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Contents:

• WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY TAJIKISTAN
• RULTS FOR : GAY TAJIK
• RULTS FOR : TAJIK GAY
• RULTS FOR : GAY TAJIK
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY TAJIKISTAN

Wispread homophobia and open police persecutn n make life dangero or out of the gay is no longer a crime Tajikistan, but police are reticent to addrs hate crim, cludg the murr of a gay man Dhanbe 2011. It was there that I first realized that I liked men and I began to go to gay bars and parks where men met.

RULTS FOR : GAY TAJIK

"There's a reason Tajikistan's lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny (LGBT) remas one of the most closed and secretive parts of Tajik society.

Homophobia is wispread thanks to "tradnal attus and the strong fluence of Islam, " says Kiromidd Gulov, director of Equal Opportuni, a lol NGO tablished 2009 to help Tajikistan's LGBT muny wh legal, medil and moral support.

RULTS FOR : TAJIK GAY

"Many Tajiks believe that homosexualy is "a s and that such people should be killed or isolated, " Gulov explaed. ""Homosexualy is ntrary to nature, " said an official om the Mistry of Health, who spoke to on ndn of anonymy bee she is not thorized to speak to the prs. "Although [homosexualy] has been removed om the [ernment's] list of treatable illns, many doctors still see as a disease which n be treated wh medice.

RULTS FOR : GAY TAJIK

Whereas the Soviet Unn homosexualy was punishable by up to five years prison, Tajikistan was -crimalized 1998.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Though Tajikistan's crimal do not prohib homosexualy and homosexual relatnships, LGBT dividuals are still sgled out for persecutn by some officials. The paper lists regular s of blackmail, arbrary arrt and physil vlence agast LGBT dividuals, mostly gay 23-year-old office worker Said told his bt iend that he was gay, he did not realize the mistake he was makg.

In 2011, after beg subjected to ntuo blackmail, a 20-year-old gay flight attendant, Ravshan Uzakov hanged himself, the BBC's Rsian language service reported.

And last year Dhanbe, a gay stunt was stabbed seven tim and later died of his juri. Police swiftly closed the se and labeled the attack a Parviz, there is only one solutn - the relative safety of Rsia, where hate crim agast homosexuals occur neverthels.