What’s it like to be criminalised for being gay?
Joanna Bale investigates how gay men living in Dubai create covert communities where they can meet and socialise.
Joanna Bale investigates how gay men living in Dubai create covert communities where they can meet and socialise.
Monday 25 September 2023 | 30 minutes 48 seconds
Homosexuality is illegal in just over a third of countries across the globe. Some nations, like Barbados, have recently repealed anti-gay laws, but others, like Uganda, have just introduced the death penalty.
Joanna Bale talks to LSE’s Dr Ryan Centner about how Western gay men living in Dubai create covert communities where they can meet and socialise. James, a British gay man, and Jamal, an Emirati gay man, also share their very different experiences of life in the city.
Research links:
Peril, privilege, and queer comforts: the nocturnal performative geographies of expatriate gay men in Dubai http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/110762/
The Pink Line: The World’s Queer Frontiers https://www.markgevisser.com/the-pink-line