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.
Contents:
- GAY CAIRO
- STTO’S LATT: TUCKER, GAY, SUMNER, NOEL
- EGYPTIAN POLICE ARE G GRDR AND OTHER DATG APPS TO ARRT GAY MEN
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
- GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
GAY CAIRO
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Media ptn, Watch: Ahmed Shihab-Eld meets a member of the LGBT muny who has been targetedIn Egypt, homosexualy is highly stigmatised, and there have long been allegatns that police are huntg LGBT people onle. Now BBC News has seen evince of how the thori are g datg and social apps to do victims' nam have been changed Havg grown up Egypt, I am aware of the pervasive homophobia that permeat every part of s society. There is no explic law agast homosexualy Egypt, but our vtigatn has found that the crime of "bchery" - a sex work law - is beg ed to crimalise the LGBT muny.
In one transcript, police scribe intifyg a foreigner, who we are llg Matt, on the popular gay datg app Grdr. One such victim, whom we found through the transcripts, was a gay man we are llg Lah.
STTO’S LATT: TUCKER, GAY, SUMNER, NOEL
The gay datg app is sendg regular warngs to s ers Egypt, allegg that the thori are g fake acunts for entrapment. * gay apps in egypt *
Lah says the police also tried to get him to rm on other gay people he knew ptn, Lah (right) - the inti of all our ntributors need to be disguisedHow we disguised ntributors' intiFor the BBC documentary Queer Egypt Unr Attack we ed novative face-trackg 3-D maskg to ensure inti remaed protected - the aim was to give the film a more attractive athetic than the ual blobbg technique of disguise allows. '" The Egyptian ernment has spoken publicly about s e of onle surveillance to target what scribed as "homosexual gathergs" 2020, Ahmed Taher, former assistant to the Mister of Interr for Inter Crim and Human Traffickg, told the newspaper Ahl Masr: "We reced police the virtual world to unver the mass of group sex parti, homosexual gathergs.
They are forced at knife pot to give their full nam and adm they are gay. In one of the vios, an 18-year-old gay man we are llg Saeed is forced to, falsely, say he is a sex worker.
EGYPTIAN POLICE ARE G GRDR AND OTHER DATG APPS TO ARRT GAY MEN
We round up mors om Michael Stto of HoopsHype on P.J. Tucker, Rudy Gay, and more. * gay apps in egypt *
It shocked me to learn, the urse of vtigatn that one gang lear, Yahia, is gay and actively postg onle about his own sex perhaps giv him a crimal edge - he knows jt how vulnerable his targets are. And arguably his own posn, as a gay man wh ltle opportuny, fuels his crimaly.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * gay apps in egypt *
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JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
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. Simply hang out where the trendit straight crowds do, and you'll see plenty of gay lols and expats.
GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
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