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- SDI GAY SCENE: 'FORBIDN, BUT I N'T HELP IT'
- GAY CISG SPOTS
- GAY SDI PRCE PICTURED HAPPILY WH THE MANSERVANT HE BEAT TO ATH
- GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS JEDDAH
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DUBAI, Uned Arab Emirat, May 25, 2009 — -- For Samir*, a 34-year-old gay man livg Sdi Arabia, each day is a nial.
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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.
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"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. In le wh sex-segregated social norms, gay lovers n often spend timate time together whout arog gays and lbians Sdi Arabia still need to acmodate the prsur of public life, some s pairg off to acmodate a eer liftyle.
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If they have their eye on you, they n follow your every move, " he Samir's approach seems paranoid, 's ndned by horror stori of harsh crackdowns by Arab ernments on gay life. In Egypt, where police have systematilly arrted and tortured spected homosexuals, vice squads have logged on to chat rooms posg as gay men. " Human Rights Watch documented dozens of Web-based entrapments -- men arrted by Egyptian police then tormented wh beatgs, electrocutn and anal vice squad's practice of vertly huntg gay men chat rooms oled once the teemg gay Inter scene Egypt slowed down.
At one pot onle entrapment was yieldg one arrt per week, acrdg to Human Rights Web was part of a greater crackdown Egypt, a untry that was once a liberal environment for homosexuals. ") Social and thorarian attus toward homosexualy began to change after the Egyptian Revolutn 1952, and grew steadily harsher through the 1990s as the secular state gave way to a growg Islamic puranism.