The Boy Who Danced on Air Review: Afghan Slaves in Homoerotic Musical by Jonathan Mandell

In 2010, an Afghan journalist produced an hour-long documentary for PBS' Frontline entitled The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan , about the illegal revival of an ancient tradition called Bacha Bazi (literally “boy play“), which involves wealthy men buying boys as young as 11 from their poor families, and training them in traditional dance, which they perform […]

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