Gays Among the Royals

Contents:

• GAY SDI PRCE PICTURED HAPPILY WH THE MANSERVANT HE BEAT TO ATH
• GAYS AMONG THE ROYALS
• BRISH ROYAL FAY'S FIRST GAY WEDDG: LORD MOUNTBATTEN TO MARRY JAM COYLE

GAY SDI PRCE PICTURED HAPPILY WH THE MANSERVANT HE BEAT TO ATH

In 2010, Prce Sd b Abdulaziz b Nasir al Sd was arrted for beatg his manservant and gay lover, Bandar Abdulaziz, to ath an expensive London hotel room. The prce spent most of his trial tryg to prove he was not gay, as homosexualy is punishable by executn Sdi Arabia.

GAYS AMONG THE ROYALS

However, one expert on Sdi Arabia noted that most executns for homosexualy the kgdom were lked to rape charg, and as a member of the royal fay, the prce was unlikely to suffer pal punishment. 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.

He wasn’t worried about the gay-themed nature of his tour—he didn’t want to be ught alone wh a woman.

As long as gays and lbians mata a public ont of obeisance to Wahhabist norms, they are left to do what they want private.

BRISH ROYAL FAY'S FIRST GAY WEDDG: LORD MOUNTBATTEN TO MARRY JAM COYLE

“You n be cised anywhere Sdi Arabia, any time of the day, ” said Radwan, a 42-year-old gay Sdi Amerin who grew up var Wtern ci and now liv Jeddah. 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.

But as a more Wternized notn of gayns—a notn that strs orientatn over acts—tak hold the untry, will this lite balance survive?