Kuwaiti Government Threatens Gays

The Kuwaiti government is attempting to rid the country of gay and trangender citizens.

The Kuwaiti government is attempting to rid the country of gay and transgender citizens.

The Social Vice committee in Kuwait is in the process of organizing a national conference in order to define “social vices” and determine ways to crack down on them, according to British online news service Pink News.

Valid Tabatabaii, a Kuwaiti MP on the committee, said to local newspaper Alaqabs that the government has tried to crack down on "girlie boys" and homosexuals, who, he said, promote crime and sexual immorality in the country.

Last December, Kuwait's parliament passed a law that made “imitating the appearance of the opposite sex” a crime.

The amendment states that "any person committing an indecent act in a public place, or imitating the appearance of a member of the opposite sex, shall be subject to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or a fine." (The Advocate)

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Name: Todd
Date posted: 6/20/2008 4:05:00 PM
Hometown: Seattle, WA

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The Middle East will never understand any concept of "human rights". I worked in Saudi Arabia for over 9 years in the '90's. They are immersed in a barbaric backward religion. However, I found just as much "gay" life there as anywhere. My advice for any gay people over there......pretend to go to school in Europe or the States and then just "defect". Ironically, life for gay American citizens can be just as oppressive depending on what state you're in.
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Name: tj
Date posted: 6/19/2008 5:46:00 PM
Hometown: wyoming

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And how quickly Kuwait's governors forget their accepting the assistance of "foreign" military, gays included, who threw out the evil Saddam The Occupier in 1991 (btw: Whom the US put and kept in power in Iraq until he was not wanted anymore by the US. As Gary Yamamoto wrote, in Vaccine A, "He might be a bastard, but he was OUR bastard!").
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Name: Chris Sullivan
Date posted: 6/19/2008 10:51:00 AM
Hometown: Chicago, IL

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Yawn. What do you expect from people who are living in 2008 as if it were 0008? They continue to prove time and time again just how very ignorant they are.

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