In Azerbaijan, beg openly gay n mean alg wh sults, threats, and even vlence. Rights groups have sgled out the untry's ernment for failg to protect s LGBT muny. One young woman Baku scribed her experienc after g out to her fay and universy classmat. (RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service)
Contents:
- BAKU GAY TRAVEL
- GAY LIFE AZERBAIJAN
- TOP GAY DTATNS: AZERBAIJAN
- DOZENS OF GAYS REPORTED ARRTED IN AZERBAIJANI POLICE CRACKDOWN
- BEG GAY AZERBAIJAN
- AZERBAIJAN WORST PLACE TO BE GAY EUROPE, FDS LGBTI X
- AZERBAIJAN DETAS DOZENS OF GAY AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE
- GAY AZERBAIJAN TRAVEL GUI
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
BAKU GAY TRAVEL
wolfyy's Baku gay travel gui, based on first-hand experience. Hotels & where to stay, thgs to do, rtrants, LGBT safety & lol gay life. * gay in azerbaijan *
I had ncerns about visg Baku as a gay person, as would many travelers attracted to betiful ci nservative untri.
Baku is still not so easy for lols, even though there are no longer any laws prohibg homosexualy, gay life. If you do not have a VPN app on your phone, then be sure to turn off any lotn-based datg or other gay apps. I personally did not enunter any issu while travelg Azerbaijan wh my gay iend Hassan.
My personal goal as a gay traveler is to tt out the gay travel experience Baku and other ci around the world.
GAY LIFE AZERBAIJAN
In Azerjaijan the crimalizatn of nsensual same-sex male acts occurred 2000; human rights improved. But gays are still closeted. * gay in azerbaijan *
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TOP GAY DTATNS: AZERBAIJAN
LGBT Rights Azerbaijan: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * gay in azerbaijan *
Gay Azeris face difficulty exprsg their sexual inti bee most people the untry are simply nfed about homosexualy. Many cizens of Azerbaijan do not posss the knowledge or have the rourc to unrstand that homosexualy is normal.
More than 80 LGBT+ dividuals were arrted September 2017 durg a ernment crackdown targetg Baku gay lols. The year 2000 saw the abolishg of the Azerbaijani law forbiddg homosexual teractns (gay sex). Although homosexual acts between nsentg male adults were officially crimalized, reports about police ab agast gays, maly male prostut, persisted durg the last year.
It has been observed that the state ntrolled media outlets e homosexualy as a tool to harass and discred crics of the ernment and opposn journalist. Homosexualy Azerbaijan is an issue surround by nfn, ignorance, secrecy and a lack of nceptual unrstandg at the most basic level.
DOZENS OF GAYS REPORTED ARRTED IN AZERBAIJANI POLICE CRACKDOWN
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There is hardly any objective and rrect rmatn on the psychologil, soclogil and legal aspects of homosexualy Azerbaijan, wh the rult that the majory of society simply do not know what homosexualy is. “Comg out” as a gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr person is therefore rare and dividual LGBT people are aaid of the nsequenc.
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Some, particular those who are fancially pennt and livg Baku, are able to lead a safe life as a LGBT person, as long as they ‘practice’ their homosexualy the private sphere. The age of nsent is equal for both heterosexual and homosexual sex, at 16 years of age. As of 2009, there are no tablished forms of legally regnized unns for homosexuals.
But not all is well for LGBT people Azerbaijan; is, spe some reforms and secularism, still a Mlim-based untry where homophobia has ep roots i the relign. As reported this BBC story, one gay artist was forced to flee his untry bee of persecutn and threats.
AZERBAIJAN WORST PLACE TO BE GAY EUROPE, FDS LGBTI X
Human rights groups have voiced severe ncern and sought ways to help after activists said dozens of gay people had been jailed followg raids by the thori Azerbaijan recent weeks. * gay in azerbaijan *
Officials Azerbaijan sist gay visors are wele to the 2012 Eurovisn song ntt when the event, which has an enthiastic gay followg, is hosted the pal, Baku. However, such assuranc jar wh those who have had first-hand experience of how homosexuals are treated Azeri society. “My brother has vowed to kill me, and then kill himself, ” says Babi Badalov (photo right), a radil gay Azeri artist who has recently been granted polil asylum France.
But his applitn failed on the grounds that homosexualy was not illegal Azerbaijan.
“Homosexualy here is seen as worse than prostutn, ” says Yadigyar Sadykov, a human rights activist om Mr Badalov’s native regn. I have heard of many suicis of spected homosexuals – I have never met an openly gay person around here. “Durg Eurovisn, no-one will bother gay foreigners Baku, ” says Alekper Aliyev, a wrer and an thor of a ntroversial book about a gay relatnship between an Azeri and a man om Armenia, the untry’s historic enemy.
AZERBAIJAN DETAS DOZENS OF GAY AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE
Sergey Bagirov is a 35-year-old gay man om Baku. For the past 20 years, he has had no ntact wh his parents. “My problems wh the fay started when I realized that I was gay,” Bagirov said. “At the time, I was somehow ashamed of and nfsed everythg to my parents, pecially bee was necsary to expla why I was beaten at school every day… My father threw me out of the hoe that same day. I was 14 years old. They did not even give me my documents. I am now over 30 years old and still do not have a passport.” * gay in azerbaijan *
There are several openly gay celebri Baku who have money and bodyguards, and they are safe. Azeri officials disagree, potg out that Azerbaijan crimalized homosexualy 2001.
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Authori Azerbaijan are rejectg accatns of a crackdown on gay and transgenr people the ex-Soviet natn. * gay in azerbaijan *
“Recently there has been much ill-rmed speculatn by some expatriat about how we treat our homosexual muny, ” says Elnur Aslanov, a senr official om the printial admistratn.
“Everyone knows that after midnight not far om this hotel you n get gay sex wh a transvte prostute. “Everybody’s rights are vlated Azerbaijan, ” says Mr Badalov, “and gays are not an exceptn.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
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Homosexualy is not well seen and public homosexual behavr not tolerated, although a uple of bars seem to work as meetg plac for the gay and lbian muny.
CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal. * gay in azerbaijan *
Currently article 150 only prcrib punishment for vlent homosexual terurse, which is punishable by 3-15 year imprisonment. Lbian and non-perative gay sex between nsentg adults is not explicly mentned the laws as a crimal offense.
In a recent printial amnty, prisoners nvicted for homosexual acts were exclud om those released. Anyway, male or female, straight or gay, take preutns, HIV fectn levels are on the rise Azerbaijan.
As far as I n remember, an anizatn, official reprentativ of LGBT muny Azerbaijan, exists om 2006 – 2007 [this was ‘Azeri Gay Communy’]. Q: Although homosexualy is legal Azerbaijan, I unrstand that is not tolerated?