Interview wh gay Uzbek man
Contents:
- GAY LIFE UZBEKISTAN
- ATTACK ON BLOGGER DRIV UZBEK GAY MUNY UNRGROUND
- GAY UZBEKISTAN TODAY
- UZBEK GAY LIFE--AN INTERVIEW WH MAXIM
GAY LIFE UZBEKISTAN
Members of Uzbekistan's LGBT muny say they have been driven unrground fear of a vlent backlash after a blogger and some of his supporters were attacked last month followg social media posts llg for gay ralli at Mlim holy s. * uzbekistan gay life *
It will be a long time before “Gay Life Uzbekistan” and human rights take their rightful place natnal polici Uzbekistan.
Needls to say, gays right advot are one of the most targeted populatns this rough untry.
ATTACK ON BLOGGER DRIV UZBEK GAY MUNY UNRGROUND
Treatment of Homosexuals by Society and by Government Authori.
From Gay Cy News, New York. The lg dictatorship Uzbekistan has jailed Maxim Popov, a 28-year-old psychologist and AIDS activist the pal of Tashkent, for seven years for promotg homosexualy and th rptg mors through his HIV-preventn work.
GAY UZBEKISTAN TODAY
Agence France-Prs reported a dispatch: “Authori have long been spic that foreign aid anizatns have been tryg to spread homosexualy and dg e, said an activist who also requted anonymy.
Consensual homosexualy between two men is a crime Uzbekistan punishable by three years prison. Crimal charg of homosexualy have been ed the past to silence cril journalists and human rights fenrs. ” Khamidov’s broadsts on a private rad statn regularly alt wh such forbidn issu as homosexualy, prostutn, and rptn, mostly through his poems.
A short-lived newspaper that Khamidov found and ran, Odamlar Orasida (Among the People), which achieved a circulatn of 24, 000 only five months of publitn, discsed the same issu, cludg homosexualy, and was closed 2007 by thori, acrdg to a report earlier this year on the webse of Rad Free Europe/ Rad Liberty.
UZBEK GAY LIFE--AN INTERVIEW WH MAXIM
There is an obscure reference the RFE/ RL report to the charg agast Khamidov beg related to his “personal life, ” and some ments by Uzbeks on var other webs suggt that the “banned group” referred to by thori the charg agast Khamidov was the homosexual muny.
Bee homosexualy is illegal, Uzbek police not only regularly harass gays but also subject them to extortn by tag them and threateng them wh prosecutn, acrdg to an article Cha Daily.