Escape from Kabul: Part I – Life of a gay man in Afghanistan
In September 2021, Openly published the diary of a gay man based in Kabul, one month after the Taliban took full control of Afghanistan. The impact of the diary, written over one week, was enormous, with British lawmaker John Nicolson reading from it during a parliamentary debate on LGBTQ+ Afghan refugees. But what happened to the diarist, a former English teacher who had lost his job and was then hiding from possible death at the hands of the new Islamist regime? A year on from the fall of Kabul on…
Read More