> It was fine for years until the botched withdrawal. The previous government made gay sex a crime. Their seeming tolerance wasn’t because they were LGBT-frien

> It was fine for years until the botched withdrawal. The previous government made gay sex a crime. Their seeming tolerance wasn’t because they were LGBT-friendly, it was because they were too busy fighting a losing battle against the Taliban to have time for enforcing their own anti-LGBT laws and policies. If they’d survived, they quite possibly would have made the same decision at some point