The United States left behind approximately 1,000 LGBTQ Afghans with the Taliban when the last evacuation flight departed Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport August 30.
They are afraid, hiding, and running out of food and water, advocates said. Taliban soldiers were hunting queer Afghans down and killing them before the U.S.
withdrew from Afghanistan, some LGBTQ Afghans said, speaking anonymously to the Bay Area Reporter late August 29. (The three people quoted below have used their pseudonyms with other media outlets for safety reasons and were connected to the B.A.R.
by gay Afghan author and activist Nemat Sadat.) "If they find out you are gay, they will just kill you right on the spot," said Ahmadullah, who was on the run and