This may come as a shock to some people because of the blanket-smothered perspective that the media generates, but just like in the Western world, there's an extremely wide berth of variety in terms of microcultures. Even in the Middle East, metro areas are just factually more liberal, and thereby less homophobic. The further away from major cities you go, the more conservative it gets, and thereby the more influenced by extremist religious ideas (i.e. homophobia).
Now of course, the key difference is that there are things like religious police in a lot of Middle Eastern countries, which does make it inherently more dangerous to be visibly "out", but you will probably be fine as long as you don't draw attention to yourself as a gay person.
The side effect of this extreme oppression is that it's naturally funneling LGBT people toward major cities, which is also true in the West, but it's much more pronounced of a phenomenon in the Middle East. This does mean that, because there's a higher saturation of gays in these areas, it's much easier to hook up, but it's not something I would personally recommend doing because of the inherent dangers.
