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theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)21. Isa Shakhmarli, Azeri Gay Rights Activist
The Huffington Post
Isa Shakhmarli, Azeri Gay Rights Activist, Allegedly Commits Suicide With A Rainbow Flag
Posted: 01/23/2014 12:30 pm EST
Members of Azerbaijan's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community are in mourning this week after the unexpected death of one of their leading advocates.
As the AFP reports, 20-year-old Isa Shakhmarli was found dead Jan. 22 after reportedly hanging himself with a rainbow flag. Shakhmarli was the chairman of Azerbaijan Free LGBT, a Baku-based gay rights advocacy group, according to the report.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has published an excerpt of a note that the LGBT activist apparently wrote to friends on his Facebook page.
"This world is not colorful enough for my colors," part of the note read, according to the report....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/23/isa-shakhmarli-gay-activist-dead-_n_4652416.html?ref=topbar
Isa Shakhmarli, Azeri Gay Rights Activist, Allegedly Commits Suicide With A Rainbow Flag
Posted: 01/23/2014 12:30 pm EST
Members of Azerbaijan's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community are in mourning this week after the unexpected death of one of their leading advocates.
As the AFP reports, 20-year-old Isa Shakhmarli was found dead Jan. 22 after reportedly hanging himself with a rainbow flag. Shakhmarli was the chairman of Azerbaijan Free LGBT, a Baku-based gay rights advocacy group, according to the report.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has published an excerpt of a note that the LGBT activist apparently wrote to friends on his Facebook page.
"This world is not colorful enough for my colors," part of the note read, according to the report....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/23/isa-shakhmarli-gay-activist-dead-_n_4652416.html?ref=topbar
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Mark Carson, shot in the face earlier this year about a block from the Stonewall Inn.
Smarmie Doofus
Aug 2013
#4
To the thousands (more?) of GLBT sent to the gas chambers in Nazi Germany.
Behind the Aegis
Aug 2013
#8
I'm one of those. I've been partially disabled since a hate crime almost 4 years ago
nightscanner59
Nov 2013
#19
Larry King, age 15 shot to death in school in Oxnard California, Feb 2008
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2014
#27
Gift Makau, raped and strangled in a case of "corrective rape", South Africa
theHandpuppet
Aug 2014
#35
