INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX ASSOCIATION
INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX ASSOCIATION
AZERBAIJAN
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Readers Experiences
This is what people are saying about life for LGBTI people in AZERBAIJAN...
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alita
(user currently living in KOREA, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF)
posted for
lesbian
readers
on 24/04/2013
Being gay in my country is same as being a sheep in a pack of wolves. If you are not an open gay, and you are a classic lesbian (NO ONE RECOGNIZES YOUR SEX ORIENTATION BY LOOKING AT YOU)Then you are fine. But if someone knows what kind of sexual relationships you have, well the picture in this case is different. The government tries to be fine towards them,well they are tying to integrate to Europe and adopt its culture and belongings, it is quite an open fact, but People, hmm , society is wild about this. Now a very strong Islamization is spread, those Mollas are washing up people's brain with different religious stuff, not letting people think independently and democratically. I remember me being a schoolkid, wearing like a boy, my classmates used to call me in different ways, like homo idiot, hermaphrodite or the stuff like that. There are some gay people killed and abused over there too. It is not a safe and good place to be gay, not at all
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Raul
(user currently living in AZERBAIJAN)
posted for
gay
readers
on 11/06/2011
tagged with hate crime and violence prevention, gender identity, human rights, laws and leadership , sexual orientation, armed forces
Hello! I'm 17 years-old. I'm gay. My mom and sister know about my orientation. But they want me to hide this from everone. They don't want anyone to know about this. Of course it hurts me. And people say that i have to die. Everyone thinks they have rights for live,but i don't. It's so sad! Hope you'll help us!
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Lonely Boy
(user currently living in AZERBAIJAN)
posted for
gay
readers
on 30/05/2010
tagged with teaching lgbt rights in schools, hate crime and violence prevention, health, human rights, sexual orientation, religion, marriage / civil unions, illegality of male to male relationships
+10
Hello. I'm 16. I live in Baku. I'm gay, i like boys. My parents hate me because of it. They think that i'm abnormal. Every day boys kick and beat me, like a little girl. It's so difficult to live here. Everywhere you should hide the orientation. Because of it here you can even die. And if you are gay, you haven't got any rights except prostitution.
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(user currently living in AZERBAIJAN)
posted for
gay
readers
on 23/04/2010
+10
hi there am gay and my girlfriend is transsexual and we want to live in different country. Here we cant live in freedom and need help. Me and my girlfriend cant work because here they dont let us to, we fineshed school and universety but still we cant do anything live everybody else. If u can help us to move out from here. Here is my e-mail: xaleel@hotmail.com
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(user currently living in AZERBAIJAN)
posted for
transgender
readers
on 22/04/2010
tagged with leadership, lgbti movement (community organizing
salam eleykim men transam ve oz olkemden ko4mek isteyirem burda pis sherayit olduguna gore
xaleel@hotmail.com
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xaleel@hotmail.com
