What’s Changed, What Hasn’t

Iraq has never been a gay friendly place and the homophobia and violence against the gay population runs extremely deep and often times ends in violence and death.There’s a great post however on Gay City News about one man’s journey back to a place that seems trapped in a distant time.

According to the post:

I would see a hospital where the bodies of gay men had been dumped, their anuses closed shut from a heavy glue used to torture them. I would visit a safe house, chatting with gay men and transgender Iraqis who hid for safety, yet at the same time were welcoming and life-affirming, teaching me gay Arabic slang and joking about sex with gay Saddam-look-alikes.

More here!