Strangers gay

According to the man, he managed to avoid torture, but the security forces cruelly tortured his close friend, and three familiar men were killed. When did you realize your sexual orientation? Magomed: I was born in Chechnya. My relatives remained there — mother, father, sisters.

I realized my orientation after the first homosexual experience, at the age of CK: Before the persecution began, did any of your relatives and friends know about your orientation? Was there no fear that a wide range of people would know about your homosexual relationships?

Homosexuals are afraid to live not only in Chechnya, but also in general in Russia. Only in Chechnya, unlike in other regions where they can be beaten, crippled, taken away, a homosexual is threatened with death. I knew what this is fraught with from the experience of other young guys who came across homophobes.

At first, young people met at Mail. After dating, they made an appointment, and there they caught the guys. They were beaten, filmed, blackmailed. The killings began just recently. CK: Was it difficult for you to make relationships and hide them from prying strangers gay

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Imagine if the family of straight people had to hide their relationships and children, not to appear in society. We, gays, have the same relationship, with the exception of children. We had to hide from relatives, from colleagues, and from friends, and from fellow students.

It is difficult and painful: for example, it was necessary to invent why a stranger was sitting at our family party. CK: When information about your orientation has ceased to be a mystery to others? CK: Before the arrest, did you hear anything about the facts of the persecution?

About prisons for homosexuals in Chechnya? Homosexuals, especially in Chechnya, are a fairly solid and strangers gay community. We can only be with ourselves like we are, therefore the links [between LGBT people] are very stable. When the first information [about the persecution] appeared, I immediately sent it to my [friends] to whom I could.

Some people, as is usually the case, were skeptical of the messages — they say that I hide well, nothing will happen to me. And then the torture began. CK: Strangers gay there people among those close to the Chechen leadership who successfully hide their homosexuality? M: Yes.

I know them. They work quite normally. CK: Families who have independently dealt with gay relatives try to hide this fact from society and explain the disappearance of a person by leaving or more often they say openly that he is killed?