Gay party men may be given hormone treatment

[NGONGE]

Gay party men may be given hormone treatment

(AP)

 

27 November 2005

 

 

DUBAI — More than two dozen gay men — arrested at what police called a mass homosexual wedding — could face government-ordered hormone treatments, five years in jail and a lashing, authorities said yesterday.

 

 

The Interior Ministry said police raided a hotel chalet earlier this month and arrested 26 men as they celebrated the mass wedding ceremony — one of a string of recent group arrests of homosexuals in the emirates.

 

The men are likely to be tried on charges related to adultery and prostitution, said Interior Ministry spokesman Issam Azouri.

 

“Lately people have been talking about (homosexuality), but it has been here for a long time,†said Nadia Buhannad, a Dubai psychologist. “It becomes shocking only when it is your own son.â€

 

Police acting on a tip-off raided a hotel in Ghantout, a desert region on the Dubai-Abu Dhabi highway, and found a dozen men dressed as female brides and a dozen others in male Arab dress, apparently preparing for a ceremony that would join them as husbands and wives, Azouri said. “It was a real party with balloons and champagne,†he said.

 

The 26 men arrested include those from the Emirates as well as an Indian disc jockey and three men from neighbouring Arab states. One of the arrested was to perform the wedding ceremony. Azouri said some of the group told police they worked as prostitutes. Others had been arrested before.

 

Last year, police made mass arrests at an apparent gay wedding in Sharjah and at the Khor Fakkan beach resort in Fujairah, a police official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the Press.

 

Two dozen men arrested in Sharjah were lashed and then released from jail, said prominent Emirati lawyer Abdul Hamid Al Kumaiti.

 

“There are so many others like these guys,†Al Kumaiti said. “The police and rulers need to do more than just lash them and let them go.â€

 

Azouri described the arrests in Ghantout as a “delicate†matter made public for the first time — more than a week after the event.

 

The arrested men have been questioned by police and were undergoing psychological evaluations yesterday. Azouri said the Interior Ministry’s department of social support would try to direct the men away from homosexual behaviour, including treatment with male hormones.

 

“Because they’ve put society at risk they will be given the necessary treatment, from male hormone injections to psychological therapies,†he said. “It wasn’t just a homosexual act. Now we’re dealing with a kind of marriage. There was a ritual involved.â€

 

Foreigners arrested will be deported after serving any sentences imposed in court, he said.

 

Azouri said government psychologists were grappling with the possible causes behind an apparent increase in homosexual behaviour in this country. The booming economy has lured hundreds of thousands of Western residents and millions of tourists. Azouri said authorities want to be seen to be taking action at a time when complaints of gay behaviour were emerging from the country’s schools and myriad shopping malls.

 

If some of the men are determined to be deficient in male hormones, they could be ordered to undergo hormone treatment, Azouri said.

 

Azouri suggested that other countries with laws based on religion, including Christianity and Judaism, also ban gay behaviour and marriage.

 

“It’s not about freedom of opinion, it’s about respecting religion which forbids this type of behaviour,†he said.

 

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[Baluug]

That must've been a sight to see, especially in an Arab Islamic country where they just don't see these kinds of things every day. 12 "men" dressed like women and 12 other "men" pretending like they actually ARE men. Disgusting if you ask me...

[NGONGE]

^^^ That was not the reason I posted this article. It was more to do with how out of touch the authorities in Dubai are. Besides, if you read the title and some of the explanations in the article, you would notice that the meaning of gay (in Dubai) is men that dress as women! The ones that dressed as men were not mentioned and are not likely to be offered hormone treatments!

[N.O.R.F]

I read this article the other day, cant say i was surprised this happened in a very sinful city where 'freedom' in all its forms is encouraged.

 

This guy has the right idea:

 

“There are so many others like these guys,†Al Kumaiti said. “The police and rulers need to do more than just lash them and let them go.â€

NG:

 

The ones that dressed as men were not mentioned and are not likely to be offered hormone treatments

The other problem in Arab countries is the fact that many do not prosecute their fellow nationals or arabs except in extreme circumstances.

[NGONGE]

^^^ That’s not the case here. The majority of those caught were nationals of that country and were, as the article indicates, punished.

 

In many Middle Eastern and African countries only those taking on the women’s role are considered gay. They’re the one’s being offered hormone treatments, etc!

 

In the West, they're both GAY.

[Sky]

Its like in jail. Sex between men occur as we all know. Here the masculine male forces a weaker (therefore feminem) male to succumb to him and accept sexual intercourse. Motives might be: humiliation of your perceived enemy (often the case), climbing up in the hiërarchy of the gang or simply relieving itself from sexual frustrations caused by the harsh absence of the opposite sex. The strange thing is that the victim is branded for life as a homosexual (punk), whereas the aggresor is seen as even more manly than the manliest man for he is so manly that he can even force other men to oral sex, let alone women. This Bestiality shows you what men are capable of to secure a safe position in an unsecure often dangerous environment.

 

The same thing is the case here in this article. Sometimes I wonder wether some people are repulsed by homosexuality because of the reasons it should be repulsed for according to the Diin, or wether they only see feminem men. If it was the former, many people (muslims and non-muslims alike) would not hate homos, but disapprove their sexual orientation and move on.

[Johnny B]

At last! Homosexuality is beeing openly adressed in the Arab world.

Bravo Dubai sheiks, just offer the hormones even to those manly dressed ones,hello, (even bisexuals ARE gays be them done or do,you nuttheads, ) and maybe allow them to officially couple, thus you save the Arab world civilization.

 

You can´t lock women intellectually in fear, physically in black dress and put them behind walls , while you dress men white in the free and put their lust into test.

[sheherazade]

Why anyone would want to marry a prostitute is beyond me.

[sheherazade]

^u skipped Xmas.

 

[edit]

darn it, now I look like I'm talking with myself! Cut it out! Wait, don't cut it out.

[N.O.R.F]

In many Middle Eastern and African countries only those taking on the women’s role are considered gay. They’re the one’s being offered hormone treatments, etc!

Arabs are dumb (sorry )saxib, its a well known fact! It may be difficult for the authorities to realise how a man wearing a khamis who was at the party can be classified as gay.

 

But what should they be offered? or how should they punished?

[NGONGE]

^^ It's not an Arab thing alone though. Read what SKY wrote above. The Greeks (ancient and current) view things the same way.

 

Edit:

It was not worth writing a new post. This is an answer to the comment below. The 'woman' part is not in the act but the action.

 

LOOK:

 

:rolleyes:

 

Now go away and talk to to the hand (very limp hand). :rolleyes:

[sheherazade]

Originally posted by NGONGE:

 

In many Middle Eastern and African countries only those taking on the women’s role are considered gay. They’re the one’s being offered hormone treatments, etc!

 

In the West, they're both

GAY.

I understand what you're saying but there is nothing 'woman' about receiving sex anally. These people had better find another way of describing the 'receiver' than woman, dammit .

 

[edit 2]

In response to the quote aboveThe 'woman' part is not in the act but the action.

 

Come again?? The action being anal. Talk to the back of this rather firm hand. And take it like a man.

[N.O.R.F]

Greeks are gaalo, arabs are muslims and should act upon it, i would not be surprised to hear future muslim kids saying its ok to be gay, western ideologies are breaking doors down faster than we know or anticipate

[Johnny B]

Now to the practical part of it..

Does these hormones WORK, as a cure for Homosexuality , or they just dumb the LUST?

 

what is the IDEA of giving the womanly dressed ones hormones?

[sheherazade]

they'd be pumped with testosterone. To make them more 'manly'. So that they could give as good as they once got.