Walking around any shopping center, you'd see dozens of teenage boys holding hands and dressed in tight flared pants and tight t's.  Here, this is considered normal.  You just assume that they're trying to be stylish.. and the holding hands part, now that's just weird.  And of course you would see the actual gays.  I mean the people who were so incredibly obvious, how could you not know?  The guys that would stare you up and down, lick their lips at you, wink.  The kind of behavior that makes you feel some what dirty.  Some times they even drive by you, and offer you money for your services.  But this is the gay life that's on the surface.

 

 The first time I had any interaction with any homosexual was through the internet.  I was pretty young back then, so I was very hesitant to ever actually meet someone that I had chatted with.  Finally, I gained enough courage to actually meet one guy, and after I had done that a whole new world appeared.  It was absolutely astonishing to me.  There was this whole underground sort of thing going on here, and for the most part it was very discreet.  Parties every weekend, where you could feel completely free to do anything you've always fantisized about doing in public.  Dancing with people of the same sex, kissing, hugging, flirting, and looking at people you're attracted to without having to worry if someone is watching you in disgust.  Most importantly these parties are secure, in private homes, with the music not too loud as to disturb the neighbors.  Some times you even run into people that you know from school or from work, or people that you notice in the mall.  The people that you would never expect to harbour the same sexual tendencies as you.  The people you wish were gay, just so you could tell them how good looking they are.

 

As for the threat of being caught by the government or the mutawa...I feel that people are sufficiently causcious.  They know how far they can push it, and what they can and can't do in public.  And as far as I know, you can not get into any kind of trouble, just because someone thinks you are gay.  They have to catch you in the act of sexual contact with the gender, and in this case it is punishable by death.  Actually I learned that from a friend of mine...they taught it to him in school, clever.