'You n't be out': Gay Egyptians ntue to fear persecutn

Contents:

• 'YOU N'T BE OUT': GAY EGYPTIANS NTUE TO FEAR PERSECUTN
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS EGYPT
• LIVG FEAR: EGYPT’S GAY MUNY
• GAY AND TRANSGENR EGYPTIANS, HARASSED AND ENTRAPPED, ARE DRIVEN UNRGROUND
• HOW ONE GAY EGYPTIAN WOMAN STOOD UP TO HOMOPHOBIA AND PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE

'YOU N'T BE OUT': GAY EGYPTIANS NTUE TO FEAR PERSECUTN

Homosexualy⚢✖ Illegal (other penalty)Gay Marriage⚭✖ UnregnizedCensorship✖ Imprisonment as punishmentChangg Genr✖ Legal, but requir surgeryNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsDonatg Blood✖ Banned (fe ferral)Conversn Therapy✖ Not banned. Blood donatns by MSMs Egypt is banned (fe ferral) (fe ferral) Homosexual activy is illegal, therefore MSM blood donatn is not accepted. N/A Age of Consent is unequal/applible practice, same-genr sexual behavr is punished by ernmental offils, meang that both age and nsent are irrelevant to the illegaly of homosexualy Egypt.

For example, the Orthodox Coptic Church anized a nference lled “Volno of Homosexualy, ” followg the Mashrou’ Leila ncert 2017, when ncertgoers unfurled a rabow flag. Acrdg to this narrative, the Wt is filtratg Egypt through gay dividuals and works and, therefore, the state has a duty to protect society om the threat. ” So there were two fights: there was one happeng at the level of Egyptian society, and another one takg place wh the gay muny wh a lot of them turng agast those who raised the flag.

6 In other leftist parti, there were ternal stggl over the issu, but they were aaid of publicly supportg homosexuals bee they feared they would be lled “khawalat. Cambanis: So a secular activist would be willg to speak out agast the tag of an extremist Islamist who don’t even regnize secular rights, but they wouldn’t fend a gay person beg persecuted?

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS EGYPT

They want to enact change very gradually and they do not want to engage a direct nontatn wh society, bee supportg gay rights would amount to such a nontatn. There are many activists who are closeted gays, but refe to “e out” bee of their fear that will be ed by “Wtern” media to unrme popular uprisgs.

El Hady: That brgs back to the other pot I was discsg regardg the ternal discsns wh the gay muny followg the Mashrou’ Leila ncert. Among the re group of activists, there were lots of secular activists, gay people, atheists, smopolans—people outsi the tablished lan of inty.

LIVG FEAR: EGYPT’S GAY MUNY

Cambanis: How much transnatnal and regnal solidary work or teractn is happeng between people fightg for gay rights Egypt and other Arab untri?

Whether they are activists for relig eedoms or Syrian leftists, there are a whole group of people who end up makg the argument that their unter-narrative to the regime’s narrative of rights is too tenuo to make room for somethg as radil or unpopular as gay rights. But sce the ncert and the events that ensued, there has been a lot of discsn wh the Egyptian left on how to create a space for gay rights.

Sce the ncert and the events that ensued, there has been a lot of discsn wh the Egyptian left on how to create a space for gay rights. Cambanis: I would argue that any reform or other movement that purports to be about rights but that don’t make room for women’s rights, gay rights, and transgenr rights is more or ls doomed to replite the thorarianism of the existg regime.

GAY AND TRANSGENR EGYPTIANS, HARASSED AND ENTRAPPED, ARE DRIVEN UNRGROUND

One of the channel’s own journalists had reported to the police that gay men were meetg at this bathhoe to have Sno is the openly gay lead sger of Mashrou’ Leila. This is a reference to Columbia Universy Profsor Joseph Massad, most notable for his book Dirg Arabs (Chigo: Universy of Chigo Prs, 2008) and age of the term “gay Internatnal” to characterize the universalizatn of gay rights as a nefar form of Wtern imperialism.

It criciz the state’s disregard for the Constutn and the vlatn of the rights of dividuals to privacy and bodily tegry, ” Cairo Instute for Human Rights Studi, October 9, 2017, is an extremely rogatory Arabic term for gay men. 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. ”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 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.

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

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.

”“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.