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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

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.

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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.

BEG A GAY MAN EGYPT IS 'TERRIFYG AND THRILLG'

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SHIRTLS EGYPTIAN POLICE AMY GRADUATN GO VIRAL: ‘FOR A TERRIFYGLY HOMOPHOBIC ANTI-LGBT GOVERNMENT … THIS SCREAMS PRETTY GAY’ — WATCH

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.

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. ”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.

GAY DATG EGYPT

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 TRAVEL EGYPT

”GAY LIFE IN EGYPTOmar said the LGBTQ muny has not always been so aggrsively targeted.

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. 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.

THE TTH ABOUT BEG GAY ANCIENT EGYPT

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. 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. The wrer claimed to be “exposg the secret dictnary of gay people Egypt” and ced rears to report anybody heard g the “language.

“I unt on the gay muny to survive, ” he said. ”“The ernment has targeted sexual and genr mori for heavy-hand reprsn, wh more than 230 lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people prosecuted on ‘bchery’ charg, ” the anizatn Magdi, a rearcher for Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Ai divisn, told NBC News the ternatnal muny should be dog more to protect LGBTQ Egyptians. ”All Out, another human-rights anizatn that has nmned the ernment-sponsored wave of anti-gay persecutn Egypt, said the crackdown is far om over.

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS EGYPT

However, a new report by OutRight Actn Internatnal, a global LGBTQ-rights anizatn, found Egypt to be one of 55 untri the world where LGBTQ-rights groups are not able to legally register, which impes the effectivens of the current polil suatn Europe has also disuraged gay Egyptians, like Omar, om seekg a new — and ls fearful — life the Wt. (Beit) – 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, Human Rights Watch said today.

Human rights groups have documented wi-sle ab the wake of a September 2017 ncert by the Lebane band Mashrou’ Leila, whose lead sger is openly gay and which performs songs that support sexual and genr diversy.

A GAY DATE THROUGH THE STREETS OF CAIRO.

Police randomly picked up five men bee of what the thori scribed as “feme and gay gtur” and one transgenr woman due to her “abnormal appearance. Four officers then watched him take his cloth off while directg homophobic slurs at him, he said. I was taed a ge unr a stairway [at the prosecutor’s office], wasn’t even a prison cell, [but merely] a 3 by 2-meters ty room, wh 25 gay and transgenr people.

"To be a gay man Egypt is que perplexg, tough, strsg, dangero and thrillg at the same time, " Mo (not his real name), a 27-year-old gay man who works media and munitns Cairo, told The Advote an terview nducted jt before a recent late-night raid on a bathhoe the pal raid has changed everythg, Mo said a follow-up terview.

But Iraqi's report, which she has fend as an attempt to expose sex traffickg and the spread of HIV Cairo, is jt the latt twist the ever-tighteng vise-grip of LGBT opprsn beg helmed by Egyptian print Abl Fattah el-Sisi's current ernment crackdown on LGBT Egyptians has been amplified by hyperbolic media verage, helpg to foster an crease antigay sentiments wh society -- which arguably serv el-Sisi's need for a spegoat muny upon which to blame Egypt's wo unr his le. But acrdg to sourc si the untry and expatriat terviewed for this article, there was a time not so long ago when to be gay or trans wasn't as terrifyg as is today.