Reported at United Nations Meeting: ISIS Has Executed 30 LGBT People

Jessica Stern, director of the worldwide Gay and Lesbian Rights Commission, informed members at the meeting about IS militants’ executions of at least 30 gay men for “sodomy” and the videos or photos that had been uploaded by them to show their merciless killings.

“It’s about time, 70 years after the creation of the United Nations, that the fate of LGBT persons who fear for their lives around the world is taking center stage”, she said, according to AlJazeera America.

Two member states did not attend the UN Security Council meeting – Chad and Angola.

United Nations – UN Security Council members on Monday heard Syrian and Iraqi gays tell of their escape from terror under the Islamic State, in the first-ever council meeting on LGBT rights.

Fear of Islamic State has fuelled violence by other militias and “private actors” against LGBT individuals, Ms Stern told the privately-held meeting at UN headquarters in New York.

Mr Adnan told the council that ISIS taps widespread homophobia in the Middle East. “In my society, being gay means death and when ISIS kills gays, most people are happy because they think we are evil, and ISIS gets a good credit for that”.

“Do we want to live in a world where ISIL’s crimes against every other group are the subject of outrage and horror, but somehow the global community stays silent and is never even forced to confront what ISIL is doing against anyone suspected of being LGBT”, she said in response to the Blade’s question about Long’s criticisms of the briefing.

Adnan, an Iraqi who is using a pseudonym to avoid reprisal attacks, said the Islamic State (Isis) are “professional when it comes to tracking gay people”.

In December, ISIL posted photographs online showing members throwing a man off a rooftop and then stoning him to death due to his sexual orientation.

“This was to be my fate, too”, Nahas recalled.

They had purportedly been punished for “committing acts of the people of Lot [sodomy], spreading corruption on earth, and trying to change the innate nature of Muslims”, according to data from the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. ISIS advertises these killings to give the impression of as many executions as possible. However in 10 countries worldwide, gay & lesbian activity is punishable by death & 75 countries criminalize & hundreds of transgender individuals have been brutally murdered just in the previous year.

Feeling terrified in Syria, Nahas fled to Lebanon and then Turkey.

The UN cultural agency called the destruction of the Temple of Baalshamin an “immense loss for the Syrian people and for humanity”.

Monday’s meeting follows the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that legalized same-sex marriages in all 50 states. A number of countries, most notably Russian Federation, have adopted “anti-propaganda” laws to prevent people from speaking about or sharing information related to homosexuality or LGBT rights.