This is the third part of a 10-part series on LGBT rights in Southeast Asia, which uncovers the challenges facing the LGBT community in the region and highlights the courageous work of activists there. How One Of The World's Richest Countries Is Limiting Basic Human Rights Must be awful to have to hide who you are out of fear of being arrested. That is so sad. Homophobia exists everywhere, but at least where I live I am protected and allowed to legally be with who I want to be.