Sdi Arabia is ntug s drive to attract more tourists by reassurg LGBTQ+ visors that they are “wele” - spe anti-gay laws.
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- SDI ARABIA SAYS WILL “WELE” LGBTQ+ VISORS – SPE ANTI-GAY LAWS
- 'I NEVER WANTED TO BE A DISSINT.' A GAY SDI JOURNALIST SEEKG ASYLUM ATRALIA SPEAKS OUT AFTER BEG DETAED
SDI ARABIA SAYS WILL “WELE” LGBTQ+ VISORS – SPE ANTI-GAY LAWS
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The webse of the Sdi Tourism Authory (STA) seems to have had s Q&A sectn updated to state that gay visors are wele the kgdom.
LGBTQ+ travelers are a lucrative market, acrdg to Darren Burn, CEO of Out Of Office, a luxury travel planng service for the muny, and of Travel Gay, the world’s largt LGBTQ+ travel platform. Burn said that statns such as the Maldiv and Dubai, where homosexualy is a crimal offense, are popular, but whout more assuranc om the thori, Sdi Arabia uld be a tougher sell. One gay traveler who vised Sdi Arabia on a work trip October 2022 – before the webse was updated – told CNN that he felt “ the closet” durg his stay.
'I NEVER WANTED TO BE A DISSINT.' A GAY SDI JOURNALIST SEEKG ASYLUM ATRALIA SPEAKS OUT AFTER BEG DETAED
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 closet * gay times saudi arabia *
“If you were to go there and be overtly gay I’d be que ncerned – I wouldn’t feel fortable gog there wh a partner – but ’s a untry that’s changg very quickly.
“In Dubai there are a lot of gay fluencers, and as long as you unrstand the ntext of the area you’re and rpect the tradnal culture and not show your queerns any way, you’re OK, ” she said.
Sdi Arabia is ntug s drive to attract more tourists by reassurg LGBTQ+ visors that they are “wele” – spe homosexualy beg punishable by ath the untry. Darren Burn, CEO of Out of Office, a luxury travel planng service for LGBTQ+ people, and Travel Gay, the largt queer travel platform, told CNN that LGBTQ+ tourists “spend more money a statn than heterosexual upl” and “travel more tim a year” on average. He was by now no longer a teenager and, Sdi Arabia, the expectatn is that men should settle down, get married and have Faisal, as a closeted gay man, layed.