Wikipedia editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020

Re:Wikipedia editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia ... by blhblah12345 on Monday January 16, 2023 @02:17PM (#34404395)

Meanwhile, Turkish men are the most metrosexual in the world, and let's just say it 's easier to get laid in Taksim than it is in the Castro. I feel that Istanbul is actually a far gayer city than San Francisco, but everybody stays in the closet in order to survive.

You have a funny concept of free.

If I am not free to be exactly who I am, then I am not free.

If I am forced to follow a religion under penalty of death, I am not free.

If I am forced to not leave that religion under penalty of death, I am not free.

If I am forced to be straight, I am not free.

A free nation allows everybody to be free, not just the mainstream.

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Re:Wikipedia editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia ... by jacooper on Monday January 16, 2023 @02:42PM (#34404659)

Then don't.

The entire point of democracy is it allows commoners to decide regulation, and you bet that if there was ever a true democracy in the Arab world, gays won't be welcome in it either.

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Re:Wikipedia editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia ... by alephnerd on Monday January 16, 2023 @02:49PM (#34404718)

I've heard that from a couple Gay friends actually. They've had a better time in Istanbul's GLBT scene than in the US (though they are Latino in origin and I've heard American Gay culture has a bit of a race problem)

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