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Acclaimed Egyptian actor reveals he has a trans son with a defiant message to...
Egyptian actor Hesham Selim is being praised for a powerful interview in which he spoke about loving and supporting his trans son. In an interview which aired on May 3 with film director Enas...
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Sara Hegazy, the pioneering Egyptian LGBT+ activist who was tortured for...
Sara Hegazy, an Egyptian LGBT+ activist who was jailed and tortured for raising a Pride flag at a concert, has tragically died by suicide at the age of 30. After being freed from prison, Hegazy was...
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Sara Hegazy, who died by suicide after being tortured for flying a Pride...
A candlelight vigil is being held in honour of Sara Hegazy, an Egyptian LGBT+ activist who died of suicide after being tortured for raising a Pride flag at a concert. Hegazy took her own life on...
View ArticleEgyptian actor’s trans son sued for ‘promoting homosexuality’ with tribute to...
Two Egyptian lawyers are suing Noor Hesham Selim, the transgender son of film star Hesham Selim, for an Instagram post that supported Egyptian LGBT+ activist Sara Hegazy, who died by suicide earlier...
View ArticleTV station linked to Muslim Brotherhood extremists calls for queer people to...
An Istanbul-based TV channel affiliated with the Egyptian extremist group Muslim Brotherhood has called for all homosexuals to be slaughtered. On June 16, Watan TV host Hala Samir gave a monologue...
View ArticleEgyptian police are using Grindr to hunt and imprison queer people. Once...
Fake dating profiles are being used by security forces in Egypt to entrap LGBT+ people and subject them to horrifying abuses in prison, a new report has found. According to Human Rights Watch, the...
View ArticleReligious extremist sets up makeshift school to ‘treat’ homosexuality in...
An evangelical pastor is setting up a school in Egypt that will attempt to “treat” homosexuality in young people. Pastor Tony George Rizk, a member of the Evangelicals Association in Egypt and the...
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Madonna flies to four countries in three weeks despite there being a literal...
Madonna swapped four minutes for four countries after reportedly flying from the US to England, Egypt, Malawi and Kenya in the past three weeks. According to The Sun, the pop queen is thought to have...
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Two people jailed for ‘debauchery’ in Egypt amid LGBT crackdown
Two people have been jailed in Egypt during a “prostitution and debauchery” trial on Sunday. The sentences were given out at the Dokki Misdemeanor Court on Sunday. They had both been accused of...
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Egypt escalates homophobic purge as 33 people ‘arrested for being gay’
Fears of a homophobic purge have been confirmed in Egypt after dozens of arrests targeting the LGBT community. A number of arrests were made in Egypt last month after a rainbow flag was waved at a...
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Egypt bans the media from mentioning gay people as homophobic purge continues
Egypt’s media has been banned from mentioning the gay community as a homophobic purge continues, with an official pronouncement referring to homosexuality as a “sickness”. A crackdown began in Egypt...
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Two people acquitted of ‘debauchery’ in Egypt despite LGBT crackdown
Two people have been acquitted of ‘debauchery’ charges in Egypt despite an ongoing anti-LGBT crackdown. The Dokki Misdemeanour Court on Saturday acquitted the men of the charges. Local media reported...
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Teens arrested for same-sex dancing as nationwide ‘gay hunt’ begins in Burundi
Two gay teens have been arrested for dancing together. Police in Burundi have begun a nationwide official hunt for gay people, as the government cracks down on its LGBT population. The move came two...
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Four people have just been imprisoned for homosexuality in Egypt
Four people have been imprisoned for homosexuality in Egypt. The Haram Misdemeanour Court sentenced the defendants to three years in prison on Saturday, for acts which were “inconsistent with public...
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Egyptian police use Grindr to lure gay men to hotel rooms
Police in Egypt are using gay app Grindr to lure gay and bisexual men to hotel rooms to arrest them. Dalia Abdel-Hameed, a gender rights researcher with the Egyptian Initative for Personal Rights...
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No-one is talking about Egypt’s shocking homophobic purge
Egypt’s authorities are deliberately fuelling a homophobic ‘moral panic’ in order to build support for a homophobic crackdown, a report has alleged. There has recently been a dramatic surge in arrests...
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Egypt launches bid to ban atheism over fears it turns people gay
Egypt has announced a bid to ban atheism in the hopes that it will stop people from “turning” gay. The parliamentary commission on religion has said that plans to make “promotion of atheism” illegal...
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Two arrested for waving rainbow flag in Egypt are released on bail
Two people arrested in Egypt for waving a rainbow flag at a music concert have been released on bail. In September last year, the waving of a rainbow flag at a music concert was extensively derided in...
View ArticleBank of Egypt forced to confirm new rainbow note isn’t for LGBT+ rights after...
The Central Bank of Egypt has confirmed a new banknote with a rainbow watermark is not designed to promote LGBT+ rights. The new 10 and 20 pound notes made from a durable polymer plastic attracted...
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Two people acquitted of ‘debauchery’ in Egypt despite LGBT crackdown
Two people have been acquitted of ‘debauchery’ charges in Egypt despite an ongoing anti-LGBT crackdown. The Dokki Misdemeanour Court on Saturday acquitted the men of the charges. Local media reported...
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