Gay emirates

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Gay Emirati Zayed, tells us about the gay life in Dubai and the UAE

Whilst I am not in any way trying to defend my country's anti-gay laws, I do want to impress that our society is slowly changing. For example, in the most recent case of a Scottish man being arrested under the public indecency laws for putting his hand on a man in a bar, the ruler of the Dubai Emirate Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum eventually intervened and forced these charges to be dropped.