LGBT travellers

[bwv812]

Heterosexual travelers flaunt their sexuality all the time. From sharing a room with a single bed to holding hands, being affectionate in public, or even kissing. This may not be exactly in accordance with local custom (I have seen heterosexual marriages in public, though), but I'm not sure I've ever seen mazeno complain about it before.

[mazeno]

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[faevil100]

What an aggressive response! I will give you the benefit of the doubt and answer as if you are sincerely asking to be educated rather than just taking this as a chance to shout at a gay person.

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referring to the topic:
what's wrong with you
do hetero say about their heterity on all the ocasions?

"What is wrong with me" is that there are many examples of increasing anti-LGBT sentiment in the area, which is increasingly acted upon violently (plus is actually criminalised still in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan).

The anti-gay "purges" in Chechnya in recent years are well known (e.g. https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/05/08/rus ... n-chechnya) and this is becoming more frequent in Azerbaijan as well (e.g. https://oc-media.org/spate-of-homophobi ... zerbaijan/). There are many other disturbing incidents and trends in recent years across the CIS region - e.g. the Tajik government attempting to draw up a list of every LGBT person in Tajikistan (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... cal-checks), increased public discussion fueling violent movements in Uzbekistan (https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... uzbekistan) and so on. I've even seen speculation that the western tourists killed in Tajikistan a few years ago were killed for being (perceived to be) gay.

The CIS is literally the only region in the entire world where people's acceptance towards LGBT people has decreased in the past decade (https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020 ... -persists/), due to Putin discovering that LGBT people make an excellent scapegoat to distract from domestic issues, which has been seized upon by others in the CIS too.

Iran is another issue altogether, as they still actively execute homosexuals (https://www.dw.com/en/iran-defends-exec ... a-49144899) - I recognise that the chance of a western tourist being affected by this is very small but I would not personally recommend to any LGBT person to travel there (which is a pity as I find Iran one of the most interesting countries in the world).

PEOPLE IN THE STANS RIGHTLY DON'T DAZZLE THEIR SEXUALITY, SO YOU SHOULD
and there is no problem

Unfortunately, people are also targeted because of their perceived sexuality, not because of anything they have said or done in a concrete sense (see the aforementioned links).

don't destroy it with imposed affectation, pretentiousness and exaltation

This doesn't make any sense in English so I can't respond to this part.

well
maybe let's create a topic
hetero travellers

Here we have reached the rock bottom level of "discussion", you are welcome to do so but (white, male) heterosexual people do not face specific additional issues to consider so I am not sure what would be discussed in such a thread.

In conclusion, I do not think that it is impossible to travel as an LGBT person to Central Asia, but it is clear that one must be aware. This is exactly the same as solo female travellers or black travellers - additional potential dangers exist and it would be foolish not to educate yourself in advance, even if the actual chance of anything happening to you remains quite small. That is the point of this topic.

I also pre-emptively acknowledge that homophobia is an issue globally (in fact the worst homophobia I have personally experienced was in the UK).

[faevil100]

Anyway, I actually came here to post that out gay couple Oskar & Dan have recently visited Uzbekistan and I quite enjoyed their videos as a basic overview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgp3C_23cNQ