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Contents:

• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• THE UAE'S POSN ON GAY RIGHTS IS ACTUALLY SURPRISGLY PROGRSIVE – AND I SHOULD KNOW
• GAY TRAVEL DUBAI
• GAY DUBAI
• PERIL AND PRIVILEGE: GAY EXPAT NIGHTLIFE DUBAI
• GAY EXPAT REVEALS WHAT ’S LIKE TO LIVE DUBAI WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS PUNISHABLE BY 10 YEARS PRISON
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR
• SGER THE 1975 FI UAE'S ANTI-GAY LAW BY KISSG MAN AT NCERT

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti.

THE UAE'S POSN ON GAY RIGHTS IS ACTUALLY SURPRISGLY PROGRSIVE – AND I SHOULD KNOW

Homosexualy the UAE.

Homosexualy is not jt a taboo subject Dubai – s strictly forbidn and punishable by law. Many LGBT dividuals may chose to vis Dubai or the UAE but is extremely important to be rmed of the nsequenc of beg openly gay this regn.

GAY TRAVEL DUBAI

Although one should never have to hi who they are, ’s the only way to travel safely the UAE if you are gay.

Wh harsh and discrimatory laws nmng homosexualy and promotg homophobia the name of relign, one mt nsir the risks que refully.

GAY DUBAI

Homosexualy, nducted homosexualy is an illegal act.

PERIL AND PRIVILEGE: GAY EXPAT NIGHTLIFE DUBAI

There is a vibrant unrground gay scene Dubai even though beg gay is a punishable offence. If you know the right people and the right plac, one n enjoy the gay scene to a certa extent. There are no official gay clubs, but lotns of unofficial gay clubs circulate on the Inter and men gather wh ltle fear of the nsequenc.

Some claim that the police will simply disperse crowds if a gay club is bted, but other people are fearful that the suatn might be worse. When the police fd out about gay iendly clubs they get shut down fast, people get ported and punishments are likely imposed. But, ’s not jt the police who are entrappg homosexuals.

GAY EXPAT REVEALS WHAT ’S LIKE TO LIVE DUBAI WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS PUNISHABLE BY 10 YEARS PRISON

There are stori of fundamentalists chattg onle and meetg up wh gay men and subsequently threateng to report them to the police. There have been a few wispread reports regardg the nmnatn of homosexual behavr Dubai and the UAE. Reports claim that punishment for homosexualy n range om 10 years prison, f, portatn and even the ath penalty.

Instead, nsensual homosexual activy is crimalized.

The cint arose out of allegatns that the Sheikh ma homosexual advanc to Orsi. Bee the mentaly the UAE is that homosexual men need to be terred om homosexual activy, hormone treatments were required. The treatments were jtified based on the social impact of homosexualy and risk for society.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR

Officials Dubai arrted 26 men attendg a gay weddg raid by police. Eleven of the men nfsed to practicg homosexualy and were sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for homosexualy, and an addnal year for obsceny.

Hormone therapy is nsired a eful treatment to al wh the ‘homosexual problem’ Dubai.

SGER THE 1975 FI UAE'S ANTI-GAY LAW BY KISSG MAN AT NCERT

The topic has been regularly ignored nsirg the taboo nature of homosexualy Mlim untri. Kafkaque claims he was disuraged by the police om prsg charg and even faced the possibily of beg charged wh crimal homosexual activy himself. This se highlighted the taboo nature of homosexualy and HIV/AIDS.

The law provis that foreigners wh HIV or foreigners who have mted homosexual actns are to be ported, or so seems. What is apparent though, is that there have been var s over the last 5 or so years that monstrate harsher treatment for foreigners and crimalizatn of homosexualy.

Homosexualy has a grave impact on a society where relig books nmn homosexual behavr for beg immoral and agast human nature.