İsa Şahmarlı

İsa Şahmarlı (ca. 1993 – January 22, 2014) was an Azerbaijani LGBT activist and chairman of the organization Azad LGBT. He was one of the first publicly known queer voices in Azerbaijan and became nationally known through his public suicide, which became a symbol of the fight against homophobic hatred in Azerbaijan.

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