Iraqi LGBT Under Threat

[Shana A]

Iraqi LGBT Under Threat
March 5, 2008

http://walksfree.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/iraqi-lgbt-under-threat/

Three Iraq safe houses forced to close

No funds to pay rent or utility bills

30 gay people left to fend for themselves

London and Baghdad – 6 November 2007

Three out of five gay safe houses in Iraq are closing down, due to a lack of funds to pay their rent and utility bills.

The refuges were set up two years ago, to provide a place of safety for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (lgbt) Iraqis who have fled homophobic threats and attempts to kill them by religious fundamentalists and death squads.