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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

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.

This way I n relay the most important rmatn to other gay dividuals about what different cultur and ci are like. Here are a few other fantastic hotels for Baku gay travelers that are highly rated and perfectly loted for explorg the bt of the cy. Gay Azeris face difficulty exprsg their sexual inti bee most people the untry are simply nfed about homosexualy.

GAY LIFE AZERBAIJAN

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).

TOP GAY DTATNS: AZERBAIJAN

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.

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. 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.

DOZENS OF GAYS REPORTED ARRTED IN AZERBAIJANI POLICE CRACKDOWN

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. 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.

BEG GAY AZERBAIJAN

“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.

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. “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.

AZERBAIJAN WORST PLACE TO BE GAY EUROPE, FDS LGBTI X

“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. 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.

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’].

AZERBAIJAN DETAS DOZENS OF GAY AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE

Q: Although homosexualy is legal Azerbaijan, I unrstand that is not tolerated?

In most of our fai, the attu towards gays is that they shouldn’t be their fai. Some Azerbaijani journalists ll homosexualy “disgtg”, reports on the are left whout reply. We would like to have discsns about homosexualy an aquate, lite and rmed way universi and schools and mass media on the required level.

GAY AZERBAIJAN TRAVEL GUI

Gay Marriage⚭✖ UnregnizedCensorship✔ No censorshipNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsConversn Therapy✖ Not banned. LGBT employment discrimatn Azerbaijan is no protectns Excerpt: "Gay and lbians n be th unfairly dismissed om their jobs, and homophobia is mon. The report suggts that prciple, there aren't any legal rtrictns around adoptg as an dividual — gay or straight — however, all dividuals are ually nied the right to adopt.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis. A loft Soho, a shared room Barcelona or the Castro, a gay-iendly hotel Le Marais or Chelsea, experience misterb&b all gay travel statns! 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.

CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER

Javid Nabiyev, print of Nef LGBT Azerbaijan Alliance, said a Facebook vio that police had held tae for up to 30 days and forced them to give the nam and addrs of gay and transgenr acquatanc.

"Everybody have fear that they might be arrted anytime on the street, " Nabiyev said English, referrg to members of the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) muny the tightly ntrolled South Cs untry.

Lol activists said at least 50 gay and transsexual people had been taed police raids of private hom, subway statns, and LGBT-iendly clubs, pubs, and bars Baku over the past two weeks. It said many of those taed were released only after givg up the addrs of gay and transsexual acquatanc. Azerbaijan legalized homosexual activy 2000, but the former Soviet untry was still ranked the worst Europe for gay people a 2016 survey by the ternatnal advocy group ILGA.