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Contents:
- GAY CAIRO
- 'YOU N'T BE OUT': GAY EGYPTIANS NTUE TO FEAR PERSECUTN
- BEG A GAY MAN EGYPT IS 'TERRIFYG AND THRILLG'
- SHIRTLS EGYPTIAN POLICE AMY GRADUATN GO VIRAL: ‘FOR A TERRIFYGLY HOMOPHOBIC ANTI-LGBT GOVERNMENT … THIS SCREAMS PRETTY GAY’ — WATCH
- GAY DATG EGYPT
- GAY TRAVEL EGYPT
- THE TTH ABOUT BEG GAY ANCIENT EGYPT
- TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS EGYPT
- A GAY DATE THROUGH THE STREETS OF CAIRO.
GAY CAIRO
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'YOU N'T BE OUT': GAY EGYPTIANS NTUE TO FEAR PERSECUTN
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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. Egypt's anti-gay crackdown ma headl last September, but one year later, human-rights advot and LGBTQ Egyptians say the persecutn 18, 2018, 4:00 PM UTCOmar* is a 30-year-old physician livg Alexandria, Egypt, the untry’s send largt cy. He is also a gay man who has spent most of his life what has bee one of the most dangero plac to be a sexual mory.
“It’s difficult to be gay Egypt, ” he told NBC News.
GAY TRAVEL EGYPT
”A fan of Lebane alternative rock band Mashrou' Leila holds a rabow flag durg their ncert at the Ehniyat Internatnal Ftival Ehn town, Lebanon on Augt 12, Saidi / Rters fileHomosexualy is not explicly illegal this untry that bridg northeast Ai wh the Middle East, but people are routely arrted and imprisoned on the basis of their actual or perceived sexual orientatn and genr inty, acrdg to Amnty September was the worst crackdown the untry’s history, wh up to 76 people beg taed, acrdg to the human-rights anizatn.
The crackdown was sparked after a gay man wavg a rabow flag was arrted durg a ncert Cairo. The cint garnered ternatnal attentn, but one year later, gay Egyptians and human-rights advot say the persecutn ntu, and Egypt’s LGBTQ muny is livg fear. EGYPTIAN LAWWhile same-sex sexual relatns are not explicly prohibed Egyptian law, a 2017 report by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) found that “the Law on the Combatg of Prostutn, and the law agast bchery have been ed liberally to imprison gay men recent years.
” As such, ILGA clus Egypt s list of 72 untri that crimalize, however, said, “It’s not jt gay, bisexual and transgenr people who the thori are after. “You don’t even necsarily need to be gay to get arrted, jt seen to be associated wh the LGBTQ muny. ”GAY LIFE IN EGYPTOmar said the LGBTQ muny has not always been so aggrsively targeted.
THE TTH ABOUT BEG GAY ANCIENT EGYPT
The revolutn, he explaed, opened the floodgat to extreme polics Egypt and forced the gay muny unrground. “There are spots that are, to some extent, gay iendly, but even the plac cled after 2011.
TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS EGYPT
They didn’t want to look like they were that iendly towards gay people, so they closed their bars and fés and left. There have been wispread reports of Egyptian thori g gay datg apps to entrap gay men. Omar said his neighbor was then arrted and ported om police are not the only on g the apps to persecute gay men, acrdg to Omar.
A GAY DATE THROUGH THE STREETS OF CAIRO.
Those wh homophobic tents have also been known to e them. Last month, a newspaper showed screenshots of gay datg app Grdr wh the headle “Documentg the most dangero onle gay anizatn. ” Another Egyptian newspaper had an vtigate article about “Polari, ” or gay slang.