Gay News Update 2013: According to a post in Gulfnews.com, a senior Kuwait official said that the routine clinical screening of expatriates coming into the Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC) might be also used to “detect” homosexuals.

Referring to a statement from the director of public health at the Kuwaiti health ministry, Yousuf Mindkar said that a central committee tasked with the checking the status of expatriates will look into the proposal when it convenes on November 11.

“Health centres conduct the routine medical check to assess the health of the expatriates when they come into the GCC countries,” that according to him as quoted on Monday by the local daily Al Rai “However, we will take stricter measures that will help us detect gays who will then barred from entering Kuwait or any of the GCC member states,” the statement said.

In the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, the GCC member countries and Qatar, homosexual acts are banned.

The increasing number of gays penetrating Bahrain concerns its lawmakers thus resulting to suppression with the inclusion of the need to adopt tougher immigration measures as well as quick deportations.

For those individuals below 21 years old who were involved to homosexual acts in Kuwait will be faced with 10 years prison terms.

Due to the organized “depraved and decadent” party, Bahrain arrested 127 people most are gays from the Gulf countries in 2011. There was one Lebanese and one Syrian arrested and most of the attendees were aged between 18 and 30. There were gay men from the Arabian Gulf countries that were brought by the fee-paying party on a hired sports hall in Hid, a conservative village in Muharraq Island North Bahrain.

The arrest of these 127 people followed after an undercover agent gained access into the hall, after paying an entrance fee of 20 dinar, and saw dozens of cross-dressers enjoying their drinks and shisha. The police were informed by the neighbors for the late night noises coming from the sports hall in the traditional fishing village. The officers then verified the report through sending a patrol at arounf 2:30am.

And due to the claim that a certain Egyptian film is controversial as the culture of debauchery is promoted that the screening of the film was banned in Kuwait in 2010.

In 2009, a film that talks about lifestyles of young people using drugs and lesbianism issues was produced. The film was called Bedoon Rakaba (Out of Control or Uncensored) became Arab cinema and society’s forbidden subject.

The film’s scenes was labeled as “too hot” with lesbianism them as “too bold” and that it has a very weak scenario thus it failed to have the controversial issues properly addressed –this according to the claim of a member of the censorship board.

The main character of the movie was an alcoholic and drug addict who, following the death of his father, will inherit an enormous fortune. It was portrayed by Ahmad Fahmy while actress Ola Ghanem is the actress behind the lesbian character who aims to entice young girls to consider her lifestyle.