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Nemat Sadat The first Afghan who came out publicly as a gay.

Nemat Sadat was born on 1979 in Kabul Province, Capital of Afghanistan. The bad security situation forced his mother, sister and him to leave the country and immigrate to America. He grew up in south California in a family who were still valuing Afghan culture and tradition a lot. He is the first afghan who came out publicly as a gay in a muslim community and currently he fights for the rights of LGBTQIA community. he came out publicly first, when he was 32 years old. First, he told his family about his real sexuality, despite her sister who seemed to accept the fact, his mother was still encouraging him to hide it and get engage with a lady while Nemat himself did not have intention to hide it at all. he have several degrees from world most known universities such as Oxford and Harvard. It gave him more social recognition and self-confidence. he has face many problems in America. He was an Afghan immigrant and at the same time Muslim, and the most importantly he was gay, all these made his life more difficult specially after what happened in 9/11. So he decided to come back to his country, a country he has no memory of. The sad fact was that he did not knew there is no place for him in his own country. He started his career as an assistant professor in the American University of Afghanistan teaching political science. Not long after his career started in the university, he was known as a gay person and as a threat to the people of his country. He left his job and could not insist because of the threads he has received from government. later, he publishes a book by the name of “ the carpet weaver”. For publishing this book, he has faced rejection more than 450 times in America and England. The story of the book is about two men who love each other. Sadat has reflected the problems he himself has faced in America and Afghanistan. Now, he not only fights for LGBTQIA community of Afghanistan, but also for all the of the world. His dream is simple, he fights and wishes that LGBTQIA community will have equal rights as other people, be respected and loved.

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