[HelloMcFly]

Because some private behavior has been stigmatized, villainized, and criminalized. With that kind of history, it certainly seems understandable to me that groups victimized in that way create cultural artifacts to celebrate who they are together and normalize them as "just people" to everyone else.

[azth]

It's not private behavior, that's the problem. Secondly, just because something is private (or not) does not mean it is acceptable. Some behavior are infective, and spread throughout society. We're seeing what's happening today right before our very eyes.

Secondly, who gave the right to non-Muslim countries to enforce what they think onto conservative Muslim societies? This is literally continued colonization.