Column: Taliban's return means ath for gay Afghans. Bin, will you help? - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• GAY AFGHANISTAN: HOMOEROTICISM AMONG KABUL'S WARRRS
• GAY AFGHANISTAN, AFTER THE TALIBAN. HOMOSEXUALY AS TRADN
• GAY REFUGEE PLEADS FOR AMERINS TO HELP LGBT AFGHANS
• MEN OM AFGHANISTAN'S SECRET GAY MUNY SAY THEY ARE LIVG THROUGH A 'NIGHTMARE' AND FEAR THAT THE TALIBAN WILL EXECUTE THEM AT ANY MOMENT
• ‘JT LIKE THE NAZIS’: GAY AFGHANS FACE ‘EXTERMATN’ UNR TALIBAN
• ‘A VIRTUAL ATH SENTENCE’: GAY AFGHANS BRACE FOR UNCERTA FUTURE UNR TALIBAN

GAY AFGHANISTAN: HOMOEROTICISM AMONG KABUL'S WARRRS

(New York) – Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) Afghans and people who do not nform to rigid genr norms Afghanistan have faced an creasgly sperate suatn and grave threats to their safety and liv unr the Taliban, Human Rights Watch and OutRight Actn Internatnal said a report released today.

GAY AFGHANISTAN, AFTER THE TALIBAN. HOMOSEXUALY AS TRADN

A Taliban judge told the German tabloid Bild shortly before the fall of Kabul, “For homosexuals, there n only be two punishments: eher stong, or he mt stand behd a wall that will fall down on him. ” A manual issued by the Taliban Mistry of Vice and Virtue 2020 stat that relig lears shall prohib same-sex relatns and that “strong allegatns” of homosexualy shall be referred to the mistry’s district manager for adjuditn and punishment.

GAY REFUGEE PLEADS FOR AMERINS TO HELP LGBT AFGHANS

A gay man said that Taliban members taed him at a checkpot, beat him, and gang-raped him, tellg him, “From now on anytime we want to be able to fd you, we will.

MEN OM AFGHANISTAN'S SECRET GAY MUNY SAY THEY ARE LIVG THROUGH A 'NIGHTMARE' AND FEAR THAT THE TALIBAN WILL EXECUTE THEM AT ANY MOMENT

He had to pass through checkpots and at one, an armed man shouted, “You are an izak, ” a rogatory term for gay people. The parents returned to Hamid’s hoe, sayg they had heard mors that Hamid was gay, and feared their son might have been killed bee of their relatnship.

Now Balkhi says that rare acceptance has put all their liv at risk, as the new Taliban learship Kabul unleash a wave of physil vlence and fear on Afghanistan’s gay, lbian and transgenr populatn.

No official statement has been ma, but an terview wh Germany’s Bild newspaper July, one Taliban judge said there were only two punishments for homosexualy – stong or beg cshed unr a wall.

‘JT LIKE THE NAZIS’: GAY AFGHANS FACE ‘EXTERMATN’ UNR TALIBAN

Nemat Sadat, an LGBTQ Afghan thor who liv the Uned Stat, said the untry’s gay, lbian and transgenr cizens had helped the untry’s cultural life flourish the 20 years sce the Taliban’s last le. LGBTQ people who spoke to CNN said while very few felt fortable or safe enough to be openly gay, lbian or transgenr before the takeover, many were able to quietly build liv te to their inti.

‘A VIRTUAL ATH SENTENCE’: GAY AFGHANS BRACE FOR UNCERTA FUTURE UNR TALIBAN

Hilal, a 25-year-old gay man, said he ed to have a boyiend and had even worked openly to advote for LGBTQ rights Afghanistan. One gay man who has been touch wh Sadat, the US-based LGBTQ advote, said he told him he watched om his hidg place the ceilg as Taliban fighters beat the iend who had refed to divulge his lotn.

Another gay man CNN is llg Hasan said he had been hidg a iend’s hoe Kabul for more than a month and was nng out of food and money. Hilal, the LGBTQ activist, said he was fur at the US ernment and other Wtern untri who he felt had abandoned him and other gay, lbian and transgenr Afghans. And, a 25-year-old genr non-nformg gay person said they had tried to appear more mascule, but a Taliban fighter beat them wh a plastic pipe when they were seen walkg a street.