Introductn: Egypt, a untry wh a rich cultural herage, is currently grapplg wh a ncerng suatn regardg the treatment of s lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) muny. Unr Print Abl Fattah el-Sisi's le, the thori have lated their persecutn, leadg to arrts, discrimatn, and human rights ab. The ternatnal muny, cludg fluential natns like…
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- EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS SYSTEMILLY ABE AND TORTURE GAYS, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
- LIVG FEAR: EGYPT’S GAY MUNY
- ARRTS AND TORTURE OF GAYS, LBIANS EGYPT ARE ‘SYSTEMATIC,’ RIGHTS REPORT SAYS
EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS SYSTEMILLY ABE AND TORTURE GAYS, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
LGBT Rights Egypt: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * lgbt community in egypt *
But even though there are no laws that explicly crimalize homosexualy, they e the existg bchery laws orr to crimalize . For example, the Orthodox Coptic Church anized a nference lled “Volno of Homosexualy, ” followg the Mashrou’ Leila ncert 2017, when ncertgoers unfurled a rabow flag. 3 It refers to the rhetoric that the ll for gay rights dit the existence of a potential “Wtern” nspiracy agast the state.
Acrdg to this narrative, the Wt is filtratg Egypt through gay dividuals and works and, therefore, the state has a duty to protect society om the threat. What was very paful was that there were members of the gay muny who basilly adopted this narrative as well. ” So there were two fights: there was one happeng at the level of Egyptian society, and another one takg place wh the gay muny wh a lot of them turng agast those who raised the flag.
6 In other leftist parti, there were ternal stggl over the issu, but they were aaid of publicly supportg homosexuals bee they feared they would be lled “khawalat. For a lot of Islamists who pretend to be on the left, when to moral issu like homosexualy, there is no solidary.
LIVG FEAR: EGYPT’S GAY MUNY
Egyptian police and Natnal Secury Agency officers arbrarily arrt lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people and ta them human ndns, systematilly subject them to ill-treatment cludg torture, and often ce fellow mat to abe them. * lgbt community in egypt *
It created a whole problem wh leftist parti who began realizg that they were supportg jailed Islamists but not homosexuals. Cambanis: So a secular activist would be willg to speak out agast the tag of an extremist Islamist who don’t even regnize secular rights, but they wouldn’t fend a gay person beg persecuted?
They want to enact change very gradually and they do not want to engage a direct nontatn wh society, bee supportg gay rights would amount to such a nontatn. There are many activists who are closeted gays, but refe to “e out” bee of their fear that will be ed by “Wtern” media to unrme popular uprisgs.
Prevly, was the moraly police that were “takg re” of gays, but now is El Amn El Watani (the Natnal Secury Agency).
ARRTS AND TORTURE OF GAYS, LBIANS EGYPT ARE ‘SYSTEMATIC,’ RIGHTS REPORT SAYS
Image homosexuals beg chased as nspirators agast the state for the mere reason that they are havg sex. El Hady: That brgs back to the other pot I was discsg regardg the ternal discsns wh the gay muny followg the Mashrou’ Leila ncert. In Egypt, all the human rights anizatns and activists agree that we mt ntextualize gay rights wh the January 25 revolutn.
Among the re group of activists, there were lots of secular activists, gay people, atheists, smopolans—people outsi the tablished lan of inty. Cambanis: How much transnatnal and regnal solidary work or teractn is happeng between people fightg for gay rights Egypt and other Arab untri? Whether they are activists for relig eedoms or Syrian leftists, there are a whole group of people who end up makg the argument that their unter-narrative to the regime’s narrative of rights is too tenuo to make room for somethg as radil or unpopular as gay rights.