Re: Should Homosexuals Have Rights
Forget accommodating gays, private consensual heterosexual relationships are outlawed in Pakistan. Not to mention that women can be imprisoned for confessing to being raped.
As for homosexuality, I wouldn’t say that Pakistan has a huge gay population, but rather many Pakistani males take part in or experience homosexuality at some point in their lives but don’t necessarily identify as homosexuals. Our society doesn’t teach us much respect towards women so a lot of these individuals will go on to have wives while deceptively maintaining some form of homosexuality on the side. And yes some of these “gay” men are very religious, pray five times a day and expect virgin wives. The ones who choose not marry are the ones who are called gay, and are ostracized by their families. I don’t think decriminalization of private consensual adult relationships will have much impact on gays in a patriarchal society like ours. I know many Pakistanis in the west who have come out to their families but they still face the pressure of marriage and some of them willingly marry cause they need someone to cook and clean the house.