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Iraq’s Unwanted People: A documentary about being LGBT in Iraq

Bradley Secker, a U.K based photojournalist, spent two months living in Damascus, Syria in autumn 2010. He spent his time locating LGBT individuals that had fled Iraq in fear of being persecuted because of their sexuality. Gaining the trust of these individuals meant Bradley could see inside the closed diaspora of Iraqi LGBT refugees first hand. His primary aim was to create a photo essay with written, first hand testimonies.

On return to the U.K, Bradley started work on ‘Iraq’s unwanted people’, a short documentary highlighting the problems faced by Iraqi LGBT individuals. The film shows two personal accounts of men living in fear as refugees in Syria. Through photos, interviews and moving image, the film hopes to pose the question as to how, and why, such acts of violence and brutality can be overlooked in a new 'free’ Iraq.

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(via Peter Galazka on Google+)

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Posted by Dan Leveille at 4:49pm
January 3, 2012
Iraqi militias use gay chatrooms to find victims to kill “It is the easiest way to find those people who are destroying Islam and who want to dirty the reputation we took centuries to build up,” says Abu Hamizi, 22, who spends at least six hours a...

Iraqi militias use gay chatrooms to find victims to kill

“It is the easiest way to find those people who are destroying Islam and who want to dirty the reputation we took centuries to build up,” says Abu Hamizi, 22, who spends at least six hours a day trolling gay chatrooms for victims to kill.

Over 680 LGBT people have been murdered in Iraq since 2004, 70 of which were murdered in the past five months.

(via The Guardian, Photo: Bilal Hussein/AP)

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Posted by Dan Leveille at 8:23pm
January 17, 2010