In August 2013, Nemat Sadat publicly announced his sexuality, becoming the first Afghanistan native to come out as gay.[1] According to Nemat, he received several death threats including a fatwa issued against him by the mullahs of Afghanistan due to this.[9] In October of the same year, Sadat faced a second wave of widespread hostility in Afghan media.[3] Commenting on his LGBT activism in an interview for The Guardian in November 2013, Sadat said, I am making a sacrifice, but I want Afghan youth to look at me and see that there are people who are Afghan and Muslim and gay.