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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 closetYasser, a 26-year-old artist, was takg me on an impromptu tour of his hometown of Jeddah, Sdi Arabia, on a swelterg September afternoon.

Yasser is homosexual, or so we would scribe him the Wt, and the barbershop we vised ters to gay men. ” The days, he said, “you see gay people everywhere.

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He wasn’t worried about the gay-themed nature of his tour—he didn’t want to be ught alone wh a woman.

“It’s a lot easier to be gay than straight here, ” he had said. ) Ask many Sdis about homosexualy, and they’ll wce wh repugnance. ”This legal and public nmnatn notwhstandg, the kgdom leav nsirable space for homosexual behavr.

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As long as gays and lbians mata a public ont of obeisance to Wahhabist norms, they are left to do what they want private. “You n be cised anywhere Sdi Arabia, any time of the day, ” said Radwan, a 42-year-old gay Sdi Amerin who grew up var Wtern ci and now liv Jeddah. ” Talal, a Syrian who moved to Riyadh 2000, lls the Sdi pal a “gay heaven.

But what seems more startlg, at least om a Wtern perspective, is that some of the men havg sex wh other men don’t nsir themselv gay.

For many Sdis, the fact that a man has sex wh another man has ltle to do wh “gayns. This attu giv Sdi men who engage homosexual behavr a gree of eedom.

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But as a more Wternized notn of gayns—a notn that strs orientatn over acts—tak hold the untry, will this lite balance survive?

Like many gay and lbian teenagers everywhere, he felt isolated.

There’s an overwhelmg number of people who turn to lbianism, ” Yasm said, addg that the number of men the kgdom who turn to gay sex is even greater.

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