Fridae

The Muslim world is ruled, more and more, by ignorant people who, given the power to impose their beliefs on the populace, promote discrimination against women, LGBT, and non-Muslims. One can only hope that someday these countries will learn that government can only work for everybody when it is secular. Unfortunately, if we take Turkey as a harbinger of the future, we can expect things to get worse, not better, for our brothers and sisters who have the misfortune to have been born in those countries.

It's time to call spade a spade. Islam especially in ME is not compatible with a modern life and democracy. I feel for those LGBT and women in those countries under Islamic rules.

I wonder if gay websites will ever censor members comments even if the content is within rules? :)

I hope those mentioned in the article above realise it's better to allow visibility of all views, cultures, and sexualities.

They don't know the true history of Islam or Chinese culture either.
When one considers the long sweep of historical attitudes toward, and sociocultural constructions of, sex and sexuality in general and homosexuality in particular, one is struck by the wide variety of methods adopted for accommodating less common sexual acts and preferences in the wider community. One also notes the overwhelming uniformity of the end result – same-sex acts and attractions are tolerated, accepted and embraced often including marriage. In most cultures throughout history, homosexuality has been allowed space to exist in public. The reality is that the vast majorities of cultures have accepted that same-sex attraction is simply a facet of the human condition. Christianity, on the other hand, has chosen to construct, sexual acts and sexuality in a manner that is wholly at odds with the pattern, which has been adopted by almost all other human cultures throughout recorded history. In other words, in the context of human history and culture, it is the Judeo-Christian Islamic response to homosexuality that is abnormal and unnatural.
Some people take the time to educate themselves and some just buy into generic untruths. Peer reviewed thoroughly annotated historical writing by historians using strict methodologies are available to those who make a bit of effort.
Read:
“Islamic Homosexualities Culture History and Literature”, Stephen Murray
Passions of the Cut Sleeve,The Male Homosexual Tradition in China, Bret Hinsch
"The Origin and Role of Same Sex Relations in Human Societies" by James Neil.
Sexual Variance in History, Vern Bulough
Homosexuality in History, Spencer Colin

Such a Backward country some Academics included!

Who in there right mind would visit that country!