What’s it like to be criminalised for being gay?

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  Someone who runs towards fresh challenges rather than shies away, the perfect embodiment of Etifak DNA.

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  Welcome to our club, Jordan Henderson.

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  I do not see the point of inviting the 1975 to a country and then telling us who we can have sex with.

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  That was Saudi Arabian football club Al Etifak announcing the signing of former Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson and Matty Healy of British band The 1975 criticising Malaysia's anti-gay laws on stage in Kuala Lumpur.

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  These recent news stories have highlighted LGBTQ rights in two of the many countries around the world where homosexuality is illegal.

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  Henderson's £700,000 a week Saudi deal sent shockwaves through the game

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  because he had been a vocal supporter of the Premier League's Rainbow Laces campaign which stands up for LGBTQ inclusion.

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  In his new club's promotional video highlighting his career,

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  his rainbow armband was digitally altered to appear in black and white.

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  Matty Healy's Malaysia protest included an on stage kiss with the 1975's basis Ross MacDonald but was condemned by local LGBTQ activists as lightly to create a backlash and therefore potentially damaging to their cause.

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  Welcome to LSEIQ, the podcast where we are social scientists and other experts to answer one intelligent question.

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  I'm Joanna Bale from the IQ team where we work with academics to bring you their latest research and ideas and talk to people affected by the issues we explore.

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  In this episode I ask what's it like to be criminalised for being gay?

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  Homosexuality is illegal in just over a third of countries across the globe.

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  The Human Dignity Trust founded by two leading UK barristers to challenge anti-LGBTQ legislation puts the current number of countries at 66.

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  Some nations like Barbados have recently repealed anti-gay laws but others like Uganda have just introduced the death penalty.

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  And according to LGBTQ rights campaigners at the Global Philanthropy Project Conservative lobbies in the US are funneling millions of dollars abroad into movements which support the criminalisation of gay people.

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  I'm going to talk to an academic who investigated how western gay men living in Dubai create covert communities where they can meet and socialise.

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  And two gay men living in the city, one British, one a local Emirati,

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  tell me how they navigate a society where they are forced to hide who they are.

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