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WAIT: GAY LIFE IN IRAQ IS … ‘THRIVG’?
We're about 99.99999999877 percent certa life is pretty miserable for many of Iraq's openly gay and transgenr folks. If actually beg murred and * gay baghdad *
99999999877 percent certa life is pretty miserable for many of Iraq’s openly gay and transgenr folks.
News that beg gay Iraq is FANTASTIC? State Department’s Bure of Near Eastern Affairs John Flemg that all is okay wh gays Iraq — you know, bee homosexualy isn’t illegal, so what’s there to worry about? ” Long also says the “crackdown” on gay and even effemate men is beg led by ias mand by the Mahdi Army of radil Shie cleric Moqtada al-Sadr (pictured), a group known as Sadrists, which radilly ntradicts al-Sadr’s supposed ll for an end to anti-gay vlence.
… Although there are substantiated reports that Shi’e mosqu started preachg about the dangers of homosexualy earlier this years neighborhoods such as [strong Sadrist centers] Medat Sadr and Karrada, they do not appear to have directly lled for killg.
LGBT Rights Baghdad, Iraq: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * gay baghdad *
So how n anyone say gays Iraq are “thrivg”? That’s the report om Islam Onle, whose terpretatn of gay life Iraq is markedly different om ternatnal aid groups.
Gay life is thrivg post-vasn Iraq wh many plac beg openly homosexual-iendly amid efforts by social groups and relig lears to reverse the trend. “The gay muny Iraq is creasg spe the fear om extremists, ” Salahdne Abdullah al-Rabia’a, a social worker the pal Baghdad, told. Contrary to reports that homosexuals are gog unrground, gays are reportedly gag choic and plac the war-torn untry.
In the first years after the US-led vasn, ant attacks had led gays to go to hidg.
Hundreds of gay men have been tortured and killed Iraq recent months, some by the natn's secury forc, Human Rights Watch said Monday. * gay baghdad *
But now, nearly seven years, gay life is takg some roots wh central Baghdad emergg as their popular meetg pot.
Wh very few money, as cheep as US $3, gay upl are able to spend hours hotels wh no worri of attacks or secury arrts.
Cemas, taverns and specific rners are the new havens for homosexuals, particularly mal. (Not to mentn some of the new “gay-oriented bs” clu prostutn.