If that policy in question is the criminalization of your own identity and sexuality, then yes, it would probably be quite bad. The UAE's fundamental opposition to homosexuality is a little more existentially threatening than the picnic ban at Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
That may be their stance on it but you're saying this as if by merely stepping foot in the country as a homosexual will have you arrested and executed. They respect visitors will have different sexual orientations, all they'd ask is you keep it private and not public during your stay....would that really be so hard?