In less than a week, he said, the mood in Afghanistan’s underground gay community went from clandestine freedom to outright panic.
“As soon as the Taliban know that I am a gay man, they will kill me without even thinking about it,” 36-year-old “Sayed” told Business Insider Saturday. Rameen, a young gay Afghan, has lost count of the number of times they’ve been lured into dangerous situations by men they believed they were meeting for dates.
