Samir, like many gay men the Arab world, guards his sexual orientatn wh a paranoid secrecy. 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 society. But at home Sdi Arabia, he is vigilant. Samir's parents don't know of his liftyle. He says his mom would kill herself if she found out. They nstantly set him up wh women they nsir potential wiv. At work, Samir watch his words, reful not to aroe the spicn of lleagu.
Contents:
- THE GAY GLADIATORS OF SDI ARABIA
- A GAY SOCIAL MEDIA STAR OM SDI ARABIA SAYS HE IS FACG PRISON FOR POSTG A PHOTO OF HIMSELF WEARG SHORT SHORTS AT THE BEACH
- SDI GAY SCENE: 'FORBIDN, BUT I N'T HELP IT'
- SDI GAYS FLNT NEW EEDOMS: 'STRAIGHTS N'T KISS PUBLIC OR HOLD HANDS LIKE '
THE GAY GLADIATORS OF SDI ARABIA
May is gay pri month most of the wtern world and Amerin pani are fallg all over themselv to monstrate how woke they are. * gay saudi twitter *
The sharg of stori is a fg actn the fight agast homophobia and the attacks on the LGBTQ muny Sdi Arabia – is sential that we bee visible. In fact, some untri where gays are jailed, beaten, chemilly strated, or even executed, the woke rporatns that plaster their web pag wh msag of support for the LGBTQ muny, are as silent as mosque mice. t’s June and the biggt rporatns on the pla want you to know that they are celebratg gay Pri — unls you live somewhere like Sdi Arabia which se they uldn’t re ls.
I gus there are no gay people Sdi Arabia to champn, which mt be why P&G’s Sdi Twter handle has not a sgle rabow flag sight and a pned tweet simply wishg people a blsed Ramadan.
It allows pani like YouTube to ntue to make billns of dollars om ers progrsive wtern mocraci while also rpectg cultural sensivi plac like Sdi where gays n expect to be whipped, chemilly strated and killed. “Wokewashg” a pany’s support for gay pri so as not to offend the lite sensibili of the cutthroats Sdi Arabia is a standard operatg procre for all good ltle woke rporatns that never get around to admtg and apologizg for their utter, bald-faced hypocrisy.
A GAY SOCIAL MEDIA STAR OM SDI ARABIA SAYS HE IS FACG PRISON FOR POSTG A PHOTO OF HIMSELF WEARG SHORT SHORTS AT THE BEACH
* gay saudi twitter *
They threaten to boytt stat like North Carola for nyg men and boys accs to girls’ bathrooms while Sdi Arabia, Iran, and other radil fundamentalist Mlim untri execute gays and transgenr people. Wokewashg “allows pani like YouTube to ntue to make billns of dollars om ers progrsive wtern mocraci while also rpectg cultural sensivi plac like Sdi where gays n expect to be whipped, chemilly strated and killed.
A gay Sdi social media star said he was facg prison after a picture of him wearg short shorts at the beach ught the attentn of al-Jameel, 23, wrote on Snapchat on Sunday that was arrted over his outf then charged wh spreadg nudy onle after police saw an October 6 photo of him the Arabia troduced new public cency laws late September, one of which explicly warned men not to wear shorts. Homosexualy is illegal Sdi Sdis cried hypocrisy on social media, given the ntrast wh a vio of two wtern women swimmg bikis the Red Sea, which went viral as a symbol of a new, tolerant Sdi Insir's homepage for more stori.
A gay social media personaly om Sdi Arabia says he is facg prison for postg a picture of himself leopard prt short shorts on al-Jameel, 23, posted a statement to his Snapchat on Sunday sayg thori had charged him wh sharg nudy onle, after ially tag him for wearg shorts at the beach on October 6. 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. He and his iends are nstantly wary of officers om the Commissn for the Promotn of Virtue and Preventn of Vice, the kgdom's relig police, who patrol for and punish men they spect of beg gay.
SDI GAY SCENE: 'FORBIDN, BUT I N'T HELP IT'
Sodomy is punishable by ath Sdi Arabia, but gay life flourish there. Why is “easier to be gay than straight” a society where everyone, homosexual and otherwise, liv the closet * gay saudi twitter *
"I've been ved to private parti for gay men Jeddah, but I never go bee I know what would happen if we were ught, " Samir told ABC News. In le wh sex-segregated social norms, gay lovers n often spend timate time together whout arog gays and lbians Sdi Arabia still need to acmodate the prsur of public life, some s pairg off to acmodate a eer liftyle.
It's the perfect solutn, " says Samir, addg that he wouldn't md a lbian wife of his Samir, the dozens of emergg Web foms for gay Arab men are a eer alternative to the offle Sdi society. "Gay Web S Blocked Many Arab CountriWeb foms like and are accsible many Arab untri, blocked by state-n web filterg software.
Usg proxy servers men n get around the bans to the blocked s, nnectg wh potential dat and buildg a knowledge base for gay life the Arab blog om Syria, largely nsired a reprsed society, tails a tourist's gui to gay hangouts Damasc and Aleppo.
SDI GAYS FLNT NEW EEDOMS: 'STRAIGHTS N'T KISS PUBLIC OR HOLD HANDS LIKE '
If they have their eye on you, they n follow your every move, " he Samir's approach seems paranoid, 's ndned by horror stori of harsh crackdowns by Arab ernments on gay life. In Egypt, where police have systematilly arrted and tortured spected homosexuals, vice squads have logged on to chat rooms posg as gay men. " Human Rights Watch documented dozens of Web-based entrapments -- men arrted by Egyptian police then tormented wh beatgs, electrocutn and anal vice squad's practice of vertly huntg gay men chat rooms oled once the teemg gay Inter scene Egypt slowed down.
At one pot onle entrapment was yieldg one arrt per week, acrdg to Human Rights Web was part of a greater crackdown Egypt, a untry that was once a liberal environment for homosexuals. ") Social and thorarian attus toward homosexualy began to change after the Egyptian Revolutn 1952, and grew steadily harsher through the 1990s as the secular state gave way to a growg Islamic puranism.
In the early morng hours of May 11, 2001, police raid a floatg nightclub lled the Queen Boat, a then-popular gay hangout moored on the Nile River.