“I hope that LGBT people in the U.A.E. will soon no longer have to live in fear, I hope that in the near future there will be programs that protect the youth in school from being bullied, as I was but never really realized how bad it was until now, I hope that in time homosexuality will not be treated as a hormone imbalance, but rather a normal variation of love and sexuality, that isn’t shunned by society,” an activist said.