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Contents:
- 'YOU N'T BE OUT': GAY EGYPTIANS NTUE TO FEAR PERSECUTN
- GAY CAIRO
- JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
- GAY DATG APPS ARE PROTECTG USERS AMID EGYPT'S LGBTQ CRACKDOWN
'YOU N'T BE OUT': GAY EGYPTIANS NTUE TO FEAR PERSECUTN
Egypt's anti-gay crackdown ma headl last September, but one year later, human-rights advot and LGBTQ Egyptians say the persecutn ntu. * gay app egypt *
Egypt's anti-gay crackdown ma headl last September, but one year later, human-rights advot and LGBTQ Egyptians say the persecutn 18, 2018, 4:00 PM UTCOmar* is a 30-year-old physician livg Alexandria, Egypt, the untry’s send largt cy. He is also a gay man who has spent most of his life what has bee one of the most dangero plac to be a sexual mory.
GAY CAIRO
The gay datg app is sendg regular warngs to s ers Egypt, allegg that the thori are g fake acunts for entrapment. * gay app egypt *
“It’s difficult to be gay Egypt, ” he told NBC News.
JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen jt me out as gay. * gay app egypt *
”A fan of Lebane alternative rock band Mashrou' Leila holds a rabow flag durg their ncert at the Ehniyat Internatnal Ftival Ehn town, Lebanon on Augt 12, Saidi / Rters fileHomosexualy is not explicly illegal this untry that bridg northeast Ai wh the Middle East, but people are routely arrted and imprisoned on the basis of their actual or perceived sexual orientatn and genr inty, acrdg to Amnty September was the worst crackdown the untry’s history, wh up to 76 people beg taed, acrdg to the human-rights anizatn.
The crackdown was sparked after a gay man wavg a rabow flag was arrted durg a ncert Cairo.
GAY DATG APPS ARE PROTECTG USERS AMID EGYPT'S LGBTQ CRACKDOWN
The cint garnered ternatnal attentn, but one year later, gay Egyptians and human-rights advot say the persecutn ntu, and Egypt’s LGBTQ muny is livg fear. EGYPTIAN LAWWhile same-sex sexual relatns are not explicly prohibed Egyptian law, a 2017 report by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) found that “the Law on the Combatg of Prostutn, and the law agast bchery have been ed liberally to imprison gay men recent years.