Column: The Taliban's return means death for LGBTQ Afghans. Biden, will you help? (via latimesopinion)
Sadat now lives in Washington, D.C., where he advocates for LGBTQ equality in the Middle East. Here’s one of the many text messages he received this week from LGBTQ people he knows in Afghanistan:“We are so scared, we are hiding, we know they will come after us, but we don’t know what to do.”
Over the last 20 years, young LGBTQ Afghans took it upon themselves to be the vanguard of change, Sadat told me. “They came out to their families. They told their friends. They found love. And it’s a very diverse group of people. People who didn’t have a lot of means and people who did.” Now, he points out, the people with means may be able to escape on their own, but not the others.
Of the Taliban, Sadat said: “They are going to do what the Nazis did to LGBT people. They are going to try to exterminate us.”before the end of the war, with thousands ending up in concentration camps where they were the subjects of experiments and tortured. An estimated 65% of those held in camps died there.“People never thought that the U.S. was really going to withdraw,” Sadat said when I asked him why more people didn’t leave sooner.
asking the State Department to explain the specific steps it was taking to enforce the February memorandum. While LGBTQ people are living under duress all over the world, America’s responsibility to people in Afghanistan is obviously unique. So should our response be to the crisis they are now facing.AdvertisementNow is the time for the Biden administration to step in. Whether it could have forestalled the swift collapse of the Afghan government this week can be debated.
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