Is Safe for Gay Coupl to Travel to Egypt? Do's & Dont's

Contents:

• GAY TRAVEL EGYPT
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS EGYPT
• GAY CAIRO
• GAY EGYPT TRAVEL GUI
• 'YOU N'T BE OUT': GAY EGYPTIANS NTUE TO FEAR PERSECUTN
• IS SAFE FOR GAY COUPL TO TRAVEL TO EGYPT?
• IN DIALOGUE WH EGYPT, EXPERTS OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMTEE COMMEND MEASUR COMBATTG DISCRIMATN, RAISE ISSU CONCERNG TREATMENT OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND INTERSEX PERSONS AND JUDICIAL INPENNCE

GAY TRAVEL EGYPT

Homosexualy⚢✖ Illegal (other penalty)Gay Marriage⚭✖ UnregnizedCensorship✖ Imprisonment as punishmentChangg Genr✖ Legal, but requir surgeryNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsDonatg Blood✖ Banned (fe ferral)Conversn Therapy✖ Not banned. HistoryHomosexual activy Egypt?

Homosexual activy Egypt is illegal (other penalty). Illegal As homosexualy is illegal, servg the ary is also illegal.

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS EGYPT

Blood donatns by MSMs Egypt is banned (fe ferral) (fe ferral) Homosexual activy is illegal, therefore MSM blood donatn is not accepted. N/A Age of Consent is unequal/applible practice, same-genr sexual behavr is punished by ernmental offils, meang that both age and nsent are irrelevant to the illegaly of homosexualy Egypt.

GAY CAIRO

How safe is to be gay Egypt? What should gay tourists expect? Egypt don’t have the bt track rerd when to gay rights.

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.

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 EGYPT TRAVEL GUI

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. Don’t unt on any gay scene Egypt.

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

Even if there were a gay bar, I wouldn’t take any chanc gog to .

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. Egypt is an amazg untry, and gays shouldn’t be sred off om visg. Our Experience as a Gay Couple EgyptDe and I didn’t feel unfortable beg gay Egypt at all.

IS SAFE FOR GAY COUPL TO TRAVEL TO EGYPT?

Homosexualy is not exprsly prohibed unr Egyptian Law however recent cints have rulted the thori vokg other laws [“obscene behavr”, “public lewdns”, “bchery” and exprsg “ntempt for relign”] to pursue homosexuals [R1.

IN DIALOGUE WH EGYPT, EXPERTS OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMTEE COMMEND MEASUR COMBATTG DISCRIMATN, RAISE ISSU CONCERNG TREATMENT OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND INTERSEX PERSONS AND JUDICIAL INPENNCE

In Febary 2002, as the arrts and dranian nvictns of alleged homosexuals tensified, the IGLHRC issued a ll to the Bh Admistratn and the European Unn to prsure Egypt’s ernment to end the mpaign of persecutn and to release the men prison [R1. On 21January 2019, was reported that Egyptian TV prenter Mohamed al-Ghiety sentenced to one year of hard labour and fed 3, 000 Egyptian pounds ($167; £130) for ”promotg homosexualy” by terviewg a gay man on his privately owned LTC TV channel [R2. On 27 November 2017, was reported that Egypt had sentenced 14 more men for homosexualy to jail for three years for ”abnormal” sexual relatns.