Being LGBT in Afghanistan: ‘If they catch me, they will kill me’

Being LGBT in Afghanistan: ‘If they catch me, they will kill me’

For the hundreds, if not thousands, of LGBT+ Afghans who remain trapped in Kabul, life in their home country was already imbued with a sense of impending danger. 
Even with the influence of more tolerant western values at the height of its occupation, most of Afghanistan’s LGBT+ community have been forced to keep their gender identity and sexual orientation secret amid fears of intimidation at a…

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