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A GUY ITALIAN GAY.
Arab Mature Gay.
Old Pakistani Gays. Bee Lebane queer artist Munir Abdallah's gallery on our se of his first nu gay photography exhibn the Arab world was so popular, we asked him for even more timate photos of the tradnally private Abdallah's exhib of gay erotic photographs of Arab men at ArtLab Beit Cy Lebanon is over.
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ARAB MATURE GAY
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DUBAI, Uned Arab Emirat, May 25, 2009 — -- For Samir*, a 34-year-old gay man livg Sdi Arabia, each day is a nial.
THAT GAY ARAB
He liv Mec, the holit cy acrdg to Islam, and is acutely aware of the stigma that surrounds his gay liftyle. But I know that I'm gay and I'm livg as one, so I n't see a clear visn for the future.
"Samir, like many gay men the Arab world, guards his sexual orientatn wh a paranoid secrecy.
SDI GAY SCENE: 'FORBIDN, BUT I N'T HELP IT'
To feel ee he tak long vatns to Thailand, where he has a boyiend, and spends weekends Lebanon, which he regards as havg a more gay-tolerant at home Sdi Arabia, he is vigilant.
"You n't let a word slip that mak you seem gay-iendly or gay, " he says.