Behesht Collective is a q***r & trans Afghan collective based in Afghanistan and the US.
The Taliban have officially banned homosexuality. Roshaniya still has over a 1000 LGBT+ people trapped inside Afghanistan. Please donate today to help us get more LGBT+ Afghans to safety!
The security of Afghanistan's LGBTQ+ community deteriorated dramatically following the T… Nemat Sadat needs your support for Help rescue LGBTQ Afghan refugees
LGBT+ Afghans are suffering so much under Taliban rule that a gay couple wants to immigrate to Israel.
Three years on, LGBT+ Afghans are still struggling for asylum protection. Watch Afghanistan International’s segment about the journey of Hamed Mahzon and the work of Roshaniya.
Hamed Mahzon—a leading LGBT+ Afghan activist—is very happy now after facing an ominous fate. Thanks to Roshaniya donors, Hamed obtained an investor visa for Oman. We just need to buy him a plane ticket from Chengdu 🇨🇳 to Muscat 🇴🇲. Grateful if you can please donate so we can relocate Hamed to his new home. You can find the link to our GoFundMe in our bio or here: https://gofund.me/15374691
We will continue the fight until all of us are free!
John Smith and Arsalan, a Bisexual Hazara couple, relocated today from Kabul 🇦🇫 to Muscat 🇴🇲. We salute Roshaniya for now helping 250 LGBT+ Afghans to reach a safe haven.
Hamed is a gay Afghan who finished an MS degree in China; he has to leave now before his visa expires in September. Hamed cannot return to Afghanistan due to his LGBT+ activism. Please donate to the GoFundMe (link in bio) so that we can help him get to Oman.
We are trying to evacuate more LGBT+ Afghan activists. Your donation today will help Roshaniya relocate more LGBTs to Oman where they can embark on a path forward in their lives! You can donate using the QR code or the link in our bio.
Watch Nemat Sadat’s interview with Ashiana Media about Transgender Afghans and the broader Afghan LGBT+ community!
Taniya is one of the first Transgenders in Afghanistan to undergo gender-affirming surgery. Roshaniya helped her find a shelter in Pakistan, get a $5000 grant, and relocate to Canada in September 2022. Taniya moved to Toronto and is enjoying her new life.
Thrilled that Hasina, a Le***an who spent the last three years in Qazvin 🇮🇷 and hails from Mazar-e Sharif 🇦🇫, is now in her new home in Paris 🇫🇷
Handsome wants LGBT+ Afghans to live the good life!
Arezo abhors living in fear!
Iman refuses to be silenced!
LGBT+ Afghans will never be erased from history!
The LGBT+ Afghan community was represented at the Attitude Magazine Pride Awards 2024!
Second photo: Peter Tatchell and Nemat Sadat
Third photo: Krishna Omkar and Nemat Sadat
Fourth photo: Bisi Alimi and Nemat Sadat
Fifth photo: Conor Clark and Nemat Sadat
Here are photos from Nemat Sadat and other LGBT+ speakers from the Pride in London Human Rights Forum, held at the University of Westminster on June 23, 2024.
London, join Nemat Sadat and other LGBT+ speakers today at Portland Hall, University of Westminster (from 12 pm to 5 pm) for a vigorous discussion on the international LGBT+ movement.
Dear Friends of LGBT+ Afghans in the UK,
Nemat Sadat, CEO of Roshaniya, will be speaking at the Pride in London Human Rights Forum, which will be held on June 23, 2024 (from 12 pm - 5 pm) at Portland Hall, University of Westminster. Here's the link to register for free and attend the event:
https://outsavvy.com/event/20452/pride-in-londons-human-rights-forum-2024
You can see the sessions and speakers in the above link. Please join Nemat Sadat and bring your friends. Happy Pride!
Repost from Nemat Sadat's page:
Five years ago this month, Penguin Random House India published my debut novel—a Künstlerroman about a gay Afghan man. opened to wide acclaim and became an instant bestseller; it was also groundbreaking since it was the first depiction of LGBTs in literature to come out of any country in Central Asia. Celebrate in style by buying yourself and loved ones a copy of The Carpet Weaver.
Repost from the page of Roshaniya:
At the start of this Pride Month, we want to thank Roshaniya donors for supporting hundreds of LGBT+ Afghans with evacuation support and humanitarian relief since we began this journey of helping to relocate Afghanistan’s LGBT+ community nearly three years ago.
Today, we want to inform you about our success in recent months. At the start of May, Nemat Sadat traveled to Muscat, Oman to meet the first wave of LGBT+ Afghans we relocated to there thanks to an American donor who funded the cost of their Oman visas. The support that our GoFundMe donors made helped us to get passport renewals, purchase airline tickets and help this group get settled in Oman. We obtained investor visas for them, which allowed them to obtain a residence permit (which they can renew annually) and to open a bank account. We are working to enroll this group in Arabic classes, help them to find a job, and later start a small business so that they can financially empower themselves and emerge as leaders in our community. For example, several of the LGBTs who we recently transferred to Oman have sewing experience and want to start a clothing alterations business. We understand that this group of LGBT+ Afghans who have migrated to Oman will want to live long-term in a western country where they can fully honor their gender identity and/or sexual orientation. This is why we will continue to campaign for them to obtain a humanitarian visa.
Our preferred donor is interested in transferring a total of 12 LGBT+ Afghans to Oman to serve as a test case and if this start-up model works, then it will serve as a powerful case study for other LGBT+ migrants and refugees who have little resources to survive. For now, the situation in Oman, is much better than facing torture and death in Afghanistan or being left in limbo in Iran or Pakistan with no future. We are now in the process of relocating six additional LGBT+ Afghan Human Rights Defenders to Oman. I will be working closely with these individuals so that they can get the proper tools and training to emerge as leaders within our community. If all goes well, we will be moving the next group of people to Oman soon and I will be traveling to the region again to meet them and help them get situated.
So for this Pride Month, we are setting a goal to raise $2250, which will be enough to cover the $375 per person, one-way airline tickets for the six LGBT+ Afghans from Kabul to Muscat.
We are grateful for your generous donations. Thank you.
The security of Afghanistan's LGBTQ+ community deteriorated dramatically following the T… Nemat Sadat needs your support for Help rescue LGBTQ Afghan refugees
LGBT+ Peer Advocate Faraidun Fakory tells Nemat Sadat the feeling of being in a Taliban prison was like being in a coma. Here is a clip from their phone conversation on January 2, 2024.
This is my selfie for the LGBT+ Afghan Festival of The Netherlands. 🇦🇫 🏳️🌈 🇳🇱
Ayedin yearns to act in Turkish dramas, Hollywood movies, and in Broadway & West End plays. He wants to be based in Amsterdam and hop on direct KLM flights from Schiphol Airport to production sets in Istanbul, Los Angeles, New York, and London.
For Sahar and Atifa, a chance to go The Netherlands represents the rainbow after the storm.
James dreams of singing a beautiful q***r song in Pashto for the Her Majesty and the Dutch people!
Aishwarya Rai is a Transgender Afghan in her forties who has sacrificed so much for her family. She now wants to spend the remaining years of her life surrounded by the happy Dutch people.
Arash is proud to be a gay Afghan who loves Dutch men!
Obaid is a Transgender Afghan who has been ridiculed for being different since they could remember. She hopes that the Dutch will welcome her.
Maqsoud is a gay Afghan refugee in Pakistan. He dreams of Amsterdam—shopping on Kalverstraat and cruising on Reguliersdwarsstraat.
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Three years on, LGBT+ Afghans are still struggling for asylum protection. Watch Afghanistan International’s segment about the journey of Hamed Mahzon and the work of Roshaniya. #WeAreAfghanLGBTQ
Hamed Mahzon—a leading LGBT+ Afghan activist—is very happy now after facing an ominous fate. Thanks to Roshaniya donors, Hamed obtained an investor visa for Oman. We just need to buy him a plane ticket from Chengdu 🇨🇳 to Muscat 🇴🇲. Grateful if you can please donate so we can relocate Hamed to his new home. You can find the link to our GoFundMe in our bio or here: https://gofund.me/15374691 #WeAreAfghanLGBTQ
Hamed is a gay Afghan who finished an MS degree in China; he has to leave now before his visa expires in September. Hamed cannot return to Afghanistan due to his LGBT+ activism. Please donate to the GoFundMe (link in bio) so that we can help him get to Oman. #WeAreAfghanLGBTQ
Watch Nemat Sadat’s interview with Ashiana Media about Transgender Afghans and the broader Afghan LGBT+ community! #WeAreAfghanLGBTQ
Handsome wants LGBT+ Afghans to live the good life! #WeAreAfghanLGBTQ
Arezo abhors living in fear! #WeAreAfghanLGBTQ
Iman refuses to be silenced! #WeAreAfghanLGBTQ
LGBT+ Afghans will never be erased from history! #NematSadat #Roshaniya #WeAreAfghanLGBTQ
LGBT+ Peer Advocate Faraidun Fakory tells Nemat Sadat the feeling of being in a Taliban prison was like being in a coma. Here is a clip from their phone conversation on January 2, 2024. #WeAreAfghanLGBTQ
Ayedin is a talented gay Afghan artist. He wants to be surrounded by Dutch aesthetics and take his art to the next level. #WeAreAfghanLGBTQ #KingsDay
Atifa and Sahar are a Lesbian Afghan couple left in limbo in Tehran, Iran. They wish to immigrate to The Netherlands. #WeAreAfghanLGBTQ #KingsDay
James is a gay Afghan man in Pakistan who loves The Netherlands but he is waiting for The Netherlands to reciprocate the love. #WeAreAfghanLGBTQ #KingsDay
Aishwarya Rai is a Transgender Afghan who lives a bitter life in Afghanistan. She calls upon The Netherlands to grant asylum protection to LGBT+ Afghans. #WeAreAfghanLGBTQ #KingsDay
Arash won’t ever give up fighting for LGBT+ Afghans to reach their paradise of The Netherlands! #WeAreAfghanLGBTQ #KingsDay
Obaid is a Transgender who is internally displaced in Afghanistan. She dreams of finding a home in The Netherlands. #WeAreAfghanLGBTQ #KingsDay
Maqsoud has experienced too much pain after the Taliban killed his father and he fled to Pakistan out of fear that he would be executed for being gay. He asks, “Will The Netherlands be his sunshine after the storm?” #WeAreAfghanLGBTQ #KingsDay
Armani pleads with Prime Minister Rutte to help LGBT+ Afghans obtain asylum protection. #WeAreAfghanLGBTQ #KingsDay
Omid loves the Dutch proverb which translates, “Love is like the wind: you can’t see it, but you can feel it.” He hopes he will feel the magic of love while sauntering aimlessly through the Van Gogh museum. #WeAreAfghanLGBTQ #KingsDay
Farzana has a special message to Queen Maxima of the Netherlands and hopes to meet Her Majesty one day and thank her in person. #WeAreAfghanLGBTQ #KingsDay
Sadaf Coco delivers a powerful message for Transgender Day of Visibility. #TDOV #WeAreAfghanLGBTQ
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