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IS PAKISTAN A GAY MAN’S PARADISE?
“Homosexualy is very mon Pakistan, ” Saan tells me as the Mlim ll to prayer rgs out along the streets of Islamabad. “But homosexualy is mostly done by straight guys. This is bee Pakistan is a homosocial society, as Saan puts , meang that men n only go out public or socialize wh men, women wh women.
Some gay men scribe Pakistan as a paradise, where sex is always available, pecially wh men who intify as heterosexual. The man wouldn’t have sex wh gay men Pakistan, Saan not, bee he found them too effemate.
Pakistani law clus provisns agast “obsceny” and havg “rnal knowledge agast the orr of nature, ” makg homosexual acts illegal, although the provisns are rarely enforced as the charg are difficult to prove. Rather, is discrimatn, police blackmail and btaly, and their own fai that are the greatt threat to gay men. “The most a gay man has to fear are his parents and then his brothers, ” Ali says.
ESPE OM KABUL: PART III - LIFE AS A GAY MAN PAKISTAN
Some gay men are able to e out to their fai and iends. In Lahore last year, gay men had someone to fear bis their own fai. A serial killer began targetg gay men through one of the gay social workg s, killg three men between March and April 2014.
When they’re not beg targeted or rejected by their fai, many gay men are forced to marriage. Yet he still fac discrimatn whenever he is publicly perceived as a gay man. Once, when he took his dghter to hospal, they ially refed to treat her, sayg, “He’s a gay wh his dghter so go away.
For some gay men, they are prsured to marriage orr to prerve the honour of their sisters.