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Contents:

• GAY CAIRO
• GAY EGYPT TRAVEL GUI
• GAY TRAVEL EGYPT
• GAY EGYPT: PRINT AL-SISI IS WORSE FOR GAYS THAN MLIM BROTHERHOOD
• THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF ANCIENT EGYPTHOMOSEXUALY AND ANCIENT EGYPT: A COMPLITED RELATNSHIP.SAL·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·5 M READ·APR 8, 2021--1SHAREPHOTO CREDS: GNOME STEWANCIENT EGYPT IS UALLY ASSOCIATED WH MARVELO TOMBS FILLED WH GOLD, MAGNIFICENT STCTUR THE FORM OF THE GREAT PYRAMIDS AND THE LG DYNASTI, AND PHARAOHS. HOWEVER, THIS ANCIENT YET GREAT CIVILIZATN WAS SIAR TO MANY OTHER STAT TODAY WHEN TO HOMOSEXUALY: WAS SEEN AS UNNATURAL AND NOT ACCEPTED SOCIETY.WHILE THERE IS MUCH EVINCE THAT TTIFI THAT HOMOSEXUALY WAS NOT THE NORM, THERE ARE OTHER SPECULATNS THAT S REMNANTS WERE FOUND EVEN AT THE HIGHT STRATA OF THE SOCIAL LADR WH ANCIENT EGYPT. EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE SRCE, THE CLU DO NOT STOP HISTORIANS OM GGG THE PREVALENCE OF HOMOSEXUALY. FROM THE HOLY BOOKS THAT TALK ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY TO THE POTENTIAL PRACTICE OF BY AN EGYPTIAN EMPEROR, THIS IS A LOOK AT HOMOSEXUALY ANCIENT EGYPT.THE CUR CASE OF NIANKHKHNUM AND KHNUMHOTEP
• 'YOU N'T BE OUT': GAY EGYPTIANS NTUE TO FEAR PERSECUTN
• A GAY DATE THROUGH THE STREETS OF CAIRO.
• THE TTH ABOUT BEG GAY ANCIENT EGYPT
• HOW ONE GAY EGYPTIAN WOMAN STOOD UP TO HOMOPHOBIA AND PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE
• ARRTED FOR WAVG RABOW FLAG, A GAY EGYPTIAN TAK HER LIFE
• EGYPT GAY TRAVEL
• ÉGYPTE GAY

GAY CAIRO

You've probably heard of the "Cairo 52" se om 2001, when a group of 52 men were arrted at a gay party the "Queen Boat" moored on the Nile. Dpe terventn by ternatnal human rights anizatns, the suatn for homosexuals remas que alarmg the untry, wh arrt and torture beg mon practice. As a gay traveler, don't e lol chat rooms to meet lol men, and be ut cisg areas.

Simply hang out where the trendit straight crowds do, and you'll see plenty of gay lols and expats.

Everyone ss people-watchg om the sofas as they enjoy specialty cktails, and this is where you're most likely to fd a discreet mix of straight and gay. Fashnable gay men playg straight head to the Marrtt for the expensive drks at s Harry's Pub. No hotel Cairo advertis self as gay-iendly, but the large chas do attract wealthy gay upl, pecially those lookg out to the pyramids and offerg all sorts of pamperg servic such as spa and fns center.

GAY EGYPT TRAVEL GUI

Homosexualy isn’t technilly illegal Egypt, but ’s still a nservative Mlim untry, and gays are discrimated agast and routely round up by the police. Who’d have thought that a young man wavg a rabow flag at a ncert Cairo 2017 would spark a major crackdown on gays? “Homosexualy isn’t an official crime Egypt, but laws battg prostutn and “bchery” are ed to imprison gays.

GAY TRAVEL EGYPT

Bee homosexualy isn’t an official crime, laws battg prostutn and “habual bchery” are ed to jtify the imprisonment of gay men and lbians for six months to six years. A favore tactic of the Egyptian police is to entrap gay men, lurg them to hotels, where they are arrted, by g apps like Grdr.

GAY EGYPT: PRINT AL-SISI IS WORSE FOR GAYS THAN MLIM BROTHERHOOD

Gay Travel Tips EgyptNow that you’re good and sred, ’s time to say, don’t let that stop you om visg a untry that’s sanely rich amazg templ and tombs of the ancient world.

As long as you don’t do anythg overly gay — I’m sure you n rist kissg public durg your travels Egypt — you should pass through unmolted. You don’t have to be gay to be arrted — jt beg seen as a supporter of the LGBTQ muny is enough. “There are spots that are, to some extent, gay iendly, but even the plac cled after 2011” wh the Egyptian Revolutn, the source told NBC.

They didn’t want to look like they were that iendly towards gay people, so they closed their bars and fés and left. Our Experience as a Gay Couple EgyptDe and I didn’t feel unfortable beg gay Egypt at all. More than 300 men and women om the gay muny had gathered Kerdassa on the same day, November 4, that former Print Mohamed Morsi of the puranil Mlim Brotherhood first appeared urt.

THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF ANCIENT EGYPTHOMOSEXUALY AND ANCIENT EGYPT: A COMPLITED RELATNSHIP.SAL·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·5 M READ·APR 8, 2021--1SHAREPHOTO CREDS: GNOME STEWANCIENT EGYPT IS UALLY ASSOCIATED WH MARVELO TOMBS FILLED WH GOLD, MAGNIFICENT STCTUR THE FORM OF THE GREAT PYRAMIDS AND THE LG DYNASTI, AND PHARAOHS. HOWEVER, THIS ANCIENT YET GREAT CIVILIZATN WAS SIAR TO MANY OTHER STAT TODAY WHEN TO HOMOSEXUALY: WAS SEEN AS UNNATURAL AND NOT ACCEPTED SOCIETY.WHILE THERE IS MUCH EVINCE THAT TTIFI THAT HOMOSEXUALY WAS NOT THE NORM, THERE ARE OTHER SPECULATNS THAT S REMNANTS WERE FOUND EVEN AT THE HIGHT STRATA OF THE SOCIAL LADR WH ANCIENT EGYPT. EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE SRCE, THE CLU DO NOT STOP HISTORIANS OM GGG THE PREVALENCE OF HOMOSEXUALY. FROM THE HOLY BOOKS THAT TALK ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY TO THE POTENTIAL PRACTICE OF BY AN EGYPTIAN EMPEROR, THIS IS A LOOK AT HOMOSEXUALY ANCIENT EGYPT.THE CUR CASE OF NIANKHKHNUM AND KHNUMHOTEP

Terrified people sttered and tried to hi, remembers Ahmed, a gay Cairene his twenti who is now a fugive: “They had so many weapons, they had clearly been some ser preparatn.

Back 2001, 52 gay men were arrted on a party boat on the Nile and tried for “public pravy”. In 2004, a 17-year-old stunt was hand a 17-year jail sentence for postg his profile on a gay datg se.

In the last 10 months, dozens have been arrted and at least 18 homosexual and transgenr people have been jailed unr the untry’s dranian legislatn crimalizg “sexual viance, ” “bchery” and “sultg public morals. Abl-Hamid thks ’s part of a PR mpaign by new Print Abl-Fattah Sisi’s admistratn, to prove is more “Islamic than the Islamists” and to curry favor wh the populatn, that se homosexualy as a s.

'YOU N'T BE OUT': GAY EGYPTIANS NTUE TO FEAR PERSECUTN

Ironilly, unr Morsi, when the world railed agast the “Islamizatn” of Egypt, The Daily Beast reported the start of a fledglg LGBT rights movement, as young gay activists lnched onle awarens mpaigns via Facebook and Twter.

A GAY DATE THROUGH THE STREETS OF CAIRO.

The “moral partment” of the police force, tasked wh managg public behavr, has put lol journalists on speed dial to ver the gay arrts. The Egyptian pro-regime paper Youm7 forced the homosexual and transgenr ptiv of the latt raid May to give terviews the middle of their arrt.

THE TTH ABOUT BEG GAY ANCIENT EGYPT

The same paper, shortly afterwards, published a long vtigatn to the gay “problem.

Immediately after arrt, when they are the police statns, homosexual men are parad naked and threatened wh rape, says Ahmed, who rells a doctor, the prence of the arrtg officers “checkg” his an to see if he had had sex wh a man.

HOW ONE GAY EGYPTIAN WOMAN STOOD UP TO HOMOPHOBIA AND PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE

Treatment jail is worse—anyone intified as a transgenr, a cross-drser or homosexual is sgled out and beaten by fellow mat.

Particular bars and nightclubs are earmarked as gay-iendly spe the crackdown, members told The Daily Beast.

Young gay men like Ahmed fear the suatn will only get worse sce Sisi’s recent electn giv him what he’ll ll a popular mandate for whatever reprsive measur he wants to take agast any part of society that don’t f his visn of Egypt. Homosexual acts are vered by general legislatn erng public (Mlim & Christian) moraly.

ARRTED FOR WAVG RABOW FLAG, A GAY EGYPTIAN TAK HER LIFE

In the 21st century, this legislatn has been subject to stricter terpretatn, and homosexual men live unr ntual threat of persecutn and imprisonment. More than 300 men and women om the gay muny had gathered Kerdassa on the same day, November.

By Richard Ammon Febary 13, 2011 Well, after eighteen days of prott and monstratn to brg down a rpt dictator and allow ee and fair electns, what will this mean for the LGBT (gay) cizens who were certaly prent Tahrir Square? Gay and lbian life shar ltle of the bety and much of the spair Story and photos by Richard Ammon GlobalGayz Updated March 2012.

Three gut thors scribe the plex existence of tradnal homosexual behavr and today’s Egyptian Mlim culture–full of distrsg polil trigue and tense personal sire. Recent arrts (2001) and subsequent harrassment by police have created a fearful i for gay Mlims morn Egypt.

EGYPT GAY TRAVEL

Homosexualy and Ancient Egypt: A Complited Creds: Gnome StewAncient Egypt is ually associated wh marvelo tombs filled wh gold, magnificent stctur the form of the Great Pyramids and the lg dynasti, and Pharaohs.

However, this ancient yet great civilizatn was siar to many other stat today when to homosexualy: was seen as unnatural and not accepted there is much evince that ttifi that homosexualy was not the norm, there are other speculatns that s remnants were found even at the hight strata of the social ladr wh Ancient Egypt. Even though they are srce, the clu do not stop historians om ggg the prevalence of homosexualy. From the Holy Books that talk about homosexualy to the potential practice of by an Egyptian emperor, this is a look at homosexualy Ancient Cur Case of Niankhkhnum and KhnumhotepPhoto Creds: PtertNiankhkhnum and Khnumhotep were two men that lived at the time Nierre was a Pharaoh.

They are most notably known for their burial and pictn a picture where historians speculated that they were homosexuals who lived hidn liv, secretly love wh each other. Even though both of the men had wiv and, surprisgly, even children, their fai cid to bury them most nvcg evince, and the most popular one, of them beg gay is the patg their tombs where they stand very close to each other, their nose touchg and both of them almost embracg each other.

ÉGYPTE GAY

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.

”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. 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.