Tajikistan Registers 367 Spected Gays, Lbians Database

Contents:

• WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY TAJIKISTAN
• GAY LIFE TAJIKSTAN
• TAJIKISTAN REGISTERS 367 SPECTED GAYS, LBIANS DATABASE
• GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK
• GAY TAJIK
• TRANSLATE "GAY" OM ENGLISH TO TAJIK WH MATE
• GAY DIFFERENT LANGUAG
• TAJIKISTAN GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN AUGT 2023

WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY TAJIKISTAN

Wispread homophobia and open police persecutn n make life dangero or out of the gay is no longer a crime Tajikistan, but police are reticent to addrs hate crim, cludg the murr of a gay man Dhanbe 2011. It was there that I first realized that I liked men and I began to go to gay bars and parks where men met.

"There's a reason Tajikistan's lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny (LGBT) remas one of the most closed and secretive parts of Tajik society. Homophobia is wispread thanks to "tradnal attus and the strong fluence of Islam, " says Kiromidd Gulov, director of Equal Opportuni, a lol NGO tablished 2009 to help Tajikistan's LGBT muny wh legal, medil and moral support.

GAY LIFE TAJIKSTAN

"Many Tajiks believe that homosexualy is "a s and that such people should be killed or isolated, " Gulov explaed. ""Homosexualy is ntrary to nature, " said an official om the Mistry of Health, who spoke to on ndn of anonymy bee she is not thorized to speak to the prs. "Although [homosexualy] has been removed om the [ernment's] list of treatable illns, many doctors still see as a disease which n be treated wh medice.

TAJIKISTAN REGISTERS 367 SPECTED GAYS, LBIANS DATABASE

Whereas the Soviet Unn homosexualy was punishable by up to five years prison, Tajikistan was -crimalized 1998. Though Tajikistan's crimal do not prohib homosexualy and homosexual relatnships, LGBT dividuals are still sgled out for persecutn by some officials.

The paper lists regular s of blackmail, arbrary arrt and physil vlence agast LGBT dividuals, mostly gay 23-year-old office worker Said told his bt iend that he was gay, he did not realize the mistake he was makg.

GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK

In 2011, after beg subjected to ntuo blackmail, a 20-year-old gay flight attendant, Ravshan Uzakov hanged himself, the BBC's Rsian language service reported. And last year Dhanbe, a gay stunt was stabbed seven tim and later died of his juri.

Police swiftly closed the se and labeled the attack a Parviz, there is only one solutn - the relative safety of Rsia, where hate crim agast homosexuals occur neverthels.

But police are are reticent to addrs hate crim, cludg the murr of a gay man Dhanbe 2011. Enclose here are three reports that offer analysis and overview of the challeng faced by LGBT activists and cizens their efforts to brg about an acceptable “GayLife Tajikstan”.

GAY TAJIK

” Tajikistan’s lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny (LGBT) remas one of the most closed and secretive parts of Tajik society.

TRANSLATE "GAY" OM ENGLISH TO TAJIK WH MATE

“Homosexualy is ntrary to nature, ” said an official om the Mistry of Health, who spoke to on ndn of anonymy bee she is not thorized to speak to the prs. “Although [homosexualy] has been removed om the [ernment’s] list of treatable illns, many doctors still see as a disease which n be treated wh medice. Though Tajikistan’s crimal do not prohib homosexualy and homosexual relatnships, LGBT dividuals are still sgled out for persecutn by some officials.

The paper lists regular s of blackmail, arbrary arrt and physil vlence agast LGBT dividuals, mostly gay men. When 23-year-old office worker Said told his bt iend that he was gay, he did not realize the mistake he was makg.

In 2011, after beg subjected to ntuo blackmail, a 20-year-old gay flight attendant, Ravshan Uzakov hanged himself, the BBC’s Rsian language service reported. For Parviz, there is only one solutn – the relative safety of Rsia, where hate crim agast homosexuals occur neverthels. Tajikistan Rife wh Homophobia.

GAY DIFFERENT LANGUAG

NGOs are neglectg gay rights the central Asian natn.

A report last week om the Instute for War and Peace Reportg (IWPR) found that homophobia is enmic the central Asian former Soviet untry of Tajikistan. Gay rights groups and dividuals told the IWPR about threats of public beatgs and police harassment Tajikistan.

In relatively more liberal neighborg Kyrgyzstan there are about a dozen gay rights anizatns the pal Bishkek, but Tajikistan only has one. Human Rights Watch World Report 2012’s chapter on Tajikistan do not mentn LGBT rights at all, further evince that human rights groups are overlookg gay rights the regn.

TAJIKISTAN GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN AUGT 2023

Homosexualy was crimalized Tajikistan 1998, but the director of Equal Opportuni, Kiromid Gulov, told the BBC that the way the majory of the public treat LGBT people has not changed.

‘In Tajikistan, spe the aboln of the article [agast homosexualy] the crimal , homophobia remas a very big problem. Gays and lbians do not go to the police for fear of publicy and blackmail, ’ he said a BBC terview April last year.

A jot report om Equal Opportuni and the Kyrgyzstan-based gay rights group Labrys said: ‘sexual and physil vlence agast gay and bisexual men perpetrated by the police… [ the rpective untri] is very mon, ” and that many gay people flee for Rsia or Kazakstan. A 42-year-old woman the pal Dhanbe told IWPR that she disliked gays.