Dear Anita

Another interesting article ” ‘Even If You Go to the Skies, We’ll Find You’ – LGBT People in Afghanistan After the Taliban Takeover. ” from human rights watch where they interviewed 60 LGBT Afghans from Oct. 2021 to December 2021. Many LGBT people were assaulted and threatened in Afghanistan. Life in Afghanistan before Taliban takeover wasn’t easy for LGBT people either,  in 2018 the government passed a law that criminalized same-sex marriage.

Under the Taliban same-sex relationships have gotten more extreme with punishments.

The Taliban declares “For homosexuals, there can only be two punishments: either stoning, or he must stand behind a wall that will fall down on him.”

I do hope that LGBT people in places like African countries, Middle East and some parts of Europe like Poland and Hungary find refuge and safe spaces. Asia doesn’t really acknowledge LGBT people, there are many trans people whose families don’t accept them and it’s very hard to get gender transitioning resources in Asian countries. The LGBT group in Beijing was created in 1990 but it still has a long way to go before helping people receive equal rights.