Tips for Gay and Lbian Travelers Egypt | Frommer's

Contents:

• GAY CAIRO
• GAY EGYPT TRAVEL GUI
• EGYPT GAY TRAVEL
• CAIRO GAY GUI - CAIRO FOM
• JUMPG INTO THE GAY “TRAVEL CLOSET” EGYPT
• CAIRO, ONCE 'THE SCENE,' CRACKS DOWN ON GAYS
• A GAY DATE THROUGH THE STREETS OF CAIRO.
• IS SAFE FOR GAY COUPL TO TRAVEL TO EGYPT?
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS EGYPT
• THE ULTIMATE 10 DAY EGYPT ERARY FOR GAY TRAVELLERS (NILE RIVER CISE CLUD)
• PRIVATE GAY GUI EGPYT - CAIRO FOM
• IS SAFE FOR GAY MEN TO TRAVEL TOGETHER EGYPT? - CAIRO FOM
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS

GAY CAIRO

Most likely you already know that homosexualy is unofficially illegal Egypt.

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. Wh mon sense you'll be able to enjoy Egypt and still fd your gaydar peakg plac.

GAY EGYPT TRAVEL GUI

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.

EGYPT GAY TRAVEL

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. 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.

CAIRO GAY GUI - CAIRO FOM

Cisg apps like Grdr are ed to tch gay men, who ver their fac shame when arrted.

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 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.

JUMPG INTO THE GAY “TRAVEL CLOSET” EGYPT

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.

CAIRO, ONCE 'THE SCENE,' CRACKS DOWN ON GAYS

Our Experience as a Gay Couple EgyptDe and I didn’t feel unfortable beg gay Egypt at all. Do not openly exhib the fact that you are gay, do not show any affectnate behavur public and do not seek out or vis any plac or events which have been offered to you as beg specifilly for gays. The gay scene is very much unrground and you n land trouble if ught a raid on such plac.

Havg said that, I know of many gay upl who have vised the untry whout problems and know of many who return year after year. There’s been a severe crackdown on any Egyptian gays wh severe penalti. I agree Egypt is not "gay iendly", you n feel ee to vis any place, hotels or clubs there is no worry but try to avoid showg your sexual behavr public as you will look wired for most of the lols.

A GAY DATE THROUGH THE STREETS OF CAIRO.

I don’t know how he reacted to my reactn to his qutn, but I know that if someone gave me the answer I’d given him when asked pot blank about their sexualy, I would have tomatilly assumed they were gay.

IS SAFE FOR GAY COUPL TO TRAVEL TO EGYPT?

He has a wife and children… Then aga, ’s Egypt, certaly not the easit place the world to be gay…. We wele gut posts highlightg what life on the road is like for gay and lbian travelers.

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTApril 3, 2003In the late 1990's, word was spreadg through the gay grapeve Egypt, and even through some nearby Middle Eastern untri, that this hectic and vibrant cy on the Nile was the place to was a rapidly expandg gay scene, said several who me here to be part of . There were bars and diss and plenty of public meetg plac the cy center where was relatively easy to socialize, exchange cellphone numbers, hold hands and perhaps -- for the more darg -- sneak a urse, gay men did not lead a pletely reee life. Most Egyptians view homosexualy as heretil, and crics say the l of Islam and other laws are often btally seemed, for a few years, that gay life here flourished, eher largely unnoticed amid more prsg issu, like terrorism and a ernment crackdown on radil Islamic activists, or tacly tolerated.

''You would walk on a Thursday night, and was like you were a gay bar Europe, '' said a 23-year-old gay Egyptian man who moved to Cairo five years ago om Alexandria. ''All that changed dramatilly May 2001, when 52 men were arrted a police raid on the Queen Boat, a dis on the Nile known as a gay-iendly weeks ago, a Cairo urt nvicted 21 of the Queen Boat fendants of ''bchery'' and sentenced each to three years jail, after two highly publicized trials that were wily cricized by human rights groups and Wtern gay Egyptians, cludg several who have been arrted, lawyers and human rights groups say the Queen Boat se was only the begng of a harsh crackdown that has quietly the begng of 2003, the police have ma an average of one arrt a week.

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS EGYPT

Stt Long, the Egypt rearcher for Human Rights Watch, said he spected the number of arrts was higher than the almost 70 tracked sce the 52 on the Queen Bahgat, program director of the Egyptian Iniative for Personal Rights, a lol group that is providg legal reprentatn to some of the nvicted men, said, ''Any gay man Egypt is now at risk of beg arrted.

THE ULTIMATE 10 DAY EGYPT ERARY FOR GAY TRAVELLERS (NILE RIVER CISE CLUD)

Those arrted have been charged wh bchery, a sectn of the penal that is rooted Islamic law and has been ed to prosecute gay gay hangouts disappeared after the Queen Boat arrts, and so gay men here turned to the Inter, several said.

That has led to a seri of arrts that crics say rulted om rmants who worked for Egyptian law enforcement, posed as gay men and lured Inter ntacts to public plac before the police swooped to arrt men who were arrted and charged wh bchery -- three fendants the Queen Boat Case and two who were arrted more recently -- said terviews that they had been beaten, slapped, kicked or h the face and threatened wh torture until they nfsed to beg gay.

PRIVATE GAY GUI EGPYT - CAIRO FOM

A sixth man, who is jail servg a 15-month sentence for bchery, scribed siar experienc a recent letter to were all orred to pull down their pants and show their unrwear, as officers om the ernment's Vice Squad told them that lored unrwear was evince of homosexualy, they said. The men terviewed said that durg terrogatns, ually nducted by members of the Vice Squad, they were orred to say whether they were sexually ''passive'' or ''domant, '' even if they nied beg of the men nvicted the Queen Boat se, a 29-year-old acuntant who is married and whose first son was born while he was jail, said he had been forced to say to a tape rerr, ''I am a homosexual. ''The man, who like the others terviewed spoke on ndn of anonymy, said that after he told prosecutors he was not gay, an official orred doctors to nduct an anal exam.

IS SAFE FOR GAY MEN TO TRAVEL TOGETHER EGYPT? - CAIRO FOM

The doctors told the man he did not appear to be gay, he then, he said, the chief of the Forensic Medil Authory, an arm of the Mistry of Jtice, examed him aga himself and said, ''It's so clear, 's obv he's a gay. Still, Nabil Osman, a ernment spokman, said homosexualy was ''sharp ntradictn wh our relig valu.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS

''A Wtern diplomat said several Wtern ernments remaed ncerned about the treatment of gays and were discsg the matter wh the Egyptians. He had served one year before he was then sentenced to three the send trial, but has yet to go to jail sce he filed an appeal and remas ee on bail unls orred to beg servg his he dreads returng to jail, beg brand a homosexual weighs more heavily.

''The man did not scribe himself as gay, but several other arrted men who said they were gay said that until their arrts, their fai did not of the men arrted recently, who both won appeals, said they had chatted on the Inter wh a man lled Raoul, had arranged to meet him and then were taken to ctody when they showed up for the meetg. ''A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 3 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: Cairo, Once 'the Scene, ' Cracks Down on Gays.

We gave each other a look, but wasn’t sure if was the “oh hey I am gay too look” or the “oh hey we accintally ught each other lookg at each other look”. I got up the morng to enjoy my ee breakfast; he was still around and I swear we were lookg at each other like “hey lets fuck”, but ugh I have horrible gay-dar so never take actn until I know. Acrdg to ntemporary Egyptian law, homosexualy self has not been crimalized, but gay upl n still be persecuted.