The kgdom’s ultranservative laws neverthels crimalize sodomy and other same-sex relatns, makg them punishable by imprisonment, floggg or ath. Dpe the dangers of gay Sdis, Sdi Arabia still boasts a large yet secretive LGBTQ muny.
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- SDI ARABIA ARRTS MEN AFTER 'GAY WEDDG' VIO GO VIRAL
- SDI POLICE ARRT 'EVERYBODY VOLVED' 'GAY WEDDG'
- VIRAL VIO OF SDI GAY WEDDG UNR OFFICIAL VTIGATN
SDI ARABIA ARRTS MEN AFTER 'GAY WEDDG' VIO GO VIRAL
Several young men were arrted Sdi Arabia rponse to a viral vio allegedly showg the weddg of a gay uple. * gay wedding in saudi *
Several young men were arrted last week Sdi Arabia rponse to a viral vio allegedly showg the weddg of a gay the vio, two men — one wearg what appears to be a veil — are seen walkg together down an aisle as nfetti ras down. Homosexual acts are punishable by ath Sdi Arabia. And though the Middle Eastern untry has no explic anti-transgenr laws, adher to a strict terpretatn of Shari’a law and has arrted numero people on cross-drsg more: The 6 Countri Execute People for Beg GayWhile Sdi Arabia has taken some steps to improve human rights the untry, particularly for women, recent months, law enforcement’s hasty reactn to the vio of the alleged weddg ceremony shows the untry still has a long way to go terms of ensurg equal rights for all.
“In a untry that n punish homosexual acts wh the ath penalty, we mt not jump to nclns about the sexuali or genr inti [of the people the vio], ” Jsi Stern, the Executive Director of LGBTQ rights anizatn OutRight Actn Internatnal, told Global Cizen. Homosexualy is an open secret Sdi Arabia. Gay men and women also face potentially fatal risks Sdi Arabia.
SDI POLICE ARRT 'EVERYBODY VOLVED' 'GAY WEDDG'
Nadya Labi, a journalist wrote about homosexualy the kgdom for The Atlantic 2007, found that there is nsirable space for homosexual relatns. The only le is that gays and lbians mt nform to the norms of the untry’s Wahhabi doctre public. In private, Sdi thori often have ltle spicn of homosexual relatns when people of the same sex are alone together.
VIRAL VIO OF SDI GAY WEDDG UNR OFFICIAL VTIGATN
One man who go by the name of Talal told Labi that he nsirs the Sdi pal Riyadh a ‘gay heaven’. Yet for too many gay Sdis, the kgdom is more like a livg hell. In 2002, three men were behead for ‘mtg homosexual acts’.