Sodomy is punishable by ath Sdi Arabia, but gay life flourish there. Why is “easier to be gay than straight” a society where everyone, homosexual and otherwise, liv the closet
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Sodomy is punishable by ath Sdi Arabia, but gay life flourish there. Why is “easier to be gay than straight” a society where everyone, homosexual and otherwise, liv the closetYasser, a 26-year-old artist, was takg me on an impromptu tour of his hometown of Jeddah, Sdi Arabia, on a swelterg September afternoon. Yasser is homosexual, or so we would scribe him the Wt, and the barbershop we vised ters to gay men.
” The days, he said, “you see gay people everywhere.
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” Talal, a Syrian who moved to Riyadh 2000, lls the Sdi pal a “gay heaven. But what seems more startlg, at least om a Wtern perspective, is that some of the men havg sex wh other men don’t nsir themselv gay. For many Sdis, the fact that a man has sex wh another man has ltle to do wh “gayns.