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…