In Geneva this week, the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a wide ranging resolution supporting LGBT rights. The United States helped to lead an 85 countries into supporting the resolution, which including a statement on the decriminalization of LGBT conduct in countries where engaging same sex relations are illegal.
Here in Bangladesh, the government has not quite gotten the message. Same sex sex is illegal here, and punishable by months in prison.
The law, however, is only very rarely enforced. It is more common that unscrupulous policemen shake down men who have sex with men for bribes. And it apparently not uncommon for these unscrupulous police to demand fellatio from the men they have arrested.
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