The Choice of Leading a Gay Life I suspect some of the facts are incorrect.

1) Shumail is a transgendered man and it is a trans issue as oppsoed to a lesbian one.

2) The Supreme Court granted them bail.

3) The father was not as much concerned about lesbianism, a charge he brought forth, as on the fact he couldn't marry his daughter to pay off the uncle's debts.

I had written this earlier but something strange happened and twice my response came out the way it did.

Please see my ilogs for more information on homosexuality and Pakistan and general information in the Muslim context.

While generally I can understand where you are coming from, there is some element in your article that I am not comfortable with, principally being the use of the word 'girlie'. I think that ought not to have been there.

Some men are feminine and some women masculine, like orientation, gender too lies on a spectrum.

Finally, I do not agree that some people can think whatever they wish to think about gays. If people mentioned negative things about Jews, they'd be charged with anti-semitism. It should be no different in the case of sexual minorities as well.

The Choice of Leading a Gay Life Recently a lesbian (gay) couple was arrested in Faisalabad, Their relative relatives learned of this pretty late in the game but as soon as it was discovered they lodged a FIR against Here I would like to add that even with repeated efforts and an offer for large sum as guarantee the bailiff refused to grant bail to the couple I know a lot of my friends who came out of closet and actually dared to tell their parents about their sexuality; most of them were accepted but not without trouble ever since; if not from their fathers, then from their mothers if not from their parents then from their siblings. To me homosexuality develops with events Being Gay to me is choosing an alternate life style and its not being ‘girlie’ (nothing like Begum Nawazish Ali),

The Choice of Leading a Gay Life Recently a lesbian (gay) couple was arrested in Faisalabad, Their relative relatives learned of this pretty late in the game but as soon as it was discovered they lodged a FIR against Here I would like to add that even with repeated efforts and an offer for large sum as guarantee the bailiff refused to grant bail to the couple I know a lot of my friends who came out of closet and actually dared to tell their parents about their sexuality; most of them were accepted but not without trouble ever since; if not from their fathers, then from their mothers if not from their parents then from their siblings. To me homosexuality develops with events Being Gay to me is choosing an alternate life style and its not being ‘girlie’ (nothing like Begum Nawazish Ali),