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Has your sexual orientation affected your job in SAUDI ARABIA? Do you feel limited in your career by your sexual orientation?
The majority of people visiting this site have said In too many ways to count
In too many ways to count
(50%)
I changed careers because of my sexual orientation
(0 %)
I feel that I wasn’t promoted because I am lesbian or gay
(0 %)
My co-workers harass me because of my sexual orientation
(50%)
I have not been limited by my sexual orientation, though I am out at work
(0 %)
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This is what people are saying about life for LGBTI people in SAUDI ARABIA...
Abdullah
(user currently living in SAUDI ARABIA)
posted for
gay
readers
on 09/07/2012
+20
I am a 24 yr old male in Saudi Arabia and I have been very very unhappy since i was about 19. I am too afraid to come out. Keeping this to myself my whole life has taken its toll on me, the last 5 years especially. I am getting to a point where I don't even want to be around anyone at all anymore, I hate my life, I hate myself, and most of all I hate being so lonely ALL THE TIME. I know I am still young but ever sense I found out I was gay I had to hide it, which in the long run has turned me into a meaningless empty shell, I feel dead inside. It's just getting to be too much......I don't know what to do.
Abdullah
(user currently living in SAUDI ARABIA)
posted for
gay
readers
on 09/07/2012
+20
I am a 24 yr old male in Saudi Arabia and I have been very very unhappy since i was about 19. I am too afraid to come out. Keeping this to myself my whole life has taken its toll on me, the last 5 years especially. I am getting to a point where I don't even want to be around anyone at all anymore, I hate my life, I hate myself, and most of all I hate being so lonely ALL THE TIME. I know I am still young but ever sense I found out I was gay I had to hide it, which in the long run has turned me into a meaningless empty shell, I feel dead inside. It's just getting to be too much......I don't know what to do.
Saudi Gay
(user currently living in SAUDI ARABIA)
posted for
readers
on 29/11/2012
+5
Abdullah, I am so sorry , I really know your feeling. It's just the same that I and most of the gays who live in Saudi Arabia. I think that we will live our life just like what it is? No one will understand what we are feeling about? Also, do not hate yourself, and make sure that you have good friends especially gay friends in order to understand each other.
