There's no reason to think LGBT liberation will inevitably spread around the worldThat said, about 70 countries still criminalise homosexuality today. Israeli security forces have also been known to use various methods – including online surveillance – to identify gay Palestinians, but not in order to “convert” them. It is not that the facial features of gay men are biologically different from those of straight men. Rather, gay men uploading photos to a gay dating site try to conform to different cultural ideals than straight men uploading photos to straight dating sites. LGBT people are particularly vulnerable to online surveillance precisely because they have benefited so much from the new online social opportunities.

Source: The Guardian June 22, 2019 07:52 UTC