Iraqi queers fight back!
By Faz Ali Hili is the founder member of Iraqi Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender UK, a group of asylum seekers who having fled Iraq, are now reporting on the sharp increase there in homophobic beatings, torture and murder. The group is in contact with an underground network of LGBT people in Iraq’s main cities of Baghdad, Najaf, Karbala, Hilla, Duhok and Basra, who are risking their lives to report on the violence. The picture they paint is a nightmare scenario of hatred against anyone who is thought to be a “deviant”: death threats against anyone suspected of being gay; people being beaten and...