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Contents:
- IS PAKISTAN A GAY MAN’S PARADISE?
- GAY PAKISTAN: WHERE SEX IS AVAILABLE AND RELATNSHIPS ARE DIFFICULT
- GAY DATG PAKISTAN
- 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
- HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?
- MY STORY (GAY IN PAKISTAN)
- “BEG GAY PAKISTAN, WHAT A MISERABLE AND HARD LIFE!”
- 'HAPPY AND GAY' PAKISTAN?
- GAY DATG LAHORE
IS PAKISTAN A GAY MAN’S PARADISE?
Pakistan is not the kd of place that most people would associate wh gay liberatn - but some say Pakistan is a great place to be a gay man. * gay pakistan *
“Homosexualy is very mon Pakistan, ” Saan tells me as the Mlim ll to prayer rgs out along the streets of Islamabad.
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. 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.
GAY PAKISTAN: WHERE SEX IS AVAILABLE AND RELATNSHIPS ARE DIFFICULT
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Rather, is discrimatn, police blackmail and btaly, and their own fai that are the greatt threat to gay men. A serial killer began targetg gay men through one of the gay social workg s, killg three men between March and April 2014. 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.
GAY DATG PAKISTAN
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5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
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This is heightened for some by the perceptn that many of the more liberal, ted, middle- and upper- class gay men are also agnostic or atheist.
“It would be a massacre Pakistan — open war, ” says G, when asked about the possibily of changg the laws to crimalize homosexual acts. It would make gay men visible and therefore a ncrete threat the ey of the untry’s relig powers, he says. But some say the untry is a great place to be gay - even scribg the port cy of Karachi as "a gay man's paradise".
HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?
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MY STORY (GAY IN PAKISTAN)
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“BEG GAY PAKISTAN, WHAT A MISERABLE AND HARD LIFE!”
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'HAPPY AND GAY' PAKISTAN?
"Fatima, who ntribut to an vatn-only onle gay support group, believ 's only "a matter of time" before Pakistan begs to bate gay rights openly, and people clare their homosexualy wh pri.
GAY DATG LAHORE
But there will still be private spac where gay Pakistanis n exprs their sexualy of the nam of the ntributors have been changed to protect their n hear more on this story on BBC Rad 4's Crossg Contents, on Thursday 29 Augt at 11:00am or on Assignment on the World Service on the same day.