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LGBT rights in Saudi Arabia are not recognized. Homosexuality and cross-dressing are widely seen as immoral acts, and are treated as serious crimes. In recent decades there have been reports of an underground LGBT community. While the kingdom has faced criticism from human rights organizations, it insists that it is always acting in accordance with Islamic morality

Right to privacy
The Saudi Constitution does not provide for a right to privacy. The government can, with a court order, search homes, vehicles, places of business and intercept private communications. People living in the kingdom should assume that communications can be seized by the government for evidence in a criminal trial.

Civil rights laws

Saudi Arabia has no laws against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. An employer is free to discriminate against a gay employee or subject them to blackmail. The exit and entry paperwork does not ask people about their sexual orientation, as it does their nationality, religion and marital status. No same-sex marriage, domestic partnership or civil union has any legal standing in the nation and may be used as evidence to initiate criminal proceedings.
Saudi LGBT community
Many expatriates may initially feel that social customs and laws encourage homosexuality [2] Unmarried women and families are generally kept separate from single men as much as possible, and dating is generally seen as being taboo, if not immoral. Opposite sex couples may be harassed if they demonstrate affection in public; however it is not uncommon to see heterosexual men expressing affection toward each other in public (e.g. kissing on the cheeks or holding hands.)
The practice of men holding hands, or kissing on the cheeks, in public is a social custom in parts of the Middle East and Asia and is a symbol of friendship and not homosexuality (broken citation link) [31]. Also given the limited sexual contact with women pre marriage, and the dangers in having an unmarried woman get pregnant, there is a degree of unspoken situational bisexuality that may exist among young men and women[32][33]. There have been some reports that this bisexuality is becoming more common among the upper classes [3]
Bars and nightclubs are illegal, although there are some reports of underground dance clubs in the major cities [4]. Private gatherings are generally permitted but they are often segregated by sex in order to reduce the risk of being raided by the police or the Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, which views combating homosexuality as one of its major objectives. [5].

 LGBT politics

Only the underground Green Party of Saudi Arabia has endorsed the LGBT human rights movement and called for greater public openness about sexual orientation and gender identity issues. No public organization, club or society would be allowed to endorse LGBT human rights or even act as a social network for LGBT people in the kingdom.

 Gender Identity

Cross-dressing is often associated with homosexuality, and thus illegal [34]. News reports suggest that the punishment involves fines, imprisonment, corporal punishment and or, for foreigners, deportation. Transsexuals cannot have a sex change operation in the kingdom and are not allowed to change the sex on their legal documents. The only narrow exception to this rule are people who are intersex[35]. Some Saudi women will dress up as men, in order to circumvent the restrictions that women face, i.e. the ban on driving or the sex-segregated public establishments[36].


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