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IS PAKISTAN A GAY MAN’S PARADISE?
“Homosexualy is very mon Pakistan, ” Saan tells me as the Mlim ll to prayer rgs out along the streets of Islamabad. “But homosexualy is mostly done by straight guys. This is bee Pakistan is a homosocial society, as Saan puts , meang that men n only go out public or socialize wh men, women wh women.
Some gay men scribe Pakistan as a paradise, where sex is always available, pecially wh men who intify as heterosexual. The man wouldn’t have sex wh gay men Pakistan, Saan not, bee he found them too effemate. Pakistani law clus provisns agast “obsceny” and havg “rnal knowledge agast the orr of nature, ” makg homosexual acts illegal, although the provisns are rarely enforced as the charg are difficult to prove.
Rather, is discrimatn, police blackmail and btaly, and their own fai that are the greatt threat to gay men. “The most a gay man has to fear are his parents and then his brothers, ” Ali says. Some gay men are able to e out to their fai and iends.