Baghdad - Post Report Question and Answers
Is this a good city for LGBT expatriates? Why or why not?
As a post, it's probably fine. I don't know of any issues that happened. I'm not LGBT, so I can't say for certain. - Jul 2018
It's compound living so you should be fine, although there are a great deal of traditional biases against same-sex partners from both the locally-employed staff/contractors, as well as the military. - Jan 2016
The compound is fine for GLBT, the city less so...but since you won't really be going out in the city, it's not a big deal. - Feb 2014
This is a fine place to be gay. No issues. (Obviously, I mean the Embassy. If you are a gay Iraqi, there is a good chance you could be brutally murdered because of this - see the "Emo killings"). - Jan 2014
On the compound, sure, it's fine. - Jan 2013
Yeah. - Nov 2011
GLIFFA has an active group here. I have seen very openly gay PDA at Baghdaddies and at parties, and no one seems fazed by it. - Sep 2010
I hope it's better for GLBT than it is for straight folks. - Aug 2008
