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INSI MONGOLIA’S ONLY GAY BAR
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Our send ntact was a gay man (also his 30′s) named Otgoo, who is the current executive director of the LGBT Centre. Otgoo told that homosexualy was fally crimalized 2002, but that many people are, unfortunately, still very homophobic. He explaed that relign don’t seem to play a part homophobia here (the ma relign, Buddhism, is relatively acceptg of different sexual orientatns).
However some people feel that homosexualy and transgenrism have been brought om “the Wt” pecially the recent ti of foreign vtors and travelers (and although we know this isn’t te, Katie and I don’t md takg some of the cred for such a wonrful importatn). Otgoo (left, wh Young) mentned that thgs have changed substantially after socialism end–LGBT folks who had been forced to keep their sexualy on the down-low (homosexualy was a crime Soviet tim) were now able to beg to ch their way out of the closet.