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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.
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.
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"You n't let a word slip that mak you seem gay-iendly or gay, " he says. "Samir ocsnally go to Sdi f known to be popular gay hangouts, but his public engagements stop there. 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.
Homosexualy is illegal Sdi Arabia, but the charge lls for four wns to make a se.
In a recent se they apprehend one man at a Jeddah shoppg mall, spectg he was gay om his tight jeans and fted shirt. "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.