Insir spoke to several Afghan gay men. One activist said he fears that gay people Afghanistan will be "weed out and extermated" by the Taliban.
Contents:
- THE LIFE OF A GAY MAN AFGHANISTAN
- FEAR, SECRECY AND DANGER A WAY OF LIFE FOR AFGHAN GAYS
- GAY AFGHANISTAN, AFTER THE TALIBAN. HOMOSEXUALY AS TRADN
- GAY MEN AFGHANISTAN SAY LIFE UNR TALIBAN 'NIGHTMARE,' ULD BE KILLED ON THE SPOT
- GAY AFGHANISTAN: HOMOEROTICISM AMONG KABUL'S WARRRS
- MEN OM AFGHANISTAN'S SECRET GAY MUNY SAY THEY ARE LIVG THROUGH A 'NIGHTMARE' AND FEAR THAT THE TALIBAN WILL EXECUTE THEM AT ANY MOMENT
THE LIFE OF A GAY MAN AFGHANISTAN
A gay stunt om Kabul tells Newsbeat how life has changed unr the Taliban. * afghanistan gay life *
If he'd spoken about his sexualy to the wrong person then, Abdul uld have been arrted and taken to urt for his sexualy, unr Afghan sce the Taliban seized ntrol of major ci Afghanistan last week, Abdul tells Rad 1 Newsbeat his sexualy beg revealed would now have him "killed on the spot" Taliban are a ary group who have taken ntrol of the untry, and are known to enforce extreme Islamic the Taliban's terpretatn of Sharia Law, homosexualy is strictly prohibed and punishable by last time they were power Afghanistan, between the late 90s and 2001, 21-year-old Abdul hadn't been born.
(New York) – Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) Afghans and people who do not nform to rigid genr norms Afghanistan have faced an creasgly sperate suatn and grave threats to their safety and liv unr the Taliban, Human Rights Watch and OutRight Actn Internatnal said a report released today. 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. ” A manual issued by the Taliban 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.
A gay man said that Taliban members taed him at a checkpot, beat him, and gang-raped him, tellg him, “From now on anytime we want to be able to fd you, we will. But maybe 1% are lucky like this, the rt are jt riskg their liv meetg each others public and also gog to some safe plac like ho or gut life pecially villag or small ci is much more tough and hard than big ci like Kabul, bee small ci are all unr Taliban's mand so is like 100% risky even to thk about dog meetg gay people.
FEAR, SECRECY AND DANGER A WAY OF LIFE FOR AFGHAN GAYS
Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) Afghans and people who do not nform to rigid genr norms Afghanistan have faced an creasgly sperate suatn and grave threats to their safety and liv unr the Taliban, Human Rights Watch and OutRight Actn Internatnal said a report released today. * afghanistan gay life *
It is clear that no fay will unrstand their son’s suatn bee they won’t accept me like that they will hate me for ever if I want to tell them about me that I am gay. Thirdly, society plays a very ma le gay people's life and even if relign accepts you and if a fay unrstand or accept you, here Afghanistan society will never unrstand or accept you. I once tried to say that gay people are sweet people and is not their flt beg gay to a iend but he replied that I had to please stop and change the Taliban are jt wag to get the news about any guy and they will fely kill that guy by phg a big wall on him, bee this is the punishment of a gay guy here.
Bad guys were there too who only wanted to blackmail others, so Facebook is the way we fd other gays and after that Grdr where we n feel a b safe to meet public for first time at any park or rtrant of ffee shop, is possible only big ci like Kabul. Sometim we n meet hotels or gutho but hotel and gutho are not safe at all and is a big risk gog there but some gays don’t have any other is too dangero meetg gays anywhere.
The ernment now have spi on Facebook and Grdr for fdg gays and their lotns to arrt them, so will never happen has your own personal life been like as a gay man Afghanistan?
GAY AFGHANISTAN, AFTER THE TALIBAN. HOMOSEXUALY AS TRADN
To be gay eply nservative and relig Afghanistan n rry severe nsequenc. * afghanistan gay life *
If I say I’m top so is okay I’m seen as a good and clever guy, but if I say that I’m versatile or only bottom then I am viewed as a dirty and bad guy and they will treat me as a girl, not as a gay majory of gay people are like this. I have to stay strong and I see gay upl enjoyg their moments and havg fun, I get happy but I know hurts me too, bee I am a human too but why I ask why I nnot be like them? They are both married to girls but still they are gay bee they nnot change I found out about Grdr and there I met some foreigners who are good and handsome guys.
GAY MEN AFGHANISTAN SAY LIFE UNR TALIBAN 'NIGHTMARE,' ULD BE KILLED ON THE SPOT
Gay men Afghanistan are scribg the Taliban’s takeover as a “nightmare” and live fear that they uld be executed at any moment. * afghanistan gay life *
He has helped more than 80 lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and nonbary people reach safety outsi Afghanistan sce the Wtern-supported ernment llapsed last summer. For Afghanistan’s LGBT people, stutnalized discrimatn is nothg new; homosexual relatns were crimalized by the Taliban the first time they took over and aga by the Afghan republic that was formed after the 2001 U.
Wtern ernments and nonernment anizatns failed to prsure the republic to troduce laws to crimalize homosexualy, Sadat said, ncentratg stead on women’s rights. “Afghanistan has bee like a birdge for me, I feel like a bird a ge that has taken away my eedom, ” said a 24-year-old gay man livg wh his fay northern Afghanistan, who asked that he be intified only as Subhan.
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 * afghanistan gay life *
Photographs shared on Instagram show Sara, a nonbary Afghan who, he said, “was stabbed by the Taliban” multiple tim, and Bilal, a gay man “who was tortured by the Taliban for 20 days” and “left to die.
Naveed and Rameen, young gay men the pal Kabul have lost unt of the number of tim they've been lured to dangero suatns on what they believed to be, a young gay Afghan, pos wh his back to the mera Kabul, Afghanistan. Meetg other gay men is difficult as there are no regular gatherg plac, and the need to be discreet means velopg relatnships is almost impossible, they said.
"When the exact needs of a person are not beg fulfilled, when a homosexual man is forced to marry and have children, n lead to terrible unhapps, divorce, even vlence wh the fay.
MEN OM AFGHANISTAN'S SECRET GAY MUNY SAY THEY ARE LIVG THROUGH A 'NIGHTMARE' AND FEAR THAT THE TALIBAN WILL EXECUTE THEM AT ANY MOMENT
Gay and trans people Afghanistan already faced stigma, but now even a ll om an unknown number sparks fear * afghanistan gay life *
The few gay Afghan men who dared to speak of their sexualy scribed a stggle of nfn and guilt as they grew up tryg to pe wh feelgs they didn't unrstand. And once they did, not only uld they not share them, they had to supprs them for their own Zaher, 43, said that when he was growg up Kabul, "nobody knew what gay was and all gay people were supprsed.
"Like the other gay men who spoke to The Associated Prs, he said that as a young man he felt that he wanted to be "normal, " and ncealed his sexualy, until jt beme too 2008, Zaher left the untry and settled Toronto, Canada where he works the nstctn dtry. Vasn of 2001, the flow of rmatn to Afghanistan has helped boost awarens, but unrstandg and tolerance of homosexualy are still a long way off, even pared to regnal neighbors.
RELATED: Comg Out Still a 'Life and Death' Decisn Many CountriYoung gay men Afghanistan still largely grow up wh inty cris, wag for perplexg feelgs to subsi and make way for "normaly.