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Contents:

• IRAN CHARG FAMO KURDISH SGER WH BEG GAY, FAC EXECUTN
• OBSCURED EXISTENCE OF HOMOSEXUALY AND TRANSSEXUALY SI KURDISH CULTURE; CASE STUDI OF GAYS AND LBIANS KURDISTAN AND DIASPORA
• KURDISH GAYS LIVE LIFE THE SHADOWS IRANIAN KURDISTAN
• KURDISH, GAY AND PROUD DIYARBAKIR
• FROM DIYARBAKIR WH LOVE: KURDISH, GAY AND PROUD
• IRAN CHARG FAMO KURDISH SGER MOHSEN LORTANI WH BEG GAY, FAC EXECUTN
• HOW TO SAY GAY KURDISH (KURMANJI)

IRAN CHARG FAMO KURDISH SGER WH BEG GAY, FAC EXECUTN

On September 4, members of the Kurdistan Regnal Government Iraq proposed an od bill to Parliament that, if passed, would punish any dividual or group who advot for the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people. Acrdg to the “Bill on the Prohibn of Promotg Homosexualy, ” anyone who advot for LGBT rights or “promot homosexualy” would face imprisonment up to one year, and a fe of up to five ln dars (US$3, 430). The bill would also spend, for up to one month, the licens of media pani and civil society anizatns that “promote homosexualy.

The plight of Iraq's lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and qutng or queer (LGBTQ) muny returned to the spotlight last week when Kurdish secury forc Sulaymaniyah reportedly arrted several gay men. Members of the muny told VOA the arrts of at least eight gay men on April 1 stilled fear among them, particularly after secury forc reportedly attempted to force the men to unrgo physil examatns. Durg s dranian le Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State terror group published vios showg s members killg gay men by throwg them off buildg rooftops.

OBSCURED EXISTENCE OF HOMOSEXUALY AND TRANSSEXUALY SI KURDISH CULTURE; CASE STUDI OF GAYS AND LBIANS KURDISTAN AND DIASPORA

Iran has alleged that a proment sger is gay and unr the Islamic Republic’s anti-homosexual laws he uld face the ath journalist Ali Hamedani tweeted on Sunday that “A famo Iranian sger om the Kurdish provce of Kermanshah has been ‘acced’ of beg a homosexual and uld face executn.

KURDISH GAYS LIVE LIFE THE SHADOWS IRANIAN KURDISTAN

” A famo Iranian sger om the Kurdish provce of #Kermanshah has been “acced” of beg a #homosexual and uld face executn.

Ali Hamedani (@BBCHamedani) October 6, 2019 Volker Beck, a German Green Party polician and LGBTQ activist, told The Jesalem Post that "It is a perversn of unjt stat like Iran and Sdi Arabia that alleged or actual homosexualy is prented as an accatn that n st you your life.

— Iran News Wire (@IranNW) October 2, 2019 The Jesalem Post first reported on the Iranian regime’s public hangg of a homosexual January based on the untry’s anti-gay law. Acrdg to a 2008 Brish WikiLeaks dispatch, Iran’s mullah regime has executed “between 4, 000 and 6, 000 gays and lbians” sce the Islamic Revolutn 2016, The Jesalem Post reported that Iran’s regime had executed a gay adolcent that year – the first nfirmed executn of someone nvicted as a juvenile the Islamic Afshar, 19, was hanged Arak Prison Iran’s Markazi Provce on July 18, 2016, after he was nvicted of “forced male-to-male anal terurse” early 2011, Iran’s regime executed three Iranian men after beg found guilty of charg related to homosexualy.

KURDISH, GAY AND PROUD DIYARBAKIR

LGBT+ is an ialism that stands for (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr/Transsexual), the “pl” is clive of other groups, such as asexual, tersex, queer, qutng, etc. The Unn of Kurdistan Journalists appeal a verdict agast Iraqi Kurdish journalist who wrote about homosexuals 8. This ethnographic paper try to give an anthropologil perspective on the all too obscured existence of homosexualy and transsexualy si Kurdish culture.

FROM DIYARBAKIR WH LOVE: KURDISH, GAY AND PROUD

Bee of this unwillgns to treat the topic, transgenr and homosexual people Kurdish society have never been given a regnised role. although male homosexualy has been rmally known about, if not discsed, lbianism and transsexualy is much ls tolerated, even rmally.

IRAN CHARG FAMO KURDISH SGER MOHSEN LORTANI WH BEG GAY, FAC EXECUTN

There is a srcy of wrten rerds about the issue of homosexualy Kurdish society as well, although there have been attempts by Kurdish or non-Kurdish wrers to rearch this cultural taboo.

In what follows I show some se studi of dividuals whom I terviewed for this rearch, and explore their motivatns and practic of homosexualy, as well as the ways they see themselv viewed Kurdish society. Iran is perhaps unique the Mlim world for s lenient attu towards transsexuals; although homosexuals may face the ath sentence if open about their sexualy, transgenr dividuals are not only tolerated, but ernment support is available for their treatment. My father almost killed me when he found out that I was gay/transsexual, I had to flee Kurdistan and go to live Tehran.

HOW TO SAY GAY KURDISH (KURMANJI)

Near Hotel Aziz there is rather dark and dirty alleyway which leads to an upstairs bar, a “Kurdish gay and lbian bar”. As soon as you walk , almost everyone seems to be checkg you out, perhaps to see if you are gay/lbian.

At this pot she lowers her voice and says, or maybe hangs me to ath jt like last year when they hanged two Fars (Persian) gays. Well, what I mean I n’t live there is, is not possible for me as gay man, then he says I am om regn of Hawraman, and that’s mak worse. To be hont, I didn’t know that I was gay until one night I was wh a iend om the same llege and he ma a move, thkg back on the old days I unrstand now why I have never been terted girls.

Even though there is such a taboo surroundg any kd of non-nformist sexualy, be gay or transsexual, a public bate is begng to emerge on the topic, led by diaspora activists. After a terrible human rights vlatn which a gay Kurdish uple had been whipped as ‘punishment’ Iran, a Kurdish gay supporter on wrote:. Gays Kurdistan, like most Middle Eastern societi, are really looked down upon bee of relign and even our culture.