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 Neal Broverman 
          
          Oct 18, 2011
          
Neal Broverman
Neal Broverman is the Editorial Director, Print of Pride Media, publishers of The Advocate, Out, Out Traveler, and Plus, spending more than 20 years in journalism. He indulges his interest in transportation and urban planning with regular contributions to Los Angeles magazine, and his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He lives in the City of Angels with his husband, children, and their chiweenie.
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Twenty gay men were arrested at a Saudi hilltop wedding, according to new reports.

Quoting the Arabic newspaper Almadina, Emirates 24/7 claims that 20 men were arrested at a wedding in the southern Saudi province of Jazan. Homosexuality is illegal in Saudi Arabia. Another 200 men, allegedly wanted by police, were also arrested, according to the paper. 

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