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
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WAIT: GAY LIFE IN IRAQ IS … ‘THRIVG’?
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99999999877 percent certa life is pretty miserable for many of Iraq’s openly gay and transgenr folks. News that beg gay Iraq is FANTASTIC?
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 *
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.
So how n anyone say gays Iraq are “thrivg”?
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 *
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.