How were gay people treated in the Middle East in the twentieth century ?

-"Gay" people didn't technically exist in the 19th century Middle East. I mean that no one was publicly open, that is unless they were suicidal. Many Middle Eastern cultures practiced stoning on homosexuals. But that is a common treatment that was universal at the time. Even in England in the 1800s homosexuality was illegal and people were prosecuted in cruel ways."Gay" people didn't technically exist in the 19th century Middle East. I mean that no one was publicly open, that is unless they were suicidal. Many Middle Eastern cultures practiced stoning on homosexuals. But that is a common treatment that was universal at the time. Even in England in the 1800s homosexuality was illegal and people were prosecuted in cruel ways.