DO NOT ACCEPT FEAT AT ALL.” TIM TEEMAN

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

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. Gabir, a 26-year-old gay man livg Afghanistan, was dg at a rtrant wh his boyiend of eight months. Related: Taliban promis to btally execute gays after regas power Afghanistan.

“I know you are gay, ” the ller told Gabir. You have three or four iends who are gay. Homosexualy was already an imprisonable offense Afghanistan.

GAY UNR THE TALIBAN

Wieldg guns and the supposed thory of God, Taliban members have begun searchg people’s hom, their pockets and their phon, acrdg to Aziz, a gay Afghan 21-year-old. Gay people, a Taliban judge promised earlier this year, will be prosecuted and executed by stong or phg a wall on top of them.

A gay 22-year-old Afghan man was kidnapped and killed by the Taliban, Pk News reported. 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. Graphic vio footage of a murr, which Insir has viewed, appears to show a man remblg Sabouri beg shot the neck and head at least 12 later, the Taliban sent the disturbg executn vio to Sabouri's relativ and iends, who, turn, forward to the Afghan LGBTQ+ group 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.

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

"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 (his nickname, ed to protect his inty), a gay Afghan man a relatnship wh Sabouri, was one of the recipients of the vio. "I thk the Taliban wanted to send a dangero msage to his fay, " he told 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.

"When the Taliban took over, Insir spoke to several gay men Afghanistan who scribed how they were livg fear. One Afghan activist predicted gay people Afghanistan would be "weed out and extermated. 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. "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.

TALIBAN WILL ‘WEED OUT AND EXTERMATE’ LGBT+ PEOPLE AFGHANISTAN, WARNS EXILED GAY THOR

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. Gay Afghanistan.

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

Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Afghanistan, and others who do not nform to rigid genr norms, have faced an creasgly sperate suatn and grave threats to their safety and liv sce the Taliban took full ntrol of the untry on Augt 15, 2021. ”[3] A Taliban judge told the German tabloid Bild shortly before the fall of Kabul, “For homosexuals, there n only be two punishments: eher stong, or he mt stand behd a wall that will fall down on him.

THIS GAY MAN ESPED FROM AFGHANISTAN. AMERI HAS ABANDONED HIM A ‘TERRIFYG’ LIMBO.‘I AM IN A PRISON’THE PLIGHT OF A GAY AFGHAN MAN WHO PED THE UNTRY BUT IS NOW LANGUISHG A REFUGEE MP A HOMOPHOBIC UNTRY IS SHARED BY HUNDREDS OF OTHERS, SAY LGBTQ MPAIGNERS.TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED DEC. 16, 2021 1:08PM EST / PUBLISHED DEC. 16, 2021 12:42PM EST EXCLIVEPHOTO ILLTRATN BY ELIZABETH BROCKWAY/THE DAILY BEAST/GETTYC SAYS ALL HE N SEE ARE TALL BUILDGS SURROUNDG HIM. “IT FEELS LIKE I HAVE PED ATH, BUT NOW I AM A PRISON,” HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THROUGH A TRANSLATOR. “I AM A BOUNDARY SURROUND BY FOUR WALLS, NOT ALLOWED TO GO ANYWHERE.”C IS 26, GAY, ORIGALLY OM KABUL, AND HAS BEEN A REFUGEE MP FOR TWO AND A HALF MONTHS, HAVG PED AFGHANISTAN SEPTEMBER FEAR FOR HIS LIFE. C ASKS THE DAILY BEAST TO NOT E HIS REAL NAME. HIS FAY IS STILL AFGHANISTAN, AND HE WORRI ABOUT BOTH THEIR REJECTN AND WHAT THE TALIBAN WOULD DO TO THEM IF HIS INTY WERE KNOWN. HE ALSO ASKS NOT TO NAME THE REFUGEE MP, OR S LOTN, AS HE FEARS FOR HIS OWN LIFE AND SAFETY WH THE MP SHOULD HIS SEXUALY BE DISVERED. C FEELS FOTTEN BY AMERI, AND WORRIED THAT HE WILL BE PORTED BACK TO AFGHANISTAN “WHERE I FEAR I WILL BE KILLED,” HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. HE IS NOT ALONE. THE ADVOCY ANIZATN RABOW RAILROAD, WHICH HAS BEEN HELPG FACILATE THE PE AND RETTLEMENT OF QUEER AFGHANS, TIMAT THERE MAY BE “HUNDREDS” LIKE HIM—LGBTQ PEOPLE WHO MANAGED TO PE THE UNTRY, BUT WHO HAVE NOT YET MA TO THE U.S., THE UK OR OTHER WTERN UNTRI, AND ARE STEAD REFUGEE MPS UNTRI HOSTILE TO LGBTQ RIGHTS AND PEOPLE.JILL KELLEY, A FORMER HONORARY AMBASSADOR TO U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND WHO HELPED EVACUATE HUNDREDS—CLUDG C—DURG THE CHAOTIC DASH TO LEAVE THE UNTRY WHEN THE TALIBAN ASSUMED NTROL OF , SAYS THE STATE DEPARTMENT HAS “BEHAVED TERRIBLY” TOWARDS C, AND OTHER LGBTQ AFGHANS LIKE HIM. “HE IS AN NOCENT LGBTQ ACTIVIST. THIS IS WHAT HUMANARIAN EFFORTS ARE MA FOR,” KELLEY TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “IF HE IS ULTIMATELY SENT BACK TO AFGHANISTAN, OUR ERNMENT HAS FAILED HORRIBLY. IT IS TERRIFYG AND SHAMG. LGBTQ RIGHTS ARE A KEY PART OF THE BIN ADMISTRATN’S PLATFORM, AND ’S TIME FOR THEM TO PUT THEIR MONEY WHERE THEIR MOUTH IS. WE ARE SUPPOSED TO SET AN EXAMPLE TO THE WORLD AROUND HUMAN RIGHTS. THE LENS OF OUR VALU AND OUR MOCRACY WILL BE SHOWN BY WHATEVER THIS YOUNG MAN’S FATE IS.”MARK PFEIFLE, PUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT AND PUTY NATNAL SECURY ADVISER FOR STRATEGIC MUNITNS AND GLOBAL OUTREACH AT THE WHE HOE OM 2007 TO 2009, ALSO HELPED C’S EVACUATN. HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT THE UNED STAT “MT BRG PEOPLE HERE WHOSE LIV WILL BE STROYED IF THEY ARE SENT BACK TO AFGHANISTAN. THEY SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO A PLACE WHERE THEY N LIVE AND HAVE A FUTURE.”THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT DID NOT RPOND TO REPEATED REQUTS FOR MENT ON C’S SPECIFIC SE, AND WHY HE WAS STILL THE MP HE IS —OR WHAT WAS DOG FOR LGBTQ AFGHANS REFUGEE MPS ANTI-LGBTQ UNTRI.INSTEAD, ASKED THE DAILY BEAST TO LAY PUBLISHG THIS STORY UNTIL AFTER S ANNOUNCEMENT OF A SPECIAL ENVOY FOR AFGHAN WOMEN, GIRLS AND AT-RISK POPULATNS ON THURSDAY. THIS PERSON, AN OFFICIAL DITED, WOULD BE FOCED ON ISSU FACG LGBTQ AFGHANS. THE OFFICIAL ALSO SENT A TAILED LIST OF THE VAR WAYS REFUGE N APPLY TO ENTER AMERI. KELLEY AND PFEIFLE SIST THEY HAVE PASSED ON C’S TAILS TO OFFICIALS, AND TRIED TO RAISE HIS SE NUMERO TIM TO NO AVAIL. THE DAILY BEAST—WH C’S NSENT—HAS OFFERED TO PASS HIS TAILS TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT, BUT NO OFFICIAL HAS, AT THE TIME OF WRG, BEEN TOUCH TO TAKE THEM.KIMAHLI POWELL, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF RABOW RAILROAD, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT THE CHAOS AND SPERATN OF LATE AUGT MANY AFGHANS, CLUDG LGBTQ PEOPLE, SHED TO GET OUT OF THE UNTRY ANY WAY THEY ULD, SOMETIM WHOUT KNOWG WHICH UNTRI THEY WERE GOG TO. “THE ERNMENT HAS SIGNALED TO THAT THEY ARE VERY AWARE OF PEOPLE LIKE THE MAN YOU ARE REPORTG ON. WE WOULD JT LIKE TO SEE THEM MOVE FASTER TO HELP THEM.”— KIMAHLI POWELL THE ANIZATN, POWELL SAID, HAD ONLY FACILATED TRAVEL TO UNTRI WHERE LGBTQ AFGHANS’ SAFETY ULD BE GUARANTEED, “BEE WE WERE NCERNED ABOUT LGBTQ PEOPLE BEG PUT NEIGHBORG UNTRI WHICH WERE STILL HOSTILE TO LGBTQ PERSONS.” MANY THOANDS OF DISPLACED AFGHANS THE REGN ARE AWAG RETTLEMENT, CLUDG LGBTQ PEOPLE, POWELL SAID. THE ANIZATN HAD RECEIVED 900 REQUTS FOR HELP TOTAL, AND POWELL TIMATED THAT HUNDREDS OF LGBTQ AFGHANS WERE A SIAR POSN TO C REFUGEE MPS ANTI-LGBTQ UNTRI, WHERE THEY MAY BE NIED ACCS TO SERVIC, WHILE FEARG EXPOSURE, PREJUDICE AND VLENCE OM FELLOW MPMAT WHO MAY BE HOMOPHOBIC AND TRANSPHOBIC.“THEY LIKELY HAVE A PRER STAT IF THEY HAVE ANY VISA STAT, AND THE UNTRY CRIMALIZ LGBTQ PEOPLE OR IS HOSTILE TO THEM,” POWELL SAID. “MOST OF THE UNTRI DON’T WANT REFUGE THE FIRST PLACE. THAT’S WHEN LGBTQ REFUGE’ SAFETY BE A NCERN, BEE WH A PRER VISA STAT THEY FACE PORTATN BACK TO AFGHANISTAN WHERE THEY FACE ALMOST CERTA PUNISHMENT AND POTENTIAL ATH BY THE TALIBAN.”POWELL WENT ON: “THAT’S WHY WE WANT THE U.S. ERNMENT TO FIGURE OUT A PATHWAY TO GET THE PEOPLE OUT IMMEDIATELY. THE ERNMENT HAS SIGNALED TO THAT THEY ARE VERY AWARE OF PEOPLE LIKE THE MAN YOU ARE REPORTG ON. WE WOULD JT LIKE TO SEE THEM MOVE FASTER TO HELP THEM. WE WANT THEM TO WORK WH CIVIL SOCIETY ANIZATNS ON THE GROUND, SO WE N INTIFY AND IMMEDIATELY RELOTE PEOPLE LIKE THE MAN YOU HAVE INTIFIED. IF YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN WHOUT ADVOCY, THAT’S HOW YOU GET LOST.” “ALL MY HOP WERE WASHED AWAY. THERE WAS NOTHG.”C, A STUNT AND SOCIAL ACTIVIST, KNOWS THE VLENCE OF THE TALIBAN ALL TOO WELL. “THEY KILLED MY FATHER, WHO WAS A POLICE OFFICER. THEY BURNED HIS WHOLE BODY. I AM VERY SRED, I DO NOT WANT TO ENDANGER MY FAY. THEY ARE DANGER RIGHT NOW BEE OF ME, AND BEE OF MY FATHER.”HE FIRST REALIZED HE WAS GAY WHEN HE WAS YOUNG. “IT WAS VERY HARD FOR ME. I DID NOT ACCEPT , BEE I WAS NOT FULLY AWARE OF BEG GAY.” WHEN HE DID ACCEPT HIMSELF AROUND THREE YEARS AGO, HE SAYS HE WAS RELIEVED.HIS FAY DO NOT KNOW THAT C IS GAY. “LGBTQ PEOPLE ARE NOT ACCEPTED AFGHANISTAN, AND MY FAY WOULD FEEL ASHAMED,” HE SAYS. HIS MOTHER DIED 16 YEARS AGO, AND HE SAYS HE WAS AAID TO E OUT “BEE I WAS WORRIED I WOULD LOSE MY FAY, AND THEY WOULD KICK ME OUT, WHICH I DID NOT WANT AFTER THE ATH OF MY FATHER.” HE IS ALSO THE FAY’S ONLY BREADWNER, SO HE WANTS TO BEG WORKG TO FANCIALLY SUPPORT THEM AS SOON AS HE N. KIMAHLI POWELL ATTENDS THE GAY TIM HONOURS 2021 AT MAGAZE LONDON ON NOV. 19, 2021 LONDON, ENGLAND.KARWAI TANG/WIREIMAGE/GETTY LIFE THE REFUGEE MP IS HARD, AND HE IS MENTALLY SUFFERG. “THERE ARE THOANDS OF AFGHANS HERE, AND IF ANYONE FDS OUT I WILL BE HARASSED HERE,” C SAYS. “I DO NOT KNOW ANY OTHER LGBTQ PEOPLE HERE. I AM NOT NTACT WH ANY HOMOSEXUALS. THAT’S WHY MY MENTAL STATE IS NOT GOOD. I HAVE NOT BEEN NTACT WH ANYONE FOR THREE MONTHS.” C ALSO HAS A PARTNER WHO HE HAS NOT SEEN FOR A LONG TIME. “I MISS HIM. I WANT HIM TO BE MY ARMS, BUT HE IS NOT. HE IS ALSO G TO AMERI, AND ONE DAY I HOPE WE WILL BE RNED.”“SCE AFGHANISTAN IS A NSERVATIVE SOCIETY, PEOPLE ARE NOT MATURE WHEN TO THE SORTS OF ISSU,” C SAYS ABOUT GROWG UP GAY THE UNTRY. “IT’S NOT A SAFE PLACE FOR LGBTQ PEOPLE, EVEN BEFORE THE TALIBAN PTURED THE ERNMENT, BUT AT LEAST THEN THERE WAS A CHANCE OF LIVG. I WAS LIVG. YOU ULD HAVE PARTI AT NIGHT, MEET IENDS, ENJOY LIFE A B. BUT I ULD NOT BE OPEN ABOUT WHO I AM, PEOPLE WOULD TEASE ME ABOUT , AND NOW IF PEOPLE KNEW THEY WOULD PROBABLY KILL ME.” “WHEN THE ERNMENT LLAPSED AND THE TALIBAN TOOK OVER THE UNTRY. I FELT, ‘I AM AD.’”— "C" “WHEN THE ERNMENT LLAPSED AND THE TALIBAN TOOK OVER THE UNTRY, I FELT, ‘I AM AD.’ ALL MY HOP WERE WASHED AWAY. THERE WAS NOTHG. NOW YOU NNOT LISTEN TO MIC, OR WEAR WHAT YOU WANT. THE TALIBAN SAID THEY WERE FIVG PEOPLE. THIS IS FALSE. THEY ARE TAKG PEOPLE AWAY, AND KILLG THEM. I FEEL VERY HOPELS, AND ALSO DISAPPOTED AT WHAT IS HAPPENG TO MY UNTRY RIGHT NOW.”“THE BIGGT FEAR PEOPLE REACH OUT TO ABOUT IS BEG OUTED AND HAVG THEIR INTY EXPOSED,” POWELL SAID, BOTH SI REFUGEE MPS AND ALSO WH AFGHANISTAN. BEFORE THE TALIBAN TAKEOVER, WHILE NDNS WERE “NOT GREAT” FOR LGBTQ PEOPLE THE UNTRY, SAID POWELL, “AT LEAST THERE WAS SOME GREE OF MUNY. NOW THAT SENSE OF SECURY HAS BEEN PROMISED.” THE ANIZATN HAS HEARD STORI OF THE TALIBAN SEARCHG HOM, BEATG PEOPLE UP, AND THREATENG TO RETURN. LGBTQ PEOPLE FACG SUCH SUATNS THE UNTRY ARE “UALLY HIDG OR LIVG UNR PRER CIRCUMSTANC, WORRIED THEY N’T STAY ONE PLACE FOR LONG,” SAID POWELL. “THE AMOUNT OF DISPLACEMENT IS HUGE RIGHT NOW.”C SAID AFTER THE TALIBAN TOOK NTROL OF THE UNTRY HE HAD BEEN UNABLE TO SLEEP. “EVERY SGLE MOMENT AND MOMENT I WAS TERRIFIED THAT I WOULD BE EXECUTED. I WAS LIVG A LIFE OF TERROR, PG ONE PLACE AND THEN ANOTHER PLACE.” “I WAS NOT AAID. ALL I ULD THK ABOUT WAS GETTG OUT OF AFGHANISTAN. I WAS READY TO TAKE ANY RISKS.”— "C" KELLEY, C SAID, HAD KEPT HIM SAFE FOR THE FOLLOWG THREE WEEKS, -ORDATG SAFE HOE AFTER SAFE HOE, AND PROTECTN AND GUIDANCE LEADG TO HIS ULTIMATE EVACUATN. HE WAS AT KABUL AIRPORT, HOPG TO GET ON A FLIGHT OUT OF THE UNTRY, THE DAY OF THE SUICI BOMB BLAST THAT KILLED AT LEAST 183 PEOPLE. “I WAS 20 METERS AWAY. I WAS NOT AAID. ALL I ULD THK ABOUT WAS GETTG OUT OF AFGHANISTAN. I WAS READY TO TAKE ANY RISKS. I WAS WORRIED ABOUT THE PEOPLE AROUND ME THE SAFE HO. WERE THEY SPI? BUT THEY WERE JT PEOPLE LIKE ME, WH SAD, SAD STORI ABOUT WHY THEY HAD TO LEAVE THE UNTRY. WE WERE ALL HOPG FOR BETTER LIV. JILL’S SUPPORT WAS AMAZG. SHE KEPT ME GOG ALL THE WAY THROUGH.”C FELT SAFE WHEN, MANY WEEKS LATER, HIS PLANE TO EEDOM WAS THE AIR. “IT STARTED TAKG OFF, THEN STOPPED. I FELT TERRIBLE AND WORRIED, AND THOUGHT, ‘IS SOMEONE G TO TAKE ME OFF? I’M A AD MAN.’ BUT WAS A TECHNIL ISSUE. WE TOOK OFF AGA, AND 15 MUT LATER I WAS HAPPY. AT LAST I HAD MA . I STARTED REJOICG.” C SAID HE KNEW OF FOUR OTHER LGBTQ PEOPLE WHO HAD PED AFGHANISTAN­—TWO ARE THE U.K., AND TWO ARE PAKISTAN AWAG RETTLEMENT CANADA OR THE U.K. “I DREAM EVERY NIGHT OF BEG ABLE TO LIVE OPENLY AS WHO I AM.”C SAID THE FUTURE FOR LGBTQ PEOPLE AFGHANISTAN WAS BLEAK. “THEY NNOT LIVE THERE. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO LIVE THERE. YOU EHER HAVE TO FET ABOUT YOUR FEELGS OR ACCEPT YOU N’T LIVE THERE. THE TALIBAN DO NOT BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE OF THE SAME SEX N HAVE THOSE FEELGS FOR EACH OTHER. THERE IS NO POSSIBILY OF CHANGG THIS PERCEPTN, AND THERE IS NOTHG ELSE BUT THEIR TENTN TO JT KILL OR GET RID OF LGBTQ PEOPLE.”HE ADD: “IF THEY E TO KNOW SOMEONE IS LGBTQ, THEY WILL FELY KILL THEM. IT IS VERY HARD FOR PEOPLE LIKE ME. YOU HAVE TO LEAVE THE UNTRY BEE THERE IS NO POSSIBILY TO LIVE THERE BEE OF WHO YOU ARE. BUT THIS IS THE UNTRY WHERE YOU WERE BORN, AND YOU NNOT LIVE THERE BEE OF WHAT YOU ARE. THE ONLY OPTN IS NOT TO LIVE THERE. LGBTQ PEOPLE AFGHANISTAN, AND REFUGE LIKE ME, NEED THE HELP OF WTERN UNTRI TO HELP THEM GET OUT OF THERE.”IN OCTOBER, RABOW RAILROAD FACILATED THE SAFE PASSAGE OF 29 LGBTQ AFGHANS TO THE U.K., AND POWELL SAID THE GROUP ULD HELP OVERSEE SIAR RELOTN EFFORTS. “WE JT NEED ERNMENTS TO E TO THE TABLE. WE WILL SUPPORT THE LGBTQ PEOPLE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE AS WE WA FOR THE ERNMENT TO LIVE UP TO S MMENTS AND PROMISE.”KELLEY TOLD THE DAILY BEAST SHE OFFERED HER HELP TO EVACUATE C, BEE LIKE OTHER DIVIDUALS TO WHOM SHE OFFERED THE SAME ASSISTANCE, “I FEARED HE WOULD SUFFER THE MOST HORRIBLE, BARBARIC ATH IF THE TALIBAN FOUND HIM.” THEY STAYED TOUCH BY TEXT, CLUDG TERRIFYG MOMENTS SUCH AS DURG A GUNFIGHT, OR WHEN C, THE TNK OF A R, ULD HEAR THE TALIBAN ASKG QUTNS OF THE DRIVER. “I AM ATHLY AAID THAT HE MAY BE SENT BACK TO AFGHANISTAN. WE NNOT LET THAT HAPPEN.”— JILL KELLEY “I EMAILED OUR POLIL LEARS ABOUT THIS LGBTQ ACTIVIST, AND NO ONE RPOND,” KELLEY TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “I THOUGHT, ‘HOW DARE WE LET THIS HAPPEN? THIS IS WHY I PAY MY TAX DOLLARS.’ IF I DIDN’T HELP HIM, WHO WOULD? IT’S STILL JT AS BAD. MY LAWYERS ARE TRATED WH THE STATE DEPARTMENT, AND HOW PETENT AND UNANIZED THEY SEEM TO BE. I JT HOPE THE STATE DEPARTMENT LETS HIM, AND OTHERS, EVENTUALLY, SO HE N BE EE TO BE GAY HERE. I AM ATHLY AAID THAT HE MAY BE SENT BACK TO AFGHANISTAN. WE NNOT LET THAT HAPPEN.” KELLEY SAID SHE HAD OVERSEEN A VETTG OF C HERSELF WHEN HELPG HIM PE, TO ENSURE THAT HE DID NOT REPRENT ANY KD OF DANGER.PFEIFLE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT HE WAS ALSO TERMED TO HELP C. “I N ONLY IMAGE WHAT MT BE LIKE TO BE THE TNK OF A R, SRED FOR YOUR LIFE, YOUR CELLPHONE BATTERY GOG DOWN, HEARG WHAT IS GOG ON OUTSI. THE WORRY NOW IS THAT AFGHAN WHDRAWAL CHALLENG HAVE FAD OFF TO THE SUNSET. SOUTHERN BORR ISSU HAVE BEE THE FOC OF EVERYONE’S ATTENTN, AND PEOPLE LIKE THIS MAN ARE GETTG LOST BURECRACY AND FOTTEN ABOUT. I AM EXTRAORDARILY WORRIED ABOUT HIS AND OTHER LGBTQ REFUGE’ SAFETY AND WELL-BEG.” “I AM VERY STRONG. I DO NOT ACCEPT FEAT AT ALL.”— "C" “THE PEOPLE AT THE TOP OF THE U.S. ERNMENT NEED TO ASSIGN PEOPLE TO FOC ON THIS. IT’S A FIGHT AGAST TIME. WE VAD THAT UNTRY 2001, WE HAD AN CREDIBLE NUMBER OF IENDS AND ALLI ON THE GROUND WHO HELPED . NOW WE NEED TO HELP THEM, AND THE GROUPS WHO ARE MOST VULNERABLE UNR TALIBAN LE WE NEED TO BRG TO SAFE PLAC WHERE THEY N LIVE AND HAVE A FUTURE. THAT IS OUR DUTY. THIS MAN REPRENTS ALL THAT’S GOOD, ALL THAT’S POSSIBLE ABOUT OUR FUTURE, AND SHOULD BE A PRRY OF ANY ADMISTRATN—CLUDG THE CURRENT ONE—TO DO EVERYTHG N TO BRG HIM TO A PLACE WHERE HE N LIVE AND PROSPER. WHOUT THAT, I FEAR THE WORST.”OF HIS OWN FUTURE, WHICH HE HOP IS AMERI, C SAYS, “IT’S DIFFICULT AND HARD. NOTHG IS KNOWN YET.” IF HE FALLY MAK TO AMERI, C WANTS TO NTUE HIS STUDI POLIL SCIENCE, NTUE HIS SOCIAL ACTIVISM THROUGH YOUTUBE AND OTHER MEDIA, AND THEN GET “ANY JOB” UNTIL HE N SPECIALIZE HIS CHOSEN FIELD OF IT.“I DREAM EVERY NIGHT OF BEG ABLE TO LIVE OPENLY AS WHO I AM, SPENDG TIME WH OTHER LGBTQ PEOPLE, SHARG AND LIVG WH THEM. I AM LIVG FOR .” C TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “PHYSILLY, I AM GOOD, BUT PSYCHOLOGILLY I WANT TO BE WH SOMEONE. I HAVEN’T SPOKEN WH ANYONE, OR SHARED MY FEELGS, WH ANYONE FOR SO LONG. I ACHE TO BE WH MY PARTNER, A MAN I N LOVE.”KELLEY SAID C WAS “VERY DOWN. ALL I TELL HIM IS, ‘DON’T WORRY, WE’RE GOG TO FIX THIS. I AM GOG TO HELP YOU. YOU’VE GOT TO STAY STRONG. KEEP FIGHTG.’”“I AM VERY STRONG,” C TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “I DO NOT ACCEPT FEAT AT ALL.” TIM TEEMAN

”[4] A manual issued by the Taliban’s Mistry of Vice and Virtue 2020 stat that relig lears shall prohib same-sex relatns and that “strong allegatns” of homosexualy shall be referred to the mistry’s district manager for adjuditn and punishment.

Gay: A synonym for homosexual many parts of the world; this report, ed specifilly to refer to the sexual orientatn of a man whose primary sexual and romantic attractn is toward other men. Homophobia: Fear of, ntempt of, or discrimatn agast homosexuals or homosexualy, ually based on negative stereotyp of homosexualy.