No matter how bad it looks here in the U.S. for LGBT rights it is a lot worst around the globe.
While economic hardships increase around the world, governments need something to distract and blame from the economic oppression the governments are creating and folks we are it. We are the cause of all the inequalities in the world, not the one percenters, not the cuts to the safety nets programs, but us demanding equal rights, us demanding to be treated just like everyone else.
Seven people arrested in Egypt accused of promoting homosexuality after flying Pride flagAnd it is even worst in Azerbaijan,
Pink News
By Meka Beresford
26th September 2017,
Seven people have been arrested in Egypt after authorities accused them of being gay and promoting their homosexuality by flying a rainbow Pride flag at a gig.
Over the weekend, on September 24, a group of people were watching the Lebanese indie rock band Mashrou’ Leila in Cairo.
The singer of the band is openly gay and at the concert, the people waved a Pride flag.
They have since been wrongfully arrested and charged with “inciting immorality” as they allegedly promoted homosexuality by raising the flag.
Homosexuality is not prohibited by law in the country, however, the conservative society thinks of it as a taboo.
The new Chechnya? 100 gay and transgender people reportedly arrested and tortured in AzerbaijanHate is spreading around the world and it is coming here in America as the numbers bias crimes and hate groups increase since they received the green light from the president.
Pink News
By Josh Jackman
22nd September 2017
At least 100 gay and transgender people have been arrested, tortured and beaten in Azerbaijan, according to local reports.
Police conducted a number of raids in the capital of Baku and forced those who they arrested to give up their friends’ addresses, activists have said.
Some of those detained have reportedly had their heads shaved.
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Other reports from inside the country state that the raids were carried out in the name of “protecting national moral values.”
Ayaz Efendiyev, deputy chairman of the Justice Party, responded to the reported arrests with a prejudice-filled diatribe.
“Defending these creatures who are sources of immorality, dangerous diseases, and who have been cursed by God, Western circles are trying to destroy our national traditions under the name of ‘human rights,’” he said.
While economic hardships increase around the world, governments need something to distract and blame from the economic oppression the governments are creating and folks we are it. We are the cause of all the inequalities in the world, not the one percenters, not the cuts to the safety nets programs, but us demanding equal rights, us demanding to be treated just like everyone else.
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