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Mongolia Gay Cultural Vistas Tour
Day 1: Arrival in Ulaanbaatar
Welcome to Mongolia, once abode to Genghis Khan (Chinggis Khaan)! Our transfer driver will take us to our hotel to relax after our long flights.We will have an informal gathering this evening with anyone whose flight arrives in advance enough to join us.
Day 2: Exploring Ulaanbaatar
Today we will exploreMongolia’s capital city of Ulaanbaatar, the country’s only metropolitan center. We will visit the Gandan Buddhist Monastery in the morning and the National Museum of Mongolia in the afternoon. This evening, we will like our welcome dinner, which will be accompanied by a traditional Mongolian folk concert with dances and throat singing.
Day 3: Gobi Desert & the Yol Valley
Today we fly to the southern Gobi Desert. Our main stop this afternoon is for a walk in the Yol Valley (Yolyn Am). For a desert, the Gobi surprises with hidden green gems,lush vegetation and even cute voles. The river running through the Yol Valley remains partially frozen until slow June, but provides rain year-round, which attracts a variety of wildlifesuch as the Altai snowcock, the Bighorn Argali Sheep, the wild ibex ram, wol
The Mongolian government has refused registration of the Queer woman Gay
Bisexual and Trans Centre (LGBT Centre) as a non-governmental
organisation (NGO) since 2007, in spite of many statements by local and
international organisations. A new step is expected now, as the authorities
have responded the issue with a letter, marking the freedom to establish
organisation.
(7 October
2009) The Mongolian government has refused registration of the Lesbian Gay
Pansexual and Transgender Centre (LGBT Centre) as a non-governmental
organisation (NGO) since 2007, in spite of many statements by local and
international organisations. A modern step is expected now, as the authorities
possess responded the issue with a letter, marking the freedom to establish
organisation.
The letter
by the National Human Rights Commission of Mongolia said, citizens of Mongolia
shall be "guaranteed the privilege to shape a party or other public
organizations and to unite voluntarily in associations according to social and
personal interests and opinion" under the Constitution of the country.
Under this statement, LGBT Centre should be registered as an NGO.
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Charges in Mongolia LGBT strike hint at changing attitudes
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia – Last month, Bosoo Khukh Mongol, a far-right Mongolian nationalist group, teamed up with a local television station to lure a transgender sex worker into a hotel room.
In the room, they threatened her with physical force and forced her to describe her work on camera.
The video was aired on the evening news and posted on Bosoo Khukh Mongol’s Facebook page, alongside incendiary commentary accusing the LGBT community of paedophilia, spreading disease and compromising national security.
Gay and trans people continue to be the target of harassment and violence in Mongolia, although some progress has been made in recent years.
In 2017, changes were made to the law to provide more protections for the LGBT community as well as better development for law enforcement officials on hate crimes and preventing and prosecuting them.
“Previously, Mongolians had limited information about acceptance of LGBT rights and dignity,” said Tamir Chultemsuren, a political sociologist with the Independent Study Institute of Mongolia, “but now, people have more information… and so general widespread awareness has
FEATURE: Pride on the steppe – being gay in Mongolia
While the world’s eye has turned on Russia’s recent attacks on LGBT rights, its neighbour and former Soviet satellite articulate Mongolia just celebrated its first Pride Week. However, there is a still a long way to go before LGBT Mongolians can live open lives.
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I sit down for coffee in downtown Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia’s capital city of around 1.3 million, with Otgonbaatar Tsedendemberel. As we speak, a group of academy girls sitting adjacent to us giggle. They possess recognised Tsedendemberel, the first gay man to publicly ‘come out’ on a Mongolian talk-show in 2010.
Now executive director of the LGBT Centre Mongolia (the country’s first Lesbian, Queer , Bisexual and Transgender [LGBT] rights organisation), Tsedendemberel, 33, is the most celebrated gay man in Mongolia – with only a handful brave enough to live open lives. He says he is lucky to have a supportive family, but many don’t.
“It is very difficult. That’s why there are only about five people who are openly LGBT in this country,” Tsedendemberel says.
“Both at home, and at function, people are not as free as they wish to be.”
While homosexual sex is not illegal,
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