Egypt's anti-gay crackdown ma headl last September, but one year later, human-rights advot and LGBTQ Egyptians say the persecutn ntu.
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
LGBT Rights Egypt: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * gay community in egypt *
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.
TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS EGYPT
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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? 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.
LIVG FEAR: EGYPT’S GAY MUNY
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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.
GAY AND TRANSGENR EGYPTIANS, HARASSED AND ENTRAPPED, ARE DRIVEN UNRGROUND
A Pevian high urt has orred same-sex unns to be legally registered public rerds, markg a victory for the LGBTQ muny a untry that has been reluctant to regnize gay upl. * gay community in egypt *
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.
HOW ONE GAY EGYPTIAN WOMAN STOOD UP TO HOMOPHOBIA AND PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE
Among the re group of activists, there were lots of secular activists, gay people, atheists, smopolans—people outsi the tablished lan of inty. 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.