The Good Guys, The Bad Guys, and the Gay Guys on JSTOR

Contents:

• GAY PAKISTAN: WHERE SEX IS AVAILABLE AND RELATNSHIPS ARE DIFFICULT
• IS G FRG GAY? BETTER CALL SL ALL BUT CONFIRMS IT
• HOW HOBBY LOBBY SPL THE LEFT AND SET BACK GAY RIGHTS

GAY PAKISTAN: WHERE SEX IS AVAILABLE AND RELATNSHIPS ARE DIFFICULT

The Good Guys, The Bad Guys, and the Gay Guys on JSTOR. What do people mean by 'Vcent' and 'foxy is gud gay'? Pakistan is not the kd of place that most people would associate wh gay liberatn.

But some say the untry is a great place to be gay - even scribg the port cy of Karachi as "a gay man's paradise".

Unrground parti, group sex at shr and "marriag of nvenience" to members of the oppose sex are jt some of the surpris that gay Pakistan has to offer. Danyaal, as he's asked to be known, is a 50-somethg bsman who liv an affluent part of Karachi, and his smartphone to anise Karachi's gay party scene. "The days there are smartphone apps that e GPS to tell you how close you are to another gay person wh an onle profile.

IS G FRG GAY? BETTER CALL SL ALL BUT CONFIRMS IT

There are thoands of gay men onle Pakistan at any one time. "If you want sex too, 's a gay man's paradise.

HOW HOBBY LOBBY SPL THE LEFT AND SET BACK GAY RIGHTS

"The vatn-only parti are a rare opportuny for gay men to be open about their sexualy.

"Gay men will make every effort to stop any vtment a same-sex relatnship bee they know that one day they will have to get married to a woman, " he says. For participants, 's anonymo group kd of behavur is, of urse, not ndoned by Pakistan's relig Pakistanis view homosexualy as sful. The vast majory of clerics terpret the Qoranic story of Lot as a clear ditn that God nmns homosexual men.

The shre is far om the only place Karachi where gay sex is eely is, for example, easy to buy om a malchi walah - a massr who offers massage and "extras" for the equivalent of £5, or $7. " Technilly, homosexual acts are illegal Pakistan.