Gay man's murr rais qutns over Uzbek human rights reforms | Rters

Contents:

• ATTACK ON BLOGGER DRIV UZBEK GAY MUNY UNRGROUND
• GAY LIFE UZBEKISTAN
• UZBEK GAY LIFE--AN INTERVIEW WH MAXIM
• GAY MAN'S MURR RAIS QUTNS OVER UZBEK HUMAN RIGHTS REFORMS

ATTACK ON BLOGGER DRIV UZBEK GAY MUNY UNRGROUND

But Uzbekistan, where homosexualy is a crime, was brave and darg, phg the l of how gay people Uzbekistan n live and mandg the sort of digny he knew that gay people had elsewhere.

In a untry where the police e fake profil on social media to lure gay men to apartments and then make them choose between payg up or facg three years prison, how n they? This is the realy Uzbekistan, where I, like Shokir, was born; 's one of only two post-Soviet stat that still crimalize homosexualy.

GAY LIFE UZBEKISTAN

There, a gay rdlogist named Kasymberdy Garayev, who me out onle like Shokir, disappeared recently after beg summoned to a police statn for my home untry, there is hope for change. That homosexualy is "irrelevant" to Uzbek society.

UZBEK GAY LIFE--AN INTERVIEW WH MAXIM

It is an amazg thg to claim when there has been a wave of arrts of gay Uzbeks recent months.

GAY MAN'S MURR RAIS QUTNS OVER UZBEK HUMAN RIGHTS REFORMS

Jt days before Shokir went to a gay club Tashkent for the last time, police arrted 10 gay men who had gathered at the bar. There are vigilante groups that target gay men and force them to film huiatg vios, like this one showg a man forced to sert a glass bottle to his rectum. Bee homosexualy remas illegal, no gay man would ever report that kd of abe.

The rult is that gay men Uzbekistan live an environment of nstant fear. " I was only 12, but I stopped dancg and playg mic, aaid of what would happen if I me and for many others, the close-kn nature of Uzbek fai that n make the untry so warm and supportive mak the culture suffotg when you are gay. LGBTQ+ rights mt ntue to be on the for those who survive growg up gay Uzbekistan, the effects are lastg.