A Sdi prce has been jailed for life for murrg his manservant, who was found a bed at a plh London hotel where he had been beaten to ath. The fendant spent most of the trial tryg to prove he was not gay. Why?
Contents:
- WAS OMAN'S LATE SULTAN THE 'ONLY GAY MONARCH' THE WORLD AND WHY DO PEOPLE CARE?
- OMAN HAS A GAY LER?
- GAY SULTAN
- WAS OMAN’S LATE SULTAN THE ‘ONLY GAY MONARCH’ THE WORLD AND WHY DO PEOPLE CARE?
- THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY BNEI, WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS NOW PUNISHABLE BY BEG STONED TO DEATH
WAS OMAN'S LATE SULTAN THE 'ONLY GAY MONARCH' THE WORLD AND WHY DO PEOPLE CARE?
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He died unmarried, whout an heir and, spe long-standg mours that he was gay, homosexualy Oman remas illegal and n be punished wh a jail sentence of up to 3yrs. He was gay and had no children... Over the last 40 years, mors claimed that the Sultan was leadg an openly gay life, whout g out publicly.
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OMAN HAS A GAY LER?
Sultan Qaboos, the absolute monarch of Oman, is apparently gay, per iends I know om that untry. Anyone have any personal stori? Do he have an all male harem? * gay sultan *
Even though many onle mentators scribe the Omani Sultan's sexual inty as an 'open secret', homosexualy remas illegal the nservative gulf Sultanate and is punishable by law. Are you gay?
Unr Sultan Qaboos, gay people went straight to jail (ironilly ahem).
GAY SULTAN
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Some activists argued that the Sultan's sexualy should have phed him to e out publicly, as his wealth and polil power uld have helped efforts to crimalize homosexual relatnships the Middle East. In tradnal Ottoman practice, the termology of “gay” and “straight” was largely absence om disurse, as explaed by scholar Serkan Görkemli.
WAS OMAN’S LATE SULTAN THE ‘ONLY GAY MONARCH’ THE WORLD AND WHY DO PEOPLE CARE?
There, zenn equently perform (whout a sexual element) for straight-intified male dienc says filmmaker Mehmet Bay, whose 2012 feature Zenne Dancer explor the iendship between an Istanbul zenne dancer, a German photographer, and a gay “bear” om the nservative Urfa provce.
Back when Bay and his llaborator Caner Alper started rearchg zenne 2006, they saw as a “vanishg culture” – found only ral areas and a few unrground gay clubs Istanbul.
Even among Istanbul's sizable gay muny, for whom zenne dancg might have particular ronance, “people would rather watch drag shows or go-go boys.
THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY BNEI, WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS NOW PUNISHABLE BY BEG STONED TO DEATH
But the past half-, zenne dancg Istanbul has gone mastream: bolstered by the media attentn paid to Bay and Alper's film as well as the succs of gay crossover clubs like Chanta: which ter their zenne shows to a largely heterosexual, female clientele. When he was 15 or 16, a iend enuraged him to start dancg publicly, but the only work he uld fd was a seedy gay nightclub Istanbul's Aksaray district. Like many gay Turkish men, Segah found a gree of eedom Istanbul – wh s active, out gay muny – that do not necsarily exist outsi the cy.