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Contents:

• 'YOU N'T BE OUT': GAY EGYPTIANS NTUE TO FEAR PERSECUTN
• THE TTH ABOUT BEG GAY ANCIENT EGYPT
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS EGYPT
• THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF ANCIENT EGYPTHOMOSEXUALY AND ANCIENT EGYPT: A COMPLITED RELATNSHIP.SAL·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·5 M READ·APR 8, 2021--1SHAREPHOTO CREDS: GNOME STEWANCIENT EGYPT IS UALLY ASSOCIATED WH MARVELO TOMBS FILLED WH GOLD, MAGNIFICENT STCTUR THE FORM OF THE GREAT PYRAMIDS AND THE LG DYNASTI, AND PHARAOHS. HOWEVER, THIS ANCIENT YET GREAT CIVILIZATN WAS SIAR TO MANY OTHER STAT TODAY WHEN TO HOMOSEXUALY: WAS SEEN AS UNNATURAL AND NOT ACCEPTED SOCIETY.WHILE THERE IS MUCH EVINCE THAT TTIFI THAT HOMOSEXUALY WAS NOT THE NORM, THERE ARE OTHER SPECULATNS THAT S REMNANTS WERE FOUND EVEN AT THE HIGHT STRATA OF THE SOCIAL LADR WH ANCIENT EGYPT. EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE SRCE, THE CLU DO NOT STOP HISTORIANS OM GGG THE PREVALENCE OF HOMOSEXUALY. FROM THE HOLY BOOKS THAT TALK ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY TO THE POTENTIAL PRACTICE OF BY AN EGYPTIAN EMPEROR, THIS IS A LOOK AT HOMOSEXUALY ANCIENT EGYPT.THE CUR CASE OF NIANKHKHNUM AND KHNUMHOTEP
• GAY TRAVEL EGYPT
• GAY DATG EGYPT
• GAY CAIRO
• GAY EGYPT TRAVEL GUI
• GAY EGYPTIANS E OUT OF THE CLOSET
• ALL POSTS TAGGED "GAY"
• EGYPTIANS OUTRAGED OVER MOVIE PICTG GAY UPLE

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

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. He is also a gay man who has spent most of his life what has bee one of the most dangero plac to be a sexual mory. “It’s difficult to be gay Egypt, ” he told NBC News.

THE TTH ABOUT BEG GAY ANCIENT EGYPT

”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 crackdown was sparked after a gay man wavg a rabow flag was arrted durg a ncert Cairo. 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.

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS EGYPT

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 SECRET GAY HISTORY OF ANCIENT EGYPTHOMOSEXUALY AND ANCIENT EGYPT: A COMPLITED RELATNSHIP.SAL·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·5 M READ·APR 8, 2021--1SHAREPHOTO CREDS: GNOME STEWANCIENT EGYPT IS UALLY ASSOCIATED WH MARVELO TOMBS FILLED WH GOLD, MAGNIFICENT STCTUR THE FORM OF THE GREAT PYRAMIDS AND THE LG DYNASTI, AND PHARAOHS. HOWEVER, THIS ANCIENT YET GREAT CIVILIZATN WAS SIAR TO MANY OTHER STAT TODAY WHEN TO HOMOSEXUALY: WAS SEEN AS UNNATURAL AND NOT ACCEPTED SOCIETY.WHILE THERE IS MUCH EVINCE THAT TTIFI THAT HOMOSEXUALY WAS NOT THE NORM, THERE ARE OTHER SPECULATNS THAT S REMNANTS WERE FOUND EVEN AT THE HIGHT STRATA OF THE SOCIAL LADR WH ANCIENT EGYPT. EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE SRCE, THE CLU DO NOT STOP HISTORIANS OM GGG THE PREVALENCE OF HOMOSEXUALY. FROM THE HOLY BOOKS THAT TALK ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY TO THE POTENTIAL PRACTICE OF BY AN EGYPTIAN EMPEROR, THIS IS A LOOK AT HOMOSEXUALY ANCIENT EGYPT.THE CUR CASE OF NIANKHKHNUM AND KHNUMHOTEP

“You don’t even necsarily need to be gay to get arrted, jt seen to be associated wh the LGBTQ muny.

”GAY LIFE IN EGYPTOmar said the LGBTQ muny has not always been so aggrsively targeted. The revolutn, he explaed, opened the floodgat to extreme polics Egypt and forced the gay muny unrground.

“There are spots that are, to some extent, gay iendly, but even the plac cled after 2011. They didn’t want to look like they were that iendly towards gay people, so they closed their bars and fés and left.

GAY TRAVEL EGYPT

There have been wispread reports of Egyptian thori g gay datg apps to entrap gay men. Omar said his neighbor was then arrted and ported om police are not the only on g the apps to persecute gay men, acrdg to Omar. Those wh homophobic tents have also been known to e them.

GAY DATG EGYPT

Last month, a newspaper showed screenshots of gay datg app Grdr wh the headle “Documentg the most dangero onle gay anizatn.

” Another Egyptian newspaper had an vtigate article about “Polari, ” or gay slang. The wrer claimed to be “exposg the secret dictnary of gay people Egypt” and ced rears to report anybody heard g the “language. “I unt on the gay muny to survive, ” he said.

”“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.

GAY CAIRO

”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.

However, a new report by OutRight Actn Internatnal, a global LGBTQ-rights anizatn, found Egypt to be one of 55 untri the world where LGBTQ-rights groups are not able to legally register, which impes the effectivens of the current polil suatn Europe has also disuraged gay Egyptians, like Omar, om seekg a new — and ls fearful — life the Wt. The many fac of homosexualy ancient Egypt.

GAY EGYPT TRAVEL GUI

In spe of the overwhelmg assumptn  the Arab world, that homosexualy never existed before Sodom and Gomorrah, historil and lerary evince suggts otherwise. Homosexualy was not alien to the first civilizatns known to humany—more importantly, was not nsired viant. The Quran says of homosexualy: “Will ye m abomatn such as no creature ever did before you?

” Further, homosexuals are often referred to as the “people of Lot”, whose story appears all three Abrahamic texts.

Yet, has been found that Ancient Egyptian society was faiar wh homosexualy as a cultural norm and practice, manifted var artifacts and historil evince. Related | The Olst Gays History.

GAY EGYPTIANS E OUT OF THE CLOSET

” This suggts that there was a gree of leniency toward lbianism at the time, pared to the prevailg attus toward homosexual men. This particular passage, nohels, do not pot to the prohibn of homosexualy or ntempt for the receptive (“passive”) partner. Rather, specifilly refers to homosexual (lbian) terurse the temple, which at the time served as the se of popular celebratns and ruals of fertily, which sexual acts would unfold between men and women, particular the temple prostut.

From vengeful gods to ltful lbians, the stori of homosexualy Ancient Egypt are both diverse and plentiful. However, vengeance would not be exacted whout some homoerotic twists.

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Related | A Brief History of Hawaii’s Ancient Gay Culture. The Murals and Tombs of Homosexuals. A number of Egyptologists and archaeologists believe them to be the first homosexual uple rerd history, th ncludg that the culture at the time did not preclu homosexual relatns.

EGYPTIANS OUTRAGED OVER MOVIE PICTG GAY UPLE

While evince pots to the fact that Ancient Egyptian society was largely acceptg of male homosexualy, nohels, the receptive partner was viewed as ferr, while the active partner was celebrated and praised for his virily. Wh the passg of time and the chang iology and beliefs, as traced the artifacts om each era, the disda for the receptive partner a homosexual relatnship grew. Eventually, Ancient Egyptians began g homophobic phras their sults and jok.

Mohamed Gamal supports this theory, statg: “In ntemporary Egyptian society, certa youth circl, particularly those the tourism and hospaly dtri, is not shameful to adm havg engaged homosexual relatns, so long as you are the active partner. He trac the chang iology to the fact that Egypt was the center of a vast empire, thereby g to ntact wh a number of different civilizatns and cultur, which “perhaps disdaed homosexualy, and therefore fluenced Egyptian culture that regard. ” This was, of urse, pound by the advent of the Abrahamic fahs, which forba homosexualy.