Kuwait is creating some type of medical test it claims it will then be able to use to ‘detect’ gay people, to prevent them entering any of the Gulf Cooperation Countries. A Kuwaiti government official has told local media gay people would be banned from entering Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, where gay sex is illegal. The director of public health at the Kuwaiti health ministry Yousouf Mindkar has told Kuwait newspaper Al Rai: “Health centres conduct the routine medical check to assess the health of the expatriates when they come into the GCC countries. However, we will take stricter measures that will help us detect gays who will be then barred from entering Kuwait or any of the GCC member states.” It’s not clear what the ‘gay test’ might entail.
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First published: Tuesday, 8th October 2013 - 7:51am