Beg a Gay Man Egypt Is 'Terrifyg and Thrillg'

Contents:

• GAY DATG EGYPT
• IS SAFE FOR GAY MEN TO TRAVEL TOGETHER EGYPT? - CAIRO FOM
• GAY CAIRO
• BEG A GAY MAN EGYPT IS 'TERRIFYG AND THRILLG'

GAY DATG EGYPT

They had met onle, part of a growg muny of gay Egyptians g servic like Grdr, Hor, and Growler, but this was their first time meetg person.

Targets meet a iendly stranger on a gay datg se, sometim talkg for weeks before meetg person, only to fd out they’re beg targeted for a bchery se. The most recent wave of arrts started last September after an dience member unfurled a gay pri flag at a rock ncert, somethg the regime took as a personal sult. Homosexualy isn’t illegal Egypt, but the LGBTQ muny has bee a eful spegoat for the el-Sisi regime, and the General Directorate for Protectg Public Moraly is beg ed to jail and prosecute anyone perceived as mtg a transgrsn.

Raids on bars, hoe parti, and other gay spac have bee mon. Both apps were built amid a thrivg, sex-posive gay culture.

IS SAFE FOR GAY MEN TO TRAVEL TOGETHER EGYPT? - CAIRO FOM

In plac where the gay muny has been driven unrground, datg apps are often the only way to reach them — somethg that’s led a number of nonprofs to seek out Grdr as a rearch tool. “So many guys will get on Grdr who have never told anyone they’re gay, ” says Jack Harrison-Qutana, the director of Grdr’s social-good divisn, Grdr For Equaly.

Lebanon is seen as one of the bt plac to be gay the regn, even though homosexualy is still illegal there.

“It’s much more difficult to create an app that functns well for gay men the Middle East, ” Kayyali told me.

GAY CAIRO

“In untri where ’s unsafe to be gay, where there are no gay bars, no clive sports teams, and no queer performance spac, the Grdr app provis our ers wh an opportuny to fd their muni, ” Qutana-Harrison told me.

“Gay men will not go back to the closet.

BEG A GAY MAN EGYPT IS 'TERRIFYG AND THRILLG'

Re: Is safe for gay men to travel together Egypt? This is a tough one and I thk pends a lot on what you mean by "openly gay" here.

Homosexualy is not explicly illegal, but people are charged unr a number of different but related laws-. 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. Dpe terventn by ternatnal human rights anizatns, the suatn for homosexuals remas que alarmg the untry, wh arrt and torture beg mon practice.