Sarah Hegazi: How one gay Egyptian woman stood up to homophobia and paid the ultimate price | CNN

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• HOW ONE GAY EGYPTIAN WOMAN STOOD UP TO HOMOPHOBIA AND PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE
• GAY PRI EVENTS EGYPT
• GAY PRI
• EGYPT'S GAY COMMUNY UNR FIRE FROM LOL AUTHORI

HOW ONE GAY EGYPTIAN WOMAN STOOD UP TO HOMOPHOBIA AND PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE

In 2017, Sarah Hegazi was arrted and said she was tortured for wavg a rabow gay pri flag at a ncert Cairo. By wavg the flag, Hegazi beme an in for the gay muny and a target for state vlence. Her wrgs weaved polil crique to her stggle as an openly gay woman.

When Hegazi and her iends raised the rabow flag at the September 2017 ncert by Mashrou’ Leila, a Lebane band wh an openly gay ontman, she was hailed by alli for “breakg many barriers of silence, ” said her iend Tarek Salama.

GAY PRI EVENTS EGYPT

Police ultimately taed at least 75 people the month followg the ncert what one Egyptian rights group lled an “unprecented upsurge  secury crackdown targetg gay and transgenr cizens or those believed to be so. “Sarah mted a crime agast relign and society by supportg homosexualy and publicizg her homosexualy and atheism, ” one er wrote on Facebook.

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In Egypt’s Twtersphere, her name was trendg along wh “People of Lot, ” a reference to a Quranic passage about punishment for homosexualy. From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis. A loft Soho, a shared room Barcelona or the Castro, a gay-iendly hotel Le Marais or Chelsea, experience misterb&b all gay travel statns!

The activist, who was openly gay, was arrted 2017 for wavg the rabow flag durg a Mashrou Leila ncert Cairo.

Inspired by her urage, many are speakg out agast systemic queerphobia Egypt and raisg awarens about the ser human rights vlatns gay and trans dividuals face the untry and across the Arabic-speakg world.

EGYPT'S GAY COMMUNY UNR FIRE FROM LOL AUTHORI

Her act, The Dancg Queer, which she dons a beard and danc drag, has bee a powerful exprsns of dissent and prott agast homophobia and transphobia nservative Arab culture. Largely nsired the first Egyptian woman to ever publicly intify as gay, Dalia Al Faghal is regnized for breakg the social taboo and forcg open the discsn surroundg LGBTQI+ rights the untry. And although LeCaire’s activism is universal, she ntu to speak out agast homophobia and transphobia Egypt.

Brooklyn-based drag queen and LGBTQI+ activist Ana Masreya is a prolific figure New York Cy’s gay nightlife, lnchg the scene’s first Egyptian-spired baret.