Attack on blogger driv Uzbek gay muny unrground | Rters

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• ATTACK ON BLOGGER DRIV UZBEK GAY MUNY UNRGROUND
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

ATTACK ON BLOGGER DRIV UZBEK GAY MUNY UNRGROUND

Uzbekistan – along wh Turkmenistan – are the only post-Soviet stat that prohib sexual relatns between vlence epted Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s pal, last weekend after heated social media bate around lls to reform the penal on homosexualy.

The days, many of are stayg home out of fear, ” said Shhrat – not his real name – a 20-year-old gay man. Covid-19 has exposed the equali and agili of health and polil systems and allowed thorarian regim to impose drastic curbs on rights and eedoms, g the vis as a pretext for rtrictg ee speech and stiflg and Freedom is a new Guardian reportg seri to vtigate and expose human rights ab at this cril time, and elevate the voic of people on the ontl, fightg back for themselv and their Print Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the past four years have seen Uzbekistan move towards a more polilly progrsive agenda, yet this has not extend to the untry’s LGBTQ+ ernment has recently proposed to amend the untry’s crimal to change the charge agast homosexualy om “sodomy” to a crime agast fay, moraly and children.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

“LGBT people Uzbekistan were already vulnerable to harassment, threats, abe and vlence, even before the events on Sunday, given the crimalisatn of nsensual same-sex nduct and wispread homophobia, ” said Mihra Rtmann, senr central Asia rearcher at Human Rights Watch. REUTERS/Timur Karpov Acquire Licensg RightsALMATY, April 9 (Rters) - Members of Uzbekistan's LGBT muny say they have been driven unrground fear of a vlent backlash after a blogger and some of his supporters were attacked last month followg social media posts llg for gay ralli at Mlim holy s. Bazarov, who is not gay, had posted on social media llg for LGBT gathergs at holy s and for a new "state and gay" secury angry mob later attacked several young people who planned to attend an event anised by Bazarov, although had nothg to do wh LGBT issu and was voted to Korean pop mic and Japane rtoons.

Homosexualy is banned Uzbekistan and nsensual gay sex is a felony.

"Gay people are now avoidg f where they once met public, some of which have shut, they said.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

"This (wave of homophobia) would have happened any se, " said Timur Karpov, an ally of Bazarov. "Karpov said he believed the attackers who beat up Bazarov were motivated ls by his posts on gay rights than by his earlier cricism of the ernment, cludg a ll to boytt a parliamentary electn the gay people who spoke to Rters said they were worried their secury had been put at risk by mpaigners terted provokg nontatn unrelated to their rights.

"Bazarov was jt lookg for hype and hurt the (LGBT) muny, " said the human rights Bazarov's remarks, several public figur and one football club have spoken out to nmn homosexualy. "The day we allow (legalised gay sex) will be the day of our ath, " Rasul Kherbayev, a proment member of parliament, said last Williamson, Director of Europe and Central Asia divisn at Uned Stat-based Human Rights Watch, scribed last month's beatgs as "totally awful".

End attacks on LGBT people, " he thori, wary both of liberalism and of policised Islamist nservatism, seem to be want both gay rights and the backlash agast to disappear back to the Allamjonov, the head of fluential Media Support and Development Foundatn whose learship clus a dghter of Mirziyoyev, urged lol media not to ver LGBT issu. ) And Kate McKnon, playg a so-lled Weird Barbie who experienced an extreme haircut and makeover at the hands of an experimental child, never actually answers the qutn anybody would have upon seeg her gay-ass haircut and knowg the actor’s sexualy. Yet even if no one says , Weird Barbie is clearly Gay Barbie.