The Ultimate 10 Day Egypt Iterary for Gay Travellers | Mr Hudson

Contents:

• A GAY EGYPTIAN LEAV HIS HOMELAND: MANU'S STORY
• A GAY DATE THROUGH THE STREETS OF CAIRO.
• JUMPG INTO THE GAY “TRAVEL CLOSET” EGYPT
• MY ENUNTERS EGYPT: COLLECTN OF MY GAY EROTIC STORI WH EGYPTIAN MEN KDLE EDN
• WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY 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
• THE ULTIMATE 10 DAY EGYPT ERARY FOR GAY TRAVELLERS (NILE RIVER CISE CLUD)
• A GAY TRAVELER THE MIDDLE EAST
• EGYPTIANS OUTRAGED OVER MOVIE PICTG GAY UPLE
• GAY EGYPTIANS E OUT OF THE CLOSET
• ARRTS AND TORTURE OF GAYS, LBIANS EGYPT ARE ‘SYSTEMATIC,’ RIGHTS REPORT SAYS
• EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS SYSTEMILLY ABE AND TORTURE GAYS, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS

A GAY EGYPTIAN LEAV HIS HOMELAND: MANU'S STORY

Everythg at the gathergs—the drkg, the prence of homosexuals, the sual mixg of unmarried men and women—should have been anathema to an Islamist. In Port Said durg the neteen-neti, there wasn’t a proper Arabic term for a gay person, other than the slur khawwal—“faggot. Years later, Manu moved to Cairo hop of a more open life, and like most homosexuals the pal he rporated the English words “gay” and “straight” to his Arabic.

There was no law agast homosexualy, for stance, but gay men were often prosecuted unr a charge of “bchery. Perhaps a neighbor had spected that Manu was gay, or maybe the ps wanted to force Manu to rm on the journalists he worked wh.

Once, he talked his way out of a police bt at a popular gay hangout, and he had to move out of another apartment after a neighborhood thug threatened to knife him for beg a khawwal.

A GAY DATE THROUGH THE STREETS OF CAIRO.

Egyptians who didn’t nsir themselv to be straight often had difficulty characterizg social attus toward homosexualy.

Manu saw this as an evable risk of meetg people a culture that was simultaneoly homophobic and full of male ntact. […] After Abl Fattah el-Sisi won the Princy, 2015, there were creased arrts at Cairo gay hangouts and parti. He knew that he had the right to choose both the language and the genr of his translator, and he refed to tell his story his native tongue—he believed that homophobia was too eply embedd Arabic.

They talked about how someday, after they had received asylum as homosexuals, they would fd bris. He often thought of the Iraqis the shippg ntaer talkg about how someday they would stop beg gay. We gave each other a look, but wasn’t sure if was the “oh hey I am gay too look” or the “oh hey we accintally ught each other lookg at each other look”.

JUMPG INTO THE GAY “TRAVEL CLOSET” EGYPT

I got up the morng to enjoy my ee breakfast; he was still around and I swear we were lookg at each other like “hey lets fuck”, but ugh I have horrible gay-dar so never take actn until I know.

I don’t know how he reacted to my reactn to his qutn, but I know that if someone gave me the answer I’d given him when asked pot blank about their sexualy, I would have tomatilly assumed they were gay. He has a wife and children… Then aga, ’s Egypt, certaly not the easit place the world to be gay…. Brief ntent visible, double tap to read full ntent visible, double tap to read brief was born Egypt, a untry where is illegal and unacceptable to be gay.

Adults spected of engagg nsensual homosexual nduct are equently arrted on charg of bchery, immoraly or blasphemy. " Late last year 26 men were arrted a televised raid on a downtown Cairo bathhoe — an alleged "homosexualy work" and "n of illegal gay sex workers" — and were thereafter subjected to forensic anal examatns orred by the prosecutn for evince of "bchery. I don't fd that I'm beg or dog somethg bad, but people this life tell me that I'm bad bee I'm gay.

MY ENUNTERS EGYPT: COLLECTN OF MY GAY EROTIC STORI WH EGYPTIAN MEN KDLE EDN

I thk the meang of human rights, which clus gay rights, is: 'I'll be who I am si, I'll hurt no one, and no one will punish me. '"Some of the effects of state-sponsored and religly-motivated homophobia are enpsulated three standout chapters Abdo's life. Sce his teenage years, he's been advised to ternalize, to grasp the ept reach of his nscns, the ia that gay people are fadiha (meang "a public embarrassment").

" Abdo remembers tryg to unrstand what he found to be the man's peculiar analogy: "Gay men are like Dracula. Vampir get blood om the people and gay men do the same… but vampir swallow blood and gay men swallow semen. " That evintly disturbed his father, who shot back wh utter refal: "You have to get married to a woman bee everyone says you're gay.

"If someone relig tells you that homosexualy is not permissible, Islam or Christiany or whatever, aren't they not gog to do homosexual acts? Human begs do good and bad — I know I should need fivens for cheatg on my wife, but why for beg gay?

WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY EGYPT

"In December 2014, the Cairo-based human rights anizatn the Egyptian Iniative for Personal Rights (EIPR) released a report nmng the vlatn of the civil liberti of "homosexuals or others wh socially unacceptable sexual preferenc.

"There's another choice, one that he appeals for our own nsiratn: "As a gay person, my problem is love, not hate. Homosexualy and Ancient Egypt: A Complited 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 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.

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

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 Cur Case of Niankhkhnum and KhnumhotepPhoto Creds: PtertNiankhkhnum and Khnumhotep were two men that lived at the time Nierre was a Pharaoh.

They are most notably known for their burial and pictn a picture where historians speculated that they were homosexuals who lived hidn liv, secretly love wh each other. Even though both of the men had wiv and, surprisgly, even children, their fai cid to bury them most nvcg evince, and the most popular one, of them beg gay is the patg their tombs where they stand very close to each other, their nose touchg and both of them almost embracg each other.

Homosexualy isn’t technilly illegal Egypt, but ’s still a nservative Mlim untry, and gays are discrimated agast and routely round up by the police. Who’d have thought that a young man wavg a rabow flag at a ncert Cairo 2017 would spark a major crackdown on gays? “Homosexualy isn’t an official crime Egypt, but laws battg prostutn and “bchery” are ed to imprison gays.

GAY TRAVEL EGYPT

Bee homosexualy isn’t an official crime, laws battg prostutn and “habual bchery” are ed to jtify the imprisonment of gay men and lbians for six months to six years. A favore tactic of the Egyptian police is to entrap gay men, lurg them to hotels, where they are arrted, by g apps like Grdr.

Gay Travel Tips EgyptNow that you’re good and sred, ’s time to say, don’t let that stop you om visg a untry that’s sanely rich amazg templ and tombs of the ancient world.

THE ULTIMATE 10 DAY EGYPT ERARY FOR GAY TRAVELLERS (NILE RIVER CISE CLUD)

As long as you don’t do anythg overly gay — I’m sure you n rist kissg public durg your travels Egypt — you should pass through unmolted. You don’t have to be gay to be arrted — jt beg seen as a supporter of the LGBTQ muny is enough. “There are spots that are, to some extent, gay iendly, but even the plac cled after 2011” wh the Egyptian Revolutn, the source told NBC.

They didn’t want to look like they were that iendly towards gay people, so they closed their bars and fés and left.

A GAY TRAVELER THE MIDDLE EAST

The ultimate 10 day Egypt erary for gay travellers (Nile river cise clud)Stori > Iterari > The ultimate 10 day Egypt erary for gay travellers (Nile river cise clud)Sand swept wh ancient trigue and shaped by human civilisatn’s most fantastic archectural feats, Egypt as no stranger to worldly travellers. Though homosexualy is technilly not a crime Egypt, prosecutn unr bchery and public morals laws is a realy for some.

EGYPTIANS OUTRAGED OVER MOVIE PICTG GAY UPLE

Even as recently as 2017, there was a ernment crackdown on the gay Egypt muny wh a number of queer spac beg raid which rulted 57 arrts. For this reason, the suatn for LGBTQ+ travellers and lols remas tense and Egypt gay tourism velopment is stifled. While there is an unrground scene for the gay muny gay Cairo and Alexandria, tappg to wh a risk.

We’d remend agast g gay datg apps while Egypt wh extra utn beg taken if approached by a lol due to the possibily of set-ups and extortn. To be safe, rea om PDA and mata discretn bookg acmodatn, rt assured that midrange and top-end hotels will likely have no problem wh acceptg gay upl and those requtg a double bed, but the budget range hotels, particularly more ral spots, may not be que so ed to acmodatg gay guts. If stayg the night Abu Simbel, head back to the temple se for sunset and the Light Show after Simbel Templ | Photo: AsieactiveRi a dimentary feluc or splurge on a stay-aboard luxury cise ship; whatever you n afford, the tradnal Nile cise is a fe mt on your gay Egypt travel eraryDay 5 - 7: Nile ciseRi a dimentary feluc or splurge on a stay-aboard luxury cise ship; whatever you n afford, the tradnal Nile cise is a fe mt on your gay Egypt travel erary.

GAY EGYPTIANS E OUT OF THE CLOSET

Amerin wrer/photographer Michael Luongo’s latt book, "Gay Travels the Mlim World, " a pilatn of personal stori by Mlim and non-Mlim men, has stirred nsirable ntroversy recent months. But thgs seem to have gone jt fe after the Arabic translators Beit tweaked the tle and ed a more pole Arabic word for gay, mhli, stead of the more rogatory term, week, Lungo had a book signg at the BIEL exposn center Beit–a “historic” event, as Luongo puts .

He may well be right–"Gay Travels the Mlim World" marked the first time for a gay book to be formally prented at a book fair the Middle East. Wrg the Huffgton Post, Luongo says he was approached by both a Sdi Arabian who wanted him to speak about his gay book the ultra-nservative Sdi kgdom, and a young Egyptian publisher who asked Luongo to discs the book at his Cairo store January. Now that the problem has been fixed, Luongo hop the book’s ntents will bee the foc of book featur ntributns om a variety of characters, cludg a gay US soldier who served the Middle East and a gay Egyptian-Amerin.

" Luongo himself penned the chapter “Adventur Afghanistan, ” which scrib his experienc as a gay man travelg through that war-torn untry. "Gay Travels the Mlim World" is also the first-ever gay book to have been translated to Arabic after first havg been published English. One of the aims of Luongo’s book is to challenge rears’ assumptns about both homosexualy and Mlim culture, while breakg down stereotyp by prentg the stori of gay men who eher live or have spent time the Middle was also moved to wre the book by the large number of Amerin media reports that discsed gay issu the Middle East, largely om a negative perspective–often wrten by people who had never been to the regn.

ARRTS AND TORTURE OF GAYS, LBIANS EGYPT ARE ‘SYSTEMATIC,’ RIGHTS REPORT SAYS

Luongo felt the image of "the gay Middle East" was beg distorted and portrayed terms of gay issu the Arab world, says Luongo, “there’s bad, but there’s also good and unfed–this book explas the unfed. In 2006, Brish journalist Brian Whaker thored the book "Unspeakable Love" on gay and lbian life the Arab world.

EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS SYSTEMILLY ABE AND TORTURE GAYS, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS

On Christmas Eve, Luongo danced the night away at a wild Christmas party hosted by Lebane gay anizatn Helem, schmoozg wh posh drag queens glter and bare-breasted “Arabian bears. (Beit) – Egyptian police and Natnal Secury Agency officers arbrarily arrt lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people and ta them human ndns, systematilly subject them to ill-treatment cludg torture, and often ce fellow mat to abe them, Human Rights Watch said today. 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.

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.

The movie stirred huge outcry among the public and crics Egypt, as lv to homosexualy Arab societi. He poted out that “Bashtaalak Sa’at" raised ntroversy Egypt bee some view this type of film through an ethil lens; others, he add, fear that there is a plot to promote films featurg homosexualy. He add, “In the Arab world, films discsg homosexualy are judged om a moral angle, away om the ntent of the artwork, while the European world this would not raise such a fs.