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Contents:

• SDI ARABIA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN JULY 2023
• SDI GAY SCENE: 'FORBIDN, BUT I N'T HELP IT'
• SAUDI ARABIA: GAY DIPLOMAT LOS ANGEL MAY HAVE A SE, BUT LTLE SUPPORT THE ARAB WORLD
• GAY DICTNARY ARABIC
• EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI

SDI ARABIA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN JULY 2023

Henrson was left out of Liverpool’s pre-season game agast Karlsher on Wednday wh the move close to move may have dragged on but Henrson has enthiastilly pursued a move to Sdi Arabia, a untry where is not only illegal to be homosexual or transgenr, but dangero – even life-threateng. LGBTQ+ travelers are a lucrative market, acrdg to Darren Burn, CEO of Out Of Office, a luxury travel planng service for the muny, and of Travel Gay, the world’s largt LGBTQ+ travel platform. Burn said that statns such as the Maldiv and Dubai, where homosexualy is a crimal offense, are popular, but whout more assuranc om the thori, Sdi Arabia uld be a tougher sell.

SDI GAY SCENE: 'FORBIDN, BUT I N'T HELP IT'

“In Dubai there are a lot of gay fluencers, and as long as you unrstand the ntext of the area you’re and rpect the tradnal culture and not show your queerns any way, you’re OK, ” she said. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".

SAUDI ARABIA: GAY DIPLOMAT LOS ANGEL MAY HAVE A SE, BUT LTLE SUPPORT THE ARAB WORLD

Filmed 12 untri and 9 languag, this documentary, directed by gay Mlim filmmaker Parvez Sharma, tells the lorful and varied stori of gay and lbian Mlims om all over the world. In this portra that is multi-layered both terms of form and ntent, a gay man nonts the ghosts of his past and explor hidn longgs, unrequed love and tormentg feelgs of guilt.

After beg tranged om his fay for his homosexualy, we observe a young Arab man over four seasons and om far away as he navigat his solu – all the while attemptg to rennect wh his mother. 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. Francis, a 34-year-old bety queen om the Philipp ( 2003 he won a gay bety pageant held a private hoe Jeddah by a group of Filipos), reported that he’s had sex wh Sdi men whose wiv were pregnant or menstatg; when those circumstanc changed, most of the men stopped llg.

” John Bradley, the thor of Sdi Arabia Exposed: Insi a Kgdom Crisis (2005), says that most male Wtern expatriat here, gay or not, have been proposned by Sdi men drivg by “at any time of the day or night, que openly and ually very, very persistently.

GAY DICTNARY ARABIC

“I’m worried the mutawwa' might e, ” Anajedtop said, and shed off to tch the eveng The History of Sexualy, a multivolume work published the 1970s and ’80s, Michel Fouult proposed his famo this that Wtern amic, medil, and polil disurse of the 18th and 19th centuri had produced the ia of the homosexual as a viant type: In Wtern society, homosexualy changed om beg a behavr (what you do) to an inty (who you are). ” This view of sexual behavr, batn wh the strict segregatn of the sex, serv to foster homosexual acts, shiftg the stigma onto bottoms and allowg olr men to exce their younger behavr—their time as bottoms—as mere youthful Islamic Homosexuali, the anthropologist Will Rose shows that this “stat-differentiated pattern”— whereby ’s OK to be a top but not a bottom—has s roots Gre-Roman culture, and he emphasiz that the top-bottom power dynamic is monly exprsed relatns between olr men and younger boys.

EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI

’”Yet a paradox exists at the heart of Sdi nceptns of gay sex and sexual inty: Dpe their seemgly flexible view of sexualy, most of the Sdis I terviewed, cludg those men who intify themselv as gay, nsir sodomy a grave s. ” Zahar, a 41-year-old Sdi who has traveled wily throughout the world, urged me not to wre about Islam and homosexualy; to do so, he said, is to cut off bate, bee “’s always the relign that holds people back.

For many centuri, Rowson says, the vers were wily thought to perta to za, but sce the early 20th century, they have been largely assumed to proscribe homosexual behavr. At the turn of the century, Islamic society began to exprs revulsn at the ncept of homosexualy, even if was nfed only to ltful thoughts, and this distaste beme more pronounced wh the flux of Wtern media. ”Even Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab—the 18th- century relig scholar who found Wahhabism—seems to draw a distctn between homosexual sir and homosexual acts, acrdg to Natana DeLong-Bas, the thor of Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad (2004).

“If they wanted to arrt all the gay people Sdi Arabia, ” Misfir, my chat-room gui, told me—repeatg what he says was a police officer’s ment—“they’d have to put a fence around the whole untry. Court rerds Sdi Arabia are generally closed, but anecdotal evince suggts that the mutawwa' are most likely to punish men who are overtly effemate— those whose public behavr advertis a gayns that others keep private. Jamie cut his hair—not out of fear, he says, but bee he didn’t want to bother his boss a send lghed as he told me of his attempts at dissimulatn; though the stak n be high, efforts to stamp out homosexualy here often do seem farcil.