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Added on: 08/21/2023

LGBTQ Afghan Migrants In Limbo For Asylum

08/20/2023

Even as night settles over Quetta, there are plenty of cars whizzing past us as we disappear into a two-story house along Sattar Road. We grope the…

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Added on: 12/07/2022

Across vast Muslim world, LGBTQ people remain marginalized

12/6/2022

On the outskirts of Yogyakarta, an Indonesian city that’s home to many universities, is a small boarding school with a mission that seems out of place in…

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Added on: 11/28/2022

Taliban lashes and flogs Afghans in crowded football stadiums for ‘adultery and gay sex’

11/27/2022

The Taliban have flogged a group of people in a crowded football stadium for “moral crimes” including gay sex. Twelve people, including three women, were lashed in front…

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Added on: 11/27/2022

I spoke to 100 LGBTQ+ Afghans fearing for their lives under the Taliban. This is what I learned

11/26/2022

Filmmaker Dan Hall accidentally found himself in contact with more than a hundred queer people in Afghanistan living under Taliban rule. He shares some of their stories…

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Added on: 11/12/2022

Gandhara Briefing: Taliban Targets Universities; Women Barred From Parks; Gay Afghan Men Fear Persecution

11/11/2022

RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi reports on the Taliban cracking down on Afghan universities, which have become a hotbed of anti-Taliban protests led by female students. In the latest…

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Added on: 11/08/2022

New project Nour Sarah reaches out to LGBTQ Afghans, aims for more

11/07/2022

A new project launched by LGBTQ rights activists based in Lebanon and Paris offers emotional support services to members of the LGBTQ community — initially to refugees…

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Added on: 08/21/2022

Some LGBTQ Afghans Are Finally Safe. Thousands Are Not.

08/20/2022

It was “so hard” to leave his family in Afghanistan, Talha told The Daily Beast. Then he began crying, recalling the desperate dash to get out of…

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Added on: 08/19/2022

OPINION: We need more South Asian queer stories and voices

08/18/2022

Shivani Dave is a freelance journalist and broadcaster at Openly and Virgin Radio. Growing up I never thought Brown people could be LGBTQ+. That’s an absolutely ridiculous thought,…

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Added on: 06/29/2022

Shunned by law and society, Afghanistan’s LGBT community calls for help.

06/28/2022

Rejected by both law and the society, Afghanistan’s LGBT people have been facing a deeper crisis with the Taliban seizing power and implementing a strict form of…

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Added on: 05/12/2022

Out in the World: 60 LGBTQ Afghan refugees arrive in Canada

05/11/2022

The Canadian government has quietly relocated 60 LGBTQ Afghan refugees from Pakistan to the North American country. Afghan refugees flew out of Islamabad to Nova Scotia around…

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Added on: 04/18/2022

LGBT+ Afghan deaths ‘preventable’ if West had prioritised evacuations, campaigners say

04/17/2022

The deaths of LGBT+ people in Afghanistan could have been prevented if Western governments had prioritised their evacuation after the country fell to the Taliban, campaigners have…

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Added on: 04/04/2022

‘It’s a living nightmare’ – LGBT Afghans on life after the Taliban takeover

04/03/2022

The panic-fuelled chaos that came to define last August’s invasion of Afghanistan may have subsided, but for the LGBT+ people still trapped and facing displacement, the trauma will…

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Added on: 02/27/2022

Gay Afghan wounded in Taliban stabbing feels ‘alone’ during LGBT+ History Month

2/27/2022

A gay, non-binary Afghan has told of how they were left “injured and alone” after suffering severe injuries in a knife attack by the Taliban, as thousands…

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Added on: 02/02/2022

LGBTQ people in Afghanistan face violence, rape and extortion, say human rights watchdogs.

02/01/2022

A recent report by a pair of human rights organizations is warning of the plight of LGBTQ people in Afghanistan, who frequently face threats of violence against…

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Added on: 01/27/2022

LGBTQ+ Afghans Struggle for Work and Food as Taliban Threats Grow

01/26/2021

Jan. 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — LGBTQ+ Afghans face increasing threats and violence five months since the Taliban seized power, with many forced into hiding and unable…

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Added on: 12/30/2021

Out in the World: Mixed record on LGBTQ rights across the world in 2021

12/29/2021

The year started out on a hopeful note. The world was looking forward to getting past a dark period in America’s leadership and the global COVID-19 pandemic….

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Added on: 12/28/2021

Lesbian risks life and flees Afghanistan to escape forced marriage to cruel Taliban brute

12/27/2021

Rabia was just 15-years-old when she became engaged to a Taliban officer against her will in a small village in Afghanistan. Now 22-years-old, Rabia has fled Afghanistan…

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Added on: 12/19/2021

Treatment of LGBTQ people across Middle East examined in new report

12/18/21

The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) published a report on Tuesday covering the criminalization of consensual same-sex relations, stating that the Islamic Republic…

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Added on: 12/17/2021

This Gay Man Escaped From Afghanistan. America Has Abandoned Him in a ‘Terrifying’ Limbo.

12/16/2021

C says all he can see are tall buildings surrounding him. “It feels like I have escaped death, but now I am in a prison,” he told…

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Added on: 11/14/2021

Call for asylum for Afghans facing Taliban LGBT kill lists

11/13/21

Just.Equal Australia has urged the Australian Government to provide refuge for LGBTIQA+ Afghans facing persecution under the Taliban regime. The call follows reports from Rainbow Railroad of…

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Added on: 11/13/2021

Out in the World: Rainbow Railroad says resettlement has started for some LGBTQ Afghans

11/12/21

Rainbow Railrod announced that the first group of LGBTQ Afghan refugees arrived in the United Kingdom just before Halloween. They are safe, but hundreds more remain unsafe…

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Added on: 11/03/2021

‘The Taliban has a kill list’ for the Afghan LGBT community, NGO says

11/02/2021

Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan at the end of August the persecution of the country’s LGBT+ community has ramped up, forcing many to live in…

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Added on: 11/01/2021

LGBTQ Afghans, who were in ‘grave danger’ from the Taliban, evacuated to the UK

10/31/2021

A flight of LGBT Afghans arrived in the UK, following a mission from the government and gay rights organizations to move them to safety, it was confirmed….

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Added on: 10/31/2021

Taliban say gay rights will not be respected under Islamic law

10/29/2021

In a rare statement addressing LGBT rights, the Taliban said that their intended support for human rights did not include gay rights. Although Western powers want to…

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Added on: 10/31/2021

‘I feel free’ – LGBT Afghan refugees arrive in UK

10/30/2021

I feel like “a human being for the first time” in my life, a gay Afghan man has said after arriving in the UK with 28 others…

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Added on: 10/23/2021

Gay Afghan Says the Taliban Burned Him, Lives ‘Like a Prisoner’ Now

10/22/21

A gay man from Afghanistan said he was burned by the Taliban. He now lives in hiding out of concern for his safety and said he’s been…

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Added on: 09/22/2021

‘The Taliban will have no mercy’: LGBTQ+ Afghans go into hiding

09/20/2021

Laila, a transgender woman in Afghanistan, rubs her eyes to wipe tears away. “I am terrified. It’s like a nightmare. I don’t feel safe even in my…

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Added on: 09/02/2021

LGBT Afghans are on the run, afraid they could be stoned to death under Taliban law

09/01/2021

Ahmadullah says the Taliban beheaded his boyfriend on the day they entered Kabul. “We were in a restaurant having breakfast when we heard about the Taliban,” he…

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Added on: 08/31/2021

Afghan Gay Men Are Terrified. Taliban Continue to Hunt, Betray, Out, Rape, Beat, Murder, Cause Suicides…And That’s Just the Last 2 Weeks

08/31/2021

Taliban are going door-to-door looking for journalists, interpreters and LGBTQ+ people. The longest war the US has ever been in was not won by US. We are…

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Added on: 08/29/2021

‘A virtual death sentence’: Gay Afghans brace for uncertain future under Taliban

8/28/21

N, a 20-year-old student living in Afghanistan, is in hiding as she hopes for news that she and her family can leave the country. As a lesbian,…