We round up mors om Michael Stto of HoopsHype on P.J. Tucker, Rudy Gay, and more.
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
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. * gay apps in egypt *
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.
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 *
One such victim, whom we found through the transcripts, was a gay man we are llg Lah. 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. 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.
EGYPTIAN POLICE ARE G GRDR AND OTHER DATG APPS TO ARRT GAY MEN
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And arguably his own posn, as a gay man wh ltle opportuny, fuels his crimaly. Wtern cha hotels are where gay travelers will want to stay Cairo. Most likely you already know that homosexualy is unofficially illegal Egypt.
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 *
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.
JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
Simply hang out where the trendit straight crowds do, and you'll see plenty of gay lols and expats.
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Remendatns for Gay Travelers Cairo. 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.
GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
Fashnable gay men playg straight head to the Marrtt for the expensive drks at s Harry's Pub. Gay-Friendly Hotels. 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.
Grdr, the world’s most popular gay datg app, sent a warng to all of s ers Egypt this week followg reports that dozens of LGBTQ people had been arrted the untry over the weekend. “We have been alerted that Egyptian police is actively makg arrts of gay, bi, and trans people on digal platforms, ” the warng msage, first sent on Monday, says.