According to
this report:
More than two dozen gay Arab men-arrested at what police called a mass homosexual wedding-could face government-ordered hormone treatments, five years in jail and a lashing, authorities said on Saturday....
On Friday the minister of justice and Islamic affairs, Mohammed bin Nukhaira Al Dhahiri, called on parents to be vigilant for "deviant" behaviour in their children.
... [A spokesman] said the Interior Ministry's department of social support would try to direct the men away from homosexual behaviour, including treatment with male hormones. "Because they've put society at risk they will be given the necessary treatment, from male hormone injections to psychological therapies," he said.
Isn't the United Arab Emirates supposedly one of the more "advanced" Arab countries?
Update: The U.S. State Department, reports the
Washington
Blade, issued a statement saying that "The United States
condemns the arrest of a dozen same-sex couples in the United Arab
Emirates and a statement by the [UAE] Interior Ministry spokesman
that they will be subjected to government-ordered hormone and
psychological treatment." The Blade reports further that "Last
year's State Department human rights report chronicled several
anti-gay abuses." A good sign of incremental but important
progress.