Journey to countries where homosexuality is a crime: Saudi Arabia
Extract from the article by Max Strasser on Foreign Policy (United States) of 20 December 2010, freely translated by Lorenza
Saudi Arabia is another country that interprets the Islamic law to the letter: the punishment against gays is death through stone. The prison can also be requested. And men can also be flogged for the fact of "behaving like women".
Things seem so difficult for gays in Saudi Arabia that a diplomat, representing the kingdom in Los Angeles, asked for asylum after an employee of the Consultate discovered his homosexuality and gave information to Riyadh.
The diplomat said that he is afraid of being killed on his return to the country. Nonetheless, if you look good and if you know where to look, there is an underground gay movement prosperous in Saudi Arabia. A resident of Riyadh revealed to Atlantic that the capital is a "gay paradisio". The fact that homosexual relationships are widespread is to be found in the segregation of genres, very close in the country.
This means that women and men do not interact with each other outside the family. At school and in other places, says Atlantic's article, young people make their sexual experiments with people of the same sex for lack of other options.
Original text: Saudi Arabia
