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Contents:
- GAY CAIRO
- TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS EGYPT
- GAY TRAVEL EGYPT
- 'YOU N'T BE OUT': GAY EGYPTIANS NTUE TO FEAR PERSECUTN
- GAY EGYPT TRAVEL GUI
- GAY DATG EGYPT
- THE ULTIMATE 10 DAY EGYPT ERARY FOR GAY TRAVELLERS (NILE RIVER CISE CLUD)
GAY CAIRO
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Wtern cha hotels are where gay travelers will want to stay Cairo. 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.
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Remendatns for Gay Travelers Cairo.
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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. Tips for Gay and Lbian Travelers Egypt. Egyptians have a somewhat schizophrenic attu toward homosexualy.
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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.
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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. How safe is to be gay Egypt? What should gay tourists expect?