Was Oman's Late Sultan the 'Only Gay Monarch' the World and Why Do People Care? | Al Bawaba

Contents:

• GUI GAY D'OMAN
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• LAKERS NOT: REAV, WTBROOK, CASTLETON, GAY
• LBIAN UPLE W IVF ‘GAY TAX’ BATTLE
• NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
• OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
• MAGIC OF OMAN GAY CULTURAL TOUR
• OMAN'S ERNMENT SU NEWSPAPER OVER STORY ABOUT GAYS
• WAS OMAN'S LATE SULTAN THE 'ONLY GAY MONARCH' THE WORLD AND WHY DO PEOPLE CARE?
• DOUBLE OR TW BEDD ROOM FOR GAY MALE UPLE? - MT GOVERNORATE FOM
• BEG GAY OMAN.
• ARTICLE ON GAYS STIRS A HOR’S NT OMAN
• GAY CAB CREW SECRETS OM THE MIDDLE EAST

GUI GAY D'OMAN

À ce jour, le Royme d’Oman terd toujours l’homosexualé, me plirs pays dans la régn. L nséquenc selon la jtice du pays pvent mettre une personne d’orientatn homosexuelle en prison.

Toutefois, l lois anti-gay ne sont prque jamais appliqué. En visant Oman, vo allez rapiment vo rendre pte que l’homosexualé rte chée.

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JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

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The mixture of vodka and soda water, long known rmally as “gay water” the LGBTQ muny, is the brachild of 30-year-old gay entreprenr Spencer Hodson. He noted that the nctn aims “to stigmatize the word ‘gay’ by brgg reprentatn to spac that have not tradnally featured queer products, such as bars, liquor stor, grocery stor, rtrants, hotels and more. Hodson, who is fancg Gay Water wh his own money pl backg om fay and iends, his brightly lored ns are leang to their gayns stead of avoidg .

LAKERS NOT: REAV, WTBROOK, CASTLETON, GAY

He told CNN that he worked wh a queer signer to base Gay Water’s red, purple, green and orange lor scheme on pop art and 1990s televisn shows om Nickeloon, a ble work for children. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg. A statement on the Gay Water webse not that the word “gay” appears barely any products outsi of Pri Month each June.

Acrdg to the statement, the new cktail reclaims the ia that “gay means happy. A group of "gay furry" hackers has been releasg rmatn om US state ernments. SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola.

LBIAN UPLE W IVF ‘GAY TAX’ BATTLE

"We are also actually gay furri, I've seen untls people doubt that aspect of our group.". "Uwu gay furri pwn you~ We'll be back aga soon to ntue our chaos and stctn!"Some news outlets, such as Them, raised ncerns that the group's actns uld expose random people to harm, not jt the targeted ernments. Image ptn, Homosexualy is illegal Oman but is still seen as more acceptg of gay people than s neighboursA newspaper Oman has been spend over a sympathetic article on homosexualy the Gulf state that published last week.

The article The Week suggted that Oman was more tolerant about people's sexualy than other Gulf stat, even though homosexualy is illegal there. The article was nounced across onle social works Oman and even by the untry's journalists' all Gulf stat, Oman do have an unrground gay scene. " The extravagance of the apology shows jt how ntroversial is to broach the issue of homosexualy wh any sympathy Oman.

'Advotg' homosexualyThe article qutn - which is now offle - traced the story of a young gay man the untry unr the headle, The Outsirs.

NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER

A member of the fluential Shura Council, Tawfiq al-Lawati, tweeted that the article was advotg homosexualy and that suggted Oman was a safe haven for gays.

The maximum penalty for homosexualy Oman is three years prison, whereas other Gulf stat, longer sentenc, floggg and even the ath penalty are not on this story.

OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN

Sunday’s “Great Midwtern Trendkill” event wasn’t the first time out gay pro wrtler AC Mack stepped to a Naptown All-Pro Wrtlg rg, but will be his last. He is an out gay Black man the South who thrived, buildg human nnectns whose strength manifted the emotnal rponse by the ACTION fanbase when he announced he was leavg -rg petn last month. A Gay Travel Oman Cultural Tour.

When upl do jo , ’s ually bee they’re lookg forward to teractg wh a gay group; if they wanted a holiday by themselv, they wouldn’t have signed up to travel wh . MUSCAT, Sept 5 (Rters) - The ernment of Oman is sug the edor of a weekly tabloid, state news agency ONA said on Thursday, after spendg om publitn for nng a story about gays the Gulf Arab state.

Homosexualy is punishable by law a number of majory Mlim untri, cludg Oman. But activists say is generally more tolerant than stat like Iran, Sdi Arabia and Yemen where those charged wh beg gay face the ath penalty.

MAGIC OF OMAN GAY CULTURAL TOUR

29 article, splashed unr the ont page headle “The outsirs”, said gays Oman were “fdg new ways to live life the way they want to” clud a number of terviews wh gay men and women, cludg Omanis and expatriat. One expatriate argued that was not difficult to be homosexual Oman pared to other nservative Gulf mistry of rmatn said a statement that did not tolerate “harmg society, s prcipl, relign, valu, the digny of s people or public manners through publishg what go agast media laws and regulatns. 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.

OMAN'S ERNMENT SU NEWSPAPER OVER STORY ABOUT GAYS

He was gay and had no children...

WAS OMAN'S LATE SULTAN THE 'ONLY GAY MONARCH' THE WORLD AND WHY DO PEOPLE CARE?

Over the last 40 years, mors claimed that the Sultan was leadg an openly gay life, whout g out publicly. ) the only gay monarch the world.

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).

DOUBLE OR TW BEDD ROOM FOR GAY MALE UPLE? - MT GOVERNORATE FOM

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.

Double or tw bedd room for gay male uple?

BEG GAY OMAN.

Re: Double or tw bedd room for gay male uple?

You should remember that homosexualy is illegal Mt as is Dubai. The fact that we are gay should not (and will not) prevent om dog so. I know Omanis who are gay, but is still somethg that is unfortunately forced behd closed doors.

I doubt that you will get to legal problems, I have never heard of a se agast two gays who are nsentg adulta. u n have kg bed room wh no problems for to gay gays. Beg gay is not a disease and nothg to be ashamed of.

ARTICLE ON GAYS STIRS A HOR’S NT OMAN

first let me clarify somethg, Islam is not agast beg gay, simply becuase the dictnary gay means happy!. But y Islam tak a strong stance agast homosexualy, but if you don't practice your homosexualy here, you will be fe, and you better not be ught dog such a thg,. by the way we are gettg lots of gay tourists here om all over Europe and they are dog fe, so you should be fe as well as far as you dont practice you will be fe.

The article, The Outsirs' published by 'the Week' on Augt 29, 2013 giv a very revealg and scriptive reunt of the 'gay' scene here the Sultanante. For an expatriate like Jason, beg gay Oman is not a problem as long as he is discreet about .

“There is this game gay people play wh their ey – they know what is happeng between them and ’s a quiet nod of acknowledgement.

GAY CAB CREW SECRETS OM THE MIDDLE EAST

Acrdg to ternatnal statistics, six to ten per cent of any populatn any untry is gay and that would be a reasonable assumptn for Oman as well. Mt: An article a lol weekly tabloid on homosexualy among Omanis has kicked up a huge ntroversy, promptg the publisher to rry a public apology on the home page of the publitn’s onle edn.

“The problem [about homosexualy] is unrstandable. However, promotg such an act and projectg Oman as [a] safe haven for homosexualy is unacceptable, ” he reerated, addg that the article promoted homosexualy and projected Oman as a safe haven for gay people the Gulf, addg that the article has damaged Oman’s reputatn.