In class we watched a documentary called, “The Road to Love,” a film about homosexuality in the Middle East. I had a hard time keeping up with the film at first, due to subtitles and bad lighting. But what I got from the film was very interesting. I had to ask myself is homosexuality for the people living in the Middle East that much different from here in the United States. In some ways yes, In the Middle East homosexuality was much more common in early years, it was a practice that was normal for a young man before marrying. In the United States homosexuality is more common today than it ever was in the past.
Homosexuals in both the Middle East and United States still face a lot of the same problems today, like having to tell friends and family. Having to worry about what one will think of them after telling them they are gay. Many still have to fight for the right to live happily with their partner. This film has shown me that homosexuality in the Middle East really isn’t that different from in the United States, maybe we have more in common than what we thought.
You've made a really interesting point with the fact that it was more common in the past and less common now in the Middle East and how that is reversed for the United States!!
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